Let me interject with this observation... reviews on PiNSiDE and other web forums are the only and best information I can get for the games I collect (to old for common reviewing). Just saying that I think private opinion would always be more important to me than a review of any individual. Just like movie reviews, there is always someone at 100 and some other review at 40 and its not like we get to average 40 critical reviews of a new game... so at least with public reviews you can distill and average and if you ignore the noise, even learn some truths but you have to know what you want and so its not easy to wade through, at least pros provide a coherent opinion and are consistent- use both.
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