Need some blogging advice

[Tomaius]

I've been trying to get a good blog up for a while now and I've been having a few troubles. First being I'm a final year university student so I have little time to focus on playing video games anymore. Secondly I'm poor as heck so that prevents me from grabbing the latest releases so I'm always 8 - 12 months behind everyone else in what game I'm playing. (Still playing around with Skyrim even without the DLC). At the moment though I've had some free time and had a chance to actually write some stuff to blog or vlog about, heres my biggest problem. They suck.

What would you guys recommend I do? A few days ago, inspired by the majestic Jim Sterling, I wrote a piece about how an easy mode in Dark Souls should be implemented and it was kinda well received. Now I'm writing a piece on Final Fantasy and what Square needs to bear in mind when they release FF Versus 13 and or FF15, and two things struck me like an alcoholic father. 1) It was a fairly shoddy analysis and that what I release couldn't possible cover the subject in adequate depth without being an hour long and 2) This seems hopelessly out of date.

What are your guys thoughts? What would you recommend I do? I'm thinking about just posting them anyway and let the harsh critics of the internet call me rude names and insinuate their better than me to sharpen myself into shape. Alternatively I could agree a topic here with you guys and then start writing about that.

Thanks for the advice.


EDIT. I don't really have a theme for the blog at the moment, I was planning on going for a Game Overthinker/Jimquisition approach and focus on trends and quirks of the gaming industry. In my most recent piece I'm trying to deconstruct what made Final Fantasy great and how 13/13-2 lost that.

 

[Basement Cat]

Focus.

Apparently your blog will focus on gaming, but you failed to make that clear in your entire OP, much less your first sentence or paragraph.

Ask yourself--what kind of blogs do you WANT to write? What do you know about games and gaming? What is it that particularly draws your attention/interest about games and gaming? Is it the mechanics? The artwork?

I remember a BioWare game writer got massively flamed because she admitted to enjoying the story more than the game itself.

Apparently people failed to appreciate that some folks get into different games for different reasons. FF 13 was an archetypal example of "interactive storytelling" that appealed more to people who are into stories, etc, than running up a body count ie FPS's.

So what do YOU enjoy?

Oh, you wanted suggestions and ideas? Why don't you look up that row I just talked about and pursue the subject of why it should be entirely acceptable for a writer to prefer the 'story' aspect of a game rather than the 'mechanics and playing' aspects of a game.

EDIT: Also, while you were wise not to give any link to your blog on your OP--advertising being against the rules and all--I'd like you to respond and include the link to your blog in your next post--don't edit the 1st one to include it.

Good luck!