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Best Game Writers 2005 Recognized 31

Posted by Zonk from the nods-to-the-best dept.
GameDaily.biz has given the nod to some of the best game writers in the business for this year. From Seanbaby to Jerry Holkins, the best wordsmiths got some recognition. From the article: "Game Informer Crew - Yes, this is a cop out, but the GI staff received so many votes as a group (especially from game developers) that they earned a spot on this list. It seems a bit of a shame that they have to work so anonymously. If they are doing such a great job, the writers deserve some of the credit on an individual basis. Next year, no more group votes."
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  • Left out (Score:4, Insightful)

    by ZephyrXero ( 750822 ) <.moc.oohay. .ta. .orexryhpez.> on Friday June 24, 2005 @05:06PM (#12904650) Homepage Journal
    One of my favorite gaming writers is Stephen Tolito (sp?). He's a freelance writer, but you can find his stuff all over the place. He used to have the regular column "Cubism" over on IGN. I think I saw him writing an article for Wired or something recently...

  • Thoughts on Greg Kasavin & Scott Kurtz (Score:1, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward
    First of all, I think the article ought to mention Greg Kasavin (chief editor of Gamespot) -- personally, I like his work much more than Tor Thurston, and his (admittedly long reviews) have convinced me to buy more games than any other reviewer (Doom 3, Guild Wars). At the very least, I trust Greg Kasavin more than any other game writer out there, just based on his experience in the industry.

    Additionally, I don't see why Scott Kurz is listed as a 'game writer' -- he doesn't explicitly discuss games (per se
    • Morover, Scott Kurz really doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same paragraph as Penny Arcade's Tycho -- his writing style is atrocious, his 'storyline' has no plot, and he personally backstabs fellow webcomic artists when he feels like it

      Kurtz is a dick with idiotic opinions, but his comics are decent. PA doesn't really do storylines either, so it's not relevant to criticize PvP for lacking plot.

    • his writing style is atrocious, his 'storyline' has no plot, and he personally backstabs fellow webcomic artists when he feels like it

      I'm confused, were you talking about Scott or Gabe?
  • Game Informer magazine reviews are pretty good. I just don't think they are honest enough at times. Gamespot is much more harsh in reviews. Though they have the luxury of writing 10pg reviews, something magazines can't do. But give credit to GI for the laughable sex innuendo hidden messages.

    • As much as I hate what video game reporting and especially gamespot has become, I still find myself going there on a regular basis for the simple fact that even though their garbage site takes 5 minutes to load over a 1.5 DSL link, the reviews there are highly informative and generally fairly harsh as you say. I've yet to play a game that they scored highly that was not at least enjoyable or well designed. It is really hard to review games for PCs when they first come out as well, because often, many games

  • Harsh Comments (Score:4, Funny)

    by FlipmodePlaya ( 719010 ) on Friday June 24, 2005 @05:31PM (#12904833) Journal
    'Matt Casamassina IGN Casamassina deserves a spot on this list if only for his ability to manage a surprisingly massive, usually angry and always poor-spelling audience of Nintendo fans. Plus, he does this on a system where big games are few and far between...' Wow, I can't believe that in a paragraph designed to award Casamassina an honor they managed to insult both what he writes about and who he writes it for. Was there really any need to do that? Especially since the insults they used where representative of brash stereotypes, something which has no place in a site for 'game industry *professionals*'.

    • Re:Harsh Comments (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Khuffie ( 818093 )
      Matt and the rest of the IGN crew only serve to propagate rumours and false speculation. They regularly take short news snippets that should read "This and this happened. Period" to things like "Hmm. This and this happened. THis could mean this is happeneing then, or this. Or maybe even this. Of course we have absolutely no proof of any of this and it's all just wishful thinking on our part to keep the legions of Nintendo fanboys happy and armed with this speculations as if they're real. Which they're not."
    • The only reason that Casamassina's audience seems to be angry and deficient at spelling is because he fixes the mailbags to paint that picture. Lately he's only been printing letters that support his stance on the HD-less Revolution issue, and incidentally, most of them are angry, grammar-less rants. If he ever chooses to print a letter opposing his opinions, he picks the most moronic submission possible in an attempt to make his opponents look like idiots.

      In my opinion, Casamassina deserves a spot on th

  • Wait, _game_ writers? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by jonabbey ( 2498 ) * <jonabbey@ganymeta.org> on Friday June 24, 2005 @05:51PM (#12905006) Homepage

    This looks like a list of magazine, website, and TV writers. Where is the awards list for game script writers?

  • I have always been a fan of Eugenia Loli-Queru's gaming articles. While she no longer writes about such subjects, she was always able to give a very interesting female pespective on gaming. Indeed, in an industry nearly dominated by men, her voice was an interesting one amongst them all.

    http://www.osnews.com/editor.php?editors_id=1 [osnews.com]

  • toasty frog (Score:4, Interesting)

    by zenintrude ( 462825 ) on Friday June 24, 2005 @08:08PM (#12906006)
    jeremy parish [toastyfrog.com] is by far my favorite game journalist/blogger, web or otherwise. when i was younger, seanbaby was it, but maturity and irony have forced my preferences in another direction (even though i can still appreciate a good lambasting in the end of good ol' egm)

  • Game Informer votes (Score:2, Insightful)

    by yoyhed ( 651244 )
    ..."the GI staff received so many votes as a group (especially from game developers)"...

    The reason Game Informer got so many votes from developers is because they inflate their scores on a ridiculous level. A mediocre game will get an 8 with GI, great (but not the best) games will almost always get a 9.75 or 10. Their scale is essentially from 7 to 10, which doesn't really allow me to trust them. Don't get me wrong, I love reading GI, they're funny guys, I just won't go out and buy a game just because it

    • All 10 point scales are 7 to 10 these days. Though mediocre would usually be 6 or 7 (should be 1 with bad being 0 in a decent scale) so they're still inflating scores.
      • The problem is, most people liken a 1-10 score to a school grade, with 100-90 being A, 89-80 B, 79-70 C, and so on. So the people rating the game cater to that. So, as school grading goes, C is mediocre, therefore, average games get a 7-ish score. Bad games get less than 7, and really bad ones get less than 6. I've seen some pretty bad scores on IGN, mostly from the PC channel, most from Ivan Sulic.

  • Quality? Wha?!?! (Score:1, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Rather than rewarding these baffoons for their writing abilities, why not bash them for their inability to call a bad game what it is: a bad game. How many times have we been subjected to EGM editors posting glowing reviews of games that are, to be perfectly honest, anything but entertaining?

    Penny Arcade, along with the Gamespot writers seem a little more objective than the others, but even they are occasionally subject to the plague that haunts all game reviews: fanboi extremus.

    After all, these were the
  • Tim Rogers, from Insert Credit [insertcredit.com]. Tycho I'll agree with, for the newsposts more than the comic itself, and the rest of them I don't really recognize (I tend not to pay attention to credits within actual magazines), but the fact that they left out Tim pretty much means they lose by default.

    Read his 7-page piece [insertcredit.com] on Mario 3, and then maybe look up his review of Soul Calibur 2 on the same site, and tell me I'm wrong.
  • On the whole I'm not very impressed with the quality of games journalism as compared with literary, cinema or musical writing. In the article the main quality of a good review appears to be wacky humour and then something about quality of information as regards being consumer reviews. I have nothing against consumer reviewing but there does still seem to be a lack of insightful (rather than merely informative) commentary that locates games within their proper context as for example newspaper book reviewers

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