Comments on That's a Terrible Idea: The Game Criticism That I Care About.

I'm glad to see that people missed me. It'...

2011-06-23T07:47:58.477-04:00

I'm glad to see that people missed me. It's good to know that this site matters to more than just me and mot. :)

I'll be focusing more on strategy games, but some of what I have to say can apply to other genres as well. I'm working on a pretty long post on micromanagement and how it comes about in game design.

Glad to see you writing again! I have eagerly bee...

2011-06-23T04:51:44.793-04:00

Glad to see you writing again! I have eagerly been checking your page once a week or so to see when you would return. What are your plans going forward?

I've been focusing some of my energy to RPG-like board games lately, it's been a refreshing change and very social, too.

Hope to see more posts soon!

The problem is that most "critics" are g...

2011-06-14T14:44:24.785-04:00

The problem is that most "critics" are game playing enthusiasts that have somehow gotten a platform for their writing. So, most "criticism" tends to be of the very shallow variety, if it even aspires to anything more than fawning praise of the latest major release. (To be fair, this isn't exactly unique to games. Most movie reviewers aren't a big step up from this.)

Even if we do get real criticism, it tends to be rather simplistic. Computer games haven't been around as a "serious" medium for very long (if at all), so you don't get the real heavyweights. The analysis and criticism tends to be simplstic. And, a lot of it borrows heavily from other media. What we should hope for is for people to start looking at games and appreciating their strengths (the interactivity, as mentioned). Then we might see some criticism worthy of that name.