Gaming Illiteracy

Today I decided to coin a phrase:

Illiterate Gamer.
To be Illiterate at Gaming, ie: Non-gamers who write game reviews. Aka: Being an Outspoken Noob. Someone who tries to tell others about a game or other popular work, and does not have a common knowledgebase to reference in explaining things, or does not know what to look at when reviewing a game.

People who do not play games should not write reviews about games.

If I were to go out and buy a new game that comes out, and I go to write my review of said game, I am going to look for things that I would want to be in the game, or implementations of ingenuity that would make the game overall better. I'm going to look at what is good, what is bad, what is just unbalanced, and what was stolen from other games.

A Non gamer is more than likely going to get stuck on graphics for the most of their review, talk about which parts 'totally kick ass' without an in depth explanation as to why. They like to get stuck on trivial things that have been done before and better in other games, they also don't have the experience to reference other games for explanations, and they dont have the previous game experience (with good games, mind you) to know a good game. If I have to read another goddamn review that claims halo is the greatest fps ever made I will more than likely stab someone. Or how bout the classic "The game looks so good, it looks real" yea no shit, welcome to Next-gen systems, games look real, infact ive come to expect it, if it DOESNT look real I would dock points for shitty graphics. In this day and age a still from a game should look like either a picture, a cartoon, or a work of art. Nothing should look grainy or badly rendered, at all.

Crysis is the top game coming out as far as Graphics, and In my opinion it is not because of the fact that the whole environment looks real, "look" is one thing, "interact" is another. All the underbrush moves as you move it out of the way, bullets rip apart trees, dirt kicks up, water splashes and looks real, and im pretty sure anything you come across is destroyable in one way or another and if you screenshot it at any point during the process, it looks like a photo (You cant see polys, shapes make sense, things move realistically in response to your actions.)

Furthermore I should never get the impression from the Reviewer that they suck at games, I dont care if you played Halo3 and wrote a review on it, i dont respect you because you had to play it on Easy, this means you suck at games and your opinion doesn't matter. But I would read and respect a review written by the biggest retard on the planet if said Retard played it through on legendary.

And Finally, Do not hold a bias, do not sell out. If a game sucks, and everybody who plays it knows that the game sucks, say so - Don't try to appease gamemakers by kissing ass about how much you loved to play Barbie Horse Princess Adventures, Don't give it a High Score because they give you a high amount of advertising, and Don't be nice just so you dont hurt someones feelings.

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-Rei