Comradeship // Freechat

2168 readers

124 users here now

Talk about whatever, respecting the rules established by Lemmygrad. Failing to comply with the rules will grant you a few warnings, insisting on breaking them will grant you a beautiful shiny banwall.

A community for comrades to chat and talk about whatever doesn't fit other communities

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

felipeforte@lemmygrad.ml

Why is every single game journalism article a FUCKING JOKE? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by JoeDaRedTrooperYT@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

19 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Literally every game journalist article I see feels like the people who wrote it never even played the game to begin with.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 10 months ago

The other answers in this post already sums it up pretty well, but there's this recent video from the Kavernacle that talks about gaming journalism and I think is pretty good: https://youtu.be/nsgTD9bLVsU?si=cWR7rNmpB7t3mM96

I was also gonna link a video of the same topic from Ranton, but I saw he had a Pewdienazi gaming chair and saw he making various nazi/holocaust jokes throughout the video, so, ugh.

But back on topic. The issue is capitalism as always, overworked writers/journalists that need to write as much as possible as fast as possible to generate as much clicks as possible. Then there's the whole thing with the whole gaming journalist industry being in bed with the companies whose products they are supposed to critically review. You end up with fake journalism that serves the interests of the gaming companies that control what is played, when, for how long, in what circumstances, and if you fuck up you're blacklisted.