Every _"official"_ news spreader, as an organization or an individual, is on the pressuring/threatening watch of the NWO mainstream media and it's humancontemptious social engineering agenda. The reasons many people become "activists" is either that the brainwashing has worked, or because they are afraid to go against the *regime.*
Whenever I hear Kotaku, I immediately flashback to when one of their female writers wrote an entire hit piece on a Nintendo game over a “slur” she _thought_ she heard. The entire song was in Japanese yet in her mind they must’ve decided to use English only once for a slur of all things. Why anyone still took Kotaku seriously after that is one of life’s greatest mysteries
Actually the song is in English. It's "Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There" from Persona 5. It was still a BS hit piece article though because the song doesn't contain a slur anyways.
It's rage bait- write something extremely stupid so people flood the site to leave angry comments cos a click's a click, well people have wised up to that now which is why they've had to pivot lol
@@5.99USD The words were in English, but the woman singing it was Japanese. So the author was effectively making fun of a Japanese woman for saying "retort it" with an accent.
Laura Kate is unhinged. She was definitely a dei hire that made her peers look better by comparison. She also had this weird paranoid thing where she ran from a cabbie because she convinced herself that he was trying to kidnap her. And that's ignoring the time where a speaker giving her an award accidentally misgendered her and she tried to turn it into WW3, because at least then she admitted the mistake.
Games journalists used to be gamers who formed magazines to talk about their hobby. They were enthusiast magazines. Over time these established entities hired people who were not hobby enthusiasts, they were students who had taken journalism and saw this as a stepping stone job to bigger and better things. Their interest was not in games, it was in being topical, and writing stories that would look good on the resume.
Most of the current games "journalists" actually have never taken a journalism or writing class. They're just the loudest voices that people noticed saying the "right" things on social media, hired into writing positions when they can barely spell. You're right that most of them don't even play games though. The saddest thing is that this now also goes for most of the younger writers for online news sites. They have no idea what journalism is and couldn't write a decent sentence to save their lives.
When that reporter fell for that fake info, it reminded me of when I tried to impress my crush with fake confidence and ended up tripping over my own shoelaces.
Yeah, except it's his fault for feeding him fake info, not the reporter's fault for buying it. Other people might chastise that reporter for not doing his job properly, but the guy who fed him that info? He don't have that right.
@@Lazarus1095 Yeah, 'cause it isn't the journalist's responsibility to verify a story before publishing it, right? At the very least, they should tell their viewers/readers that it is only a rumour (because without verification, that is all it is).
@@celticdragon6918 Oh it is his responsibility, absolutely. But the guy who deliberately fed him that false information is the one guy who DOESN'T get to mock him for it, because he is the one who saw that flaw and, instead of correcting it, made it worse. This is morality 101, Celticdragon.
@@Lazarus1095shut the hell up with the "Morality 101" statement. The individual was lying. He knew it. He didn't care. That's why he didn't check his source.
Dead* It's an insiders club of outsiders to the actual hobby they try to gatekeep. The fact that their default use of the word "gamer" is a pejorative (unless prefaced by girl/gay/black/all three) is kind of a hint.
"It's an insiders club of outsiders to the actual hobby they try to gatekeep." What a crazy statement... it's true, but damn think of how much of an asinine clown show of truth that is... great way to sum up why these people are the joke that they currently are!
@@Martin_Koepl Yeah so basically TV in the lounge room. A lot of ppl do watch CZcams from their couch these days so I hear. I consider 2k ultrawides the sweet spot for gaming monitors now, but if I was a gaming content creator then 4k at a more standard aspect ratio would better compliment viewing options I think.
@@Fe7Ace 4K has it's benefits in editing. Because you can crop things, and so on, and so on. Same goes for filming in 8k or 4k. What actually makes a difference is an OLED - or something similar - screen, because it's dimming zones are as far as I know better isolated from each other, and therefore light bleeds less into each other and you get more contrast through a darker, blacker black.
@@Martin_Koepllook at a 60" 4k screen vs a 60" 1440p screen at a distance of 6 feet. There's a difference. At my office desk, I use a 50" 4k display as a monitor. I sit about 2 and a half feet away. It makes a difference.
There's a huge difference between 1080p and 4k. My vision is not that great (45, no glasses) and it's plain as day to me. I can still see the pixels at 4k so hope to one day be able to afford an 8k set up.
Nonsense. Those things still matter as much as they always have. We're seeing the fallout of ignoring truth all around us. Those people and organizations who have allied themselves with lies are failing. Often spectacularly.
This is so easy: they are all "journalists" first and gamers not at all. Editors found it much easier to hire new J-school grads and have them write about games, even if they never actually play them, then hiring gamers and trying to teach them how to write, and since almost all "journalists" are now barely- or not-even-disguised activists, here we are.
To paraphrase 7th, the market got flooded with dipshits with journalism degrees all hoping to get on 60 Minutes only to find out big boy journalism isn't hiring so what do they do, write about videogames
And they don't know how to write anymore either, so they would have been better off hiring the gamers. I don't remember any Hemingway level prose in my Nintendo Power and EGM magazines back in the 90s, but I still read em cover to cover.
