{"id":1796,"date":"2013-09-20T05:38:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T05:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2013-09-20T05:38:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T05:38:33","slug":"the-nature-of-game-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/2013\/09\/20\/the-nature-of-game-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"About Game Reviews!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1799\" alt=\"games\" src=\"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/..\/Pics\/games.jpg\" width=\"621\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/..\/Pics\/games.jpg 621w, https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/..\/Pics\/games-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/> I\u00a0don&#8217;t think of myself as a game reviewer and I don&#8217;t want the posts that appear on my website to be seen as such so from this point on I&#8217;m going to start calling my write-ups &#8220;game previews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doing game reviews is a borderline thankless job that puts people in a no win situation. No matter what your personal opinions are, gamers will say that your reviews are too soft or too harsh. Then if you ever bash a game that honestly deserves it there is the chance you could anger a publisher who will then no longer be willing to send you review copies or who will bash you to other publishers. There is a lot of drama and I&#8217;d rather not deal with any of it.<\/p>\n<p>The posts I put here on my site are more along the lines of game previews or overviews. I worked as newspaper reporter between college and grad school and as a result I try to structure game write-ups more like a feature news article, which is where the original idea to include quotes from designers came from. So for now on when I do my write ups they will have &#8220;Preview&#8221; at the end of the title just to make it clear what I&#8217;m offering.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, I have a stack of 13 games waiting to be photographed so expect a lot of game previews in the near future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0don&#8217;t think of myself as a game reviewer and I don&#8217;t want the posts that appear on my website to be seen as such so from this point on I&#8217;m going to start calling my write-ups &#8220;game previews.&#8221; Doing game reviews is a borderline thankless job that puts people in a no win situation. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}