Yeah, I know it's lame to write up a blog post to determine interest in a potential future blog-post, but that's what I'm doing anyway, and you naysayers can lick the stink nuggets from between my ass-cheeks if you don't like it.
Anyway, I got this idea (at least I'm pretty sure that it's mine*), to go back and review old "Classics" with the blinders turned off. Which is to say that I'd be reviewing them sans the nostalgia that often leads us to put certain games on a pedestal. That's not to say that I'll be ripping on old games for the sake of it, but that I'm going to attempt to put aside all nostalgia-borne bias and determine if these games are really as good as we think they are. Well, as good as I think they are, given that I can't speak for you guys. Yet.
So is this an idea worth pursuing? I'd like to think so. So look forward to the first write-up as soon as I get my lazy ass around to doing it. Which should be soon, as I'm due to submit some sort of content for a buddy's site here, and that'd kill two birds with one stone.
Right on.
*Just covering my ass in case it's not as unique an idea as I thought. I'm not a rip-off artist. Not on purpose swears I.
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Don't pull any punches with your retro reviews. Too often the "Retro Goggles" (with or without Rose-Colored Lenses) get in the way and inflate a score based on the amount of games that followed one game's lead. That's not the only reason Retro Reviews are dangerous - it's only one example - but you can probably find many others. As long as you are thourough you should be fine, and I look forward to reading your perspectve.
Thanks man. I look forward to um...writing something that you can read.
I've only written two reviews in my time, so I'm really still sort of trying to nail down the approach. Like you said, it's very easy to let..variables like the one you mentioned sort of obscure your goals, especially when you're writing about old games.
That said, I thing that approaching them from this very angle should help things along. I intend to go into this with it in mind that that I'm reviewing these games, not only from the standpoint of how they hold up today (an angle I'm still working on...), but as if a given game was the only one ever made, should I find myself reviewing a game that's part of a larger series.
This might take awhile to put up, as I'm incredibly neurotic about everything, especially the things I share with the public, faceless though you all are. I will get it done though, so look forward to it. :)
Though it's a girl in that there picture, so just...um, turn your thoughts towards that? Or something? I really have no idea where to go with this.
I think I just heard the phone ring. Excuse me....