This is somewhere between a blog post and a forum post.

I've been playing a lot of games, most of them old, and I found I really do enjoy writing reviews for games.  My writing needs work, but it's good practice, and everything I write for the site is worth more than I'm paid for it (nothing).  I was excited that my Alien Swarm review even got featured -- I also think it's my best written review.  I wrote it thinking "No, fewer words" the whole time, because I tend to ramble.  It's carefully trained by my old English classes back in school, where stretching half a page worth of content into ten pages worth of words was pretended to be a virtue.  Then I got into technical/business writing, where you're lucky if someone looks at the first page and it's important to get to the point in 500 words or less.  The latter is more where my instincts started, but the former is where my training sent me.

I do wonder, though, how many people read "old" reviews.  I've looked at one or two when I notice somebody else wrote a review for a game I also played.  I've even had a few where one person wrote one review, I wrote another, and we each had a different experience (positive or negative) in spite of describing the experience the same way (e.g. very hard, unforgiving, but fun once you get things right).

Does anyone else read/write old reviews?  Has anybody been buying these old games?  I wrote one for Ecco the Dolphin because I saw it being rereleased via Steam.