Gamers Are Justifiably Calling Out The Mainstream Gaming Press For Being Inept

Ollie Barder writes: "Following the insane situation where one of Polygon’s reviewers couldn’t play the new Doom properly, it seems similar issues have surfaced with Overwatch. With much of the gaming populace taking a step back and realizing that many of those in mainstream gaming publications no longer represent the medium properly."

[s45gr32]

Yup, videogame journalism has jump the shark years ago

[Goldby]

Videogame hournalism hasnt existed for 10 years. Theres not one journalist out there that goes and finds the stories, they are all reporters now. Just teport on the news and thr lies gamers create

[Godmars290]

Mainstream gaming journalism you mean. Much of the indie scene as well - if not especially given far too many examples of favoritism.

[RashBandicoot]

Which is why I tend to stick to YouTube gamers. They're opinion would seem more reliable at this point.

[Ashlen]

You mean the ones that aren't taking free gifts and not telling people?

[Aloy-Boyfriend]

All these "journalist" should just go flip burgers if they are so inept to play and review games

[WeAreLegion]

I don't want these idiots preparing my food!

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

This, I pay for a good experience when I buy food. At least where they currently are I can ignore their entire existence.

[Chevalier]

Wasn't Polygon the one that wrote the article on how to on the PS4 and the difficulty of mixing up the buttons? If after 2 years an article is needed to explain how to on the system I would think your pretty much not a gamer. Next they will write the steps how play play games too.

Step 1 on system (refer to our article here how) tip it's the top tab button
Step 2 insert disc (refer to article here if it's digital)
Step 3 click button once game starts!
Step 4 Play game and enjoy! (refer to our article on how to enjoy your game)

[Deadpooled]

Or Step 1 - (If connected to the PS4 system) Press the small round button with the PlayStation logo on the controller.

[Servbot41]

That Polygon Doom video was so hilariously inept I can't imagine someone who plays that poorly actually enjoying any games, much less having any worthwhile knowledge of the medium and its history.

[Pandamobile]

The main problem with these gaming "news" sites these days is the business model. Most of them are thinly veiled content aggregators, that will write about literally anything just to drive clicks to their site to support their ad revenue. This drives down the quality and increases their reach. They know that most people in our sector of the internet read one headline and form an opinion on it.

The other problem is the games industry itself. There's a weird, parasitic relationship between game developers and games media. The games industry is incredibly secretive (the same is true for the film industry), so games media really have nothing to report on 99% of the time.

[Rachel_Alucard]

Alot of them do this thing where when an overwhelming majority of the gaming populace is against a controversy or an idea. One of them (like Ben Kuchera) will write article that labels him as an apologist to this ongoing thing. Then everyone rages and comments and clicks his links because they want to express the faults with his logic or just rage at him, without realizing it they've just given sites like Kotaku and Polygon more traffic then anything else they put out. If people just took a step back and spotted an article like that and ignore it then Kotaku and many other sites would die off. But alas, this is impossible with the simple fact that people still label themselves as gamers despite the fact that it's a giant marketing ploy to get people who don't play anything but mobile games a title and label for the "48% of the market is women guyz" crap.

[opinionated]

Yeah most are terrible. The smaller sites are much better.

[IamTylerDurden1]

The gaming media is absolutely broken and corrupt. Journalism is a term that hardly applies, nowadays the professionals that are trusted to review and cover our games are no better than you and i. In fact, they are worse bc of how easily their opinions can be bought or influenced. Overwatch is a prime example of why we shouldn't trust the media. It was holding at a 96 on Metacritic for some time. Yet a game like the new Wolfenstein sits at a 78?

[kraenk12]

Hardly comparable.

[IamTylerDurden1]

They are both games with Metacritic ratings...

My point is that Overwatch is rated too high and Wolfenstein too low, get it?

If u want 2 similar games then look at how Battleborn was shredded and how Overwatch was praised. In reality those games are very close and shouldn't be 20+ points different on Metacritic. Battlefront and SFV get killed for lack of content but not Overwatch?

[Pandamobile]

Overwatch and Wolfenstein are great games regardless of what the media says about them.

[IamTylerDurden1]

Then why does Wolfenstein have a worse Metacritic than COD Ghosts? Ghosts was awful btw.

[kraenk12]

@Tyler

We all know the media these days is corrupt so why do you wonder?!

[Tankbusta40]

Friends, don't let any major review site sway to you purchase or not purchase a game. People have gone into why already. Really the only way to know if you will like the game is to read what other paying gamers such as yourself says about the game.

[47]

I find this funny coming from Forbes, considering they were caught spreading misinformation during GamerGate. They were basically a mouthpiece for the outright lies and bullshit being spread by Anita Sarkeesian and that human garbage Randi Harper.

[3-4-5]

* 90% is just click bait bullcrap.

There is no more honesty,integrity or ethics.

Apparently only liars and people who want to manipulate other people get into journalism anymore.

[quent]

People should check out super bunnyhop on YT, the guy does his research and is very articulate at how he Presents his reviews and opinion.

Ps

He also has a journalism degree

[ginganinja]

When did gaming suddenly become so full of self-righteous, sanctimonious muppets ?
Every day there seems to be another tedious flurry of outrage about some imagined or innocuous sleight against the great god, gaming.