Portal 2's Critical Acclaim Getting Screamed Over By Metacritic Users

I learned not to take reviews from fans seriously. Usually, they just like to hear themselves talk.

that's why i only trust GR reviews. otherwise i would have totally skipped out on the Halo franchise because, "it's just a rip off of goldeneye but 10 years too late."

It depends on the fan the review is coming from. It's pretty easy to tell by their writing style if they have their head on straight and are older than 14.

Even if someone can write coherently, they can still have terrible writing skills when it comes to making a review.

I think it's because of sad old 4chan's video game board. From what I understand, pretty frequently everyone on there gathers and has a big cry-fest about the "horrible state of modern gaming" and then goes and sh!ts on something because they're all twelve years old and don't know how to deal with their emotions.

If a review for ANYTHING (movie, game, music, etc.) looks as though it was probably written via Twitter, I tend to consider said opinion completely invalid.

Its okay. They couldnt even beat portal 1 and that **** was cake (REFERENCE) now portal 2........ that **** seems hard

I think user reviews are an important source of information nowadays. Even more when you consider that many big name review sites are misleading in their reviews.
Perfect example would be when Empire: Total War came out. Many sites (this one included) made it sound like it was one of the best games of all time. Funny how that game was broken at release (release day patch needed just to run the game) and it was plagued with problems for over half a year. I made this account just to write my own crappy review to counter the one on here as well as gripe about it on metacritic. It still scored over 90 with all the "professional" critics. They don't penalize the games enough for stuff like that which they should.

Just wanted to add: A person who scores the game a 0 and just says "valve sucks" obviously should be ignored. A person who scores it a 0 and has valid complaints might be a passionate fan who was disappointed. It don't make their complaint less valid but no game should be scored a 0. People do it just to bring down the overall score.
On the other end, no game should be a 10 either. If you look at any early reviews of any big name games coming out, early press always gives it a 100 (on the other scale) This is to give the game an early jump and inflate the score. Those people are just as guilty as gaming the system as the ones giving out the 0's.