Does gaming jargon enhance previews?

lorax · Post by **lorax** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:25 pm

When reading previews, are you bogged down by big words and gaming jargon? Are graphical words, like anisotropic, helpful in describing how fun a game is? Can you write your own jargon-filled "preview"? Below is a sample of this technique as applied to the current state of gaming:

Why are so few PC games eminent? Perhaps our answer lies in the realm of the symphonious arts. Let’s look to the Rolling Stones and U2, two rock bands as perennial as the Arrhenatherums. Both outsell their fugacious counterparts. Wherefore art thee newfangled competitor? Defunct?

Many games considered au courant have been panegyrized for their dandy visuals and groovy audio. Are these perdurable, too? Or, simply fusty? Both may loom as coetaneous happenstances. Au courant, indeed!

Do music & games climb to a zenith followed by the long road of putrescence? Will newfangled rockers evanesce while golden agers advance? Has PC gaming undertaken the selfsame paradigm? What asseverate you?

Please enchant us with aphoristic and epigrammatical comments. But refrain from vituperative and contumelious rejoinders.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:50 pm

I've written many, many previews and never once used that word nor anything like it.

warning · Post by **warning** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:47 pm

lorax wrote:Are graphical words, like anisotropic, helpful in describing how fun a game is?

Are descriptions of gameplay, like "stealthy" or "frenetic", helpful in describing the graphics of a game?

CeeKay · Post by **CeeKay** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:15 pm

No cunilingus? that's a pickle of a rule.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:32 pm

I, for one, am impressed. That post had to take significant effort.

PR releases are pretty wasted on me -- stupid jargon or no -- but I'm pretty sure I'm not the target demographic.

~Neal

Dhruin · Post by **Dhruin** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:06 am

Examples, Lorax? I just don't think competent sites write many previews like that -- or are you confusing Previews with corporate press releases?

edosan · Post by **edosan** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:53 am

I've stopped reading previews a long time ago. I got tired of "blah blah blah, this looks to be the best game evar!" and then reading a review three months later for what appreas to be a totally different game. Honestly, do marketing droids just take the reporters to lunch and hand them a brochure or something?

The Preacher · Post by **The Preacher** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:54 am

Eschew obfuscation, lorax.

bumper sticker for teh win

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 10:59 am

I don't think jargon means what you think it means. It is not just overblown, unnecessary use of big words. It is specilalized terminology associated with a particular subject.

Word to the wise.

Ale

Clanwolfer · Post by **Clanwolfer** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:43 am

Alefroth wrote:I don't think jargon means what you think it means. It is not just overblown, unnecessary use of big words. It is specilalized terminology associated with a particular subject.

Word to the wise.

Ale

Word. English majors for life, yo.

Beer Goggles · Post by **Beer Goggles** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 12:51 pm

Big words make my head hurt.

I just ignore all the jargon.

Octopus Overlords

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