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Formed in 2003, The New Gamer was established to provide a different critical perspective on videogames. We scrutinize the whole game, what it has to say, how the separate elements effect the player, and what each game brings to the burgeoning field of interactive entertainment. Simply put, we like to write about games.
#1 D. Riley Nov 23, 2007 02:07pm
People who want objective write-ups clearly don't understand what the word means. People who want objective reviews of games, for example, are asking for plot summaries. WOW! SO EXCITING!
To the article: I'm actually less enthused about achievements now than I was when I first got my hands on an Xbox. I very rarely experience the immersion that people talk about in complaints re: achievements (maybe in a Silent Hill game, but come on. Bioshock's hour long load times and repetitive splicers singing repetitive songs kill any chance immersion has to take hold) so that's not really a problem for me.
Achievements have become kind of passe for me. I don't really hunger for them, nor am I bothered by their existence. I'm mostly interested in them for retro-type games. Like Symphony of the Night. It's interesting to see what developers put in the game that were fan-made challenges before achievements were around.