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Need for speed carbon boss car6/5/2023 ![]() I was prepared to give anything a go because I was lost in the massive labyrinth of gaming. Sorry about my soapbox rant but I’m trying to get you to understand why I felt the need to spend money when in truth you really don’t. ![]() Someone has to give all those lazy JRPG devs a boot up the ass so we don’t get shit like Time and Eternity anymore, that game was an insult to all JRPG fans. Most JRPG’s of recent years don’t even feel like they are trying to impress us. Sure Exist Archive may have re-used assets and all that but at least they were trying. Seriously why do the Hyperdimentional Neptunia games still sell? Those games depress me because they take away all the passion and the effort that went into old school JRPG’s and instead these games are released every single year and as such the quality of those games takes a nose dive (at least in my opinion). The biggest question was “where are all the JRPG’s”? We had our Tales, we had our NIS shovelware along with a few others which were equally as bland. 2012 wasn’t much better, Farcry 3 was probably my game of the year and that’s not saying much considering the fact that the game was an open world shooter with a dubstep soundtrack… ehhh. Everything else was horrifically bad or just mediocre. I still say that 2011 was the worst year for gaming since the videogame crash, only 1 game released in 2011 managed to entertain me and that was Kirby’s Adventure Wii. Those days were good, it wasn’t until 2010 where things started going wrong. Many of the top rated games I have reviewed are from past generations. Trying to find a top quality game was a nightmare. It is the end of 2016 now and games have been great this year but the past few years have been utterly dreadful, it was like a gaming drought. I’m a cynic, I hate what the gaming industry has become and this changed my perception on gaming but it was more than just that, the industry’s change affected the games available. I got to discover new games that I otherwise would have never tried but I also picked up some dreadful games that I simply got tired with.ĭespite what many people believe, I played Painkiller on a whim and guess what? I loved it! This had it’s fair share of ups and downs. If there was a game that interested me even a little, I would buy it without a moment’s hesitation. Though I am often careful with my money, I came to the point where I simply couldn’t turn down a cheap deal. I feel better as a gamer for doing that and to be honest, I don’t think I would have become inspired to write without that. ![]() In a way, I had grown as a gamer, I had grown away from my nostalgia barrier that led me down a narrow path in gaming. Games just stopped coming out (games that I cared about anyways) and I had to change myself as a gamer, I had to be open-minded and explore new areas of gaming which I hadn’t before. In any case, how is this relevant to controlling your backlog/spending? Well you see in the latter half of the seventh generation, I hit a massive burnout. ![]() Since this isn’t my job, I’m not going to play every single game on the face of the earth and throw out a review… though I may occasionally try something new, I want to stick to writing about games that I am passionate about or manage to gain my full attention and considering the fact that the gaming industry is changing for the better, I have to change to adapt to that, as a writer. Unfortunately with this mindset, I have to become a lot more close-minded. Sure there are a lot more harder things to do but reviewing is considered a hobby to me. ![]() In fact the moment you start improving as a reviewer is the moment when you start to realize that it is hard work. However it’s not easy to make a solid review. To make a review is pretty easy if you think about it, all you need to do is write what you’re thinking. However, the quality of them was appalling among other things. I used to be a proactive writer, I would take a pick out of a game that took my fancy and just throw out a review. Now you must understand that I have been writing on the Destructoid C blogs for 3 years now. As a reviewer, I often find myself overwhelmed with the responsibility to buy and play lots of different games and as such I am left with a huge backlog of games just lying around waiting to be played… but then a new game catches my attention and I drop everything just to play it. ![]()
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