I haven't read any professional games journalism since the demise of print. I remember the launch of Crash and the excitement around it back in the '80s - real gamers reviewing the games - and still own a copy of Edge issue 1, but couldn't name a single person who currently writes for it, Kotaku, or Polygon with a gun to my head. They've been a total irrelevance for over twenty years.
The thing that got me was the guy who couldnt play cupheads tutorial and called himself a journalist. If you cant figure basic mechanics in tutorials you are in the wrong field.
I remember a video comparing him to the posters like 3 year old son/nephew or something and he barely beat the kid, because the 3 year old had a hard time understanding the words that he had to read.
I think the answer is exceptionally simple: modern "journalists" aren't. This includes most news "journalists", and "journalists" in almost every field on the internet. None of these people went to a school to learn journalism, even basic writing/composition/structure/analytical thinking/sources/etc. None of these people cut their teeth writing for a local newspaper or doing any actual journalism work. They weren't apprentices to established journalists, etc. Not one of these self-proclaimed journalists has any actual credentials to support calling themselves that. These are just idiots with blogs who get scooped up by their friends to create a fake company so they can get access. In a normal line of work, in order to be valued or appreciated, you generally have to present credentials or some form of bonafides to justify your paycheck and your continued employment. Modern "journalists" are just a bunch of idiot redditors who try to cosplay as actual journalists.
I couldn't agree more although I can add a little bit because I was a journalist (not games) in the UK. My last job was so stressful there was almost no time to do proper interviews. I would do it but I was working till 10pm every night. The easiest way to be a journalist is to get a press release from a PR company, copy and paste.
The established journalistic outlets nowadays aren't much better anyway, given the metric tons of nonsensical, biased, inflammatoryEditorials on politicsRaceGender, etc. they churn out 24/7, constantly defendingCensorship and engaging in extremePhilia (you can guess what they're philic about). P.S. have to write like that since this site doesn't want to let people speak up.
So glad Grummz mentioned bot farms. Starfield forums are riddled with bot activity where it seemed like I was arguing with a wall. Just copy paste fanboy speak and "nuh uh" debate responses. Been saying how similar bot comments in Steam forums and other sites are.
@@mat2000100 At the time of Hogwarts Legacy's release, yes, the bird app was decrying the game's use of a war horn for being antisemetic (because only Jews have ever used a war horn, I guess?). But once the conflict broke out, those same people suddenly wanted every "small hat" pushed into the sea.
If someone like GRUMMZ, who’s never been a journalist, does a much better job than ANY of these so called “game journalists”, you know that’s something is really wrong with gaming media!!
Tbf Yahtzee has been very open his entire career that he is not a professional game critic and never has been He’s made games which gives him experience but that doesn’t make him an expert
It's honestly moved past Hate. Most people just feel apathy for games journalist. Other than stories being brought up on CZcams channels like this I would never know what a Games journalist site said, I don't follow them. I don't read them etc. It's not just the Journalist fault either. The fact almost every statement or preview sent out by Game Developers these days are a lie and mean nothing in relation to the final game gives me no incentive to pay attention to them.
"People will go to places like YT to get their review of games." Will? We've been doing that for YEARS. Who reads "professional" reviews? The last time I had done that was over 20 years ago when I was still buying computer games magazines. But those were ran by actual games. These so-called Games Journalists are just another branch of activists, but ones who were too dumb to do anything else for their masters.
I've been gaming since the early 80s.gaming "journalism" has always been filled with lies. Go back and read some gaming magazines from the 80s-00s and tell me it was much different. The big change is that they're all bigots now too, and constantly insult actual gamers. I miss them just lying about the quality of the games for access and bribes.
I dunno if that's 100% true. Back in the 80s I loved reading ZZap64! magazine, and I've bought some of the gaming history books that Chris Wilkins and Roger Kean have put out since then. I've never heard anything too terrible about or from them or Julian Rignell or the other old school Newsfield guys.
Even back then though gamers didn't take any shit. They wrote angry letters in about faked screenshots, most of the gaming magazines in the UK died after they gave high scores to Rise of the Robots
30 years ago, the people writing about games were either gamers themselves or came from within the industry. They understood their audience. Most ‘games journalists’ in 2024 see it as little more than a line on their CV. They want to write about politics, but opinion journalism positions are scare, so they just insert their activism into gaming.
a semi-pro / unsigned music-maker these days, gets hit up to either "buy bot hits" and/or do things like "leave 5 comments on so-and so- artist's works and get 1000 views on a song of your choice" ... happens all the time on soundcloud and stuff like that - I get emails and DM's with dialouge like that constantly - I imagine it's the same everywhere ?
In the mid 90s I'd stay up to 10pm when the game sites like UltraGamePlayer would update their content for the next day. Every day was like Xmas with the news and previews.
