Current Events > Did this game journalist deserve to be shamed for his Cuphead gameplay?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=848Y1Uu5Htk

Title of the video was originally "Cuphead demo at Gamescom: It isn't easy"
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The OST is gonna be odd mang
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Wow, he's actually worse than Egoraptor

Yes
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Rexdragon125 posted...

Wow, he's actually worse than Egoraptor

I think a more abrasive comment would be comparing him to DSP.
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That was painful to watch

Still not as bad as when Polygon played Doom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yYp8ZeQ-I8
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Just watching him go through the tutorial was painful.
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Good on him for not letting the brain damage keep him from a good career
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That's pretty painful to watch. This looks like someone who has never played a game in their life. Which would be fine if it wasn't a game journalist.
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Melonfarms posted...

That's pretty painful to watch. This looks like someone who has never played a game in their life. Which would be fine if it wasn't a game journalist.

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Yes absolutely. Especially if he got paid for that shit.
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omg... the first minute is so awful, I'm not sure if I can get through this...
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I lasted about 1 minute.
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I dunno if I want to shame him personally as much as I want to shame the entire industry for letting really bad gamers write reviews lol

I've seen all over the place that this game is difficult but how can I even trust that anymore when it's possible everyone saying that plays like this
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giantblimpN7 posted...

Good on him for not letting the brain damage keep him from a good career

Does he really have brain damage?
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This is why we need gamer gate!
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Yes. Any game journalist/reviewer who is this bad at video games deserves to be shamed for being incompetent at their job. If you don't even have a basic level of skill at games, you have no business reviewing them or writing about them.
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I could only manage the first 2 minutes lol

that's like the Doom 2016 fiasco
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Gamer99z posted...

Still not as bad as when Polygon played Doom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yYp8ZeQ-I8

I think Cuphead guy is worse. At least Doom guy progressed at a decent pace, performed the interactions correctly and hit his targets. It's just clear he never played an fps with a controller before.
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30 mins and he barely got 25% through the first level. That was so horrible to watch.
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Yes. He played at such an incredibly and incompetently low level that first take it looks like it was the first time he had ever played a videogame or was intentionally being bad. Couple that with him even writing that it took him quite some time to realize that it wasn't like Mario and he couldn't just hop on enemies to kill them (something that should be obvious after a maximum of two attempts), and it's clear that this was just incompetence and of such poor quality that it should have never been posted. It's that bad.

This isn't whining about a reviewer having a bad kill/death ratio, it's about expecting competence. Hell, if you watched a car review and the entire video was about the guy not understanding how a key fob works and not knowing how to brake, you'd call that person out as not being qualified to give an opinion about how a car drives. Same thing here.
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If you guys want to hear worse

This is the same reviewer that gave mass effect a bad review....he didn't know you could level up

Also on Reddit somebody a posted a video of a pigeon getting further
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Why are so many game journalists complete ass at video games?
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I guess there's no reason for this site to fire the guy because nobody would be watching the video otherwise lol.

I don't think it overly matters tbh especially if it's as obvious as this.
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