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.

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11 parts?

[stratjakt]

To paraphrase Frank Zappa:

Game journalism is people who cant write, interviewing people who cant talk, for an audience that cant read.

(He was talking about rock journalism but I think it applies here)

There's no "game journalism" as I see it. Just text ads. I'm more likely to cruise various posting forums to see what the peanut gallery thinks about a game I'm interested in than to read a "professional review" from .

And even then I tend to disagree with what's said most of the time. In fact, I think Metal Gear Solid, Halo, GTA3 and other popular titles are boring, yet I played Jak and Daxter for 8 hours solid until I'd 100% finished it. It entertained me, Halo didnt.

So my answer? They're fucking games, just go play what you like and have fun and quit worrying about what other people think, only candy asses do that.