| sidmeiernintifan said: In my opinion the issue here is that many game journalists work as game journalists because they couldn't get another job. They are often people with a background in literature, like English majors, and wish videogames were more like HBO tv shows than like games, that way they would be less ashamed of their job. They want videogames to be a "respectable" art form, and mainly a storytelling medium. These are the same people who call The Last of Us the Citizen Kane of videogames, when it has no new gameplay ideas. They would never recognize Doom, Street Fighter II or Super Mario Bros as "The Citizen Kane" of videogames. These writers are ashamed of the people they write for basically. |
I don't think that is even remotely close to being true. As Jim Sterling said, most people in the game industry are just gamers who were lucky enough to be able to make some money talking about games. I don't know about you, but I would love to be paid to play games and hang out with gaming industry folks. I think you are deflecting just as much as a lot of gaming industry folks are...
While I do think there needs to be reform (in the direction of open-ness and accountability), I don't think there is any mass conspiracy or that gaming media are inherently evil. They are just gamers, and I've seen plenty of gamers say stupid stuff, it just wasn't thrown on the front page of a major game site.
