Review Ramble

NGJ? What’s that?

Well when it came to reading reviews in magazines I hardly ever bothered, I preferred the pretty pictures and the summaries but now reading through a few of the reviews and Wikipedia I’m beginning to understand New Games Journalism. I noticed that they are less of a straight to the point review. The writer seems to be more involved and tends to go back on past experiences. They seem to lack a definite scoring of the game, giving a more personal opinion. I much prefer this way of reviewing since it lacks a definite ranking for the game and gives a more general over view of the game.

I feel an objective ranking systems is not necessary for gaming sales. This is because there must be people out there who either ignore ranking or know their tastes well enough to pick a game without taking a second glance at ranking. Also if a game has a good design and is advertised well enough there will be atleast one person wanting it.

Finally I would like to touch up on other reviews and reviewers. I hardly buy magazines or reading a text so I’m terrible for finding game writing but I do have a liking for many video reviews of games. I tend to watch a lot of Zero Punctuation. It puts games through the ringer and is rather humorous.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation
He likes his swearing but none-the-less puts together humour and reviews ever so well.

Now I’m hoping this blog makes sense because I hated this and the last blog since my brain had become all clogged with junk and kept wandering off.