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[Kenpachii]

Stupid question here: is game journalism treated like a second-class job where where a lot of these said journalists wanted to do something else but instead this is what they got. Like most of them may even hate gaming or are not having that much of investiment to play it but they "play it" and "review it" anyways because this is what their were paid for?

If this question is not that stupid then maybe this is a problem about the game journalists.

I think they want to write articles in papers but end in the gaming sections as game reviewers because there is honestly nothing else for them at that point. It's clear they never play or played video games and have zero interest in it.

But honestly gaming journalist is a complete useless term. You wanna see what a game is about check twitch or youtube and you will form your opinion if you like it or not in 10 minutes of watching somebody play it.

 

[TheDuskwalker]

https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/crash-bandicoot-n-sane-trilogy-review-marsupial-ma/1900-6416709/

Peter stayed current with new Crash games during the PlayStation's life span; playing the N. Sane Trilogy marks the first time he's revisited the series in almost 20 years, and he played roughly halfway through each game in the collection.

 

[Chittagong]

I mentioned this youtuber before, she just pushed out this informed review of an obscure JRPG and it again reminded me that really the question is, with dedicated reviewers like her, what do we need lazy journalists for:

 

[TheGreatYosh]

You already nailed the 2 most memorable ones for me. I never seen that Polygon vid. That is so bad, it seems like a parody.

 

[zeorhymer]

Stupid question here: is game journalism treated like a second-class job where where a lot of these said journalists wanted to do something else but instead this is what they got. Like most of them may even hate gaming or are not having that much of investiment to play it but they "play it" and "review it" anyways because this is what their were paid for?

If this question is not that stupid then maybe this is a problem about the game journalists.

Honestly, it could be any number of things. People grew up with video games and reads reviews and say that they could do the same thing. Then they do, but don't have the critical assessments to actually make an article. While other people are actually writers, but the only thing there is to write is video games which they have no interest in. The worst are "journalists" that push their world view narrative to try to rally for their cause. One of these days, I'll write about how much or how little fun I had in a game and try to explain it.

 

[eot]

I don't have any better examples, so I'll post the opposite. A girl who barely plays games, and who has no familiarity with a controller, goes on to wreck Dark Souls completely blind, figuring out most of the lore and finding all the secret areas

 

[TheDuskwalker]

I don't have any better examples, so I'll post the opposite. A girl who barely plays games, and who has no familiarity with a controller, goes on to wreck Dark Souls completely blind, figuring out most of the lore and finding all the secret areas

This reminds me of when a dude used his wife to show how terrible Eurogamer is after a Eurogamer reviewer compared a Spyro boss to Dark Souls.

 

[Mr Hyde]

They love introducing an "impossible" early encounter that actually becomes possible when you're good.

I remember when I played Demon´s Souls back in the day, which was my first Souls-game, and I got destroyed by the tutorial boss, the Vanguard, in about two seconds. It wasn´t until many many hours later, when I had beaten the game and did NG+, that I found out that you could actually kill him. That was a pretty nice revelation. Love that sort of stuff in these games.

 

[Shai-Tan]

I think they want to write articles in papers but end in the gaming sections as game reviewers because there is honestly nothing else for them at that point. It's clear they never play or played video games and have zero interest in it.

But honestly gaming journalist is a complete useless term. You wanna see what a game is about check twitch or youtube and you will form your opinion if you like it or not in 10 minutes of watching somebody play it.

That's the conceit of some people who are looking for reasons to hate game journalists. There may be a kernel of truth in a few who write about games aging out of it as their interests change, yet continuing to write about them but it would be silly to suggest they aren't typically just average gamers. They probably play more games than I do. Am I now a faux gamer?

The second sentence I agree with - video is pushing out print for learning about games, and yet I still find it worthwhile to read sites like Rock Paper Shotgun.

 

[PuppetMaster]

This one of Brad trying to play SotC is the winner for me. Its so bad.

He keeps falling then blaming the game for being broken. Does not realize there is a grip meter.

 

[UltimaKilo]

You know that when I saw Xenoblade Chronicles and XC2 get the scores it did, I realized these same journalists would not have appreciated the beauty of the masterpieces back in the golden age of JRPGs, so I stoppped reading.

 

[Gormless Noodle]

Courtesy of MomBot

I like how they always start bleating the same buzzwords. Muh "accessibility", that's one they've been using with regards to Sekiro too. But when THEY want changes not a single one of them will talk about "entitlement", that's just for the other side, "fuck gamers" after all.