Videogame Niche: Reviewing products without playing and-or completing them
So, I've been trying to play through Doom 2016 and beat the game, but I didn't really play this game for the normal reason of playing games! I had some fun today playing it, and believe me, I'm thinking of giving it an 8/10, its a good and fun game, but I feel kinda stressed. I sort of have this way of thinking that the real proper way to review videogames in general is if you actually have a real feel of the flow of the game!
You gotta emotionally connect to it yourself, in your own way, what does this game mean to you, this to me leads to your review being unique, helps you separate from the endless of other reviews to the same product!
Anyways going back to Doom, and this may be my fault in a sense due to me picking the hardest difficulty available to me (the last two hardest difficulties are locked until you beat the game) but I am constantly dying lol, and I've mentioned this many times before, I got this job where I work about 80 hours a week, 12 hour days 7 days a week, 4 days off per 7 days worked, and rotating shifts
So I feel like whenever I have time off I just gotta beat a game asap so I can write about it and get traffic, and now these games I play go from fun to pressure, and I am pretty decent at games, I beat both doom 1 and 2, kinda skipped 3, and while this latest doom game is fun, this game is hard, at least for me, I read around the internet that other people think its easy, different challenges for each their own I guess!
I might be babbling nonsense, if I am sorry, I am really tired at this moment, but the main point of this post is, is it ok for people within the gaming niche to research a videogame content, without trying it or playing it all the way through?
I could just go on youtube and watch someone play Doom for me, but would I be able to write that same article on Doom just watching someone play the game vs me beating the game and feeling good about it? Is it fair to my audience that I would be reviewing Doom without having the full experience of the game within my own playthrough?
A lot of gamespot game reviewers claim that they put in at least 40 hours into the game! Giving up that much time would be frantic to me as I am trying to get back into shape and want to spend time doing other things that would help me live healthier, and spending money to try a product before I review it would be very costly, I am not exactly at that game developers send me free review copies stage yet!
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