Practicing writing about games

My favourite way to discover new things is by other people. I don’t want to find my next game through an algorithm that looks at what I’ve played and what others have played and by making weird conclusions that we must like the same things. I really enjoy reading or watching when other people discuss games they’ve enjoyed and why and explain or show the unique elements and what makes the game interesting. I’m not interested in nor find much value in numeric reviews because they are so arbitrary. We have wildly different internal schemas of what “8/10” means for a video game but even if our scales align, we will like things for things reasons. That’s why writing about the games from different perspectives is so important. I want to add my own contribution to this network of ideas. For the longest time though, I have strongly disliked my writing about games. Whether I call them “reviews” or something else, I have a tendency to think that I need to explain all the rules and mechanics and…