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?

[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: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.

11 parts of rambling, inchoate thoughts

[hiero]

It takes

11 parts

because of all the

space between the

one line

paragraphs.

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.