Game Journalism: A Table of Doritos

Well, I'd say The Walking Dead's accolades are well-deserved. It provides an amazing illusion of player choice. Your own decisions may mostly be smoke and mirrors in the end, but I don't think that really matters if it is pulled off effectively.

I'd rather play Super Hexagon, or what I'm currently obsessing over- The Saboteur. Games don't need legitimization, although there's still a (long, long loooooong) ways to go in the maturing of the medium.

James

Well, yeah. If somebody is praising a game because it "legitimizes the medium" or, really, for any other reason than the fact that it is a good game, then they are doing it wrong.

And The Saboteur? Really? I couldn't stand that game. Care to elaborate on why it has enthralled you? (Perhaps in the WRUP thread, to avoid derailing this one further.)

Well that's the problem, the things everyone talks about with Journey have nothing to do with its qualities as a game. Because, like thatgamecompany's other titles, it really has none.

That implies a pretty limited definition of what gaming is. Journey was a great atmospheric experience that I played a few times and enjoyed. You might be over thinking it.

Journey is also short. Game reviewers love short.

You could also look at it this way: They aren't saying that Journey is the best game ever, but that it's a game they think other should experience, and very few people bought. Everyone's had a game they thought was brilliant that nobody else was playing, if only they would give it a shot!

http://x-surface.tumblr.com/post/412...thing-you-read

Basically a guy decides to see how easy it is to get sites to publish bogus information without looking into anything. Never heard of Pocket-Lint though but that's the first one he mentions, who they defended it by saying "Well if we don't trust every tip how well we ever get the scoop" or something to that effect.

I'm not sure what people expect from these sites anymore.

I expect Bleacher Report level reporting.

I mean, they have lists o plenty. And they are also usually garbage. My favorite is the one that had Mushihimesama and God of War (lawl) in the top 10 hardest games ever. Or something like that.