Can You Tell If You Will Enjoy A Game Or Not Without Playing It?

[to0kenZA]

Depends on how well you know yourself. I can usually tell if I will enjoy a game or not, and I know what gets me hooked and what just puts me of completely to a point where I'll play a game for 1 hour and then never play it again.

PS. That Rambo game looks like a real load of shite tbh. Watched and read a few reviews, checked out some gameplay videos and honestly doesn't look like something enjoyable. Looks even worse than the empty gimmick which was Duke Pukem Forever.

[bradbear117]

So you don't think you can get a reasonably good picture of what the gameplay is like by watching a livestream of someone playing the game?

yes I think you can if the gamer plays the game well.

Trust me I watched many vids on SF4 and Gears of War Judgement. Both duds to me even though I love SF games and am a fan of 3rd person shooters.

[Hiro]

I generally use the review scores and trailers to try and work out if it's worth the purchase. But it's still a little sketchy. I didn't enjoy Assassins Creed 4 but I loved Dantes Inferno. Reviews would imply the opposite

[The Joker]

I know what I like and I know what I would normally buy, but sometimes I want to try something new and different, I would usually check out youtube game play vids before deciding if its worth playing a particular title.

[Clive Woofer]

Reasonably good picture to make a judgement call yes, BUT you don't get the full experience.

The guy doing the livestream doesn't play the way you would play the game. The guy doing the livestream might not even be liking what he is playing, but you possibly could.

True, but gameplay isn't exactly something that changes between players. With a game like Thief you get to see how stealth works, how takedowns work, how levels are designed, what the AI is like, etc. It's not 100% the same experience you'd get if you played it yourself, but you get to see enough of the game to make a reasonably accurate call on whether you'd like it or not.

[XbatousaiX]

I usually decide quite early on if I am going to buy a game it could be its art style ,story or game play I generally dont like watching other people play games it just frustrates me watching some dude play like shit lol.I have bought quite a few bad games and actually enjoyed them, Nier is a perfect example of this reviewers tore it a new asshole but it was pretty cool though.

[Tsar]

Indeed you will be able to tell, unless your still very young then its harder since you don't really know what you really like.

Also Indie games where do they fall in since some looks not so great but so much fun to play but its really hard to say if you will or will not like it.

Dude when you really young you play any game

I have refined my tastes so I know what I like and don't like.

[Cicero]

Dude when you really young you play any game

I have refined my tastes so I know what I like and don't like.

lol yeah, when you have to buy the games yourself then you really refine your tastes

[TheAvenged87]

This can be approached from two angles:

If I watch a comprehensive gameplay video, it can appeal to my tastes. I know what I like and mostly can tell if I would like something by seeing it as a spectator.

In other cases, I would have to play with it a bit before I warm up to it. Years ago, I was stuck with one game that I borrowed called Space Colony. It looked mundane, but I had nothing better to do. After a while, I enjoyed it so much that I continued playing it while other games were available to me.

[addam]

I can tell if I get an overview of the plot of the game generally, a good story makes a good game for me For games without stories, then it's a bit tougher, generally I watch gameplay videos for a bit first, and that gives me a good idea of if I'd like the game or not.