You're right. That's probably one reason for the death of games journalists. (and journalism in general) They are obsolete. All the good ones are independent.
I have a huge steam library and disposable income for plenty of new games. I would honestly rather do my day job than play those games for 40 hours a week.
I hate journalists but they’re probably right. A TON of games are awful and having to play them in a structured way for hours on end probably really does suck.
Hell, playing video games for 40 hours a week, even if you liked the game, would feel like a soulless and pointless existence. You didn’t build anything, you didn’t form relationships, you didn’t lead any new endeavors, and you didn’t help anyone. You just ran around a fictional environment that has nothing to do with reality.
Each journo usually only does one or two games per week, and given their reviews, only plays one or two hours worth of the game. In one particularly infamous case (Cuphead, IIRC), the journo didn't even finish the tutorial.
So they're getting the income of a 40-hour week, while playing games for 2-4 or so hours, and writing for 2-4 hours (reviews are rarely more than a page or two). The rest of their time is virtue signalling on Twitter, which they would have done regardless of employment.
To be fair in the Cuphead case. That wasn't a review. It was them making him try the game and then they uploaded his inability to play for the giggles. Unfortunately, people didn't see it that way.
From what they claim, Dean Takahashi isn't a gamer, he is a journalist about gaming as a "business." Now if that's true, it does raise the question of if he should have the slightest bit of understanding of the product these businesses make.
I don't buy their defense of him and anyone in the industry should have the barest ability to engage with games on a foundational level. But it was a bit more complex than most cases of tarded reviewers.
Now, he was already famously for years beforehand writing a review about Mass Effect (which ruins their defense even more since he did review in the past) where he trashed it horribly, before it came out he never spent a single skill point and that's why he struggled. So that's a better example.
You need better games. I could easily do 100 hours per week, although that really cuts into commenting. A standard week of 8 hours off time per day leaves you 112 hours of gaming/commenting time.
You didn’t build anything, you didn’t form relationships, you didn’t lead any new endeavors, and you didn’t help anyone. You just ran around a fictional environment that has nothing to do with reality.
Exactly**!** And not only that, I play single player in every game, even in GTA Online! (set your PS4 MTU to around 700) I've built countries that not a single other person will ever see or know about.
(The theory here is that a society that needs my assistance to not be this retarded doesn't deserve it and won't receive it. And why spend the rest of my life in prison when I can play games instead? Give me immunity and maybe I'll come out and play again.)
The trick is to only play games you like. I have around 60 games just on Steam, but time played falls off to minutes after the first couple rows. A few dollars seems like a great price for some of those full games, but then you have to come up with the time to play them, when you already have games you love.
Have an upvote, since there's nothing wrong with avoiding awful games.
You are rich and I'm jealous but I do get your point. They are somewhat like porn actor, yea I like sex but I doubt porn actors like it all that much.
However, as others have pointed out, they do not play all that much and they do not like games, they say they play games but they can't finish games, literally complain that the games are to hard for them. This are not gamers, are political tools that have a job to do so they write about diversity in games, stereotypes in games, things they can see easily and the rest is mostly them looking at others play the games.
Game Dev blows something up. A couple Twitter randos ask why. Journalist comes to the rescue to whine and say how hard it is playing games for a living.
there seems to be a lot of complaining from some guy at kotaku on how hard it is to have to travel for work, apparently they do that, shoot guns for research and play games and having deadlines on playing games.
Which made people make fun of them since it is obvious that if you think playing games is not fun you probably should not be writing about them. Plus work travel in Europe, shoot guns and play video games while being payed for it does not seem like a bad gig but this guy wants sympathy on how hard his life is.
Put this guy to work on a farm, in a factory, in construction, or fixing a toilet for a day, and he'll be BEGGING to play video games again in an hour.
Have you seen the shit game companies are pumping out nowadays? If I had to trudge through that cesspool of content for a living, I'd kill myself, and I literally deal with garbage and shit on a daily basis.
"Top ten reasons why Mario should become a usurper"
"Qunari are right about women"
"Leisure suit Larry: symptoms of a simp and the gamification of gynocentrism"
News just in, being a pigeon is difficult.
Game journalist vs pigeon problem solving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOjXaAZHEQE
If anyone plans on putting Journalist difficulty in a game they're making, make sure it goes below pigeon.
Imagine a world where actual gamers were the game journalists.
You're right. That's probably one reason for the death of games journalists. (and journalism in general) They are obsolete. All the good ones are independent.
