Explaining Our Categories

What is "Revisit" and what is "Experience"?

Revisit is just that: we're revisiting a game that we played at some point in the past. We may or may not have beaten it before. Revisits are fun, because of the change in how we perceive games.

Remember what it was like being a kid/teenager, no job, a bunch of junk food and friends circled around the TV, playing the games for hours on end? We couldn't get enough. But that may have made us less picky about what games we played to completion. Now that we're older, we have jobs and less desire to spend time sitting in front of a TV for hours, we can review the game from that perspective. This helps us understand what it was we liked - and disliked - about the games.

Experience is essentially a first-time gameplay review. We're experiencing it for the first time and sharing our thoughts about the game. This may be a game released recently, or one that was much older. With Experience, we have no bias for or against the game. If it was an older game, we may have skipped it or not realized the game existed when we were younger. This means that the perspective is unique and fresh.