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"[Creator] Unveils Its Next Masterpiece" says a reviewer who has barely seen the game. This is some horrible journalism right out of the gate.
by kmfrk 14y ago
"[Creator] Unveils Its Next Masterpiece" says a reviewer who has barely seen the game.
This is some horrible journalism right out of the gate.
- ihuman 14y agoSo you're not going to blindly preorder the game?
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- chobo 14y agoIt's video game journalism, my friend. Everything is 10/10, buy it now!
- kmfrk 14y agoBacks will be scratched. It's pretty hilarious, because journos were basically invited to look at, tadaa, ~~~ASSETS~~~, and that was about it, and a lot of people are tearing them apart for wasting their time by essentially sitting them down to bullshit them with screenshots and concept art(!). Some examples: 1. http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/a-grown-man-in-his-underwear-tells-you-about-desti/2300-7055/ http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/a-grown-man-in-his-underwear... 2. http://i.imgur.com/suMjjQ8.png http://i.imgur.com/suMjjQ8.png 3. http://i.imgur.com/XMa5HYT.png http://i.imgur.com/XMa5HYT.png So basically the Peter Molyneux treatment, I guess.
- sliverstorm 14y agoMy personal theory is video game journalism is young enough to have largely missed the old fashioned long-form investigative journalism phase, so there isn't even a history of strong journalistic integrity.
- kmfrk 14y agoI think the real journalism involving videogames wouldn't be regarded as "videogame journalism". Cultural issues like misogyny/portrayal of women, working conditions for developers and QA, and similar important issues are likely to be handled by "outsiders". Videogame hardware is assembled in Foxconn, too, after all. But it helps that the blogging/website proliferation makes reviewers and reporters (I refuse to use the term "journalists") more independent of the publishers and videogame developers. It's getting harder for publishers to control the press, which is probably what we are going to see with this event.
- saraid216 14y agoThis is roughly true. There's a movement struggling for prominence to perform serious criticism, but it's been in the academic sphere rather than the consumer sphere... so no one makes any significant amount of money doing it. It's basically a vicious cycle.
- networked 14y agoSome people[1][2][3] have been doing long-form video game journalism for a while, mostly in the form of reviews that go in-depth into questions of video game design. As for long-form investigative game journalism I would recommend reading http://insertcredit.com/2011/09/22/who-killed-videogames-a-ghost-story/ http://insertcredit.com/2011/09/22/who-killed-videogames-a-g... and its companion piece http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=1076 http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=1076 for an example. [1] http://insertcredit.com/ http://insertcredit.com/ [2] http://www.actionbutton.net/ http://www.actionbutton.net/ [3] http://culture.vg/ http://culture.vg/ Edit: oh, and check out Ian Bogost's online writing: http://www.bogost.com/writing/ http://www.bogost.com/writing/. Edit 2: there are also video series about video games that are neither reviews nor consumer-oriented funny (or "funny") news programs but rather try to provide insight into the medium. See, for example, http://www.errantsignal.com/blog/ http://www.errantsignal.com/blog/.