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What a brilliant read. I've shown this to all of my friends that are involved in gaming one way or another, and they agreed that this is absolutely amazing. I don't have to contribute anything to this symposium myself though.

What struck me as odd was that I read everything in one session. I am not used to reading anything on my computer screen, but I was completely hooked.

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That was a very interesting discussion. I love peeking into the mind of a games journalist.

At the age of 40 and still a gamer (although I don't have the time to devote to it that I'd like) I will say review scores themselves are less important to me but at the same time I want to see them. If for no other reason than sometimes it gives me a reason to dig down into a review to see why it got this score.

Case in point was Tom Chick's review of Red Alert 3 on Crispy Gamer. I wasn't even looking for the review but came across it and decided to read it because I was curious about the "Fry It" score. It seemed other sites and magazines were rating it pretty high from just casually looking around. So I read his review and very much enjoyed the depth Tom got into and not holding any punches on his opinions of the game and its flaws as he saw it. I can't judge the review other than to say I think he backed up his score. I think that is the best and ideal relationship between a score and body of a review. Can you back it up. Especially given a scale like Crispy Gamer's. A reviewer can't fudge things. There is an obvious demarcation between Buy It, Try it, Fry it. That is a scale that works perfectly for me because I feel it makes me want to read a review to see why it got that grade. I've gotten to where I hate the 10 point or 100 point scale. Even the 5 point. I think 1UP made a great decision to go to letter grades. I prefer that or Crispy Gamers scale to anything else out there.

In the end though, who cares about the score. I mean really, as critics and journalist, what I want most from you is the text. The in depth review of a game either as buying guide or as a critique. They can either be combined or seperate things.

What I would love to see is an outlet that does an in depth critique and investigation into a game after a game has come out. After the review/buying-guide. Pull no punches. Take the time to really dig in. I know of no outlet that truly does that. It is almost as if a game is forgotten about after it is published and reviewed. The only post mortems out there of a game I know of are the ones that consist of an interview with a developer after the release or a write up the dev after release. While both enjoyable as a peek into the mind of the dev, they don't serve much of a journalistic or critical importance. Something I'm looking for more and more as I get older.

Another case in point but a bit off topic. Nothing to do with reviews but about depth. Geoff Keighley's Behind the Games series he did for Gamespot years back. I enjoyed those to no end and miss those very much. Maybe the tight PR machine that surrounds games now would never allow a reporter to get that deep into the workings of a developer but that is something I yearn for in games journalism today but haven't found since then.

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2009-01-14T07:20:00.000-08:00

Where do you Symposi-ites fall on this:

Critic in Exile: Is It OK to Finally Admit That I Didn't Really Like Fallout 3 All That Much?

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2009-01-13T13:53:00.000-08:00

I was going to write a long comment but it was fillied with stuff everyone here already knows. Instead I'll just say thanks for the virtual symposium. I found it far more interesting to read this discussion than almost any other videogame related article in recent memory.

Someone call Leo Laporte and get advice on a virtualized podcast similar to This week in Tech but starring these veteran's of the gaming world and I'd listen religiously. I might even pay a tithe.

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2009-01-06T06:31:00.000-08:00

Shawn Elliot, you've raised the level of debate and increased the amount of intelligent discussion around gaming. Thank you.

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2008-12-27T11:04:00.000-08:00

I've got a bit of a dissenting opinion as far as this Symposium goes. I can appreciate the overarching focus, but I think the methods are somewhat lacking. I've posted some of my thoughts on my Wordpress blog; rather than reproducing the entire thing here in the comments, I think it would be best to just provide the link. I'm curious to hear what some of you participants think in particular.

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2008-12-26T23:47:00.000-08:00

much reading was done, and still the question remained unanswered... why so low?