What happened in my case in the last decade was almost exactly what was mentioned here. I went from visiting sites like IGN or gamespot DAILY to less than once a year in the last decade. What substituted these sites? CZcamsrs that weren't journalists but just fans of games/movies/tv who told you about this or that piece of content. It could be a review, a retrospective, an essay of some sort, either individually or all together somehow, it didn't matter. The point here is that once IGN or whomever started playing catch-up, I pretty much just pole vaulted over their respective CZcams channels precisely because I got tired of all the nonsense they were pushing with the movie or game, etc. only being in the background pretty much (g4 and frosk being a really good example of this trend of course). The way I saw it back then was as follows, after an entire undergrad's worth of Marxist indoctrination in the social sciences, I wanted to maybe not have to deal with that stuff anymore, and what did I get from my entertainment waiting in the wings? A doubled-down serving of all that with the added bonus of now being told I was the "root of the problem" and that the sooner I left, the better. For the most part, I have to say they succeeded because I have mostly stuck to retro gaming or other hobbies that meant I haven't really supported anything published by either woke gaming publications and/or studios since around GG as a result, so way to go, guys! Good work alienating millions of users! Keep up the quality work, Drinker! Cheers!
You're also right about youtube being far better for reviews - coming from normal/average game players (not saying "gamers" because that's a derogatory term these days when some people consider virtual hookers getting their baps out for money on twitch "gamers"). I don't care about the professionalism of their shoot and if they have shit loads of neon behind them, but I'd rather hear the opinions of a few normal people (who aren't platform fanboys because they're worse than journalists) and make my mind up from like minded people, rather than listed to the drivel any so called reputable game journo company spouts.
Given how many universities and colleges have made certain sociopolitical classes mandatory, and how the entire environment is run by one side only, even hard science students aren't safe from indoctrination.
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I miss when Game Journalists use to consist of people writing articles and such in a games magazine and they simply stuck to "Game good/game bad" and WHY the reviewer gave it that score/rating. No political BS. No one made up some dumbo r-worded thing like Earthworm Jim being some representation of r@pe, or Mario is a sexist, or Samus is just a blow up doll and so on.
Well, to their credit, it is their moaning about the lack of black people in 15th century rural bohemia that made me aware of Kingdom Come Deliverance, so these "journalists" can still serve some purpose.
Yatzee was carrying Escapist, and is the main moneymaker for Second Wind. He moved from England to LA several years ago and if you go through his back catalog, you can hear the mind virus changing him.
@@Sinkubus the off hand DEI and anti-capitalism comments that he peppers in never uses to be there. I think that he's so used to that being a part of quippy conversation in California that he thinks it's normal everywhere. It isn't.
Journalists hit pieces are basically ads now. They're the reason I heard about Hogwarts legacy, and I love the game. Stellar blade is following the same course . There's a game with a hot woman protagonist that doesn't look like a stick figure, a man, or one step away from type 2 diabetes? Where!
as a critic all you have is your reputation Main stream gaming journalists and movie critics ruined their reputations to plug trash that checks boxes CZcams critics aren't the future, they're now
Stellar Blade was the first game I pre-ordered in 10 years. I did it to help combat the ridiculous "movement" against it. I did play (& enjoy) the demo before making this choice.
I'm 42 years old and I've been a video game journalist for a few years for a few sites. Yes, I have an education and background as a professional journalist with established news stations. All I do is write; what a game is a about, who is making it and the features it may have. That's it. That's the way it should be. Every once in a while, I'll play a game that slipped under a radar and I'll write a recommendation piece. Like, A Plague Tale: Requiem, for example. Believe me when I tell you, this gig doesn't pay SQUAT. So, there's a high turnover rate. So, what happens? They hire these zoomer hacks to chime in for their website, that grew up paying COD and didn't experience the evolution of the gaming industry like my generation did. Therefore, everyone just tunes out. The days of; Gamepro, Game Informer and Nintendo Power are gone. Nobody cares what these fucking kids have to say. These sites are nothing more than content mills clamoring for clicks. There's no substance, soul or passion in their writing.
3:00 He's talking about what Paul Graham referred to in an article titled "The Submarine". Anyone unfamiliar with how it all works should search up that article. It's still relevant despite being from 2005. All that's changed is the names. TL;DR: even without directly being able to buy a reporter they're still purchased all the time.
There’s a reason why the only show that worked on The Escapist and now Second Wing is Yahtzee’s show Zero Punctuation/Fully Ramblomatic. Mostly because it’s part review show and part comedy show. Even when you don’t agree with him, you can enjoy the presentation. It’s funny how The Escapist used to have at least some shows that had integrity. Jim Sterling lambasting the industry against crunch, lies, and other abusive workplace shit with only the occasional mini rant on how idiot fans bothered him. Miracle of Sound putting out really good video game inspired music. Extra Credits giving a more optimistic and teaching role in how to fix common problems in communication and implementation of ideas. Now, though? Miracle of Sound and Fully Ramblomatic are the only productions that haven’t gone utterly insane, losing all grip of reality. It could be because they were more interested in entertaining than lecturing. Or it could be they just never started getting high off their own achievements. Who knows.
Gav also left the podcast he was doing with Sterling when it began to fall far more towards political lecturing than actual video games. Look at what Sterling has turned into and what Gav has been doing. It’s clear that one has genuine passion for video games while the other is just a whiny leftist crybaby.
