The Sharpest Lives are the Deadliest to Lead .: Task Cinq :.
(Five)
Ahh the joys of catching up with my weekly tasks (i.e. i'm an idiot!). This week/task I have been asked to look into New Games Journalism or NGJ if you will. Since i'm catching up with blogs i'll miss out the personal rant and skip straight the task in hand!
New Games Journalism seems like a good occupation, especially for someone who's passionate about games (like moi). Some could argue that the passion is stolen from gaming once you begin writing about it for profession rather than for pure enjoyment. I think there is some justice in this statement but I also think it fuels people's interest and gives them a reason to continue playing and writing. The best journalist tend to be those who display such passion towards the subject that they care not for moral restraints. I don't know why but that really does it for me ... like my Radio presenters and my comedians, the best ones do it for themselves and end up becoming great. Anyway back on topic. Journalism reminds me of blogging ... a very subjective form of blogging.
I can always remember the journalists for a nintendo magazine, can't remember the name for the life of me, because they were very personal in their writing. It seemed like they really enjoyed what they were doing and would share their personal views with the reader. It made me laugh because they would trash-talk the official nintendo magazine as much as they could ... always a good thing.
The Games Journalists must face certain issues or restrictions while writing their reviews. Child friendly magazines are of course going to set language restrictions. But I consider sometimes how far a company will go to make their game look good?! Would they sit back and let bad reviews go through if they want their game to top the charts? I don't think so. Football games come to mind! How can a NGJ possibly give the latest batch of football games their mark of approval when they're EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE FIRST F*%?!^G VERSIONS THAT CAME OUT ON MASTER SYSTEM?!? What's different? Better graphics? A new coloured ball? Less annoying commentary? (Less face it! Going 5 minutes into a game is enough to make you slam the controller into the wall and put the TV on mute!!) No! What I think is that they're slipped a lil' summin extra to praise the game just to see it rise in the charts. Makes me sick, honestly. Don't get me wrong ... I love my football ... (although i'm about ready to go over to London and shout at West Ham Utd ... gotta love em) but the games suck. The gameplay doesn't change, all that changes are the players! Oh god, I really can't get into this otherwise i'll be ranting for days!
As with any job, the only "real" drive to continue is the green. So this begs the question, who pays off the journalists?! Oh yea, yeah! They do it cause they love games! The fact is we're all human ... we only do something if we get something in return! Like they say: give with one hand and take with the other! It's the rules of life! Freelance journalists will most probably sell their works to random magazines that take their fancy or offer them the fattest pile of moneyz! Journalists under the employment of magazines would be under a salary, most likely commission based with the added notes of greedy gaming companies (again, just a hunch) but what about the mad bloggers? Why do they do it? It really does baffle me ... maybe the theory of human workings has been corrupted?
Ahh the joys of catching up with my weekly tasks (i.e. i'm an idiot!). This week/task I have been asked to look into New Games Journalism or NGJ if you will. Since i'm catching up with blogs i'll miss out the personal rant and skip straight the task in hand!
New Games Journalism seems like a good occupation, especially for someone who's passionate about games (like moi). Some could argue that the passion is stolen from gaming once you begin writing about it for profession rather than for pure enjoyment. I think there is some justice in this statement but I also think it fuels people's interest and gives them a reason to continue playing and writing. The best journalist tend to be those who display such passion towards the subject that they care not for moral restraints. I don't know why but that really does it for me ... like my Radio presenters and my comedians, the best ones do it for themselves and end up becoming great. Anyway back on topic. Journalism reminds me of blogging ... a very subjective form of blogging.
I can always remember the journalists for a nintendo magazine, can't remember the name for the life of me, because they were very personal in their writing. It seemed like they really enjoyed what they were doing and would share their personal views with the reader. It made me laugh because they would trash-talk the official nintendo magazine as much as they could ... always a good thing.
The Games Journalists must face certain issues or restrictions while writing their reviews. Child friendly magazines are of course going to set language restrictions. But I consider sometimes how far a company will go to make their game look good?! Would they sit back and let bad reviews go through if they want their game to top the charts? I don't think so. Football games come to mind! How can a NGJ possibly give the latest batch of football games their mark of approval when they're EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE FIRST F*%?!^G VERSIONS THAT CAME OUT ON MASTER SYSTEM?!? What's different? Better graphics? A new coloured ball? Less annoying commentary? (Less face it! Going 5 minutes into a game is enough to make you slam the controller into the wall and put the TV on mute!!) No! What I think is that they're slipped a lil' summin extra to praise the game just to see it rise in the charts. Makes me sick, honestly. Don't get me wrong ... I love my football ... (although i'm about ready to go over to London and shout at West Ham Utd ... gotta love em) but the games suck. The gameplay doesn't change, all that changes are the players! Oh god, I really can't get into this otherwise i'll be ranting for days!
As with any job, the only "real" drive to continue is the green. So this begs the question, who pays off the journalists?! Oh yea, yeah! They do it cause they love games! The fact is we're all human ... we only do something if we get something in return! Like they say: give with one hand and take with the other! It's the rules of life! Freelance journalists will most probably sell their works to random magazines that take their fancy or offer them the fattest pile of moneyz! Journalists under the employment of magazines would be under a salary, most likely commission based with the added notes of greedy gaming companies (again, just a hunch) but what about the mad bloggers? Why do they do it? It really does baffle me ... maybe the theory of human workings has been corrupted?
Anyway, that's enough about New Games Journalists, i'm starting to get a headache! Next we go onto Gameplay which i'm quite looking forward to after my football game rant! Mwahahah *cough*. I would end on a catchy quote but they've become a little too mainstream for my liking.
posted by d3adbang at 2:40 pm
1 Comments:
ok, catch up faster! What you write is pretty interesting but you're three tasks behind if my math is correct...
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