• 4Aug 12

  What's with this season of sequel craze?

  What games am I currently following, here on gamespot.com, and planning on getting?

  - Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

  - New Super Mario Bros. 2

  - Pokemon Black Version 2

  Seriously...what's with this season of sequel craze and craziness?

  • Posted Aug 4, 2012 10:54 pm GMT
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• 27Jun 12

  New Writing Format for Video Game Review #s 31 - ...

  (General overview + Opening Remarks go here)

  The Five Best Things about ______.

  1. Thing #1 (not neccesarily the most important, but just the first thing that came to mind.)

  2. Thing #2 (equally important to #1)

  3. Thing #3 (equally important to #s 1 and 2)

  4. N/A (will be used if there isn't anything else to say.)

  5. N/A (again, if I ran out of things to say early - note that I will usually list all 5 things, even if they are quite insignificant to many people, and I will only say N/A if it's absolutely necessary and appropriate.)

  The Five Worst Things about ______.

  1. (Same format as above, but now talking about the worst things instead of the best)

  2.

  3.

  4.

  5.

  The Most Significant Thing about ______.

  
  (This can be about any aspect of the game so long as it plays a highly significant role. That doesn't mean it has to be obvious - instead, it could be something very crucial to the game but usually unoticed.)

  _______________________________________________________________________________

  So as you can see, my new format is much shorter, concise, and specific than my past reviews. I think this is necessary to improve my writing past the long, tedious, all-encompassing and tiring writing formats of past reviews. I certainly tired myself out when writing the past reviews. Moreover, I felt my long, essay style reviews limited what I was able to review. Back then, I actually skipped many decent games because I felt I couldn't "write enough". Moreover, my reviews used to take me about three to five hours to complete, and I would be both exhausted and less motivated to do more. It was a constant struggle to keep shelling out essay reviews. I hope this new format will allow me to review more freely and more often.

  As a reader, I hope you will find this new writing format much more managable and user-friendly when reading upcoming video game reviews.

  • Posted Jun 27, 2012 11:14 am GMT
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• 27Jun 12

  Reviewing the past 30 video game reviews

  Review #1: Pokemon Platinum (and moving Star Wars Republic Commando, Super Mario Galaxy, ~,~,~...)

  I wrote only 2 paragraphs talking about the game very casually and touching upon specific and general features that made it good. This review ended up being my most successful review (surprisingly), and earned 5/5 recommendations.

  Review #s 2-4(Star Wars Republic Commando to Mario and Luigi SuperStar Saga)

  I started to write HUGE essay style video game reviews touching upon EVERYTHING I could think of in the game. The reviews often ended up being about 5-7 pages long and, after personally reading them over and grading myself, I felt that they were way too tedious and long to read. However, they were of excellent effort and quality, in my opinion, and others felt the same; I earned 4 recommendations, in total, for these reviews.

  Review #s 5-7(Pokemon Battle Revolution - Kirby SuperStar Ultra)

  I tried out a new writing format where I assigned a number grade for each aspect of the game that I could identify. Even though these reviews received a total of 2 recommendations, I personally was displeased with my work here. I felt that these reviews didn't really help people gain a clear view of the game, and I certainly had trouble understanding my own grading system and logic after re-reading these reviews. These reviews were my worst, in my opinion.

  Review #s 8-30(Pokemon White Version to Mario Kart 7)

  I consider these reviews the core of my video game review writing. In these 22 reviews, I wrote medium-length, detail-oriented, and witty reviews only about games that really had a lot to offer people. I chose a mixture of really great games, really awful games, and games in between to practice my new writing style. I wasn't afraid to give my honest opinion, even if I knew others wouldn not agree with it. To this day, I am very proud of these reviews and look up to them for guidance and inspiration for future reviews coming your way.

  Review #s 31- ...

  With that being said, I have decided, once again, to try out a new writing format! You see, even though reviews 8-30 were very good, in my opinion, they had certain flaws that I feel my new writing format will help to fix. See the blog above for more info on this new writing format.

  • Posted Jun 27, 2012 10:57 am GMT
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