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The cuphead video?

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• qsort 4y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=848Y1Uu5Htk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=848Y1Uu5Htk
  • morelisp 4y ago
    Journalists who are not good at playing games are approximately the complete opposite of the real problem with games journalism.
    • qsort 4y ago
      The problem with that video is not that he's bad. The overwhelming majority of people are bad at games, myself included. The problem is that he doesn't understand what's going on. This is literally like if baseball coverage was done by someone who doesn't know what's a strike.
    • MichaelCollins 4y ago
      If you want to understand video games as an artform, then maybe so. Debatable (can they really evaluate the artistic merit of a game if they can't get past the tutorial?) but I think I see what you mean. But if you're a gamer looking for consumer advice, then game journalists who don't know how to play games are basically worthless. It would be like reading car reviews from somebody who can't drive. They can tell you what they think of the car from an artistic perspective, but they're ill equipped to offer good consumer advice.
      • morelisp 4y ago
        I tend to agree with astrange's comment about VentureBeat specifically, but let's be honest here, we're not lacking in internet randos who spend too much time playing videogames, telling you whether you should or not buy a videogame. It's totally OK that someone is focusing on the industry news and not consumer reviews; and when he gets drafted into playing something (because you don't send your whole damn staff from CA to Köln to ingest what's 99% ignorable media blitz) and he sucks at it it's fine to take some time to point and laugh, but it says absolutely nothing about the greater state of games journalism.