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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LrdApoc" data-source="post: 3936110" data-attributes="member: 1882">Steel Wind, I know I can't add much here to your points because an indepth review of a title would ideally cover all the things you mention, however as you say reviewers are payed to turn things around quickly. This season I've had to churn out a good number of reviews and the approach I take as a professional reviewer is to give the player a feel for if they want to try a game.Now in both the reviews I wrote of The Witcher I had not completed the game before I wrote them. I had however played into Chapter III. Same with Mass Effect. I'd played most of the way through the games, I'd dallied with subquests, etc. I had a good feel for the systems and what I felt people needed to know to decide if they wanted to invest the time in any of these games.That is my goal as a reviewer... to explain the experience, to give my insight into the gameplay, the story and how much a game is fun or not. There are some games I will never finish before reviewing.. Kane & Lynch being one. Its not something I enjoyed so I have pushed it off the review plate and moved on.. There is a great debate about the value of a review, a debate we see all the time. The reality is that for hardcore fans there is really little impact. Hardcore players do not take just one voice into consideration.. nor should any consumer to be frank - I know I don't and I write professionally about this silly industry. It is the casual player, the occasional consumer that benefits from reviews and often does not have the time or interest to research a purchase.Its sad to some extent because the expectation of experience and knowledge about games, gameplay and gaming itself is effectively as low as : I can type and almost always spell. The mark of a good review is that is speaks to the reader, unfortunately not every style suits every reader.Sorry I've ranted - the gist though is I agree that The Witcher received a short shrift from some who did not spend more than 5-8 hours with the game. But I didn't need more than that as a player to know that I was happy with my purchase.</blockquote>

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