I’d argue that social media has killed journalism not politics. Politics in journalism has existed as long as journalism in general has and hit pieces have also always existed But social media means if something is bad it can still get an audience when before social media there would just be a patchwork of people who enjoyed something the journalists called bad
(Many) years ago I was a subscriber to Edge and for a time did enjoy it as the writing was good overall and it was a nicely produced mag. I found it informative in terms of choosing how to spend my cash. Gradually it became more w**ky, pseudy and vanished up its own a**e never to be seen again. Alongside this depressing change in writing style, I noticed that they would rarely if ever say that any game was bad, there were just no negative reviews and so I binned it. The same has happened with music journalism. There's (again) a very nicely produced mag called Electronic Sound, reviewing the sort of stuff I listen to and no review is ever negative in the slightest. Everything they write about is "essential" and "brilliant". It's f**kin awful so I don't bother.
Games journalism dies in 2012 when the UK company Future Publishing shuttered a lot of their magazines. They were great reads, and I haven't found good journalism since Gamesmaster, their last good magazine, finally gave up the ghost.
Again, Yahtzee is the only thing keeping that company alive. >.< I miss old publications like Nintendo Power and PC Gamer. Like, the ones that used to come with a demo disk of games they were reporting on in the current issue?! To promote it. These are failed journalists LARPING, nothing more. My dude couldn't get through the TUTORIAL for Cuphead and blamed it on the game being too hard. The game IS hard, ball bustingly hard. But the fucking instructions of what to do were ON THE SCREEN.
Games journalists the ones that had integrity, respect and all that they left when they saw what way the wind was turning in the industry. The only good games journalist I ever remember the name of that was actually good was Jason Schrier who I believe worked for Kotaku. What the gaming industry has now is “games journos” who will do ANYTHING to have the most views/likes on their article/video and they’ll do that without doing a shred of investigative journalism to see if the information they’ve been given is legitimate or not which is exactly what that person that wants to smear Grummz did IE not doing their due diligence to see if the information they were fed was authentic or not.
I genuinely ended up laughing when I remembered that PSN is only available legally in +80 Countries. They genuinely fucked themselves into a smaller Market.😂
All these "journalists" that claim they grew up playing games obviously never found out their older brothers didn't plug their controller in.
Very true
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And they never got less gullible.
Every _"official"_ news spreader, as an organization or an individual, is on the pressuring/threatening watch of the NWO mainstream media and it's humancontemptious social engineering agenda. The reasons many people become "activists" is either that the brainwashing has worked, or because they are afraid to go against the *regime.*
You *think* you hate journalists enough, but you don't.
Gotta let that hate marinate overnight.
I think about the helicopter scene in Scarface.
Well put!
Aye.
serious man-hours to even begin to appreciate the level of stupid.
Whenever I hear Kotaku, I immediately flashback to when one of their female writers wrote an entire hit piece on a Nintendo game over a “slur” she _thought_ she heard. The entire song was in Japanese yet in her mind they must’ve decided to use English only once for a slur of all things. Why anyone still took Kotaku seriously after that is one of life’s greatest mysteries
Actually the song is in English. It's "Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There" from Persona 5. It was still a BS hit piece article though because the song doesn't contain a slur anyways.
It's rage bait- write something extremely stupid so people flood the site to leave angry comments cos a click's a click, well people have wised up to that now which is why they've had to pivot lol
@@zenksren8206 Exactly. It's all on purpose; why report something useful but boring when you can manufacture a falsehood and draw in traffic.
@@5.99USD The words were in English, but the woman singing it was Japanese. So the author was effectively making fun of a Japanese woman for saying "retort it" with an accent.
Laura Kate is unhinged. She was definitely a dei hire that made her peers look better by comparison.
She also had this weird paranoid thing where she ran from a cabbie because she convinced herself that he was trying to kidnap her. And that's ignoring the time where a speaker giving her an award accidentally misgendered her and she tried to turn it into WW3, because at least then she admitted the mistake.
Games journalists used to be gamers who formed magazines to talk about their hobby. They were enthusiast magazines. Over time these established entities hired people who were not hobby enthusiasts, they were students who had taken journalism and saw this as a stepping stone job to bigger and better things. Their interest was not in games, it was in being topical, and writing stories that would look good on the resume.
Most of the current games "journalists" actually have never taken a journalism or writing class. They're just the loudest voices that people noticed saying the "right" things on social media, hired into writing positions when they can barely spell. You're right that most of them don't even play games though. The saddest thing is that this now also goes for most of the younger writers for online news sites. They have no idea what journalism is and couldn't write a decent sentence to save their lives.
Short answer.... They're not journalists, they're activists
The self-destruction has been hilarious to watch though.
When that reporter fell for that fake info, it reminded me of when I tried to impress my crush with fake confidence and ended up tripping over my own shoelaces.
Yeah, except it's his fault for feeding him fake info, not the reporter's fault for buying it. Other people might chastise that reporter for not doing his job properly, but the guy who fed him that info? He don't have that right.
@@Lazarus1095 The reporter was an asshole, the fake info guy baited him to expose how terrible the guy was at reporting.
@@Lazarus1095 Yeah, 'cause it isn't the journalist's responsibility to verify a story before publishing it, right? At the very least, they should tell their viewers/readers that it is only a rumour (because without verification, that is all it is).
@@celticdragon6918 Oh it is his responsibility, absolutely. But the guy who deliberately fed him that false information is the one guy who DOESN'T get to mock him for it, because he is the one who saw that flaw and, instead of correcting it, made it worse.
