There is general idea among regular gamers that professional reviewers are basically being bribed to push game sales. While we cannot say that this is the truth in every instance, it is clear that there many journalists are no longer able to review games without trying to use them to prop up their factions in culture wars.
It seems to me that the video game reviewers have become more like political activists rather than people who are actually trying to play the games and show their thoughts on it.
Some of it is a cultural change in our culture. The video game industry was seen as a not serious industry by many governments. It was simply part of the entertainment industry, which in the highly technocratic era of the Post-World War 2, was not seen it as a threat to their power. However, more recently, people have started to take a closer look at video games.
Politics and video games do not really mix as video games unlike movies, were truly seen as diversions not were taken up by the avant-garde. This means that video games have been more a product of middle-class values and concepts
However, more recently, people who tend to be more political have been getting more interested into video games. With this attention, they are bringing along the baggage which has been hurting the industry and its ability to make games.
What we need to is to return to when Video Games were made for people playing games.
We do not need activists in our games. Neither should they be in any form of media. Activism in this age seems more of a way to help one’s side of an oligarchical system in America.
Video games should return to being about entertainment and telling an inspiring story that matters to people of all ages, races and abilities.
When the video game industry and its critics manage to stop being so elitist, then the industry will be able to make great games that people will purchase and cherish.
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