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amethyst73Every once in a blue moon, I think it might be fun to be an honest-to-gosh game reviewer, like the great guys Matt and Mark over at wii.ign.com. They get paid to play games, after all!
No, I don't really want their job; I'd lose satisfaction very quickly because it's very important to me to have the work that I perform be of real utility to someone. Finding genes that are upregulated in cancer, studying the ethanol response pathway, generating sequence data that's going to be used by biologists all over the world, etc. Playing and writing about video games, while often marvelously fun, don't really fall into the same kind of 'useful' category as the kinds of work I find myself doing.
But still. These guys get hands-on previews of wonderful things like Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime: Corruption and Super Mario Galaxy, and, as noted in one of the articles I'm about to link to, they sometimes fight for the privilege of writing reviews for these fantastic games.
But for every SMGalaxy, some days it looks like there's about six games that manage to scrape up to an overall score of about 3/10 if they're very lucky. Today, I believe, the wii.ign team had the unfortunate occasion to award two of the absolute lowest scores that I have ever seen in the section. The lowest I'd seen before today was a 1.7...
Mini Desktop Racing: 1.2
Offroad Extreme Special Edition: (warning, scatalogical terms used in review)
.. ready?
1.0. Wow.
And both games got perfect zeroes in "Lasting appeal". (In Mini Desktop, they even say that they played it only because they're paid to.)
No, I don't really want their job; I'd lose satisfaction very quickly because it's very important to me to have the work that I perform be of real utility to someone. Finding genes that are upregulated in cancer, studying the ethanol response pathway, generating sequence data that's going to be used by biologists all over the world, etc. Playing and writing about video games, while often marvelously fun, don't really fall into the same kind of 'useful' category as the kinds of work I find myself doing.
But still. These guys get hands-on previews of wonderful things like Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime: Corruption and Super Mario Galaxy, and, as noted in one of the articles I'm about to link to, they sometimes fight for the privilege of writing reviews for these fantastic games.
But for every SMGalaxy, some days it looks like there's about six games that manage to scrape up to an overall score of about 3/10 if they're very lucky. Today, I believe, the wii.ign team had the unfortunate occasion to award two of the absolute lowest scores that I have ever seen in the section. The lowest I'd seen before today was a 1.7...
Mini Desktop Racing: 1.2
Offroad Extreme Special Edition: (warning, scatalogical terms used in review)
.. ready?
1.0. Wow.
And both games got perfect zeroes in "Lasting appeal". (In Mini Desktop, they even say that they played it only because they're paid to.)
