{"id":245,"date":"2005-09-20T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2006-08-18T17:14:05","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T21:14:05","slug":"gamers-quarter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/09\/20\/gamers-quarter-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamer’s Quarter 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The third volume of The Gamer’s Quarter<\/a> is now available at their website. There have been eleven issues of The Escapist since the second volume of GQ came out.<\/p>\n

As I browse GQ3, it hits me why I can’t fall in love with this web magazine no matter how much I want to. It’s not just because Amandeep Jutla’s attack on Starcraft<\/i> doesn’t make a lot of sense to me (it’s not my favorite game either, but I don’t get the hate, nor do I think it is solely responsible for why he hates PC games). And it’s not because the comics just don’t work – few comics do.<\/p>\n

It’s because it’s too damn big.<\/p>\n

I’m an agnostic on the whole “New Games Journalism” thing. As a blogger as well as a minor appendage suckling on the teat of old games journalism, I appreciate the importance of gamers sharing their gaming experiences. Reviews are usually just more formal versions of the type of stuff that NGJ is. NGJ is a more personal recording of reactions to games. Like all writing, it can be good or it can be bad.<\/p>\n

But, like all writing, you can also say enough already. And over a hundred pages of the stuff is too much. This edition has some game design stuff, including a daring suggestion that an RPG could have no saves. But many of the articles just go on and on – the Starcraft<\/i> article being a good example.<\/p>\n

I will keep reading it – likely in small doses at a time – and will keep pointing to its updates. I am excited about the opportunities that these type of web publications are providing to some interesting people with some interesting perspectives. It could use a little more editorial control – maybe firmer word limits? – but that would almost go against the whole philosophy of the mag.<\/p>\n

Oh, and the new Escapist<\/a> is out, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The third volume of The Gamer’s Quarter is now available at their website. There have been eleven issues of The Escapist since the second volume of GQ came out. As I browse GQ3, it hits me why I can’t fall in love with this web magazine no matter how much I want to. It’s not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-3X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}