I hate when someone describes a game they want people to check out and rambles on and on for like three paragraphs about, "The exhilarating, heart felt story, the beautiful water color visuals, the blah, blah, blah...."
WHAT THE HELL IS THE GENRE YOU STUPID IDIOT!?
Like that is the single most important piece of information you can provide about a game. I may not give a shit about all that other stuff you just said if it's a genre I hate or just am not good at. If you can't mention the genre in like the first two or three sentences of describing a game, you have failed.
It's not just people. Sometimes you go to a storefront and there's like a paragraph of info about a game with not a single mention of the genre or at least a description of the gameplay. That annoys the fuck out of me. I'm not buying a book, or a movie, I'm buying a game. So your job is to get to describing the gameplay as soon as possible. You can LITERALLY do that if you want, but it saves a lot of time if you just drop a genre name. You can say, "beat 'em up", "JRPG", "metroidvania", first person shooter", etc. In just a few words you have already told me A LOT about your game and I don't feel like you're wasting my time.
NOW you can talk about the story, the art style, or whatever it is that you think makes your game standout.
Simple common sense. This isn't rocket science.
I hate having my time wasted. I'm a "get to the fucking point" kind of person.
I (used to?) write reviews on GameFAQs and I was extremely formulaic. Intro detailing genre and developer and so on, then onto the mechanics and aesthetics, and closing. I'm not good at writing rambly text and I don't wanna read it either.
Raging Justice wrote:I hate when someone describes a game they want people to check out and rambles on and on for like three paragraphs about, "The exhilarating, heart felt story, the beautiful water color visuals, the blah, blah, blah...."
To be fair, it does take a while to describe just how awesome Yars' Revenge is.
Ziggy587 wrote:What I find more annoying are modern game trailers that show you nothing but cutscenes and gives you no sense of what the gameplay is actually like.
Showing cut scenes for a game trailer is equivalent of showing the film script for a movie trailer
