I’ve been going over my latest emails. And before I continue, I thank you all for your opinions. Be them helpful… to downright toxic and not helpful at all. I still do respect all of your opinions, and shall do my best to work with them (the helpful ones, of course).<\/p>\n
With that said, there’s about four different (yet similar) emails that most people are responding with(that are mainly constructive criticism). Do to so many of similar emails, I’ll be going over and addressing them with my reasons for your questions and concerns.<\/p>\n
Here’s the first one; Let’s go over that first email, who claims I “have no business” doing videos. The reason I don’t play to completion, is the same as Steam’s limited time to possibly give you your money back for a bad purchase. I hope that answers the first part of the concerns. As for the second of being ‘bias’ and ‘comparing them to other games we never heard of’, I do this because… well, no critic can be un-bias. I mean, look at NerdCubed. Look at Angry Joe. Hell, even look at Yahtzee! We all have an opinion. All of our opinions are bias! That’s what makes us human. So yeah. I cannot help from being bias. Every human is bias about something. From a game… even from what topping of pizza they want. But I’ll be damn if I’m ever going to defend a game\/system(aka be a fanboy). Everyone has their opinion. It’s what makes us human. To take that away… would be boring. . I like reading your reviews and watching your review videos. But there’s a repeating thing I keep seeing, and I wish you would change for the new year. You keep giving a report on the games you play, which in turn tends to spoil it for us. We don’t need to know what happens during the intro. So, emails like this clearly indicate that there is a problem I really need to address. First off, I have no intent of spoiling the game, and even do my best to warn when I show spoilers. And about my videos showing spoilers… yes, I guess I should say that there’s spoilers in these videos.<\/p>\n The ‘you make a report’ thing is… well… kind of hard not<\/em> to do. Why? Well.. it’s what I’ve been doing for a long time. I like explaining the game to my viewers. But to hear it’s actually going more harm than good… I guess I should approach this from a different angle. . The 4th and final email has to do with how laggy the Videos blog (and the homepage) is. This is especially true for people with low bandwidth. Unfortunately, this is something beyond my control. The reason why it lags is because it needs time to fetch the data from their servers. I do want to thank all of you so much for your videos! Keep them coming! Your comments and questions will help benies-blogs.com be what it was designed for; for the viewers.<\/p>\n . This is possibly the best suggestion I’ve ever gotten. Thank you guys so much for that! This will make recording future videos SO much better for me. I actually wish I thought of it sooner!! I’ve been going over my latest emails. And before I continue, I thank you all for your opinions. Be them helpful… to downright toxic and not helpful at all. I still do respect all of your opinions, and shall do … Continue reading
\n“Dear Benie,
\n I’ve been reading your latest “review” posts and videos, and it has forced me to say this. You really have no business doing reviews, because you don’t play the game to completion; nor do you give the game enough time to grow on you. Because of this, your reviews feel very bias. Plus you keep comparing them to games most of us never even heard of.
\nPlease refrain from doing these type of reviews in the future, or you will likely get no more people reading them.”<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThey give you up to two hours to play the game. Any more, and they feel you like it; even though you might not. They feel that two hours is enough for the game to ‘grow’ on you (as the email stated. Or in my case, to “blow my mind”). And if it hasn’t by then, it’s likely you’re not going to like this game.
\nJust as I said, this is the exact same for my reviews. If they don’t ‘wow’ me within the first 30 minutes to an hour after sitting down and trying to understand the story, the mechanics(difficulty\/combat\/skills\/etc), the tutorials, and the pretty graphics… then it’s likely I’m going to give a mixed\/bad review.<\/p>\n
\nAnd about the whole ‘comparing them to other games we never heard of’ thing, I do that to (try to) make developers wake up and STOP cloning ideas from eachother! It’s NOT cool! One of the greatest offenders was my just released review of Dragon Age Inquisition<\/em>. The quest timers on the War Table, reminding me EXACTLY like the Garrison Command Table in Warlords of Draenor! What’s worse, both those games were released last year.
\nIf it was truly a copy, or eachother didn’t know what eachother’s game mechanics were at the time(and I just assumed)…., I know what I saw.
\nAnd also, it’s perfectly OK to compare a game from the previous series, developer, or engine.<\/p>\n
\nAnd the whole ‘comparing them to other games we never heard of’ thing, I’ve already explained that in so many words. I do thank you for your emails.<\/p>\n
\nMoving on, the second email that I received. This has been repeated in so many ways by you guys. But here’s one of them that really caught my attention;
\n“Dear Benie,<\/p>\n
\nAt least mention when you do your videos, that you’ll be showing spoilers of the game’s beginning. And also, to try to base your written review by just explaining the key elements instead of a report of what’s good and bad about it.”<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFirst, list what games I’m going to be referencing, and then try my best to base my reviews of things like “Plot”, “Character Development”, “Scenery”, … things like this. It will be harder, but at least it would be spoiler-free.<\/p>\n
\nThe 3rd and 4th emails are similar to eachother. Both I can’t really do anything about.
\nThe 3rd email was about people having to turn up their volume to hear me\/the game. Blame SHAREfactory for this, not me. Though it might have to do with the fact I have to keep the audio (when recording) as quiet as possible(as to not cause echoing during playback of the PS4’s capture card, capturing the audio twice(from the game, and from my computer’s speakers)).
\nI can try<\/em> to raise the audio on playback. But the fact is, getting the video released ASAP is more important to me, than making sure you guys can clearly hear it. But seeing how this is a problem, I’ll try to do something about it. But no promises.<\/p>\n
\nMy only suggestion to you is to… what’s that term that teenagers often use? Oh yeah. “Get better internet”. Being a ‘last gen’ human, the internet is not a thing that you can ‘get better’. It’s your connection.. your ISP that needs to ‘get better’.
\nIf that is not an option, then.. again, I can’t do anything about it.<\/p>\n
\nEDIT: An update to the “video is too quiet” concern. Got some suggestions to buy some headphones or earbuds. I happen to have some iPod earbuds that I use for my phone of when I want to listen to my music.
\nAnyway, the suggestion, and I can’t believe I overlooked this for MANY months, is to plug in my earbuds to my speakers, so the speakers will not<\/strong> play sound when recording. Instead, the game sound will be coming through my earbuds, allowing me to record without any risk of recording the game sound twice (aka echo).
\nNot only that, but with this setup… I’ll be able to turn up the game sound to hear what’s going on and respond to it better!<\/p>\n
\nTHIS is why most Let’s Players use headphones when doing their videos! I.. wow. Whatever. Thank you, so much. I will be doing this for now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"