This is morality 101, Celticdragon.
@@Lazarus1095shut the hell up with the "Morality 101" statement. The individual was lying. He knew it. He didn't care. That's why he didn't check his source.
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It's an insiders club of outsiders to the actual hobby they try to gatekeep.
The fact that their default use of the word "gamer" is a pejorative (unless prefaced by girl/gay/black/all three) is kind of a hint.
"It's an insiders club of outsiders to the actual hobby they try to gatekeep."
What a crazy statement... it's true, but damn think of how much of an asinine clown show of truth that is... great way to sum up why these people are the joke that they currently are!
I would also like to add: Hypocrisy, passionless, political bias, and lunacy.
You know we're winning when people like Tyrone Magnus come to these podcasts.
I enjoy Second Wind but I had no idea that this feud between Nick and Grummz was a thing until now.
They didn't realize how important integrity is. They have none, so they have no reason to be listened to.
"Nobody can see 4k with the naked eye." on a 19 inch screen. But people have 70" monitors now.
Even then you won't notice any difference, because you have to sit far far away from your 70' monitor to be able to use it properly.
@@Martin_Koepl Yeah so basically TV in the lounge room. A lot of ppl do watch CZcams from their couch these days so I hear. I consider 2k ultrawides the sweet spot for gaming monitors now, but if I was a gaming content creator then 4k at a more standard aspect ratio would better compliment viewing options I think.
@@Fe7Ace 4K has it's benefits in editing. Because you can crop things, and so on, and so on. Same goes for filming in 8k or 4k.
What actually makes a difference is an OLED - or something similar - screen, because it's dimming zones are as far as I know better isolated from each other, and therefore light bleeds less into each other and you get more contrast through a darker, blacker black.
@@Martin_Koepllook at a 60" 4k screen vs a 60" 1440p screen at a distance of 6 feet. There's a difference.
At my office desk, I use a 50" 4k display as a monitor. I sit about 2 and a half feet away. It makes a difference.
There's a huge difference between 1080p and 4k. My vision is not that great (45, no glasses) and it's plain as day to me. I can still see the pixels at 4k so hope to one day be able to afford an 8k set up.
There was a time when integrity and honesty mattered in gaming; these days are gone now, and identity politics gave taken over. 🎉
Nonsense. Those things still matter as much as they always have. We're seeing the fallout of ignoring truth all around us. Those people and organizations who have allied themselves with lies are failing. Often spectacularly.
Don't buy anything for six months. The whole gaming industry and its bs would collapse.
Buy Asian and buy indie.
"the boy who cried wolf"
Scream constantly about everything and eventually nobody will care.
Legacy Media didn't account for the possibility that humanizing themselves could lead to them becoming pariahs.
This is so easy: they are all "journalists" first and gamers not at all. Editors found it much easier to hire new J-school grads and have them write about games, even if they never actually play them, then hiring gamers and trying to teach them how to write, and since almost all "journalists" are now barely- or not-even-disguised activists, here we are.
To paraphrase 7th, the market got flooded with dipshits with journalism degrees all hoping to get on 60 Minutes only to find out big boy journalism isn't hiring so what do they do, write about videogames
And they don't know how to write anymore either, so they would have been better off hiring the gamers. I don't remember any Hemingway level prose in my Nintendo Power and EGM magazines back in the 90s, but I still read em cover to cover.
“J” school is right! awful lot of tiny hatters in the games journo field.
I haven't read any professional games journalism since the demise of print. I remember the launch of Crash and the excitement around it back in the '80s - real gamers reviewing the games - and still own a copy of Edge issue 1, but couldn't name a single person who currently writes for it, Kotaku, or Polygon with a gun to my head. They've been a total irrelevance for over twenty years.
Presstitutes gonna presstitute...
I see what you did there...
Oldest profession.
They are pros at it
The thing that got me was the guy who couldnt play cupheads tutorial and called himself a journalist. If you cant figure basic mechanics in tutorials you are in the wrong field.
Kind of reminds me of the "gamers" who have to keep looking at the controller to see which button says X
i came back to gaming in 2020 during covid and was literally over my head in certain games but i was never that bad at them@@JohnSmith-bu5zs
I remember a video comparing him to the posters like 3 year old son/nephew or something and he barely beat the kid, because the 3 year old had a hard time understanding the words that he had to read.
IT has been "done" since Anita Sarkisian spoke her first public words.
Oy!
I think the answer is exceptionally simple: modern "journalists" aren't. This includes most news "journalists", and "journalists" in almost every field on the internet. None of these people went to a school to learn journalism, even basic writing/composition/structure/analytical thinking/sources/etc. None of these people cut their teeth writing for a local newspaper or doing any actual journalism work. They weren't apprentices to established journalists, etc. Not one of these self-proclaimed journalists has any actual credentials to support calling themselves that.
These are just idiots with blogs who get scooped up by their friends to create a fake company so they can get access. In a normal line of work, in order to be valued or appreciated, you generally have to present credentials or some form of bonafides to justify your paycheck and your continued employment. Modern "journalists" are just a bunch of idiot redditors who try to cosplay as actual journalists.
"Censorship is good, and we should have more of it, especially in the art form I report on!"
