Finding my place.
By Rowr 3 Comments
Im starting to get a feel for where i will fit into the site, as far as the wiki goes.
As much as I enjoy writing about things I am passionate about, Im just not much of a facts and figures kind of guy. I came to realise while intending to do some writeups for various games on the site, that Im just not confident enough on most of the information pertaining to one game. Sure i can search on the net, bring up wikipedia and carefully summarise/rephrase and article, but at that point im nearly doing free work in mundane data entry, theres no soul in writing like that and many others can do it better. At this point I felt sad. What do I have to contribute after my 21 years of gaming?
And then i found the concept pages.
So while not having complete encyclopedic knowledge on various games, I feel i have very broad knowledge across many genres, on many platforms over practically the entire lifespan of gaming. As far as game mechanics I feel im an expert, and this is where the concept pages come in.
The concept area of the site seems to find less attention than the other more encyclopedic sections of the site, which I find strange, to me the game mechanics and overall concepts investigated can be the most important and memorable parts of the game. Bioshock being the best example, off the top of my head, of a game presenting various concepts and being successful and memorable for it.
Its this part of the site where i think i could find my place and offer some small value, although I've decided to stop submitting data until things quiet down a bit and the guys catchup with the queue. Its pointless for 3 or 4 people to be submitting the same entries in the window of time before anything goes up.
-Rowr