What it takes to be succesful rpg journalist?

[Apostle Hand]

I guess you must finish some journalism studies. Your writing style should be sharp and concise, clear and without unnecesary ramblings.

You should also have knowledge of various rpgs, both in theory and practice.

 

[Neanderthal]

Hair dye, ratty facial hair, skinny jeans and t-shirt, and verbal diarrhea.

Oh you can be scrawny or obese, never normal.

 

[Kev Inkline]

Bubbles-grade weaponized autism.

 

[Orma]

Clearly, you need to be a codexer

 

[Tavernking]

Earlier this week you wanted to be an rpg developer

 

[FritzedProcess]

I guess you must finish some journalism studies. Your writing style should be sharp and concise, clear and without unnecesary ramblings.

You should also have knowledge of various rpgs, both in theory and practice.

Fucking journalism degrees, man. Back in the day, journalists used to have a degree in something (political sciences, philology, law or whatever), knew how to synthesize information and make catchy headlines, and even though they already were manipulators working for the highest bidder, they were able to emit an informed opinion on a subject or two.

Nowadays they are clueless dolts who think that a degree in journalism automagically makes their opinions "informed", while the hoi polloi keep them on a pedestal because they are journalists, and that profession has been given the image of paragons of virtue by Hollywood.

In short, get a real job or start your own blog/youtube/bitchute channel. Videogames journalism isn't long for this world.

 

[Apostle Hand]

Back in the day, journalists used to have a degree in something (political sciences, philology, law or whatever), knew how to synthesize information and make catchy headlines, and even though they already were manipulators working for the highest bidder, they were able to emit an informed opinion on a subject or two.

Yeah you're right. Journalists now are fucking cunts looking for sensation everywhere. In some countries they get killed too, but I guess nobody would get killed for criticaly shaped video game article.

 

[Sigourn]

 

[HoboForEternity]

Autism help in every case for rpgs tbh. Whether you are developing, reviewing, streaming, etc.

Well maybe except marketing but then again you market rpg for autists too most of the time

 

[fantadomat]

I guess you must finish some journalism studies. Your writing style should be sharp and concise, clear and without unnecesary ramblings.

You should also have knowledge of various rpgs, both in theory and practice.

What will be the next thread you make,what do you need to be a successful homeless guy?

 

[Kev Inkline]

I guess you must finish some journalism studies. Your writing style should be sharp and concise, clear and without unnecesary ramblings.

You should also have knowledge of various rpgs, both in theory and practice.

What will be the next thread you make,what do you need to be a successful homeless guy?

I take it you'd be willing to share some tips and tricks?

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

I guess you must finish some journalism studies. Your writing style should be sharp and concise, clear and without unnecesary ramblings.

You should also have knowledge of various rpgs, both in theory and practice.

What will be the next thread you make,what do you need to be a successful homeless guy?

I take it you'd be willing to share some tips and tricks?

I could.

 

[Thal]

Earlier this week you wanted to be an rpg developer

Don't you know that a failed attempt or lack of talent in whatever endeavor is enough to make you qualified to write about others doing it?

 

[theSavant]

What does it need to be a succesful RPG tard?

 

[Swigen]

What does it need to be a succesful RPG tard?

Buy Underrail. Get stuck and quit at the tutorial mission ‘cause you didn’t put any skill points into “lockpicking”.

Money spent: $15
Total playtime: 10 minutes

Buy ATOM. Finally procure a firearm only to quit when you realize you don’t have enough strength to wield it properly.

Money spent: $15
Total playtime: 1 hour

Buy Kenshi. Quit immediately ‘cause like, WTF am I ‘sposed to do?

Money spent: $30
Total playtime: Like 5 minutes

Buy Grimoire Heralds of the Winged Exemplar. Quit immediately when you realize you have to make your own maps.

Money spent: $10
Total Playtime: Like 2 minutes.

 

[samuraigaiden]

There's no such thing.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Willingness to give terrible games positive reviews if the developers have sex with you

 

[hivemind]

There can be no video games journalism because there is nothing in video games that is worth writing about. You can't do any investigative work and "news" are pretty much just marketing press releases.

Go start a gaming youtube/twitch channel instead.

 

[aeroaeko]

Lots of practice suppressing your gag reflex, if you get what I'm saying.

 

[Tweed]

Praise everything with progressive values and write hit pieces on developers who refuse to bend the knee. Remember to publicly shame them on twitter in between articles.

 

[111111111]

Strong writing in English, being comfortable in a WordPress environment, and can commit to contribute in a regular basis are a must.



Also this will be an unpaid position. If you think you have the talent and dedication to hop on board something new and exciting in the gaming community, Contact us at r.casella10 @ gmail.com and tell us about yourself.

 

[Beastro]

What it takes to be succesful rpg journalist?

It's quite simply, really.

Here's a visualization for you.

 

[vazha]

As FritzedProcess rightly mentioned, an overwhelming majority of good journos don't have journalism degree but come from some other field that they later specialize in as a journalist, building on amassed background knowledge.

In short, what makes good journalism is (including gaming ones):

1. Background knowledge on things you're writing about - you should be seeing the whole perspective, the bigger picture, bottom lines and so on.
2. Be subjective, if you must and feel strongly about the subject, but never be appeasing. Give the interviewee hardest time you're able to. Even if its a paid content - in fact, well-answered questions go a long way into promoting whatever you've been paid to write about.
3. Know your audience and spin your story the way that evokes the strongest feelings in them. Dont do clickbait, do not sensationalize - What you want is not people merely reading your stuff, but a back-and-forth discussion. That's when you know whatever you wrote/said/filmed matters.

 

[Excommunicator]

I agree with those points^ but most importantly of all, you can't be motivated by money or fame or politics or looking to impress people or rub shoulders. Your satisfaction for what you do should be in the quality of your work, speaking the truth and informing people of what they want and need to know.

 

[Excommunicator]

And yes I'd rate my own post fabulously optimistic if I could