New Games Journalism

I feel that new game journalism should definitely be about the experience the game brought on for you, rather then a ranting session about the game in general. When I look at articles about games I really want to see how the player felt while they were playing the game. To me that sounds more interesting to read then someone carrying on about the levels and how terrible the game was without explanation of why they felt that way. I do this when I am going to buy a new game. My brother will look up articles on games that we are going to buy and see what people are saying about them. He will take me to websites that are full of people blogging about games. I can’t tell you how many I have read for two minutes and had to stop because I couldn’t take the way they were explaining the game. I felt like they were giving me a walkthrough. It was frustrating and still is. Just recently when I went and bought a game for our coming up review I wanted to look and see how other people were enjoying the game first. I went and looked up the new Kingdom Hearts 358/2. I read so many people saying how much better it was then the last game that came out and that was all they said. Or they gave me the synopsis of the game. If I wanted to read the synopsis I would have went to the website and read it. But I also found myself asking why these people just said it was so much better then the last. I went and bought the game and I can say that it is a lot better, but that is in another blog. I wanted more from the people that just said the game was better. I didn’t have a long time to look hard for the feelings on the game. I finally found one that gave me a little insight of how he felt while playing it and I was relived. His comments were good so I went and bought the game, which some of you will read my review on Thursday. Bringing this together, I do feel that it is very important when writing a new game journal the author really needs to make sure they are writing what the people want to read, not what he or she wants to just get off their chest.