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thekitchensink on 07 January 2009

I completely agree. There's nothing wrong with mentioning if the 360 version runs a little better, or the textures are sharper on PS3. But stop right there. Stop. Right. There.

Also, you don't have to like a game, but you need to review it objectively and with its' target audience in mind. I mean, anyone else remember the 'journalist' who openly stated that he couldn't wait to bash the hell out of Wii Music'?



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megaman79 on 07 January 2009

there was a time when vg journalists were excitied about ALL games and ALL systems. This competitive machine has killed the naive and sweet birth of video games in the 80's. How ironic that it happened in the 80's aswell, the most greed worthy decade in history.



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thekitchensink on 07 January 2009

@Megaman79: Maybe Nintendo's on to something with the Wii and DS, having a plethora of games that appeal to everyone.



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megaman79 on 07 January 2009

Im studying journalism. Somewhere between going to uni and having New York Times / John Pilger / Naomi Klein ideals for high quality standards and getting a bloody job we loose the ability to distinguish between the 2.

Gaming journalists are not journalists in the sense that there words on paper communicate information of relevence and supreme importance to our lives.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

Sardauk on 07 January 2009
elprincipe said:
Sardauk said:
Badassbab said:
Let me tell you something about gaming journalists. They are paid to big up their respective console and speak crap about other consoles.

I remember back in the days journalists would do just that and when they moved on and got employed on a rival console magazine they would simply speak rubbish about the console they used to support.

 

Lets simplify, "gaming journalism" doesn't exist. It is about consumer goods, this no journalism to me.

Exactly.  Real journalism is about reporting facts, reminding people about history, exposing lies and the like.  Game "journalism" (as you rightly note it doesn't exist) merely regurgitates fanboy rantings and product whoring like clockwork.

 

 

Right. I even stopped my Gamespot subscription the day they fired Jeff Gerstmann.



 

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Myviewing on 07 January 2009

I myself like the fact that gaming is mainstream and there's a lot of people to game with, but reading this I can now understand what's causing dislike for this recent trend. But here's something that I've learned from journalism: The media sensationalizes stories to garner viewers.

This is why I think some review sites give different games different scores, because since Gamepro is one of the few sites that gave Too Human a 4/5 review (at least compared to the many others), that site got views.

I still blog on Gamespot, but I don't try to sensationalize everything I talk about unless I try to do so in a poormans-humorly way. Of course the only reason sites and magazines want more views is because it generates more revenue. So I don't think it's necessarily gone fanboy, I think gaming "journalism" has just gone the way of mainstream news sources like CNN and Fox News.



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irstupid on 07 January 2009

they have always been fanboys. Its just that they were always the fanboys of the winning console and like the winning console so you didn't notice it as much.

now they are all fanboys of the PS3 or some 360 and are too "cool" for the wii so the fanboyism shows big time and makes them look rediculous.