Ask a kid what he wants to be when he grows up and chances are you'll find the usual suspects come into play. Firemen, policemen, princesses, the hot at the time superhero, but what wont generally make an appearance is actor or movie star. I have a theory why. The reason being is when you're young that vocation really doesn't have an appeal, hell it might not even register in the youth's head what all it entails. The luster and allure of being a thespian with all the accolades that come with it only entice the teens and older crowd. It is to them that its songs of fame and fortune are the loudest. It can be said, at one point or another no matter how skilled or not skilled, no matter how attractive or not attractive, we've all contemplated being in front of a camera.

Fantasies of adoring fans swooning to our visage on film or pixelated videos is the stuff dreams are made of to many. I just kinda wish it wasn't to video game bloggers. We already get thrown a slew of labels our ways: nerds, geeks, losers and pedophiles, must we also be labeled egotistical hams? Let me explain why I think video blogs need to die a horrible death in a fire before they destroy our game blogging way of life.

Perhaps that last line in the paragraph above is a bit melodramatic but for me, this habit of just slapping a video up on a blog or a post and calling it a day is rubbish. Don't get me wrong, I like looking at a game trailer or gameplay video like the next gamer but do I really need to have a blogger on camera clumsily tell me his impressions, thoughts or reviews of a game? I'm thinking I'm going to be in the minority here but I'd rather read these things than looking at some badly lit, horrible sounding video with amateurish cuts and the participants involved in it, trying to be hip or cool or show us his new haircut.

See the thing is this. I read about game news and all that comes with it to be better informed. Not to look at you no matter how pretty you are. It looks like everyone nowadays with a camera wants to be a personality instead of just blogging or writing about the game beat. Seems like laziness. If you can write about it, is there a real need to get in front of a camera and tell us about it, aside from injecting a whole slew of "Umms" and showing us your mug? Are bloggers that egotistical now? Look at most game sites and these vblogs are on the rise. I know this is the internets and we are supposedly a You Tube Nation but its a change I'm not welcoming much.

You may think of me as a wet blanket because I don't love these vblogs and perhaps I am. I mean sure I'm curious as to what some of these writers or bloggers look like and act like in the real world but to me it falls back to their writing. I am only interested seeing them in a new light because of their writing. Lets not quit our day jobs here gents and hire an agent. Again I believe I'll fall way into the minority here because I loath them and don't bother with them half the time.

I especially hate reading a post and then have to continue the rest of the piece in a video. I think its cause I'm an old dude. I genuinely love/prefer the written word over some zany video that usually isn't that zany. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of these vblogs that can be entertaining and funny when that's what they set out to do and highlight it as such. But these many many others that are there to inadequately take the place of the written word are just plain... bollocks.