{"id":38827,"date":"2009-11-09T17:30:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T22:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=123200"},"modified":"2009-11-09T17:30:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T22:30:24","slug":"how-to-read-and-respond-to-video-game-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/38827","title":{"rendered":"How to read, and respond to, video game reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ponggame.jpg\" alt=\"ponggame\" title=\"ponggame\" width=\"250\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-123199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Keep this in mind when you&#8217;re reading a video game review from your favorite publication.<\/p>\n<p>To quote <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.destructoid.com\/how-to-respond-to-a-videogame-review-154490.phtml&#038;a=2\">Destructoid<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nIf a videogame review that you disagree with is posted online, you are duty-bound to respond and shame the writer into committing suicide, because it&#8217;s just that crucial. Of course, you need to be armed with the proper responses, and fortunately, we&#8217;re here to help. Come with me as I show you exactly how to respond to a video game review. That no-good writer who trashed Uncharted 2 by giving it an 8.5 will be crying into his oatmeal by sundown!\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It goes on to detail, <i>in humorous fashion<\/i>, how you, the everyman on the street bouncing from IGN to Eurogamer to Edge to 1UP to Kotaku to CrunchGear when I get around to it, should react to a review of your favorite video game. Hate the score the reviewer gave the game? Call him biased! Upset that a game you hate got a 7.5 instead of a 7.0? (That&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t give numbers in my reviews, which are always entitled \u201cWherein we discuss [Game],\u201d because I think they&#8217;re dumb.) Make wild accusations about conflicts of interests, as if every video game reviewer is a stock holder in a video game publisher. <\/p>\n<p>I have no stock in anything, for the record. That&#8217;s a rich man&#8217;s game. <\/p>\n<p>Now, we can use this as an opportunity to discuss what y&#8217;all look for in video game reviews. I do know that when I was younger (let&#8217;s say around 13), the first thing I&#8217;d check was the review score. \u201cYes, they gave <i>Zelda<\/i> a 5.0 for the fun factor~!\u201d I didn&#8217;t pay much attention to the review itself, just the score. Today, it&#8217;s the complete opposite. I&#8217;d rather sit through a really long Edge review and not see a score (like the magazine did with <A HREF=\"http:\/\/edge-online.com\/features\/review-fatale-exploring-salome\"><i>Fatale<\/i><\/A>) then see some 200-word quickie with an 8.0 tacked on the bottom for good measure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/ybhy3Fq-w_nHmDEgBE9k21quWw8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/ybhy3Fq-w_nHmDEgBE9k21quWw8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/ybhy3Fq-w_nHmDEgBE9k21quWw8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/ybhy3Fq-w_nHmDEgBE9k21quWw8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=bhkIbjMvnG0:A_9iqW7Ts-Y:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=bhkIbjMvnG0:A_9iqW7Ts-Y:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=bhkIbjMvnG0:A_9iqW7Ts-Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=bhkIbjMvnG0:A_9iqW7Ts-Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=bhkIbjMvnG0:A_9iqW7Ts-Y:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep this in mind when you&#8217;re reading a video game review from your favorite publication. To quote Destructoid: If a videogame review that you disagree with is posted online, you are duty-bound to respond and shame the writer into committing suicide, because it&#8217;s just that crucial. 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