I think it’s fantastic that the guy who wrote “why videogame journalism sucks” put together a review of Madden 07 X360 that’s full of run on sentences, incomplete thoughts and starts a sentence with a preposition. Other than that, it’s great though.
It’s funny, Bill and I, both editors at one time as well as freelancers, usually discuss games, but we also discuss editing. We had some dialogue on my review of Dead Rising, specifically my use of WTF in a review. You see, Bill and I come from the old school style guide where you write three instead of 3..we are straight out of High School English. So, we had a debate about the use of WTF. Yes, we are that anal. But that’s how much we appreciate the craft.
Do you think the IGN editors are sitting around and discussing the review, or do you think they are a review factory…oh yeah, and IGN=Fox. ‘Nuff said. I will say one thing about IGN. Either they took my comments about Hilary’s Wreckless review for the Xbox to heart, or there were a lot of people that thought Hilary wrote the Wreckless review. No comment here, I just thought it was funny. I wrote the 1st review for Wreckless on GamePen — I had it early and there was no embargo and I posted it on a weekend. I said it sucked. Hard. But IGN had a second opinion and I swore Hilary wrote it. I piled on the shit in the newsgroups, forums, anywhere I could. Either I wasn’t alone in thinking Hilary wrote it, or I singlehandedly created a monster. I’m guessing it’s the former, but Hilary, I apologize.
August 27th, 2006 at 6:13 am
politics doesn’t seap into every one of murdock’s buisnesses, he owns myspace too. is that a mouth piece for the republican party as well? he’s a bottom line guy.
August 27th, 2006 at 10:11 am
Thanks for the tip. Next thing you know, you’ll tell me Michael Knight isn’t a real guy. It was a funny quip.
August 28th, 2006 at 11:11 am
Kit can really talk, though.