I'm a game reviewer!

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#1 -Wheels-
Member since 2005 • 3137 Posts

Hey everyone, I'm freakin excited. I'm now a reviewer for AceGamez.com!

I took my Brave Fencer Musashi review and reworked it from the ground up. I sent it to a few places and BAM! Here I am. It's actually not a paying job right now, but I do get to keep the games and sell them if I'd like. You got to start somewhere right?

The place has needed help for a while, so they missed some games here and there. I happened to see lonely Skies of Arcadia was not reviewed for the Game Cube. I am here to fix this travesty, hard at work on finishing the game (again lol).

What do you guys think?

*EDIT* Trying to update the BFM review, but it's having html errors, damn you GS!

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#2 xmitchconnorx
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Congrats man. Sounds pretty exciting.
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#3 Freeglader
Member since 2006 • 408 Posts
Wow good job man! Like you say gotta start somewhere, and it can always lead to bigger better things! :)
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#4 Nintend0-BuDDy
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That's great ,you must have a bright future!
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#5 AuthenticKaizen
Member since 2008 • 284 Posts

congrats man.

so thats a start. keeping the copies and when you have fun by writing the reviews, whioch you probably have. then its great.

so believe in yourself :)

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#6 DraugenCP
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Good job! Literally. Even if it's not paid, gaming is an expensive hobby and this might it make a bit cheaper... and you get to tell a big audience about your opinion on it as well. Sounds like a dream job.
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#7 sihunt
Member since 2007 • 1116 Posts
Hi Good job on the job LOL!!! Hey I was wondering. It seems as though game reviews can be a lot of work. I would think you would have to be pretty skillful to play the various games. For example what if the games controls are difficult or the game is buggy and crashes your computer? What if you really hate the game? Do you try to finish it and give a review? Playing games and reviewing them sounds like fun and it can be but what about the down side? :|
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#8 -Wheels-
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Hi Good job on the job LOL!!! Hey I was wondering. It seems as though game reviews can be a lot of work. I would think you would have to be pretty skillful to play the various games. For example what if the games controls are difficult or the game is buggy and crashes your computer? What if you really hate the game? Do you try to finish it and give a review? Playing games and reviewing them sounds like fun and it can be but what about the down side? :|sihunt

Actually, reviewing a horrible game is just as satisfying as reviewing a good one. The writing part at least. I don't mind trudging through aweful games. I'm pretty good at most games, accept maybe the RTS genre. I like writing reviews mainly to get people intrested in games that they normally would not think of playing. Lots of times people are reluctant to try something new, and that's why the crap sells while more and more the gems get left behind.

Idk, I'm also going to start my career working on games soon (as an animator). This writing is just a side thing, but really I can't choose between the two. Sometimes being a reviewer seems like a pointless job, but then again it is much less stressful than actually working on them. Also game journalism is an extremely small industry and hard to break into so that's the downfall.

I guess I'll just have to see where this takes me. Ideally I want to do both.

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#9 sihunt
Member since 2007 • 1116 Posts
Good luck Wheels. :D
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#10 CommandoSnake
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congrats man thats awsome
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#11 flipin_jackass
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Whoah! Congratulations.
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#12 -Murdock-
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Very cool for you, a shame the site is a kind of a mess to navigate quickly.
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#13 Ignacio91
Member since 2006 • 25 Posts

Well, this doesn't even look like a job, but it may be at some points, right?

Congratulations, and i'm sure you will enjoy reviewing bad games too, and if not, remember the angry videogame nerd :)

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#14 wassup432
Member since 2007 • 1025 Posts

Well, this doesn't even look like a job, but it may be at some points, right?

Congratulations, and i'm sure you will enjoy reviewing bad games too, and if not, remember the angry videogame nerd :)

Ignacio91

LOL the AVGN is such a great reviewer! I love what he says he would rather do than play the game!

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#15 Raiko101
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I don't know you, but congrats! :)