{"id":1175,"date":"2009-02-12T12:36:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T16:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/12\/expertise-enthusiasm-and-game-reviews\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T12:36:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T16:36:58","slug":"expertise-enthusiasm-and-game-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/12\/expertise-enthusiasm-and-game-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Expertise, Enthusiasm and Game Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shawnelliott.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/symposium-part-two-review-policy.html\">Part Two of the Shawn Elliott sponsored game review symposium of the stars is up at his blog.<\/a> More thoughts once I digest it all.<\/p>\n<p>A nugget from John Davison:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On both PC Player, and PC Zone back in the UK, I found that it was our strategy guys more than any other that wielded significant influence over the audience of their niche within a niche. These guys had an encyclopedic knowledge of historical warfare, were extremely comfortable with hex-based war games, and could tell you things about individual weapons (and whether the game employed them correctly) that would make your head spin. Not only did we use them because they knew their stuff, but we also used them because &#8212; let&#8217;s face it &#8212; you have to be wired up a certain way to be that into something like that, and other people on the team just couldn&#8217;t tolerate these kinds of games. We knew there was a portion of the audience that was equally nerdy about such things, so we put the war game guy on the war games &#8212; and everyone was happy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part Two of the Shawn Elliott sponsored game review symposium of the stars is up at his blog. More thoughts once I digest it all. A nugget from John Davison: On both PC Player, and PC Zone back in the UK, I found that it was our strategy guys more than any other that wielded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-iX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}