It's all very simple, really. Don't take any one reviewer's or any one site's judgement on a game as gospel. If a game nabs your interest for any reason, just do this:

-Read about 3-5, maybe even more reviews from different sites, and note any common "problems" that pop up (Camera, Glitches, Voice Acting, etc.). I say "problems" because some failingsare easily overlooked by some, if not by many.

-If you can get over said "problems", and the rest sounds like a game you'd be interested in playing for any reason, then damn thenaysayers and PLAY IT!

Thanks for the input, guys...sorry about the long forum post. It's already a blog, but I wanted to put it out there for people to see, and I didn't see an option for posting those. I'll change it to a link to the page.

Please, keep the input coming! I'm really interested in hearing opinions on this.

Originally a full blog post on this page. It was deemed too long for forum posting, but please don't let that deter you. It's an issue and an opinion of mine that I would seriously like to see some debate and thoughts on. Thank you!

Just an excerpt, in case you want something out-of-context to gnaw on here. :)

"We don't forget the scenes from our favorite movies. Lyrics and musical melodies from our favorite music stick with us for the rest of our lives. A striking classic painting or photograph is worth a thousand words, etched into memory, unable to be unseen. But the newest games are beginning to be considered only as online Bloodsports with Bloodsport 2.0 brushing aside 1.0 as merely an obsolete timesink. Nothing more.

In other words, it's becoming Disposable Culture."


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