the decline and fall of games journalism

[BustedAstromech]

@spacetown

I feel like most websites are doing the more personal “let me tell you about this detail that I noticed in the game and how it relates to my life personally” but these days it seems pretty pointless when every other website is writing about the same game in the same way with the same detail and the same life, almost

I just want to quote this again because nobody apparently realized how important being a good writer is to personalized criticism before it was unleashed. I stand by the movement but these days it’s personalization standing in place of analysis and not pulling threads out of the work and showing how games can have meaning outside their specific construction.