Flying Omelette wrote:I thought it was a good read, but I can't comment on accuracy since I haven't played most of the games he's mentioned in it.
This is the reason I think he has such a good reputation. His writing is fluent and he doesn't make any egregious grammar/syntax errors. That alone puts him several steps above everyone else who writes about videogames in the specialist press. Same goes for Kieron Gillen and I guess a couple more guys like that.
But their actual game knowledge and understanding of videogames is barely above the level of everyone else, I think. Not to mention that the respect people give them goes to their head, and causes them to fill their reviews with even more blatantly wrong blanket statements than they would have otherwise used.
Personally, I would rather read a badly-written review by someone in some hardcore forum who knows what he is talking about, than all the well-written but worthless flowery passages these guys churn out on a regular basis.