PixlBit

ha, I just wrote about Night Driver the other day: 

http://www.pixlbit.com/blog/293/games_your_momma_shoulda_made_you_play

that game was super cool.  

Nice to meet you!

I don't play as many games as I want to or used to.  I have to think long term when I play them. Right now I am playing Trails in the Sky, for the PSP, which is a huge, long game.  But I'm chipping away at it an hour or so a day, and the hours do add up.  

Maybe you could play shorter games?  What kind of games do u like?  

hi, if you resize your images, so that they aren't so wide, they won't stretch out the text so it bleeds onto the ads on the right side of the page....    I know because this happened to me.  

sigh, this just makes me wish I was brave enough to get a triforce tattoo.  

But it's a nice painting.  I always wished I could paint/draw.  My hands just can't do it.  

While every writer writes for an audience, it's important not to give too much power to the audience.  You have to stick to your own vision, and find a balance between what you want to do, and what they want to read.  

Most of us are pretty civil.  But you never know what might set someone off.  I think you have to be detached about it, no matter how emotionally connected you are to your piece.  

I've written some pretty incendiary blogs, and I was always shocked by the response sometimess, and even overreacted on occasion. That's kind of why I like to be just a blogger and not a professional.  

As far as what reviews should be, I struggled with this as well when I was on a staff at a site. I think you have to make it personal, but you also have to have the ability to put someone else's shoes on, and imagine how other people might like it or not like it.  

One of my reviews was for Mass Effect 3, and I liked the ending. But I tried to understand that not everyone would, so I conveyed that in my review.  Obviously, people who hated the ending would think I was too even-handed.  And people who loved it would think I was being too critical. You just have to be honest, I guess, and hope for the best.  

This game looks nuts.  They cry when you change their outfits?  Good to see the 3DS downloadables are getting love these days. 

I should START doing that when I TYPE.  

darn I haven't seen any of these movies except Avengers and Django.  And I used to love movies!  I guess I just don't have the patience for them anymore, too passive for me.  

Great blog.  Thanks for writing and posting it.  Games really have the power to take us away to better places when we need it the most.  

thanks, man.  Glad you enjoyed it!