Should I start a website where I review video games?

Again, young people don't use websites. They use apps which might have website versions but actually typing in the HTTPS protocol into their browser is nearly obselete. Even TikTok is taking over as the most used search engine for Gen Z.

People generally burst into laughter when I speak to them. It happened most recently when I was speaking to a recruiter and he asked what location I wanted to be sent to and I told him that my preference was "the greatest possible physical distance from major population centers."

I don't think he really understood what I meant. He suggested North Battleford, but that doesn't really count as a remote, far-flung location, even if it does have the word "North" in the name, it's not in the far north.

The guy is probably right that I need to be humorous or find some other gimmick. I might pick a game and make up a trial review and see how it turns out.

If you can talk a bit faster than normal, or can edit out the spots needed to breathe in, you might be able to insert yourself in the "talk fast funny guy" internet niche, like the Zero Punctuation/Fully Ramblomatic guy.

Please do reviews that is less than 5 minutes, we need more of that. Most reviewers aims to get over the 10 minutes mark for algorithm purposes. Fuck that shit

Yes but give honest reviews and not 9/10 game of the year shit cuz you were bribed.

Make a YouTube and link it to website.

A quick digest, then. That could work. Half the games I don't get all the way through anyway and could probably be summarized quickly. I think I found a good trial game and might try making a mock review of it real quick here. I need screenshots though.

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Did you vote for Trump?

I think directly mentioning in my reviews that I don't know what happens beyond two hours because I just stopped playing could be amusing in of itself. We all know reviewers don't have time for 40 hour games every single time, it's just not feasible. But they choose to go for "lying" for some reason.

No, I cannot vote in american elections. And I probably shouldn't tell you who I would have voted for if I was able, because it would reflect poorly on my video game reviews, which should be totally separated from politics due to the importance of integrity in gaming journalism.

you guys just talk amongst yourselves or something while I work on a review but if the thread dies I'll post it in a new thread.

Yeah man, those are in high demand right now. I hear ad revenue is at an all time high as well.

why would I bother caring about demand?

Why is everyone telling OP to make Youtube videos? The world has enough ecelebs as it is. Everyone here always rants about the state of video game journalism but someone wants to start his own site and you tell him not to.

What thee fuck happened to Gather Your Party?

How about a website were you rate other websites rating video games...

I'm almost done a rough draft.

Not your blog toxotranny fuck off

yeah well you're going to read it anyway

Here we go. A review I pounded out, while larping like I was a journalist with an hour deadline to make it to print, or something.

you're like 20 years late op, but i wish you the best because i miss the old internet

most anons got bored after one or two and fucked off

the few genuinely decent anons got annoyed at how haphazard everything was and that they had to shill on reddit just to get clicks

t. saw it happen first-hand

I would like to point out that the sort of games I would review, clearly, do not have the funds to be giving anyone any bribes.

This isn’t you larping as a journalist, it very obviously reads like the ramblings of a dull and uninteresting autist.

Yeah, well, whatever. I wanted to throw out a quick example. I like talking about video games but the sort of games I play have no other fans. I actually think project prequel might turn out to be fun if I could get to the survival horror part.

I learned a few things, at least. Clearly I need to get a video recording software even if I don't plan to make videos, because I can miss things I wanted to screenshot so I should just record the entire gameplay.

I'd also have to decide if what I want to do is actually "reviews" or something more like analysis/commentary. It seems like I was skewing more towards commentary.

I respect you for trying, but you go into way too much specific detail and you don't need to crack jokes every second line
It reads more like a let's play commentary
Reviews are meant to focus on the game more broadly and occasionally use examples to make the point

that's actually a brilliant idea, few people do this and there is demand for that kind of shit

you should 100% absolutely make a video game channel

I don't know. If I tried some sort of format where I play five obscure games a week and just try to summarize them in some short digest where I spend sixty seconds on each game..it might work.

To use project prequel for an example, if I did a sixty second segment on it, I would probably try to summarize the whole plot in a single breath, and fail and just cut myself off before I even got halfway through it because there is no summarizing that plotline in sixty seconds.

I dunno, that game looks and sounds kinda shit wth
Maybe a kickstarter game or an early access would be a better choice to get more interest

Pretending that you’ve never heard of TikTok doesn’t make you look cool

I've never been to the Ticktock website, okay? It does not interest me.

It's all sort of weird. Everyone is switching to BlueSky now because apparently Twitter isn't cool anymore and they're trying to convince me to "switch" but I never had a twitter account in the first place?

Not the worst game I ever played. Not the only one too spend too much time on the story in the beginning, either. Translation errors are more likely to make me laugh than get me to stop playing.

I would probably rate it higher than Post Trauma, for example. Evelynn is a more relatable protagonist than that fat janitor. Who wants to be a fat janitor? no one! and Post Trauma's plot isn't any more sensible either, it's a mess of silent hill plagiarism. Generally, survival horror plotlines aren't anything to write home about.

Post Trauma is just Project Prequel, with a larger budget.

Plus there's not much point doing games other people have done. The popular games have plenty of people doing reviews for them. They don't need anymore.

Have you consider Gonzo Game Journalism?

He doesn't look at all like how I imagined him.

Maybe not now (perhaps after 100 subs and a few reviews), but if you ask these small indie devs for a review copy, 50 percent of the time you might get one

Frankly, I would deem the site a success if I ever got to the point devs ever offered me the keys to their games, unsolicited.

It's not even really a far fetched goal. There's bottom feeder streamers out there who do that. All game devs give 50 keys to certain websites now, where registered streamers can claim them. This is done in the hopes a big name streamer chooses your game and skyrockets you to success.

It does not happen. What ends up happening is the streamers who have three viewers claim the keys. And they are just doing it as a scam to get free games.

But anyway, if game length is a problem, maybe I should narrow my review focus exclusively to demos. They are shorter, and free. Demo writeups would-be easier to accomplish.