Y'know. Even if you never ever played video games before: You have only see three things (apart from the avatar) on screen. A small obstace, a big obstacle and a text (slightly higher placed above the larger obstacle) You don't need extraordinary combinatory skills to grasp the idea that A) You won't make it jumping from the ground B) You need a height boost to overcome the second obstacle. The player just failed a basic skill you also need in real life.
Has someone who genuinely take sometime limits to figure out basic tasks due to a learning disability brought on by an underdeveloped brain... IT TELLS YOU WHAT TO FUCKING DO ON THE FUCKING SCREEN!!!!
@@Dubyahh Nah, I just like informing people that this guy never reviewed Cuphead. It’s fun! The guy who did this posted it on purpose because he found it funny, he wouldn’t be here.
@@pantslesswrock keep fighting the good fight bro dont let them win. With the odds stacked against you, you will prevail. Make sure to sort by new tomorrow and scour the comments. I believe in you. 🙏
Reminds me of the endless supply of film critics that have never picked up a camera before. Sure, you can form an educated opinion on something that you've never personally experienced before, I won't deny that, but that certainly hurts your credibility. Actually, on second thought, it removes almost all credibility. These people are professionals at talking the talk but not walking the walk, in other words, worthless.
Not in any way similar to videogames. You need to play the game to test the mechanics of it and if it works You don't have to have made a movie to know if a story or script or acting is bad. Sorry you made a bad analogy
@@emuman09 I said it damages their credibility, because you don't truly understand something until you try it yourself. This is an objective truth for EVERYTHING.
@@coachmcguirk8277 I don't think it hurts a critics credibility if they've never held a camera before. saying it removes all credibility it's a wild statement. I don't have to have held a camera to know what bad dialogue is
@@emuman09 I never said it removes all credibility. Almost all is a bit different, because it retains some credibility. But maybe I was too harsh in that statement, I'll rephrase it to "It removes a lot of credibility in my opinion". I still stand strongly behind this statement, we live in an age where almost everyone is a critic without any work to back it up. For instance, maybe writing a great script is incredibly difficult, one might not know that without trying. Getting your hands dirty would likely influence your reviews of other people's work because you can now relate to it. Something that's "bad" might bump up to "average" if you have a deeper understanding of how that thing came to be, which comes from personal experience.
At the risk of sounding like a complete cliche, people like him are the reason shampoo bottles come with instructions. In fact, I doubt he'd get far even with those instructions.
85 iq on display, how do you not have the intuition to realize that standing on the block will allow you to make the jump. A crow better problem solving than this journalist lmfao
I think I figured out his issue. For the first minute or so, he seemed so certain that he was supposed to do this jump from ground level. You can see him trying basically every possible combination of inputs from the ground, giving the block only one half-hearted jump before looping back- and then once he finally does fully consider the block it takes him only 3 attempts to get the timing down. It’s not a skill issue- it’s a strategy issue. He didn’t consider any possible solution other than the simplistic idea already in his head until he’d thoroughly proven that idea impossible.
@@elementgermanium skill issue is also lacking the skill to know what you need to do. People who are skilled at games have no issue with that tutorial.
Which is why the guy posted it! He found his own failures at a leisure activity unrelated to his job amusing, so he posted it so others might laugh along. Surely people won’t randomly start assuming he’s someone who reviews platformers!
@@pantslesswrock Don't worry, I understood that if he was sensitive about it or didn't want it shared then the journalist wouldn't have posted it in the first place. It's just really funny, the juxtaposition of a game journalist being shown to be not that good at a game, and the memes to come from it have been pretty great. In that sense I suppose he's a real champ for posting it, I wouldn't have the balls to add to the meme economy at my own expense.
