A reviewers life must be hard

A cursory glance down my submissions list/blog post history will reveal to you a few things, one is that I am not a very good writer; another is that I have a tendency to talk rubbish. It will also reveal a relativity long time between posts, and this is partly because I work full time and partly due to other factors.

Now obviously I don't work for a games mag or site such as this one, and so have limited time to play games anyway, but it seems to me there is only so much you can get done during a working day. Games get longer and longer every year, and some can be incredibly hard, thus increasing that time even more and yet every week your favourite sites publish reviews on the latest games.

I listen to a few podcasts on games, and they also ask what the people taking part have been playing recently/over the weekend. They always answer with at least 2 or 3 games generally, and some even say they started and finished a fairly lengthy game in the same weekend. My question is, how can they do that?

I love games and I play as often as I can, but I also live with my wife to be, go to the gym every night and capoeira twice a week, and can only seem to play games for about an hour to two hours a night, if that. I know that several of the people who partake in those same podcasts have girlfriends or are married, and I am sure their other (better?) halves want to spend time with them on an evening and on the weekend.

It seems that whenever I play a game, it takes me weeks and weeks to complete it, where as this professional reviewers can do it in a couple of days, in their own time sometimes, and sometimes a combination of own time and work time. I can't see that they get paid to sit and play a game for a full day or two of work time, or even that that is the only thing they have to do that day.

It is entirely possible that I am simply not as dedicated as they are, and obviously their lives are very different to mine, but if they can finish a 10 - 12 hour game in a week why the hell cant I? it's just plain annoying. For example, I am currently playing through need for speed undercover. I have been doing that for three weeks by the end of this week, yet it came out and on one of the podcasts I listen to one guy said he started it Friday and finished it over the weekend, and I know he has a girlfriend as he as spoke about her before.

I am hoping one or two of the reviewers on this site will read this and post how they manage to complete so many games with such busy lifestyles, or did how the reviews process goes with regards to time management at work. Then again, maybe one day my dream of writing for a games site will come true and I can tell you myself. It might happen, you never know.

A cursory glance down my submissions list/blog post history will reveal to you a few things, one is that I am not a very good writer; another is that I have a tendency to talk rubbish. It will also reveal a relativity long time between posts, and this is partly because I work full time and partly due to other factors.

Now obviously I don't work for a games mag or site such as this one, and so have limited time to play games anyway, but it seems to me there is only so much you can get done during a working day. Games get longer and longer every year, and some can be incredibly hard, thus increasing that time even more and yet every week your favourite sites publish reviews on the latest games.

I listen to a few podcasts on games, and they also ask what the people taking part have been playing recently/over the weekend. They always answer with at least 2 or 3 games generally, and some even say they started and finished a fairly lengthy game in the same weekend. My question is, how can they do that?

I love games and I play as often as I can, but I also live with my wife to be, go to the gym every night and capoeira twice a week, and can only seem to play games for about an hour to two hours a night, if that. I know that several of the people who partake in those same podcasts have girlfriends or are married, and I am sure their other (better?) halves want to spend time with them on an evening and on the weekend.

It seems that whenever I play a game, it takes me weeks and weeks to complete it, where as this professional reviewers can do it in a couple of days, in their own time sometimes, and sometimes a combination of own time and work time. I can't see that they get paid to sit and play a game for a full day or two of work time, or even that that is the only thing they have to do that day.

It is entirely possible that I am simply not as dedicated as they are, and obviously their lives are very different to mine, but if they can finish a 10 - 12 hour game in a week why the hell cant I? it's just plain annoying. For example, I am currently playing through need for speed undercover. I have been doing that for three weeks by the end of this week, yet it came out and on one of the podcasts I listen to one guy said he started it Friday and finished it over the weekend, and I know he has a girlfriend as he as spoke about her before.

I am hoping one or two of the reviewers on this site will read this and post how they manage to complete so many games with such busy lifestyles, or did how the reviews process goes with regards to time management at work. Then again, maybe one day my dream of writing for a games site will come true and I can tell you myself. It might happen, you never know.