You know what, gaming today's really not that bad

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Dante9 said:

Yeah, there are plenty of good games out there and stuff coming out all the time. It's just that every major launch is now a political battlefield with extreme polarization. Either gamers love something or the journalists do, and the other side always hates it. It makes the situation feel more volatile than it actually is.
But everyone can make up their own minds today, there's video available. When I was a kid, there was none, and you actually had to buy a magazine and rely on the journalists to tell you if a game was good or not. Although back then, they actually reviewed the game itself, rather than its political sensibilities, which didn't really even exist in games, they were just games. Simpler times.

While it is annoying, culture warring can at least be partially avoided by curating one's social media feed, blocking those who push it, and not giving such bad actors the engagement they crave.

It is nice that nowadays I can go on youtube and watch a game in action or here a wide spectrum of opinions on it, rather than just buying based on brand, what has a cool looking cover, or what a magazine recommends back in the old days.