Instead of making a important post about the Election, I’m just letting you know of a new project I should be working on soon. It’s called B4HD (Get it?). It’s a blog that regales you with tales of yesteryear, at least tales about specific video games made over five years ago. I’ll probably be writing about SimCity, Omikron and Blade Runner – yes I know, those last two were probably bad but I was young.

Anyway, you should check out the holding page.

One of the most important questions within journalism is who is the right man for a review. One that I had to constantly ask myself while playing through the popular JRPG, Yakuza 3. Now I’ve said in the past how RPGs aren’t really my thing and it’s something that definitely came up with my criticism of Yakuza 3.

However, I rarely think that anyone is particularly wrong for a review. For example a few months back I reviewed Borderlands from a perspective of someone who doesn’t really play RPGs. Admittedly I couldn’t get too in-depth with the RPG half of the game but it put a unique spin on the review. I guess that’s what makes journalism so exciting, everyone has their own angles and opinions on things.

Now with that in mind, here is my Yakuza 3 review.

Be kind.

I wrote some words about MotoGP 09/10. For those who are too lazy to click on the link, it’s not bad. I haven’t really written much this year and I’m looking to step it up over the next couple of weeks with more words about Yakuza 3 on the way.

Metacritic is a funny site. It gives reviewers more power than they really want.

What I’m talking about is the horrible bonus culture within gaming that relies on an aggregated review score. Why am I thinking about this? Well because Daniel Lipscombe recently wrote our 200th review, which is the minimum requirement for acceptance on Metacritic. We aren’t guaranteed anything yet but it’s bringing up some interesting questions. Am I qualified? Do I want to buy into and feed this practice? Why does this feel like a massive accomplishment?

I guess probably, maybe and 200 reviews is the achievement would be the answers. It’s exciting nonetheless.

Every now and then I wonder why I’m actually doing this blog thing. I’ve been getting the feeling recently that I don’t lead an interesting enough life to make one blog post everyday. I mean in the last week, most of my blog posts have been about games or my shiny new PC. Personally I don’t mind talking about all that nonsense but I know it doesn’t create interesting reading.

I’ll probably have to find the real reason for signing up to this challenge. If I don’t I think I’ll have to stop, there’s a big fear of boring everyone to death – something I already do enough outside of the confines of this blog.