How to Become a Game Journalist
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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This is Yahtzee's way of being nice and giving advice. You just got to remember to do the opposite of everything he says here (unless he's been crafty and slipped in some genuine advice).
I have over the past year that was from a year ago bluntly put i have gotten better at doing it. The problem was I rambled on way to much since that was 300 hr game which had way to much info to convoy in 500 words or less. This would be like doing a in-depth review of fall-out 3/NV due to large amount of material. Fine I also accept your challenge.maninahat said:
Hell when the time comes I will copy paste most of those reviews to Microsoft word and set myself to 650 word limit and cut out chunks of material. However I will say this I do not count synopsis or info on the source material/adapts legit parts of the review. Those are just there to inform the reader what it's based on, however I can do two separate post seeing what you mean now. It took nearly 2 pages to reach just the beginning of the review.
The clannad visual novel overall is one of the greatest love stories ever told in any form of media.
Thanks to this article, I am now ready to launch my career writing game reviews in the form of badly composed limericks and incomprehensible haiku. Sorry Susan, I know you would have loved my work, but at Yahtzee's insistence I must seek my fortune among the lucrative dead tree publishers. To Game Informer!
If the word "butthurt" appears in the next edition of the Oxford Dictionary, I am going to blame you, "Yahtzee" Croshaw.
Then I'll be forced to burn you in effigy. And your littledog imp too.
Then I'll be forced to burn you in effigy. And your little
And here I was under the misapprehension that British humour was dry. Too much time spent down under, Yahtzee.
So, my pitch about being forged in the crucible, like that one U.S. Marines commercial advertises, would be totally great? Great to know. Now, to find a pond.
That's because I have not yet finished my 15,000 word mix between article and fanfic on the topic of "sexiest videogame characters", which I've been working on since 2001. It is very epic and very good and it would make a great recurring feature. I haven't sent a preview to you because it's not yet perfect enough, and because I would like to add some poetic interludes between its chapters first. I am not a very good writer, but my work always has potential and a powerful, vibrant energy to it. With your help as an editor, we can certainly fix it and make it shine!Susan Arendt said:
In my opinion the consistent tone throughout the entire article (except for the typical Yahtzee "punchline" at the end, which only keeps the consistency) only adds to the funny. I imagine it took considerable discipline/talent to pull off without reflexively resorting to knob gags, and every paragraph that kept even one person guessing as to whether or not flat advice was being dispensed is a triumph for Yahtzee.
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This was the most honest advice I've heard in a while. I'll just give up my job right now and send my ideas to several companies. Thanks!
My first review will probably be a John Deere simulator game too, I wanted to do that for a while.
My first review will probably be a John Deere simulator game too, I wanted to do that for a while.
I'm not even sure if this is satire since Crenshaw just described himself pretty well there.
Rambling walls of text, knows nothing about gaming, should drown himself in a pond...it's like he's painting a self portrait.
Rambling walls of text, knows nothing about gaming, should drown himself in a pond...it's like he's painting a self portrait.