richardhutnik on 13 June 2011
| Torillian said: I talked to another "gaming journalist" on the plane back from E3 and he said something that I thought was pretty accurate. He doesn't consider himself as a journalist. He's a critic/reviewer and he hopes he writes up interesting editorials but he isn't a journalist going out and trying to get the next big scoop and delve deep into the industry. I consider myself the same, I try my best to be a good reviewer but I don't consider myself a journalist even when I'm out at a conference like GDC or E3. As far as if gaming journalists are better than your common forum poster, I'd say no for the most part, we're just willing to put the work in that most people aren't. Any of you could have joined the staff when we had recruitment drives assuming you write reasonably well you just decided you didn't want to. |
Well, I must of missed this, due to being distracted and working on a lot of other things. I just remember seeing Brett's request for people to clean up the data in the database.
As for the first point, it would then seem to be a bunch of people with opinions, who happen to write above average, merely expressing their opinions in different media areas. Perhaps I have expected a bit much when I would expect to see deep articles on the nature of the industry, and philosophy of what makes or doesn't make a good game, or possible trends out there.