@@railroadbluesy2169 I guess I just don’t get why people expect every game journalist to have competency in every game/genre. People don’t expect that of sports or food journalists, people understand specialties there. And people used to understand it for games! Time was, no one was “a gamer”, you were a “PC gamer” or an “arcade lizard” or a “console kiddy” - it was very rare to have the time, money, and inclination to be into all three. And each was good at certain genres and terrible at other genres. I guess this is just an example of how culture changes over time, nothing more. The most popular first person shooters are now also on your phone, no modems or landlines needed. And you have games like Roblox which have nearly every genre inside them. Time! It’s weird.
@@pantslesswrock Yes, why should anyone expect game journalists to play the game? We don't expect them to even be Daigo Umehara level, or even Matt McMuscles - and yet they fail to meet even the "18 month old biting on the controller" criteria. *Game* Journalists. Not political journalist, not car journalist, not movie journalist *_GAME_* journalist, meaning you have to *_PLAY THE GAME._* No so-called "game journalist" can even do _that_ properly unless there's no gameplay, but they can rant about some political issue no one gives a crap about, nor do these gender studies majors have any understanding of. If you can teach a dog how to do a Hadoken, if you can teach a pigeon how to play Tekken, then "journalists" like Dean Takahashi or Alyssa Mercante have *_ZERO_* excuse.
Nepotism. His mother or father is some figurehead in the leading political party probably and that’s how he got to be there. There’a always some politics involved ofcourse.
Lmao what??? WHAT?? You… you really don’t understand game journalism, do you? IT’S NOT PRESTIGIOUS AND IT PAYS LIKE SHIT no one is getting “placed” in “this position” by politician relatives WHAT UNIVERSE DID YOU CROSS OVER FROM I guess you could say he benefitted from the nepotism of being in a family that could afford a personal computer in the 80’s? I guess? That’s why he’s in this position, because he’s been writing for gaming outlets since they were all magazines.
Memes aside, unless the guy had a major disability or severe hand pain or whatever, the lack of dexterity in both body and mind is kinda impressive in a way
I don't like how some inferiors who barely can be qualified as humans dare to tell us real gamers how to live life. It's like a 14 year old suburban white girl who cooked for the first time in her life, goes to 5 star Michelin restaurants and calls everyone trash. They first need to be of the same status to be allowed to speak in our presence. They don't even bow to us when entering our space, how conceited and entitled can these game urinalist vermin be?
Dude. Not everyone plays platformers. Especially PC dudes from back in the day. Do you have any idea how terrible platformers on the Amiga or C64 were?
@@pantslesswrock if GAMES journalists whose job it is to PLAY games and tell FELLOW gamers about games, then they got to be competent to a certain degree. An F+ performance won't cut it. Their "gamer" status is automatically revoked and their entire reputations are ruined. They need to stream a complete walkthrough of Dark Souls 1,2,3 and beat Jump King in one sitting. They need to provide 50 games where they have completed ALL achievement. They need to show the hours (in thousands) and mastery ranks in at least 3 games with battle passes completed at least up to half AND have previous seasonal rewards. They need to be able to name all factions in at least 3 RTS games and prove that they have played games of all possible genres. This is easy for you and me, who are true gamers, we can complete the list in one day, but these pathetic walking jokes can't. So how dare they tell us how to play if they can't make it past the TUTORIAL level. Pathetic.
@@stoffelthedestroyer3741 Lmao this must be troll. Good work! You know game journos were the first champions of Demons Souls in the West while most gamers dismissed it, right? No no don’t even go down that road, this must be a copypasta or a troll, and damn good work too. You have my approval.
@@pantslesswrock you talking about some specific game journos. But do not generalize them all and give them all credit. The URINALists of today and Kotaku are not like the ones in the past. Journalism as a whole is dead. The West was the last bastion but as you see the political climate of the world, that too has fallen. Why oh why are you protecting this PoS who can't even complete a TUTORIAL? Are you troll? Most likely, but I doubt it. You are worse, a hypocritical apologist, or maybe even worse, a game urinal yourself! I am done talking to you, you are a sellout without morals and I do not accept you as a gamer. pss off
