I really like ACG's "Buy, Wait for Sale, Rent, Never Touch?" review videos. He talks about graphics, sound, gameplay etc separately and then rates the game as e

I really like ACG's "Buy, Wait for Sale, Rent, Never Touch?" review videos. He talks about graphics, sound, gameplay etc separately and then rates the game as either "buy", "wait for sale", "rent" or "never touch". My process is typically to look at a gameplay video (as you suggest) first. If the game looks like something I might like, then I check if ACG did a review. Gameplay videos alone aren't enough. They show you a quick snapshot of the action, but it can be super hard to see how much fun it actually is, how good the design is, how well it plays out throughout the course of the game, if there are any bugs, glitches or gotchas, what the overall writing is like, if the graphics or sound are consistently as they are in the gameplay video, etc etc. Its a good starting point, but its not enough on its own. Having said that, I have not made a purchasing decision based on more traditional reviews in a long long time and don't personally find "magazine-style" reviews (or their video counterparts) to be useful at all.