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I happened to be sifting through my trusty Google Reader this evening when I happened across an interesting article from Gus Mastrapa over at GameDaily. Apparently, after reading articles about what reviewers should and should not be doing, he decided to focus on the seven deadly sins of game reviewing: Measure, Dullness, Doubt, Diplomacy, Forgiveness, Purposelessness and Obsession. Measure, for example, states that game reviewers will sometimes grade their games not as they see fit, but to fit in with everyone else's scores. Forgiveness centers around that we forgive small problems if the rest of the game is superb.
Is it a worthwhile read for everyone? Absolutely. If you read gaming reviews and use them as a big part of buying your games - and let's face it, most people do - I suggest you read it. If you work in the industry like me, I suggest you read it. If neither of those apply to you... well read it anyway. It's well written and worth your time. I, too, have been guilty of some of these sins in my reviewing, and after reading this article, I'm going to try and be a lot more careful in avoiding the tired cliches and easy traps that come along with game reviewing. If more reviewers strived for that, like my brutally honest friends over at Destructoid, the gang at Kotaku or Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation reviews, then I think we might get a more honest opinion of games and less of the "THIS GAME IS AWESOME, 11/10!" mentality that we can sometimes see.
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Living the dream since March 16, 2006
yeah that's where I go for my reviews as well :-)
the rest of them often fall into one of these 'sins'
Still a cool read.
11/10 post :p
So I have to absolutely disagree with the notion that you should not say "if you like X, you'll like Y". This is very useful, very concrete information to give the reader. Games succeed or fail on a much more mechanical level than, say, music or movies, so these sorts of direct comparisons are much more useful.
Now, if you'd like to wax poetic about Armored Core 7, feel free -- there are surely some interested parties that have never played an Armored Core game. But many, if not most of the people reading the review have already played another Armored Core game or some similar mecha combat game, so these comparisons (even if they seem uncool) are in fact quite useful.