On Videogame Journalism

Michael_Blessed writes "The most incisive critique of games journalism currently out there. I would say that as I participated, but there's some real illuminating stuff in there. And it's all true - I should know, being a games 'journalist' myself." It's a whole long series - read all 11 parts.

Comments

Re: It's a whole long series - read all 11 parts.

[Anonymous Coward]

No.

11 Parts?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is Slashdot, most people have trouble reading more than the headline.

Re:11 Parts?

[nacturation]

The correctly formatted Slashdot-approved joke template is:

It's a whole long series - read all 11 parts.

You must be new around here.

Re:11 parts?

[stratjakt]

I own 600 games.

Make that 600+. So many I havent even played them all. I'm a big shot.

I write very short one or two sentence paragraphs.

It makes it look really dramatic.

You know, to highlight my string of earth-shattering insights.

Re:11 parts?

[bob670]

If all the asshats on the web who had nothing to say and thought they were important kept to themselves (all of us included), there would be no newsgroups/messageboards/forums/chat rooms. That's why the Internet is useless as a means of communication for most people, too many asshats using big words.

Right... video game journalism

[Gefiltefish11]

Fvck terrorism, global epidemics, war, senseless murder, and the economy. I'm gonna report on... video games!!

crowd cheers

I guess it's better than reporting on Kobe Bryant.

Journalism about games?

[heironymouscoward]

It's almost as funny as journalism about sports, or journalism about porn, or journalism about journalism.

Journalism means analysing things that are interesting and important. Games - sorry - are mental masturbation, neither interesting nor important.

Now, journalism about the games industry, that is possible. Journalism about developing games, or about how the freakish death of twelve games writers in similar toaster-joystick-bathroom accidents. OK.

But journalism about games? Gimme a break, it's almost as irrelevant as journalism about Slashdot.

Re:Huh?

[Talez]

It's a known fact that video games "journalists" are intellectual wankers. Sometimes just plain old wankers but most of the time they're huge intellectual wankers.

Here's a brief rundown of how each video game house reviews games:

IGN - Is the company advertising the game on IGN? Yes? Then add 5 to the score.

Gamespot - Is this game popular? If yes, demolish the score by at least 20% and make sure to have completely unrealistic expectations of the game.

Gamespy - THIS GAME IS SO COOL! GET THE DOWNLOAD NOW FROM FILEPLANET FOR ONLY $9.95/MONTH!!!!! MAKE SURE TO LOOK AT ONE OF OUR KEWL FEATURES DUDE!

HTH. HAND.

i must have ADD

[Anonymous Coward]

that or the article is just really not that exciting

11 parts of rambling, inchoate thoughts

[hiero]

It takes

11 parts

because of all the

space between the

one line

paragraphs.

Just what is he smoking?

[Melchior_of_wg]

"Write about a game set in the 80s as though you were writing it from the 80s. Do this without being trite, and you're on the track."

You know, I'd REALLY like to read his review on Sim Ant.

Re:Huh?

[prichardson]

Hey, guess what. You're commenting on a comment on an article about an industry that reviews, rates, and comments on content. Quick, someone reply to me so this goes even further.

Re:old man murray

[cK-Gunslinger]

Wow. I never believed that the whole "humor-impaired" condition actually existed, but it looks like I have been wrong all this time!

"Humor, this is nacturation. Nacturation, humor."

Re:Huh?

[prichardson]

That's why I will not reply to your reply to my reply to the comment on the comment on the article that comments on an industry that comments on a different industry. I will merely...

***KABOOOM***SPLAT***

never mind