Journal: Waypoint Ending
Apr. 27th, 2023 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
windjammI didn't think I'd have a lot of feelings here. Waypoint isn't something I really engage with anymore. But the news today of its end really got to me.
Waypoint was something that was so important to me. A space to understand myself and what I wanted out of the media I consume. A space to understand how to leverage my voice in a way that sounded interesting and a place that looked at things with a kind of critical analysis that I don't know I'll ever find again in games journalism. For me, Waypoint was the last bastion of Games Journalism.
I know it's probably not true. I know there are places, but for these people to come out of it and for Austin to come out of it earlier and say things like, "I'm looking to get into games. Games Journalism may not be it for me anymore." And for them to proceed so many other video game journalist layoffs and publication closures. It just. It feels like we are far afield of its golden era. Dark Souls age of fire.
I don't really have the space to write a whole thing. Consider this a space I'll be revisiting for awhile. But for now I'm just going to link to a few articles I found from this thread as a place to store them. Maybe I'll cross them off like a list as I go. I don't know.
The 63 Year Old Retiree Who Broke a Game Looking for the End of the World
Road Tripping Through Final Fantasy XV With My Dad
The Dying Man Who Found Hope in Breath of the Wild
Detroit Become Human Review
The Gaming Library That Helped a Neglected Neighborhood Find a New Identity
The Near Impossible 20 Year Journey to Translate Fire Emblem Thracia 766
Black Skin is Still a Radical Concept in Games
Why Do WE Talk about Mass Effect Asari As If They Are Women?
Years later the Ending of Dragon's Dogma REmains Wonderfully Weird and Subversive
Yakuza 0 is a Postcard From Another Time
Kentucky Route Zero Pays off Nine Years of Hope and Doubt
My Last Night with the Tomorrow Children
Waypoint was something that was so important to me. A space to understand myself and what I wanted out of the media I consume. A space to understand how to leverage my voice in a way that sounded interesting and a place that looked at things with a kind of critical analysis that I don't know I'll ever find again in games journalism. For me, Waypoint was the last bastion of Games Journalism.
I know it's probably not true. I know there are places, but for these people to come out of it and for Austin to come out of it earlier and say things like, "I'm looking to get into games. Games Journalism may not be it for me anymore." And for them to proceed so many other video game journalist layoffs and publication closures. It just. It feels like we are far afield of its golden era. Dark Souls age of fire.
I don't really have the space to write a whole thing. Consider this a space I'll be revisiting for awhile. But for now I'm just going to link to a few articles I found from this thread as a place to store them. Maybe I'll cross them off like a list as I go. I don't know.
The 63 Year Old Retiree Who Broke a Game Looking for the End of the World
Road Tripping Through Final Fantasy XV With My Dad
The Dying Man Who Found Hope in Breath of the Wild
Detroit Become Human Review
The Gaming Library That Helped a Neglected Neighborhood Find a New Identity
The Near Impossible 20 Year Journey to Translate Fire Emblem Thracia 766
Black Skin is Still a Radical Concept in Games
Why Do WE Talk about Mass Effect Asari As If They Are Women?
Years later the Ending of Dragon's Dogma REmains Wonderfully Weird and Subversive
Yakuza 0 is a Postcard From Another Time
Kentucky Route Zero Pays off Nine Years of Hope and Doubt
My Last Night with the Tomorrow Children
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