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.
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!
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.
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.
@@Martin_Koepl Yeah so basically TV in the lounge room. A lot of ppl do watch RU-vid 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@@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.
"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.
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!!
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
It's honestly moved past Hate. Most people just feel apathy for games journalist. Other than stories being brought up on RU-vid 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.
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 ?
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.
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.
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? RU-vidrs 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 RU-vid 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!
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.
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.
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.
We used to get better “journalism” from Nintendo Power magazines in the 80’s.
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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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 RU-vid critics aren't the future, they're now
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’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.
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.😂
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.
