Crispy Gamer  Giving up: should reviewers suffer through bad
games?   I had an interesting conversation with a colleague (who
I won't mention out of respect) this evening about game reviews
and how much a reviewer has to play what they perceive as a bad
game before they throw in the towel and write a review. To my
way of thinking you should try, to the best of your ability, to
play that game as far as you can, barring a show stopping bug or
design flaw that prevents you from continuing.  So if a game is
awful, are reviewers allowed to say at some point "hey I
wouldn't play this game anymore than I have to and you shouldn't
either" or should they do the heavy lifting and play it to the
end? My thought on doing that is that it is wrong and it makes
it difficult for an editor to know whether that person was truly
playing an awful game or was just being lazy.  As much as I
loathe playing crappy games, I take the responsibility of
reviewing any game very seriously. After all, times are hard
right now and wasting y