After the battle with The Boss, it literally took me a few min to realize I had to pull the trigger. After doing so, I actually felt terrible, an emotion no other game has elicited from me.
So if you want to do the whole editorial thing, then bringing your identity into your "reviews" would be okay. However, if you really want to analyze a game and write something worth while, you need to leave yourself out of the equation as much as possible. Egocentric tards often ruin their own genius by taking the subject matter and making it about themselves. Staying away from qualifiers like, "as a girl of the millennial generation I feel" or "but of course I'm an indie chick" is a great idea. Even better than that, is staying out of the first and second person all together. Its redundant and insulting to your audience to keep reminding them that this is how you feel. Of course this is how you feel, its your fucking review. Simple and relevant, you can shake the world up after you have a following.
Also its best to never consider yourself a writer until someone is willing to pay for your writing. A writer is not someone who writes, its someone who gets paid to write.
@PhaggyBigNastyMcKill: Its not that outlandish to ask advice about a game on a gaming website in a section of the forum dedicated to that very game.
@TooWalrus: Having a pissing contest with someone named PhaggyBigNastyMcKill on the internet seems rather pointless to me. Anyways, a focus dash is when you use your EX Focus( medium punch and medium kick pressed at the same time) and then preform a dash( pressing either back twice or forwards twice). By doing this you can get hit once and keep going. For example, if Ryu throws a regular hadouken you start your EX Focus attack, let it hit you, then preform the dash. The hadouken does no damage( assuming you don't get while your life bar is filling back up) and you get revenge meter( your ultimate bar). A focus cancel is kinda the same idea, except it takes place after you've done a move. So lets say you're Ryu and you're revenge meter is full. If you connect with any shoryuken, you can press both medium punch and kick and the animation for the shoryuken will be cut short, so you're opponet will fly into the air but Ryu will not. From here if you focus dash you'll be in control of Ryu while your opponet is still in the air, meaning you can throw your ultimate and there's nothing they can do about it, as opposed to landing on the ground at about the same time they would. You cannot focus cancel every move(so you have to play around in training to see what works or look at a combo guide), and focus cancels use two bars of your super meter, so they need to well placed or else they won't be useful. Hope this helps.
I regularly visited 1up for the brodeo and if I had the extra time I listened to their other podcasts, in one of those podcasts they talked about Jeff and what had happened at GS. After the first bombcast I was like a fucking junkie and this website has been a daily visit ever since.
Jadeskye came the closest to hitting the nail on the head. Harry Potter is the "millennium generations" Star Wars. CoD is this generations Doom or Quake.
@MysteriousBob: This is a story about gaming culture which is more than acceptable on a site like gb. I think what you mean to say is you do not want pretentious, cynical articles written by hipsters who care less about playing games than having a soap box to stand on. As far as I can tell, Mr. Kessler is just a nerd happy to be writing about video games, which is all gb has ever really been about.
How about everyone on giantbomb already knows if they like Mario's Galaxy 2 or not. The vocal majority on giantbomb does not care about Mario's Galaxy 2, they do however trip shit about Alan Wake. God forbid they spend a little less time with Mario and focusing on E3 and all the stuff everyone wants to hear about. Channel 2 anchor mutha trying to catch someone on shit and feign concern.
Anything in excess is obviously harmful, and think that's important thing to realize before you even start having this conversation.
Drinking won't screw you up, but if you're screwed up you probably already drink.
Other falsehoods: Beer is very palatable, most people just neglect anything but their sweet tooth until they "grow up." You're an alcoholic before you take your first sip, so you can't blame the beer for it. If you're lactose intolerant and still eat dairy products you're just a dumb-ass and the same goes for anyone who cannot control themselves after two beers.
And finally, sometimes you just need to get fucked up. We're socially conditioned to hide how we feel and just bottle shit up, and drinking just allows you to vent. Sometimes too much, but that'll happen.
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