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Going Out
sexyvideogameland.blogspot.com - 10/18/2008
Going Out
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At his Cut Scene blog, Variety's Ben Fritz has responded to ' Coming Home ,' my much-trafficked, post- Homecoming rant here at SVGL. You could say I wrote it because I was touchy about being the one of the only reviewers to like the game (that did make me feel weird) [*] , but what I was ...

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Kotaku:  Where We Go Wrong: Game Criticism [Criticism]

GameSetWatch:  Opinion: Hot Headlines And Hype Cycles -- Who's Responsible?

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Where We Go Wrong: Game Criticism [Criticism]
Kotaku — ... average consumer looking for a title they'll enjoy isn't going to care if Kojima is a visionary or not; they just want to know if the game is worth spending money on. But are critics comfortable with the idea that their championing and detailed criticism is going to put much of the potential audience to sleep? Are we OK being irrelevant to most people other than the 'hardcore' and each other? If critics did more championing and less obsessing over details [Cut Scene via Sexy Videogameland] ...

Opinion: Hot Headlines And Hype Cycles -- Who's Responsible?
GameSetWatch — ... It seems situations like this might occur less often if we didn't have a larger culture within the gaming audience wherein we have, as I recently wrote at length, become extremely demanding in a fashion that borders on entitlement. ...

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