-Self-Described Journalists in the Current Year
I couldn't agree more although I can add a little bit because I was a journalist (not games) in the UK. My last job was so stressful there was almost no time to do proper interviews. I would do it but I was working till 10pm every night. The easiest way to be a journalist is to get a press release from a PR company, copy and paste.
The established journalistic outlets nowadays aren't much better anyway, given the metric tons of nonsensical, biased, inflammatoryEditorials on politicsRaceGender, etc. they churn out 24/7, constantly defendingCensorship and engaging in extremePhilia (you can guess what they're philic about).
P.S. have to write like that since this site doesn't want to let people speak up.
So glad Grummz mentioned bot farms. Starfield forums are riddled with bot activity where it seemed like I was arguing with a wall. Just copy paste fanboy speak and "nuh uh" debate responses. Been saying how similar bot comments in Steam forums and other sites are.
Rusty Nails are everywhere these days. Try not to step on one. Be efficient and get them all.
Thanks! You are one of my favorite reviewers.
"Game Journalists"… peak sad existence. 😂😂😂
My waking up moment was when Wired gave a popular Harry Potter game a 0/10, claiming it was filled with "antisemitic tropes".
So dumb
Shame Hogwarts Legacy didn't release after the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out, everyone was fine with antisemitism then.
@@shemhazaithewhisperer2061 I thought everyone hated anti-semitism back then?
@@mat2000100 At the time of Hogwarts Legacy's release, yes, the bird app was decrying the game's use of a war horn for being antisemetic (because only Jews have ever used a war horn, I guess?). But once the conflict broke out, those same people suddenly wanted every "small hat" pushed into the sea.
I worked in Hollywood 18 years ago. This shit ain't new.
If someone like GRUMMZ, who’s never been a journalist, does a much better job than ANY of these so called “game journalists”, you know that’s something is really wrong with gaming media!!
Ill chuckle at a yahtzee zero punctuation, now ramblomatic, but i dont take it as an evaluation of the game anymore
Tbf Yahtzee has been very open his entire career that he is not a professional game critic and never has been
He’s made games which gives him experience but that doesn’t make him an expert
It's honestly moved past Hate. Most people just feel apathy for games journalist. Other than stories being brought up on CZcams channels like this I would never know what a Games journalist site said, I don't follow them. I don't read them etc.
It's not just the Journalist fault either. The fact almost every statement or preview sent out by Game Developers these days are a lie and mean nothing in relation to the final game gives me no incentive to pay attention to them.
"People will go to places like YT to get their review of games."
Will? We've been doing that for YEARS. Who reads "professional" reviews? The last time I had done that was over 20 years ago when I was still buying computer games magazines. But those were ran by actual games. These so-called Games Journalists are just another branch of activists, but ones who were too dumb to do anything else for their masters.
"will" can also be used to refer to habitual actions, so he meant it in the present sense, not as the future tense marker.
@@igorbednarski8048 Thank you, but I wasn't correcting Drinker, simply making a point.
"Bot" and paid-for, indeed.
Tyrooone❤ didnt know hes part of those gatherings as well. Love to see it.
I've been gaming since the early 80s.gaming "journalism" has always been filled with lies. Go back and read some gaming magazines from the 80s-00s and tell me it was much different. The big change is that they're all bigots now too, and constantly insult actual gamers. I miss them just lying about the quality of the games for access and bribes.
I dunno if that's 100% true. Back in the 80s I loved reading ZZap64! magazine, and I've bought some of the gaming history books that Chris Wilkins and Roger Kean have put out since then. I've never heard anything too terrible about or from them or Julian Rignell or the other old school Newsfield guys.
Even back then though gamers didn't take any shit. They wrote angry letters in about faked screenshots, most of the gaming magazines in the UK died after they gave high scores to Rise of the Robots
30 years ago, the people writing about games were either gamers themselves or came from within the industry. They understood their audience. Most ‘games journalists’ in 2024 see it as little more than a line on their CV. They want to write about politics, but opinion journalism positions are scare, so they just insert their activism into gaming.
a semi-pro / unsigned music-maker these days, gets hit up to either "buy bot hits" and/or do things like "leave 5 comments on so-and so- artist's works and get 1000 views on a song of your choice" ... happens all the time on soundcloud and stuff like that - I get emails and DM's with dialouge like that constantly - I imagine it's the same everywhere ?
Pass the Cuphead tutorial Game Journalists and then we'll talk.
Self-destruction is the way of life for game journalism after all.
In the mid 90s I'd stay up to 10pm when the game sites like UltraGamePlayer would update their content for the next day. Every day was like Xmas with the news and previews.
All those lies told about Grummz are true! He kicked my dead grandmother and stole retirement money from my dog!
What happened in my case in the last decade was almost exactly what was mentioned here. I went from visiting sites like IGN or gamespot DAILY to less than once a year in the last decade.
What substituted these sites? CZcamsrs that weren't journalists but just fans of games/movies/tv who told you about this or that piece of content. It could be a review, a retrospective, an essay of some sort, either individually or all together somehow, it didn't matter. The point here is that once IGN or whomever started playing catch-up, I pretty much just pole vaulted over their respective CZcams channels precisely because I got tired of all the nonsense they were pushing with the movie or game, etc. only being in the background pretty much (g4 and frosk being a really good example of this trend of course).
