While writing my Borderlands review (more coming later today) and reading the comments from my previous post on the game I suddenly realized that I seem to have lost sight of the original goal I had in reviewing games. <\/p>\n
My original goal was to just put games under a microscope and go over why various mechanics work, or not. I didn’t intend to review games in the sense of “thumbs up \/ thumbs down” sort of way, because the internet is lousy with that sort of business and lots of people do that better than I do. (Hint: Most people don’t want to read 5,000 words over the course of two weeks to determine if they should get a game or not.) But I seem to have gravitated towards that lately. I’m not sure if this is just an easy and welcoming rut for a writer, or if my approach has been shaped by feedback. <\/p>\n
Kind of odd. I feel like someone who has just arrived in New York, put his car into storage, secured a hotel room, and unpacked his bags. And then he suddenly remembers he’d meant to go to Nashville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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