how does Sup Forums feel about the current state of games journalism
How does Sup Forums feel about the current state of games journalism
Jason Lee
Jonathan Cox
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Robert Reyes
It's shitty but it's always been shitty.
William Allen
sometimes they're the good guys
Jonathan Allen
>Easily baited ese
Kayden Mitchell
>games journalism
no such thing nor has there ever been. at least magazines in 90s were cheesy enough to not take themselves so seriously.
Dominic Barnes
He got obese really quick, what happened?
Aiden Gonzalez
he actually called the SWBF2 bullshit a month ago
and even when the devs came on his show and gave him the runaround he still saw thru the bullshit
same with NFS
Liam Peterson
How I've always felt for 20 years, indifferent.
Julian Roberts
At least he had the courage to stand against lootboxes and popular franchise
William Bennett
ign.com
read this shit, literally praising it for political reasons
Caleb Wood
Drumpf
Jonathan Mitchell
Trash then, trash now, trash forever.
Sebastian Wood
I'm a dumb piece of shit and I feel like I could do a better job. I might actually try, but it depends on if I'll be paid with hentai and vodka.
Chase James
The main gripe I have with journalists in all art/entertainment areas is their incompetence.
How are they supposed to tell ME if a game is good or bad when they have no experience with older titles and history of the genre? When a talk about RPGs would abruptly end with a "Ultima who? Goldbox what?" In addition, critical thinking is mauvais ton.
Please, feel free to take bribes and indulge in nepotism, but at least present it in a non-embarrassing way. Because, however mocked media is, it sets a bar for discussions, and "ordinary" gamers feel that it is OK to be incompetent and oblivious to history.
Ethan Carter
its not relevent enough to provoke feelings
Charles Adams
well ironic to question experience with person in OPs pic
but in a whole, isnt it more their job just to divulge if the game is broken or inherently bad in terms of mechanics?
i mean Ride to Hell is inherently bad
but The Witness is not, in terms of actually running well, whether or not you like what the game is about is a different matter
Alexander Baker
Their existence is inherently flawed when reviewing a game and not simply reporting news on the games industry, but they're getting impressively worse at both. Game reviews by game news tabloids or whatever the fuck should not exist, leave that to the dedicated reviewers and critics whose jobs it is to actually play the game a decent amount and have knowledge about it, not some random intern who hates FPSes playing the sequel to another FPS.
Even if they did that though they've proven their incompetence and reporting regular news, so overall I'd say my opinion of it is pretty bad right now.
Kayden Ortiz
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John Campbell
Austin Lopez
>isnt it more their job just to
No, no matter what I or you think reviews are perceived to be all-encompassing and reflect the general quality of the game not limited to technical issues.
Because this is what matters for general consumer and in turn this information is used by managers who call the shots on future projects. I mean, just recall the Bethesda/Obsidian deal.
Game reviews are treated the same as book or music album reviews, and they have the same function. Ideally, objective and subjective claims would be separated, yes, and technical issues are much easier to assess objectively. But it's not how it works. For instance, the recent ELEX got obliterated by reviewers but in fact it wasn't buggier or clunkier than other Piranha games. Not only this shows that reviewers have no clue about this subgenre and Gothic games, this also clearly affected the game's sales.
And I'm sure my console friends on Sup Forums would come up with similar examples for underrated console releases.
Thomas Jackson
thats why i feel like totalautism is the antithisis of all games reviews
he spends so much time sperging out on graphical settings and fov an other shit
thats what really matters in the end
can the game run well
then the remaining 10-15% is how the game itself works and he gives you some other games in comparison for how or why he feels that way on that game
rahter than the bullshit IGN way of assigning a score that doesnt match the narrative
and then for further technical review you can watch the digital foundry videos who do a good job of listing or telling you which settings are on par with consoles so based on what you have you can decide which is worth it
Joshua Gutierrez
Useless. It's always been pretty bad but they've gotten really awful in the last 10-15 years.
They basically just serve as another PR arm of the publishers. Most 'news' it just reposting press releases and very little 'real' investigative journalism can be done without risk of blacklisting and never getting review copies or those press releases.
Anything that's not one of those is some fluff bullshit like
>I interviewed an ERPer on how they use game animations to simulate sex
or some other retarded bullshit. Its just a waste of fucking time.
Dominic Bennett
broke up with gf so he lost his reason to stay in shape