Greg Miller
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are so, for the writer to a degree, disposable.
And if that's too negative, you get so many more at-bats.
You know what I mean?
You could legitimately, if you were working as a full-time movie reviewer online or anywhere, right?
Watch a movie that night, do the review during the day, watch a movie that night.
You got five pieces in a week versus video game reviewing.
That's probably, hopefully, if you're doing five days of gaming, maybe two games to play, depending how big they are, this, that, the other.
Where I think when you're invested in something so long, it's easier to be like...
Well, I want to give credit for this.
It wasn't the worst thing in the world.
Yeah, I didn't like Crimson Desert's story, but the combat is there.
I found the fun by finding the open world, whereas you can go for 90 minutes and be like, I fucking hated this, and here's all the bile and hate I have for it that I'm going to put out, and I'm going to move on to the next thing and review something like that.
We talk about, yeah, the investments, right, from publishers, where, yeah, the games that are going to be put out by Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo, right, are generally going to be, hopefully, in that 5 to 10 range.
Again, you'd be back to the fact of the time commitment as well, right?
Where it is that idea that, yeah, I'm sure the Steam store is littered with 1 out of 10s, but it's that idea of to do that, we have to suspend playing the game you really care about to get to it, to then make a piece of content nobody cares about.
And then you're back to the argument, right, of the benefit of a newspaper or a dot-com that is all about movies, right, where you can put in the thing that isn't the headline grabber that doesn't need the attention that is going to be there, right, that somebody who is, think of, you know, back in the day when even you'd buy an EGM.
You know, EGM and the review crew can review so many things.
Now, granted, far fewer games, but they could review so many things.
They had multiple opinions.
They could give you that.