Gaming Signal: Maybe, I am just getting old...

Maybe, I am just getting old...

Not to follow on JP's thunder, but...

Lately, I am finding many of the other gaming blogs out there are just not all that appealing to me. I know they are a "fan" sort of thing with opinion running rampant, but I thought they would at least be able to report information without being childish all the time. I mean lately Kotaku and Joystiq have really gone downhill with posts like this (and there are others that just rub me the wrong way). Combine this with yet more use of the f-bomb and other colorful words, and then they wonder why gamers get labelled as immature. Honestly, once in a while is funny and irreverent - all the time is just annoying and low brow. I have a kid and I would like to be able to share games with him, but I don't want him picking up any other "unique" vocabulary from yet another source.

What is so hard about reporting information without being smarmy at every turn? And before anybody gets on me about what blogs are really about - I will throw it back that Joystiq and Kotaku really are more than a blogs per se. And while I am lashing out at sites that I used to enjoy, I will not say that print magazines are any better with EGM also going that same way in many articles - okay maybe the whole magazine. In each case, these guys are looking for subscription numbers either via RSS feeds or actual magazine distributions, but I cannot believe that everybody enjoys this kind of writing. I want a blog that offers me information about gaming shows, upcoming titles and interviews - but I want it to be less smarmy.

Again, this may just be me and work/school/home stress acting up, but I am just being turned off more and more by what I see as juvenile humor and a feeling of "look at us - we are bloggers and the future of journalism." But that will never happen if they do interviews and reports in this manner all the time. I cannot imagine a guy who is looking for good PR to have his interview turned into a venue for some blogger to show his gutter comic skills. I know there are other sites out there that do a better job reporting news and seperating opinion, and maybe I should just stick to those.