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Lawlight said:
spemanig said:

I mean, with all of the respect in the world to Colin, most people have games they know so well that they can write guides about them. I can write a fully detailed guide about pretty much every Pokémon game, for example. That doesn't make him knowledgeable with regards to games in general. It just makes him knowledgeable with regards to very specific games that he loves. He was just proactive about writing guides for the ones he likes.

And the PS4/XBO thing has been obvious for years. He didn't present anything new or insightful, though there is merit to presenting known and established information to a new audience. After all, that's essentially all that teaching is.

I bet only a handful of us posters are able to write details guides like he did. I know I can't and I'm sure most can't. Just have a look at his guides on GameFAQs. Listen to his podcasts, especially the ones about the best games on PS for example. I would say he knows gaming about as much as us enthusiasts do.

I would say that he knows about gaming no more than most enthisiasts do. That's my point.

I do listen to his podcasts, and I'm familiar with guides in general. Once you understand the structure, it's just about filling them in with the details. Again, if you have a favorite game that you've played multiple times, you probably know it well enough to make a guide. And if there are small details you don't know off of memory, you probably know the game well enough to figure out how to find them. That's essentially how guides are made. Anyone can do it. You just need to be good at the game and have the patient to put in the work. That doesn't take an exceptional amount of knowledge about games in general. At least not more than your average game enthusiast. It's not difficult - it's boring and tedious, like transcribing spoken word to at a court or something. Everything is there for you. You just have to be willing to do it.