[Darren MacLennan]

Originally Posted by Kalor

Most of the his complaints were of the 3D environment (in fact, it was fully half of his review). How do I know how long he sat down and tried to get used to it? What if his monitor is poor? What if the game suffered from some weird sort of graphical anomaly on his PC? What if his mouse was bad for that type of game? Is his desk properly configured for playing a game with a lot of mouse movement? Is he color blind? These are things I'll never know, and his review made no indication to me that I needn't worry about such questions.

Yeah. That's got to be the silliest critique of a review that I've ever heard.

There are a million questions you have to ask yourself before writing a review: it can't just be your experience; you have to give a game the benefit of the doubt and put yourself "outside of yourself

Uh, no, you don't.

It's only when a reviewer cannot in any way, shape, or form see how anyone on any setup could enjoy a design feature that he should trash it. If not anyone, then most people on most setups. This is what I call objective reviewing -- it's not just your experience and your opinion; you're attempting to put yourself in the minds and shoes of others.

No. No, you don't. I can't agree in any way, shape or form with your comments here.

What your comments sound like is "You didn't LIKE IT? Everybody LIKES IT! You just can't SEE IT FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE! Are you BLIND? Are you DEAF? Is your MONITOR MISCALIBRATED? I just can't imagine how you don't LOVE THIS GAME LIKE I DO!"

In other words, every perspective is valid as long as it agrees with yours.

-Darren MacLennan