As long ago as I can remember I have always been appreciative of those who are willing to dig up any new video game media they can and distribute it to the public to inform, teach, and get all of us hopeless people some hope in our lives about newer games coming out as if being foretold of a great prophecy is coming.And for that, I thank every hard working soul who has done their job to keep us informed. However..

Like any resourceful central, either by a magazine article, a television broadcast, or a website on the internet, they all have one thing in common. And by that I mean the people responsible for reviews.

Personally, I don't understand how people get the job let alone how they are paid to do such a job. It's the most easiest profession in this century you could do and actually be the few who wake up in the morning and instead of looking at your alarm clock thinking "No, I don't want to get up" you get to wake up and say to yourself "Oh boy! Another great day to do what I enjoy doing and being paid by doing what everyone else is capable of doing!".

Anyone who is capable of writing/typing/speaking in any language fluently can be a reviewer on anything. All it takes is actually indulging in the genre of thing you enjoy, actually reading/playing/listening to what you enjoy, say your opinion about it enough and well enough that the person knows you're not saying shit like "Oh my god I just read Lord of The Rings! ...I like cats! Speaking of cats, did you know that there is no cats in LOTR?". If you know how to explain yourself and not crossing the line of mentally challenged. You can do it.

What people don't realize is that we do this everyday for free. A good example is a friend or a relative that asks you a question what YOUR opinion is about anything in particular. In response, you tell them your side of it enough that they understand where you are coming from, that's it. You just gave a review. You don't see us getting paid for asking us what our opinion is of just finishing a meal/ reading a book/playing a game/watching a television show or movie.

What makes this more frustrating is how apparently these paid reviewers word is law. What I mean by that is one word a reviewers game can completely alter people's perspective or appeal about certain games enough that people who go by what that reviewer said and it becomes so influential that it effects the game's sale itself. A good example of this is pretty much every employee at places like Gamestop where they usually utter the phrase when asked about an upcoming game "Oh yeah, I heard about that game that one guy played. That one guy said that I shouldn't buy that game because that one guy didn't like it. I like listening to strangers because I don't have a mind of my own. You probably shouldn't buy it either because of that one guy said." Ok, so maybe that don't exactly say all of that. You get the idea.

But the rating structure....that one just cracks me up. Either rating by numbers, stars, or other odd ways. They make this system to apparently tell us, the non-paid reviewers what THEIR "professional" opinion is and where it stands on a numerical stand. It's utterly the most pointless thing.

Let's be honest here, VERY very rarely do you see a game being reviewed that's a 1/5. A 1/5 doesn't tell us anything about the game besides mr. paid professional opinion person didn't like it...at all.

2/5 I guess means it leans more on the bad side but apparently had some fun to it?

3/5 you'll also rarely see because that much pretty much tells you what you should already know that the "it's up to what you want to think of it" flag goes up. It's a 50/50 chance that teeters back and forth between sucking and good.

4/5 Is the majority of what a game should get. It means it was enjoyable, worth playing in the reviewers perspective and recommends it.

5/5 Is a bold one, a full 5/5 is saying Jimmy got a 100% on his test. It means it's perfect, flawless, masterpiece. But perfection is what a individual thinks, doesn't mean it's fact.

And then there are the dumb 4.5/5 or the 2.6/5. I don't know what the hell they are trying to pull decimal percentage system to a already broken system that doesn't tell me anything besides the person liked it enough or not.

Then you have the different types of reviewers they try to do these reviews for:

Wrath Reviewer (Hateful): Person who reviews games of genre's they don't even like but want to review it to bash it for all it's worth. That's like me doing a review on a sports game but I hate sports. It doesn't do any good what I say because I think all realistic sports game are horrible.

Envy Reviewer(Comparing a game to another game): The ones who will complain if the game doesn't look like "so and so" in every visual aspect. These people compare games to other games so much it makes you wonder why they bother play other games. They even go as far to say that cartoon looking games don't look as cartoony as another certain game.

Greed Reviewer(Money Whore): A reviewer on major gaming websites that are showered with gifts paid and more by the company to say their game is better than what it really is.

Lust Reviewer (Fanboy/Girl): No matter how the game really is, these people will almost never say anything negative about the game because they, themselves are major fans of it and would dare not to lose their fandom stature by saying the truth.

Glutton Reviewer (Impatient Beta Players): These people don't care if the game is still in beta, they will play it and give a full review about it regardless if there is kinks or anything else that needs to be fixed. That's like putting 25 pieces of a 1,000 piece puzzle and saying "I think this puzzle looks stupid" and never touch it again to see what it can really be like. Popular Phrase: "This game would be better if they get the bugs out" Well no shit. That's why they call it beta!

Sloth Reviewer (Spur of the moment): These reviewers usually go after the major titles so much that we rarely hear about any other game until non-series game comes out 3 months afterward until they decide to do a review about it.

Prideful Reviewer (Ass kissers on the corporate level): These reviewers can be a combination of the reviewers mentioned above to call it's own separate entity. These people are the ones who will be impatient fanboy/fangirl that gets bribed into saying a game is good so the people they work for don't fire him for saying the honest truth. These are the ones who are controlled into what they are saying for the sake of losing their status and employment.

Through all I have said, truth is that we don't have any use for employed reviewers. Those who listen to reviewers don't have their own opinion, easily influenced, and more than likely struggling for money so much their expenses are planned like a chess board or it will completely ruin them.

All we really need is to just play them ourselves and have our own opinion.