Do you feel like video games journalism is reflective of the tastes and opinions of the average gaming enthusiast?
>>343359746
I feel like none of them talk about gravity rush and it makes me angry.
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Of course not, they want to be movie critics and movie critics are the most detached from the common consumer among all professional reviewers.
They aren't, you can tell with the high praise of the souls series among other things.
Your average gamer are not in tuned with those types of games they are far too difficult and require far more dedication that most people have time to offer.
Journalism panders to the loud minority who visit their forums, not to the silent majority who just look at metacritic scores and nothing else.
>>343359746
No, we established that 2 years ago.
Most are entirely unqualified to judge anything that isn't shit-eating AAA trash. This isn't even mentioning their over-eagerness to throw their hobby and its enthusiasts under a fucking bus for clique points and prolonged relevancy. Most popular gaming critics would rather be "culture critics".
>>343359746
Depends on how you define enthusiast. I'm sure there are enthusiast websites. And then there are more "gamer" or mainstream reviewers or whatever. I haven't kept up with game news for a long time so I don't really care
Is there anything in games media that isn't trying to shove its head up it's own ass? I don't like the fact that there are reviewers who don't play certain games or don't like certain games are the ones who review those games and that shit reflects on its over all success. That's like asking a black guy to watch good scifi and he's just in it for the come to age sport stories and gangster films but not as cool sounding.
Modern games journalism is too worried about things that shouldn't even be issues in gaming.
Reviewers docking points because they're offended by how a character is dressed, which is something so insignificant to a review, and something most gaming enthusiasts wouldn't even care about
>>343359746
>Do you feel like video games journalism is reflective of the tastes and opinions of the average gaming enthusiast?
HELL NO. They're a bunch of hippies looking to stay relevant while trying to force their bullshit onto everyone. Most of them don't even like video games. They're only doing it because it's a job for their shitty english degrees.
>>343359746
If by the "Average gaming enthusiast" you mean a typical Farmville/Casino-Sim gamer (female between the ages of 30-55), then yes.
If you mean a traditional PConsole gamer (male between the ages of 15-55), then no.
Which is odd, as the only ones who actually spend more than $200/year on games and browses their articles are males between the ages of 15-55.
This is why I hate that print magazines are all-but dead. Online, any idiot can call themselves a "reviewer" or a "journalist" and people will toss money at them for it. Back when print was the media of choice, you were actually held responsible for your articles, your articles went through a peer-review system and had to be okayed by an editor.
Knee-jerk reactions? Almost none.
Flame-bait? Only rarely, and that was dependant on the magazine.
Corporate bribery? Far more obvious and therefore avoidable.
Fairness in articles? Typically yes. Unless again the magazine had an agenda.
Back in the 80's and 90's GamePro magazine was considered "lame" due to their lack of publication polish and occasionally unprofessionalism. Compare any of their issues to just about any "video game review website" today and GamePro might as well be the Washington Post.
This is modern journalism in a nutshell.
Be personal friends with them and they will shill the fuck out of your horrible walking sim as if it was a 10/10 game of the year.
>>343359746
I don't believe in video game journalism. It's based on deceit and bribary.
>>343362231
Didn't used to be. Or at least not as blatant and not nearly as wide-spread.
I miss print.
>>343362219
kill yourself for posting this, you know its going to turn into ANOTHER one of those threads
>>343363503
Why so butthurt? Thread is about gaming journalists and this is totally valid.
PC mags used to, still didn't stop them from being entertainment first and foremost though.
>>343359746
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>>343359861
here you go
>>343364042
OH NO DAEMON HATFIELD WHAT ARE YA DOIN'?
to be fair, i'll give him some benefit of the doubt and say that he was trying to save his ass from the wrath of Dan Stapleton
>>343365256
>that faGGot asspain in the comments
Gold
>>343359861
I actually just bought the remastered version and started it the other day. It's a damn shame about the vita though. Between Tearaway instantly becoming my favorite game, and Gravity Rush being this quality, that system could've easily taken off with these two games as flagship titles. I wanted to get a Vita for these games, but they just banished the poor thing to the shadow realm. Only new games I've been seeing on it for the past 3 years have been animu rpgs and the like. That, and most stores just stopped carrying stuff for it altogether.
> be a gaming journalist
> get invited to a Rock Band preview event that tons of fanboys would love to be at
> bitches about fizzy drinks, pastries, job, rock music, VIDEO GAMES, shitty life
This is your average gaming journalist of today. They hate video games, they hate their jobs, they hate gamers.
