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Originally Posted by bahn
Yeah, audience is a big part of the writing process. It's going to (consciously or unconsciously) determine things like vocabulary and sentence structure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
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Thanks! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by bahn
Yeah, audience is a big part of the writing process. It's going to (consciously or unconsciously) determine things like vocabulary and sentence structure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Say what you want about reviewers but Geoff Keighley is a TELEVISION HOST and interviewer, and a damn fine one at that. It's not like he's accepting money from publishers to give games a high review score.
Geoff is also an expert at what he does -- he tells it like it is without w/o coming across as a shill.Quote:
Originally Posted by Korly
Even if he is a shill.Quote:
Originally Posted by bahn
He should run for office.
Yes. Perhaps he should.
I still think it's a waste that Keighley is the frontman for GTTV, which is pretty much a publisher-of-the-week infomercial. The E3 interviews he does are spectacular, as are the written pieces he has done (particularly the "Final Hours" series). The man can write damn well, does his homework, and isn't afraid to ask serious questions. But you don't get any of that on GTTV.
fuck GTTV, Fuck them for buying out tech tv and putting out so much garbage.
Can't be fucked to go back to find the post but someone a few pages ago mentioned how numerical scores are what people focus on. True and it'd be interesting to see a major gaming publication (print or online) do their reviews without numerical scores. My blog has some reviews on it and I refuse (ABSOLUTELY REFUSE!) to engage in a numerical score system. Alot of times I don't even give the game away in the title of the review, my opinion only being discernible if you actually read the damn thing.
Now having said that one of my favorite metal review sites www.angrymetalguy.com has a point review system but he keeps it fairly regulated and is rather trust worthy not to overscore something (even to the detriment of being black balled by record labels). But I can't find that sort of trust worthiness in the gaming world. Everything is either overhyped score wise or you get the people on the outside who decide to dish out lower scores on popular titles just for the waves it'll make going viral as its passed around from angry nerdrager to angry nerdrager. Gimme an intelligent gaming website that reviews games without dishing out a numerical score on the top.
You're thinking of G4.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Posting this in this thread because I think it fits the theme.
Check out what Polygon did: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497693
They posted a Microsoft ad as a news story, and then defended it by deleting comments pointing this out and complaining that "everyone is on a witch hunt" on Twitter. Open mouth, insert foot.
I wasn't honestly expecting much from them, seeing as they appeared to be a Voltron formed out of some of the worst parts of Joystiq, Kotaku, and IGN, but when a site claims to be "different" it's much more damning when they pull the same old advertisement-as-news crap as a lot of the other sites. And then tries to cover it up and play the victim. The first is just usual crap, the second takes a special kind of ignorance. The Internet never forgets.