Mass Effect 2 Review
Gods Eater Burst Review
Aaand that's about it. I'll post more stuff I write including an upcoming Pokemon Review , Warriors: Legends of Troy and Dynasty Warriors 7.
It's been just over a year since I started this site, where I posted a dreadfully formatted version of my initial thoughts on Star Ocean 4. I soon realised I had stumbled upon the world of Video Game Journalism, not something I initially set out on doing when I started this website.
A few months passed with me writing odd reviews in the middle of doing my GCSE's, developing my writing style and improving my structural integrity of writing. It was then that I knew I had a knack for this "writing" stuff. I then set out upon my adventures of wanting to become a games journalist. I read up upon eras of games I've never even heard of, come to learn about more developers and overall, increased the spectrum of my gaming knowledge.
It was then, around September and October that I saw an ad being placed looking for writers, at a site called MCMBUZZ.com. I put in a few writing samples and the editor liked it. And so I was IN. Around this period, I attended London MCM expo, like comic con but in the UK. There I met several people in the games industry, even some of the team that developed Assassin's Creed. More importantly, I talked to other gaming journalists. It was there that I learnt that the industry was not all fun and games, with gaming being demonised in the media and coming under fire regularly, Journalists had to keep on their toes with what they say and do. With Roger Ebert saying gaming was not art, the industry took a massive hit and the debate began on whether games were art or not.
Video games are a growing medium for expression, combining the aspects of music, pictures and video into one interactive experience. I saw that this was not being fully recognised and with critics like Roger Ebert's dismissal of the medium as art I saw the difficult world that journalists had before them. The industry itself is ruthless, with it being hard to actually get a job in the industry.
Needless to say, I left London expo apathetic about Game Journalism. With claims of being an enthusiast press, not being taken seriously. I thought that there was no way to even comprehend if Games could ever be taken seriously. To people, games are just a sidetrack, for kids. Somehow video games had to be taken seriously. Games like 6 Days to Fallujah were cancelled, something that in the medium of film would garner controversy but would be released for the public.
The history records show that there was another medium like this, in this situation. Comic Books. Claims of comic books being violent and causing kids to be violent were rampant. I look to the present and see that Video Games are the same thing. Comic books had a rebreanding to the general public. Not comic books, but Graphic novels. It was then that Comic Books were now a fully realised artistic medium. The things that took Graphic Novels to this stage were its strong community, its press and its industry.
Gaming needs to take that leap, for it to be taken seriously and reach it's peak. With more people experiencing games than ever before, it's up to the strong industry, a strong community and a strong press for it to be finally fully realised as an artistic medium. Gaming is changing, falling into more people's hands than ever before. And it's up to us to give gaming the recognition it needs.
Today, I have review copies of a few video games at my desk, waiting to be played. Eagerly anticipating the day when gaming can finally be taken seriously.
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