The way I saw it back then was as follows, after an entire undergrad's worth of Marxist indoctrination in the social sciences, I wanted to maybe not have to deal with that stuff anymore, and what did I get from my entertainment waiting in the wings? A doubled-down serving of all that with the added bonus of now being told I was the "root of the problem" and that the sooner I left, the better.
For the most part, I have to say they succeeded because I have mostly stuck to retro gaming or other hobbies that meant I haven't really supported anything published by either woke gaming publications and/or studios since around GG as a result, so way to go, guys! Good work alienating millions of users!
Keep up the quality work, Drinker! Cheers!
You're also right about youtube being far better for reviews - coming from normal/average game players (not saying "gamers" because that's a derogatory term these days when some people consider virtual hookers getting their baps out for money on twitch "gamers"). I don't care about the professionalism of their shoot and if they have shit loads of neon behind them, but I'd rather hear the opinions of a few normal people (who aren't platform fanboys because they're worse than journalists) and make my mind up from like minded people, rather than listed to the drivel any so called reputable game journo company spouts.
Second Wind? Oh yes, Yahtzee and his remoras.
Activist infiltration sux.
Do people still read game reviews? I stopped after the Cyber Punk reviewer who complained about trans representation.
We need investigative journalism on journalism with how deep the rot runs.
Are there ANY recent graduates outside of hard sciences that actually know anything about their focus?
Given how many universities and colleges have made certain sociopolitical classes mandatory, and how the entire environment is run by one side only, even hard science students aren't safe from indoctrination.
I miss when Game Journalists use to consist of people writing articles and such in a games magazine and they simply stuck to "Game good/game bad" and WHY the reviewer gave it that score/rating. No political BS.
No one made up some dumbo r-worded thing like Earthworm Jim being some representation of r@pe, or Mario is a sexist, or Samus is just a blow up doll and so on.
Well, to their credit, it is their moaning about the lack of black people in 15th century rural bohemia that made me aware of Kingdom Come Deliverance, so these "journalists" can still serve some purpose.
We used to get better “journalism” from Nintendo Power magazines in the 80’s.
Yatzee was carrying Escapist, and is the main moneymaker for Second Wind.
He moved from England to LA several years ago and if you go through his back catalog, you can hear the mind virus changing him.
Absolutely. The change is very gradual but it's there
@@Sinkubus the off hand DEI and anti-capitalism comments that he peppers in never uses to be there. I think that he's so used to that being a part of quippy conversation in California that he thinks it's normal everywhere. It isn't.
The social capital of journalism is utterly spent.
Game journalists went from writing articles for gamers, to writing articles about how evil and awful gamers are.
I don’t get it.
Journalists hit pieces are basically ads now. They're the reason I heard about Hogwarts legacy, and I love the game. Stellar blade is following the same course . There's a game with a hot woman protagonist that doesn't look like a stick figure, a man, or one step away from type 2 diabetes? Where!
It’s very simple nowadays: Is Kotaku coping, seething AND dilating about it? Instant buy. Is Twitter attacking it? Instant buy.
They're more than ads, they're paid propaganda
Video game journalism is not dying. It's already dead
as a critic all you have is your reputation
Main stream gaming journalists and movie critics ruined their reputations to plug trash that checks boxes
CZcams critics aren't the future, they're now
I hope petition works out. Great to see you guys together, having a chat.
It's not dying, it's already dead.
Stellar Blade was the first game I pre-ordered in 10 years. I did it to help combat the ridiculous "movement" against it. I did play (& enjoy) the demo before making this choice.
I'm 42 years old and I've been a video game journalist for a few years for a few sites. Yes, I have an education and background as a professional journalist with established news stations. All I do is write; what a game is a about, who is making it and the features it may have. That's it. That's the way it should be. Every once in a while, I'll play a game that slipped under a radar and I'll write a recommendation piece. Like, A Plague Tale: Requiem, for example.
Believe me when I tell you, this gig doesn't pay SQUAT. So, there's a high turnover rate. So, what happens? They hire these zoomer hacks to chime in for their website, that grew up paying COD and didn't experience the evolution of the gaming industry like my generation did. Therefore, everyone just tunes out. The days of; Gamepro, Game Informer and Nintendo Power are gone. Nobody cares what these fucking kids have to say. These sites are nothing more than content mills clamoring for clicks. There's no substance, soul or passion in their writing.
3:00 He's talking about what Paul Graham referred to in an article titled "The Submarine". Anyone unfamiliar with how it all works should search up that article. It's still relevant despite being from 2005. All that's changed is the names. TL;DR: even without directly being able to buy a reporter they're still purchased all the time.
Woah, woah, woah. I don't think "game journalism" was ever ALIVE to begin with
There’s a reason why the only show that worked on The Escapist and now Second Wing is Yahtzee’s show Zero Punctuation/Fully Ramblomatic. Mostly because it’s part review show and part comedy show. Even when you don’t agree with him, you can enjoy the presentation.