I wish this article was made up... but nope, this is the sad truth of gaming journalists today.
https://archive.is/j7x2t
They don't play games. They get bribed to give high score to games like Sim City.
Funny enough, Sim City turned out to be such a disaster that it wasn't fixable for a entire month after release. So many of them went back to change the score to something shitty.
About 10 years ago, I realized that game reviewers were casual as fuck and had no idea what they were talking about. I realized that reviews not only had wildly inaccurate scores due to the reviewer's personal taste, but often falsely reported game mechanics and made completely unfounded criticisms. And in the past decade, the state of video game journalism has become exponentially worse.
I don't suppose there's some secret /v/ hangout where actual informed video game players share well-written, objective reviews of video games?
>>343362150
I wouldn't go that far. If you read the response from various game magazines to people sending them letters, the magazine editors were outright assholes to them at times or mocked them. The thing was that back then you couldn't immediately respond to that through social media like you can today. I mean, what are you gonna do, send them an angry letter they'll ignore and that no one else will see?
Also, people still have to put through stuff for an editor on official websites. Some random asshole writing a review on Metacritic isn't the same as someone writing from Gamespot, which is basically the thing (in essence) to the gaming magazines of old.
I think you give older magazines too much credit. While they may not be as corrupt as they are now, there are a lot of times where I felt they didn't have a good grasp of the games they were talking about.
Game Informer called God Hand an "uninspired beat'em'up'" and get the game a 6.0. Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike was wildly unpopular with critics and received a lot of low ratings despite being one of the most technically refined game in the series.
I don't think "professional" were ever good at judging quality in games.
And there were a lot of gaming magazines that were just outright shit. I never like Tips & Tricks, for example.
>>343367407
> asshole gaming journalists claims sim city cannot be patched for offline mode despite the fact that modders did it already from DAY 1
> after a month of not being able to fucking play Sim City for everyone, they finally patched offline mode
>>343367573
hardcoregaming101 was pretty good, but site owner went sjw
>>343367573
I'm not so sure I'd call it a "sekrit /v/ society" but I do like Gather your Party and the people associated with them even though I don't always agree with them.
If you're looking for good individual reviewers, Matthematosis and Super Bunnyhop are pretty good.
Do you feel like Kat is reflective of the tastes and opinions of the average vidya girl enthusiast?
>>343368905
She's reflective of the tastes of my dick at least
>>343367815
I've been avoiding this gaming journalism shit for a while, but just looking at this guy.
> piercings on his face
> tattoo
> hipster beard
> still lacks any trace of masculinity
> twitter profile pic looks like he is upset that the stick in his ass is starting to splinter
> gets rekt like a bitch
I have a feeling he was bullied a lot in high school.
>>343362150
>Corporate bribery? Far more obvious and therefore avoidable.
>Fairness in articles? Typically yes. Unless again the magazine had an agenda.
Did you read print gaming mags at all? They had this shit in spades.
>>343368045
his idiocy knows no bounds
>"oh, no, m'lady, don't use gamer, i prefer 'video game enthusiast'"
Is there anything more embarrassing?
>>343366654
I think a lot of people on here confuse shitty blogs with reviews or news.
The average gamer, yes. The average gaming enthusiast, not really.
>>343367930
>hardcoregaming101
Yeah, they have some good articles, but aren't very trustworthy anymore.
>>343367986
>Gather your Party
Looks good so far, thanks.
>>343359746
>video games
>journalism
Haha, oh god that is a good one!
>>343359746
Obviously not.
>>343362150
GamePlayers was a fun troll magazine for awhile in the mid 90s
>>343371576
>There are people who actually think this is how human vision works
>>343367930
How did he go SJW while running a site with weird ass lewd 2D platformers featured all over the place? I mean how can he justify that?
>>343362150
>That review in the pic
This has to be a joke... IS this real? Is this real life? What happened? Did everyone just turn into a bunch of uneducated retards that just spew anything that comes off the top of their heads? They don't even care to review the actual game...
>>343369921
> I think a lot of people on here confuse shitty blogs with reviews or news.
It's suppose to be news. He gets to play and review a brand new rock band before anyone else can at the event.
He should be telling us what are some of the new songs and bands in it. Some new features in this Rock Band game. Maybe some control differences or other changes. Shit like that would of been a review and news.
But all he does is whine and complain about how he hates games. How the fuck do you become a gaming journalist when you hate games? Fuck these assholes. They are not gamers at all.
