According to Brian Hook, the videogame journalism industry is in serious need of a revolution:
No matter how inculcated popular culture may be with games, society still doesn't take gaming seriously as an art form. It's a leisure time activity, a hobby along side golfing, doll collecting, and home theater. As long as this remains, we'll probably find that the quality of reporting in this industry will never approach that of Daily Variety. Hell, I'd be happy if there was a gaming rag on a par with Entertainment Weekly.
The article is from early June, but I managed to miss it until today, so maybe some of you did to. Take some time out of your busy schedule and read the whole article. The rest of the site is pretty interesting too.
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Sorry I'm kind of bombarding your blog here.
ReplyDeleteI suppose there have been a few investigations into why gaming isn't seen as a legitamite medium; but I have yet to read any results from these supposed investigations. Knowing "the fanboy gaming press", I doubt there has been too much effort put into this either.
But, here's a little piece of my mind: cost. What does it cost to see a movie in a theater? $12 CND at most. To buy a dvd with lots of special features? $30 tops. Practically everyone already has a tv, so you just need a dvd player now. I just did a quick search on Best Buy and saw one for $80. And that's assuming you want your own dvd player. Most tv stations air movies fairly often, effectively eliminating any cost beyond the tv.
Of course there are other things too; things like a circular cause-and-effect of appealing to 20-something year old males who supposedly are the core audience, the unwieldly depth and complexity of many games and so on. But that's beside my little interjection. (so why did I mention it? I don't know.)