It’s funny how The Escapist used to have at least some shows that had integrity. Jim Sterling lambasting the industry against crunch, lies, and other abusive workplace shit with only the occasional mini rant on how idiot fans bothered him. Miracle of Sound putting out really good video game inspired music. Extra Credits giving a more optimistic and teaching role in how to fix common problems in communication and implementation of ideas. Now, though? Miracle of Sound and Fully Ramblomatic are the only productions that haven’t gone utterly insane, losing all grip of reality. It could be because they were more interested in entertaining than lecturing. Or it could be they just never started getting high off their own achievements. Who knows.
Gav also left the podcast he was doing with Sterling when it began to fall far more towards political lecturing than actual video games. Look at what Sterling has turned into and what Gav has been doing. It’s clear that one has genuine passion for video games while the other is just a whiny leftist crybaby.
The extra credits nazi video made me question if I was dreaming I couldn't believe they posted something so stupid
Tyrone Magnus! Friday night tights next brother 💪
Games journalism is not dying. Making that claim would mean it hasn't been dead for a while now.
Great to see my man Tyrone here again!
That shirt Drinker is just 👌
Gaming journalists are truely rusty nails.
Second wind quickly proved that the problem at the escapist was them.
Huh. Just saw Grummz in a Think Before You Sleep video, and here he is in something new.
We need more people like Grummz in the industry. We have gamers on our side, but the known professional devs lack the courage to step up.
I’d argue that social media has killed journalism not politics. Politics in journalism has existed as long as journalism in general has and hit pieces have also always existed
But social media means if something is bad it can still get an audience when before social media there would just be a patchwork of people who enjoyed something the journalists called bad
Or games journalism is dying because of user written reviews, ratings and "Let's plays" on CZcams: No one needs games magazines or blogs anymore.
You can lead a scrub to knowledge but you can't make them think
(Many) years ago I was a subscriber to Edge and for a time did enjoy it as the writing was good overall and it was a nicely produced mag. I found it informative in terms of choosing how to spend my cash. Gradually it became more w**ky, pseudy and vanished up its own a**e never to be seen again. Alongside this depressing change in writing style, I noticed that they would rarely if ever say that any game was bad, there were just no negative reviews and so I binned it. The same has happened with music journalism. There's (again) a very nicely produced mag called Electronic Sound, reviewing the sort of stuff I listen to and no review is ever negative in the slightest. Everything they write about is "essential" and "brilliant". It's f**kin awful so I don't bother.
Honestly, if game and movie journalism is dying, thats on their own. They did it to themselfs. So I won`t cry a single tear.
"Using CZcams for honest reviews"
I don't think they realize that youtube reviewers have been compromised already.
Games journalism dies in 2012 when the UK company Future Publishing shuttered a lot of their magazines. They were great reads, and I haven't found good journalism since Gamesmaster, their last good magazine, finally gave up the ghost.
I used to buy magazines from games journos. Now I watch the streamers PLAYING and rating these games. Journos don't play games, they rate them.
Grummz really has that "youtube commentator" voice
Games journalism was a stillbirth i have game magazines from the 90's were the all the games with ads in the magazine magically had a higher score
The team that run Stellar Blades X/Twitter account retweeted Kotaku’s praise of the censorship. I’m not so sure where the developers stand on this.
Its rare when the social media team is actually on the dev team and not some zoomer for hire
Someone should start a web site for politics, and do nothing but post game reviews. 😏
Why do these companies even exist? I guess constantly attacking your reader base is the new business model for journalism.
Can Grummz get us a release date for Em8er?
Where did the petition go?
Get ACG on the pod!
He is THE best video game reviewer!
Does Tyrone ever contribute?
Yes he does
Actually you also have to be good listener 😂
Not fast enough.
Super disappointed in Nick Colandra about this. What the hell was he trying to accomplish?
Nick protected Jim Sterling when he went on that Second Wind podcast and announced he was pregnant, this doesn't surprise me in the least.
Again, Yahtzee is the only thing keeping that company alive. >.<
I miss old publications like Nintendo Power and PC Gamer. Like, the ones that used to come with a demo disk of games they were reporting on in the current issue?! To promote it. These are failed journalists LARPING, nothing more. My dude couldn't get through the TUTORIAL for Cuphead and blamed it on the game being too hard. The game IS hard, ball bustingly hard. But the fucking instructions of what to do were ON THE SCREEN.
The whole hire a journo abroad and then use it to report that as a source domestically is the common prectice of certain clandestine services.
Games journalists the ones that had integrity, respect and all that they left when they saw what way the wind was turning in the industry.
The only good games journalist I ever remember the name of that was actually good was Jason Schrier who I believe worked for Kotaku.
What the gaming industry has now is “games journos” who will do ANYTHING to have the most views/likes on their article/video and they’ll do that without doing a shred of investigative journalism to see if the information they’ve been given is legitimate or not which is exactly what that person that wants to smear Grummz did IE not doing their due diligence to see if the information they were fed was authentic or not.
I genuinely ended up laughing when I remembered that PSN is only available legally in +80 Countries. They genuinely fucked themselves into a smaller Market.😂
AY UP DRINKER
When you tell a guy something you don't get to make fun of him because he believed you. You're the one person in the world who doesn't get to do that.
Lets face it, game journalist is as just a step away from Buzzfeed
"gaming journalism" at its BEST was a scheme to get free games.
Alright.