I know I tweet a lot about the whole ecosystem of games coverage, my very strong feelings about it are one of my greatest weaknesses. But I just saw a new video from a prominent site in which a staff member "confesses" that he could never get into a game.
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Own your point of view! Be forthright. It's perfectly fine, it's good in fact, to just say that a game is bad if you think it's bad! But so much of what constitutes games crit today is this apologetic thing where we're wary of not gushing over every game that others kinda like.
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And I get it. A great many readers have been trained to view gaming sites as just safe spaces for their uncritical fandom to such a degree that even encountering perspectives that aren't baked in pure enthusiasm is alienating, and may lead them elsewhere.
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But this handling of games and readers with kid gloves is not good for the larger conversation about games. Both games (as a medium and an art form) and readers deserve better. They can handle a richer landscape of criticism, even if the transition to it is a painful, awkward one
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