I have a huge steam library and disposable income for plenty of new games. I would honestly rather do my day job than play those games for 40 hours a week.
I hate journalists but they’re probably right. A TON of games are awful and having to play them in a structured way for hours on end probably really does suck.
Hell, playing video games for 40 hours a week, even if you liked the game, would feel like a soulless and pointless existence. You didn’t build anything, you didn’t form relationships, you didn’t lead any new endeavors, and you didn’t help anyone. You just ran around a fictional environment that has nothing to do with reality.
They don't play games for 40 hours per week.
Each journo usually only does one or two games per week, and given their reviews, only plays one or two hours worth of the game. In one particularly infamous case (Cuphead, IIRC), the journo didn't even finish the tutorial.
So they're getting the income of a 40-hour week, while playing games for 2-4 or so hours, and writing for 2-4 hours (reviews are rarely more than a page or two). The rest of their time is virtue signalling on Twitter, which they would have done regardless of employment.
That’s a good point I hadn’t thought of that. Damn.
To be fair in the Cuphead case. That wasn't a review. It was them making him try the game and then they uploaded his inability to play for the giggles. Unfortunately, people didn't see it that way.
From what they claim, Dean Takahashi isn't a gamer, he is a journalist about gaming as a "business." Now if that's true, it does raise the question of if he should have the slightest bit of understanding of the product these businesses make.
I don't buy their defense of him and anyone in the industry should have the barest ability to engage with games on a foundational level. But it was a bit more complex than most cases of tarded reviewers.
Now, he was already famously for years beforehand writing a review about Mass Effect (which ruins their defense even more since he did review in the past) where he trashed it horribly, before it came out he never spent a single skill point and that's why he struggled. So that's a better example.
You need better games. I could easily do 100 hours per week, although that really cuts into commenting. A standard week of 8 hours off time per day leaves you 112 hours of gaming/commenting time.
Exactly**!** And not only that, I play single player in every game, even in GTA Online! (set your PS4 MTU to around 700) I've built countries that not a single other person will ever see or know about.
(The theory here is that a society that needs my assistance to not be this retarded doesn't deserve it and won't receive it. And why spend the rest of my life in prison when I can play games instead? Give me immunity and maybe I'll come out and play again.)
The trick is to only play games you like. I have around 60 games just on Steam, but time played falls off to minutes after the first couple rows. A few dollars seems like a great price for some of those full games, but then you have to come up with the time to play them, when you already have games you love.
Have an upvote, since there's nothing wrong with avoiding awful games.
You are rich and I'm jealous but I do get your point. They are somewhat like porn actor, yea I like sex but I doubt porn actors like it all that much.
However, as others have pointed out, they do not play all that much and they do not like games, they say they play games but they can't finish games, literally complain that the games are to hard for them. This are not gamers, are political tools that have a job to do so they write about diversity in games, stereotypes in games, things they can see easily and the rest is mostly them looking at others play the games.
It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it.
I volunteer as tribute.
Can you explain what is going on?
Game Dev blows something up. A couple Twitter randos ask why. Journalist comes to the rescue to whine and say how hard it is playing games for a living.
there seems to be a lot of complaining from some guy at kotaku on how hard it is to have to travel for work, apparently they do that, shoot guns for research and play games and having deadlines on playing games.
Which made people make fun of them since it is obvious that if you think playing games is not fun you probably should not be writing about them. Plus work travel in Europe, shoot guns and play video games while being payed for it does not seem like a bad gig but this guy wants sympathy on how hard his life is.
I actually like the idea of shooting guns to gather performance data for each weapon.
Tell me about it, it sounds great.
The guy is probably just a dick, but even for those who can't surpass employeedom, it's still a lot like slavery.
I want a blog where whores talk and complain about their jobs constantly. At least then it would be real, truthful, and entertaining.
I said real and truthful.
game "journalist" lives don't matter
Put this guy to work on a farm, in a factory, in construction, or fixing a toilet for a day, and he'll be BEGGING to play video games again in an hour.
Have you seen the shit game companies are pumping out nowadays? If I had to trudge through that cesspool of content for a living, I'd kill myself, and I literally deal with garbage and shit on a daily basis.
Honestly, compare this to a lot of the streamers and YouTubers who do this shit all day long. They seem to be doing okay.
"Top ten reasons why Mario should become a usurper" "Qunari are right about women" "Leisure suit Larry: symptoms of a simp and the gamification of gynocentrism"