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by Tom Chick 03/03/2006, 12:54pm PST |
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Tom Chick wrote:
This idea that better games writing is synonymous with 1) esoteric critical theory, or 2) naval gazing New Games Journalism is absurd. You guys go out and read a random review on the internet. Go ahead. You can even go read one by someone who does it for a living. I'll wait...
See? Pretty bad, wasn't it? Errors in grammar, poor understanding of language, sloppy metaphors, not much in the way of a point of view, very little context, and hardly a clever verbal twist to be found. It was probably either too dry or trying too hard to be funny.
Another shot in the foot for Qt3.
Solution? More Shoot Club style reviews needed.
Tom Chick wrote:
There are opportunities to review games using this style and I hope folks won't shy away from trying that sort of thing.
chet wrote:
This is excellent. I hope all game mags and sites do it, and then in a few years people can bitch how come the game industry doesn't use a rating system like movies and music reviews do...
Erik wrote:
Get up and get to work. That's all we can do. If CGM and CGW are out of business in five years, we've got our integrity and we'll find other jobs. Murrow didn't take shit from CBS, and ultimately he was forced to walk. That may be the price we pay.
Of course, if this doesn't work and sales plummet, and then you bravely stick to your non-numerically described guns and lose your jobs, it'll be because you didn't take any shit from your customers, whose general happiness is sort of the whole purpose of the thing. I think you can probably sneak the scores back in after they come for the gold farmers but right before they come for the jews and still retain your integrity.
Erik wrote:
You know who's interesting? That Gary Gecko from the Gary Gecko: Gettin' it Up! game. Somebody should profile him. And I'd like to hear more from and or about moonfaced young firebrand Greg Costikyan. And I'd like more reviews that are entirely in morse code like -.-. .- -. because then you'd know for sure that the readers really were paying attention because they'd have to convert the morse code into words and then translate the words from Aramaic into English because I forgot to mention that I'd like the reviews to be written in the same language as an old timey bible. Instead of numbers, I'd like the review summary to take the form of ideas for cool new candy. For instance, Gary Gecko: Gettin' it Up! would receive a bottle of grape flavored eyedrops, which, since kids would love a gross candy that you squirt in your eye but sugar is a growth medium for all kinds of nasty eye-eating bacteria, means the final score is like a mixed bag 7. Previews are fine the way they are.
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Tom Chick takes swing at Game Rankings, falls over. by Jerry Whorebach 02/28/2006, 6:43am PST 
I wonder what he thinks of me. by Rotten Tomatos 02/28/2006, 11:27am PST 
Hating the numerical ranking of games by Flavio 02/28/2006, 3:53pm PST 
I liked TimeSplitters 3 :( by Jerry Whorebach 03/01/2006, 2:01am PST 
I only played Future Perfect NT by Flavio 03/01/2006, 11:06am PST 
They're the same game. by Future Flavio 03/01/2006, 6:57pm PST 
The problem with scores. by Jerry Whorebach 02/28/2006, 8:50pm PST 
Re: The problem with scores. by I need clarification 02/28/2006, 9:27pm PST 
Re: The problem with scores. by Fullofkittens 02/28/2006, 11:42pm PST 
What DO you do? by Really? 03/01/2006, 1:46am PST 
Wow, "Really?" demands I stop being a pussy and (finally!!) admit what I do. >:[ NT by I need clarification 03/01/2006, 11:50am PST 
WHAT'S THE HOLDUP NT by Creexul :( 03/02/2006, 7:04am PST 
I herd the cows that give the milk that dilutes the tea that David Jaffe drinks. by I need clarification 03/03/2006, 4:36am PST 
I wouldn't misspell "designer." :( NT by I need clarification 03/03/2006, 4:03pm PST 
You edited my post to make me look stupid. NT by I need clarification 03/03/2006, 6:50pm PST 
I mean make YOU look stupid >:[ NT by I need clarification 03/03/2006, 6:52pm PST 
You know who else thinks reviewers suck? Marc Ecko. by Fussbett 03/01/2006, 3:33am PST 
Re: You know who else thinks reviewers suck? Marc Ecko. by corax 03/01/2006, 11:39pm PST 
More free-associative rambling on the subject of scores by Tony 03/02/2006, 2:42am PST 
Text is okay as long as I don't have to read it. by Jerry Whorebach 03/03/2006, 2:49am PST 
Hey, good point by Tony 03/03/2006, 3:34am PST 
Re: Tom Chick takes swing at Game Rankings, falls over. by Souffle of Pain 03/02/2006, 9:38pm PST 
The only people more wrong than Tom Chick by FABIO 03/02/2006, 10:54pm PST 
At least Troika tried (and failed) to make another Fallout. NT by Bioware hasn't even done that :( 03/03/2006, 2:53am PST 
No clever verbal twist (also, Erik!) by Tom Chick 03/03/2006, 12:54pm PST 
Haha awesome. by Fussbett 03/03/2006, 7:11pm PST 
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