Comments on: Five Things I Learned About Game Criticism In Nine Years At PC Gamer https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/ We're back on a default theme because comments broke on my custom one and I don't have the energy to figure out why Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:19:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Richard Hayden https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-584182 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:50:42 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-584182 Hi Tom!

Long time listener, first time caller. Not sure what I meant by that. Just wanted to let you know that I’m currently promoting Gunpoint and encouraging people to play it. Get a load of this: http://blog.playfire.com/2015/01/gunpoint-playfire-rewards-wednesday.html#more

Cheers,
Rich

]]> By: Dale Morgan https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-492779 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:05:20 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-492779 I was just forwarded this link by a friend and it made me hang my head in shame!

I’m definitely guilty of points 1, 2 and 4. I *like* to think I have a handle on 3 and 5 though.

I felt like facepalming myself after reading as I immediately thought “oh god, I did that in this article/review”.

Good work Tom!

]]> By: Anatomy Of An Intro To A BioShock Infinite Review, by Tom Francis https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-454578 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:08:36 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-454578 […] I left PC Gamer a few months back, I wrote up five things I learned from my 9 years there. I also promised to pick apart something I’d written to show how I’d tried to apply […]

]]> By: Jory https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-445969 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:06:24 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-445969 Hi Tom, I’ve really been looking forward to your follow-up to this piece! Your game criticism is some of the very best and most fun to read and I’d love to hear more about your process. Pretty please?

]]> By: Joe https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-438642 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 03:42:17 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-438642 Can we still expect more posts on this maybe please?

]]> By: Kyle https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-438508 Tue, 30 Jul 2013 01:29:37 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-438508 Great article. I’ve been a long term fan of your writing and your pieces at PCG were always among my favourites, one that comes to mind being a very funny feature on dating in video games.

It’s brilliant to have advice on hand from a writer I admire, so thanks a lot for this and I’ll try my best to follow your principles!

]]> By: Jed. H https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-438080 Sat, 13 Jul 2013 03:53:49 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-438080 “…if your videogame review starts with the words “When I was six,” I rub my forehead and quietly close the tab.”

Very true and I’m glad I didn’t close the tab on this article even though it started this way. Good points. This.

]]> By: Ingo https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-437773 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 00:20:36 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-437773 That is a great list, makes me think I’d have loved to read your articles. Actually, I just read two and they were great.
Strangely though, every videogame journalist that impresses me turns out to be an ex-journalist who is now making games instead of writing about them. Some at least still talk about them, thankfully.

]]> By: Pentadact https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-437724 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 20:57:42 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-437724 Cheers everyone!

Quick update: that breakdown thing I mentioned might be a day late, it’s 10pm and I only just finished my work for the day.

]]> By: Antan https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-437717 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 17:48:37 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-437717 Thanks for this. When I write game reviews, they often end up being summarised by the phrase: “It’s good because I like it”! Clearly, I need to work on that a bit!

]]> By: Ben Rose https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-437714 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:49:14 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-437714 Yeah, I’m definitely guilty of doing most of these things at one point or another.

]]> By: CJ https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-437694 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 01:21:50 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-437694 I may not be the best writer, but I’ve come far enough to know when I’m getting good advice: namely, when I get all defensive and want to hurl obscenities.

I’ll save you the indignant bullshit I was thinking of posting and instead offer my thanks. Great article, Tom.

]]> By: Jakub https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-437685 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:43:17 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-437685 Tom,

Great, great article. Even though I’ve always avoided writing game reviews, but I do write on design and development, so many of your points apply as well, particularly about giving concrete examples and brevity. I always find myself too “verbose” and cutting things down because they’re just fluff or too fancy. It’s almost like the 30-70 rule applying here as well!

(one of the reasons I enjoy following you on twitter as opposed to many other game journalists – you don’t spam 3 tweets in a row about trying to find your socks…)

– Jakub

]]> By: Ben Borthwick https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-437684 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:24:12 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-437684 Ahhh the hilarious shambles of Alone in the Dark. Good times! (And not just because I was there for that one, though watching your review process in the flesh was incredibly useful/educational to me.)

]]> By: Leaving PC Gamer, by Tom Francis https://www.pentadact.com/2013-07-01-five-things-i-learned-about-game-criticism-in-nine-years-at-pc-gamer/#comment-437683 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:08:07 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=6227#comment-437683 […] I generally avoided talking about games writing itself when it was my job, but now seems like a good time to think about it a bit. So I plan to do a few posts on the topic this week, starting with the five most important things I learned in nine years of doing it full time. […]

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