This year seemed so promising; A 1up blog post about gaming in 2008

[ZenfoldorVGI]

Eh....well, I read the whole thing, and to be honest....it just sounded like a teenage girl who didn't know what she was talking about.

...to be more specific...she never played Fallout 3, used the most critical generalizations about the years biggest games(even though she hasn't played most of them) and fell into that age old trap of, "Well I haven't actually played it, but we can use general wisdom and anecdotal evidence of my unnamed friends to determine that some opinions probably are facts."

It's just a blog from one of those hardly-core gamers that got a non-writing job at a gaming site because they had a degree in journalism and a Nintendo DS. Simply because her name is associated with 1up, people clutter around her blog like a reviewer wrote it, and like she somehow has a more inciteful perspective on the gaming industry than say...me.

The article is filled with marginalizationist argument, most of which don't hold water.

That said, it's not really an "article" but a blog, so I can't really criticize someone's expressing of their opinion.

I guess the thing that pisses me off more is our general lacidasical bordom that causes us to pick up on every little meaningless piece of fluff and tout it as if it were evidence of our beliefs. That's internet 2.0 for you.

...but I guess I could just degrade into a conversation more easily accepted by the masses and inform you all that:

I disagee with this article, I find the assumptions ignorant, and the assertions invalid. No quantitative evidence would agree with the supposed findings brought to our attention here, and in fact, all quantitative evidence would strongly disagree with them. The article is likely written with a rose-tinted glasses approach to previous years of gaming, and is due to the author's personal waning interest in the hobby that I, and most of my compatriots here, enjoy. I would give it a thumbs down.