The dirty secret of games journalists is that many of them are not very good at games. You won’t see them topping games ladders or schooling all newcomers. They play too many games to ever really excel and any one unless it is their sole pastime outside of the work environment.<\/p>\n
This is doubly true when a games writer who specializes in a particular genre or area of expertise goes outside his\/her safe zone to try something new and cool. In yet another distinction between games and movies, the former is a broad medium that can demand a much wider range of skills and talents. This is both its strength (something for everyone) and its weakness (some people will fail repeatedly at very good things.)<\/p>\n
Still, well aware of my limitations in the FPS milieu, I am playing Bioshock<\/em> at medium difficulty. I am currently in the Medical Pavilion area with one first aid pack, one hypodermic, 3 pistol bullets, a wrench and an empty machine gun. I have “died” so many times in this part of Rapture that the Vita Chamber should have a “Space Reserved For…” sign.<\/p>\n So do I suck it up and go down to easy just so I can enjoy this very creepy game? I’m loving all the little touches and really want to know what the hell is going on. <\/p>\n But I won’t get any better if I keep asking for underhand pitches and what if there is another great shooter next year?<\/p>\n I also won’t get any better if I keep freezing up when Nurse Ratched jumps out and beats me with a pipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The dirty secret of games journalists is that many of them are not very good at games. You won’t see them topping games ladders or schooling all newcomers. They play too many games to ever really excel and any one unless it is their sole pastime outside of the work environment. This is doubly true […]<\/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":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-c1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745"}],"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=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}