The last couple of days have been pretty much non-stop gaming on the game I talked about yesterday. I have a deadline, y'see (Friday!) and I'm one of those old-fashioned sorts of people who likes to play something through to completion before writing a review. I got this from my brother; he used to insist that everyone on EGM and OPM (and, I believe, PC Zone before that) finished the games they were covering before writing about them.
This is super-important, as far as I'm concerned, though I also suspect it doesn't happen all that much, judging by a lot of reviews I've read around the place. The rapid, daily churn of the gaming news cycle means that there simply isn't time for a full-time staffer to be able to bang out a 40+ hour game as well as doing all the other things they're supposed to be doing. Which, of course, is why we end up with garbage reviews where people rabbit on about things that offend them rather than saying anything meaningful about the game beyond its first half an hour.
The game I'm currently playing has been rewarding my commitment. There have been some really wonderful moments in the later stages that I simply wouldn't have seen if I'd decided to play just the first couple of hours (at most) and call it a day. And so I'm very glad that I'm doing a thorough job; hopefully that will be reflected in my review when it shows up.
Anyway, my eyes are going a bit squiffy and I have to go back to work tomorrow so I'd better head to bed!
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