My problem with game reviews!

Okay, I skipped a week not blogging. It was because I was testing my anime watching program and it works awsome... It's just a program which tells you how many episodes of a particular anime you should watch based on date, but it has 3 major pros:
1- It makes sure that I won't run out of anime (for at least 4 years)
2- It makes sure that I have something new to do every 5 hours, so I will never get bored!
3- It makes sure that I won't spend a whole week just watching anime and not doing anything else (which happenned for Naruto & One Piece)

My plan to read "Game Reviews"

I wanted to become a game developer, so I figured playing lots of games might help me to have plenty of ideas, but I didn't have time to play all the games! So I decided to read game reviews instead of playing them to save time. However that proved to be impossible: The amount of games released each week is far more than I can handle!

I originally thought each review would take me 10 to 15 minutes to read (which it should) but instead, It usually takes me about an hour to read each review! This was because when I'm reading a review I also do three more things:
1- I Imagine the game in my mind.
2- I Think about the good aspects of each game and try to grasp the way they were created (what was the designer thinking when putting this particular feature into this game?)
3- I Try to find ways to improve the bad aspects of each game (what would I do to avoid the game's problems?)
Doing these were essential, because if I were not to do these, the whole "Read other game's reviews to improve yourself" idea would become nonsense.

After I relized that I can't read all the reviews of the games that are released,I decided to only read the reviews of the games that had an score more than 85% (gamerankings & gamespot).
I followed that plan for some time, but that plan had a major downside: I've originally planned to force myself to read the reviews of games with a score over 85, and then read other reviews however I liked. That turned into a "read more than 85s and let the rest pile up over each other" program, and It would stop me from reading reviews with scores below 85. I couldn't do that, because after all those reviews that I read, I relized that many awsome games get scores between 65 to 85 because of stuff I don't count as a game's downside, like "They're difficult for newcomers", "They're difficult to control", or "they have graphical glitches" (which will be fixed when you install the game's patches). On the other hand there were game that would get scores more than 90 that didn't deserve anything more than 75 or 80 (they get scores because they were "popular")

This made me take another approach: I would read all the game's reviews with scores more than 80, and I would read the rest compared to the amount of reviews I've read for the games with scores more than 80 (Example: for every 5 reviews with scores more than 80, I would force myself to read 3 reviews for games with scores over 75).
I followed that program for some weeks, but that program is also taking too much time.

Now, that anime program i wrote in c++ for myself, gave me an idea: I would write a program that would make sure i would read all kinds of reviews in a week, but would also make sure that I have time to do other stuff:
I know that it takes 1 hour for me to read each review, so I plan to read about 10 reviews a week. The program will ask how many new reviews I've downloaded this week, the total amount of reviews that I have stored on my computer, and today's date. Then the program will calculate how many new reviews I have to read, it would also devide these 10 reviews in different intervasl (how many revs more than 80? how many between 75 and 80 and so on...).
This program has 3 pros:
1- It makes sure that I efficiently choose what reviews to read
2- It would stay the same whether the week was crowded with games or it had 3 to 4 new games (like this week)
3- It makes sure that I have time to do other stuff while reading game reviews.

The program would probably be done in two weeks (I can't spend time on it this week, since I have other stuff ta do). I hope it helps me to make time for other things i want to do.

Reading reviews is important, but playing them is even more important, and designing them is way, way more important, for becoming a game developer.

That's all I have to say for now...
HAVE FUN!

Picture of the day:
Just read Psyren chapter 1