Ive wondered if any of you have been checking out the AV Clubs new section on video games and if its any good.
gaming internet culture has made previews/reviews irrelevant - previews are never critical and dont say anything that a trailer & press release can't say, and i can always find people i know to give their opinions on games once they're released. interviews have almost always been boring and any choice quotes are going to be picked up by blogs/twitter. what else is there? top 10 lists and wacky "did you know...?"-type articles? i can live without that shit.yep
Ive wondered if any of you have been checking out the AV Clubs new section on video games and if its any good.
I didn't even know they had one of these.
The Gameological Society is an independent-minded online magazine that explores games as works of art and pop culture. Our voice is thoughtful, witty, and curious—informed by a passion for play and grounded in a broad cultural awareness.
The GB guys all made their own remixes taking the piss on that dumb Poly trailer. This is the best one imo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8He3GIj9HU
They've already failed cause they've got a former Kotaku douche involved. Fuck that site and pretty much everyone ever involved with it.
I guarantee you this will be better than the entirety of Polygon's content.I don't doubt it in the slightest. Don't get why publicly navelgazing about a hobby that's basically twiddling your thumbs is considered a good idea let alone something one could make a living off of doing.
Ive wondered if any of you have been checking out the AV Clubs new section on video games and if its any good.
I didn't even know they had one of these.
It's only like a month old or thereabouts.
www.gameological.comQuoteThe Gameological Society is an independent-minded online magazine that explores games as works of art and pop culture. Our voice is thoughtful, witty, and curious—informed by a passion for play and grounded in a broad cultural awareness.
So basically if you're not in to the Tom Chick thing it probably isn't for you. Although I trust the brand enough to expect more then pure self-involved wank.
A site dedicated to actual impressions from people with good taste but somehow don't manage to take themselves too seriously would be awesome but probably impossible to maintain.
A site dedicated to actual impressions from people with good taste but somehow don't manage to take themselves too seriously would be awesome but probably impossible to maintain.
www.thebore.com
Never cared about reviews, previous and other shit *shrugs*. You are kinda used to NOT caring when you were playing english games in Poland in 1989.
Now my twitter feed is full of stuff like this.
"Remarkable how gamers cry "Why don't you take games seriously?" & "Stop taking games seriously, you pretentious wanker!" in the same breath."
"Of course, calling something "pretentious" is usually shorthand for "It hurts my tiny brain to think that much.""
"The internet loves to mindlessly attack games journalists, so of course they're scrambling to shut down a documentary which humanises them."
I'm not even sure why we necessarily yearn for good video game journalism tbh. This isn't genocide or economics or the weather. Videogames are toys and will never be worth the 'serious business'.
Eh, the 1% exists, its just not well publicized.
Don't read the shit anymore. I promise that you won't miss it.
I read none of it
Don't read the shit anymore. I promise that you won't miss it.I read none of it
The correct responses.
Like, I don't have a problem with the ign guy who makes top 10 lists or whatever. He likes games, someone's willing to pay him to do jack shit. Everyone wins. I would say the pretentious types who start talking about games in abstract metaphorical terms grind my goat for sure. Its why I stopped listening to the giant bomb guys because although they are funny folks i couldn't put up with the constant focus on world building and narrative.
But I also take issue with what seems to be people who expect intense investigative reporting in what is absolutely a frivolous culture built around toys. Its just not the nature of this particular beast.
I don't quite understand the importance of metacritic right now. For the casual populace, do they even know of the site or care? The enthusiasts don't trust the website. A lot depend on the word of mouth of friends if anything.Companies don't use metacritic to actually judge quality. They use it as another "objective" stat other than sales to dish out such bonuses. They would willingly use twitter trends if they had to. They just want "something" number based; anything really. The only requirement is that they can argue in favor of it to human resources/court/the union.
Yet, I hear that metacritic scores are important to the game companies and bonuses and such are tied to it. If nobody buying cares then why do they care?
Sites need to be on good terms with the PR departments to get early access required for launch day reviews. So PR forever rules the roost and sites just regurgitate press releases ad infinitum.
Sites need to be on good terms with the PR departments to get early access required for launch day reviews. So PR forever rules the roost and sites just regurgitate press releases ad infinitum.
But apparently this isn't a problem with movies, which regularly have pre-release screenings specifically for critics.
I don't quite understand the importance of metacritic right now. For the casual populace, do they even know of the site or care? The enthusiasts don't trust the website. A lot depend on the word of mouth of friends if anything.
Yet, I hear that metacritic scores are important to the game companies and bonuses and such are tied to it. If nobody buying cares then why do they care?
Like, I don't have a problem with the ign guy who makes top 10 lists or whatever. He likes games, someone's willing to pay him to do jack shit. Everyone wins. I would say the pretentious types who start talking about games in abstract metaphorical terms grind my goat for sure. Its why I stopped listening to the giant bomb guys because although they are funny folks i couldn't put up with the constant focus on world building and narrative.
But I also take issue with what seems to be people who expect intense investigative reporting in what is absolutely a frivolous culture built around toys. Its just not the nature of this particular beast.
You don't have to do "intense investigative reporting" to do better game journalism. IGN and most mainstream coverage sucks because their content sucks. Not because they aren't doing what gamasutra or penny arcade report is doing.
I don't quite understand the importance of metacritic right now. For the casual populace, do they even know of the site or care? The enthusiasts don't trust the website. A lot depend on the word of mouth of friends if anything.
Yet, I hear that metacritic scores are important to the game companies and bonuses and such are tied to it. If nobody buying cares then why do they care?
Trey sort of hit it, but they need a metric to determine quality beyond just sales. That metric serves a lot of uses for them. Bonuses. Allocation of resources. Future planning of titles. etc.