about walking through a fictional home and discovering messages about a lesbian pre-adolescent kid that ran away cuz she was unhappy unless she was with her army gf?

Well, problem I had with is wasnt the game itself

I mean I thought the game was just well, okay. Okay 2-5 bucks for one playthrough

It was novel, interesting for a first time. But forgettable in the end

I only had issues with the journalism around it

Like I literally know nobody who has played it

well the issue is that it was poorly made, had no game elements to it, no replay value and no "believable" message

so people just went "what is this crap and why am i paying money for this?"

and disliking it means you don't like it, hence you hate the creators suddenly because hating a product is somehow hating on the maker

making you literally hitler or something 😛

but the journalists would harp on about it

I mean, I back then was real liberal (the real kind) when it came to what can go into games.

Still am actually, not implying I am not that now

i understand you, but sadly the word "liberal"is just tainted now into being a crazy person

Well, we got rape sims, a columbine sim, and even a mass shooting sim. Still was okay with all of them.

So no reason for me to not tolerate Gone Home. I just, didnt like the journalism around it

and the reason journalists harp on about it is because they need media shock

they can't break the news because of twitter tweets etc beating them to it, meaning they can't be the "first to report"

hence they have to draw an audience from somewhere else, which is by actually creating the news by making problems where there are none

then getting that bullshit pointed out, and whining about being harassed for "reporting the news"

Well, problem is that journalism around games is basically obsolete.

We got actual gamers submitting entire playthroughs

Speedrunners.

look at Jim Acosta with trump, he's being rude, interrupts anyone else, won't listen and only makes bait questions, and when trump tells him to F-off, he reports on CNN "boohoo, president is mean to me and censors journalism"

and yes

Hell, the industry had to make embargos to make sure journalists could get their articles out

lets-players took over games journalism

Like Id imagine we wouldnt need game journalism if there were no embargos.

because then you can see the game to its fullest, not just a 5 minute "what we want you to see" bit like No-content Sky

So to play devils advocate

What reason does the game industry have to keep them around?

Mostly indies I reckon

and on top of that, "games journalists" now aren't even gamers, most even tweet about how they hate gaming

And then they have to review a game like that Cup-head fiasco, where they couldn't even beat the tutorial and then write an article about "This game is the new dark souls"

Oh, yeah... How they are all too similar when it comes to writing

Indies don't need games journalists, because they demand money for actual coverage unless they "want" to cover it, which means the game needs publicity beforehand, which if it got pre-existant publicity would mean it doesnn't need the journalists spreading it

Well, that actually makes sense.

Also, helps that I find most of my games through steam reccomendations

And well.. User reviews

yes

steam is a better marketing tool now anyway

cuz the actual gamers that buy stuff have spat out any journalism cuz of gamergate

so all games journalists will generate nowadays on games tehy cover is hate from a mob of people taht arent even customers

Hmm, I guess they are benefiting from the hate.

Makes more sense that way.

well it depends

if it the journalists only cover the game its bad

if they go "look at this hated game" people will respond by buying it out of protest

Well, makes sense with clickbait actually