| fatslob-:O said: http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/the-legend-of-zelda-the-wind-waker-hd http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii-u/pikmin-3 After seeing pikmin 3 and wind waker hd scoring above 85 are the majority gaming journalists still wishing destruction upon nintendo ? (Be honest nintendo fans) |
Honestly ? Yes.... they are. The majority of the so-called "gaming journalists" always face Nintendo products with negativism
But I wouldn´t call it "gaming journalism". In fact, most of the so-called game journalists are just players like you and me. They´re not real journalists. The majority have the tendency to be very, very partial when reviewing a product (game or console or acessory or whatever), when it was expected from them to be balanced and impartial and technical as much as possible.
On the contrary, every game full of shooting and crime and war with a M rating gets praised, and if one of those three elements is missing the game is scorned. It feels like those guys look at videogames as a way to reinforce some kind of maturity they actually don´t have. Or trying to reinforce to other journalists that gaming can be taken seriously if they just give attention to mature content.
The fact is that gaming journalism is something that it´s not still taken seriously by the big media conglomerates around the world, despite of the enourmous amount of money that this market moves every year, and one of the reasons is this short-sighted view, this dumb attitude towards family-friendly content on videogames, and, as a consequence, all negativism that they insist in put on the table when talking anything about Nintendo.
Do movie critics desdain or despise Disney and Pixar cartoons ? No. Do literature critics despise children fantasy books ? No. Do music critics despise very young talents ? No. Then why gaming journalists need to despise a company that focus its productions on fantasy and family fun?
I wonder if all of this simply just big lobbying, after all, who wouldn´t want to have Nintendo franchises on its platforms?
