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The game was so hard for him that he called the game’s creator to complain about its difficulty. It’s worth noting that the turn-based game comes with numerous options to make it easy. In a piece about the strategy game XCOM 2 from 2016, Takahashi complained about how gamers were “obsessed” with hard games and the addition of features that raise the stakes. It wasn’t the only game he was hard on to excuse his own ineptitude. I’ve been doing that professionally for around 15 years.” Classic. “I walked into a room, looked at a game, and offered what I thought about it. “First, this post is not research-backed journalism,” he wrote. When he was later raked over the coals by readers, he attempted to justify his mistake. In a 2011 article, he panned the former for being so “embarrassing” that it made him “wonder about the dearth of creativity in video games.”
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More egregiously, Takahashi thought that the decades-old Warhammer 40,000 sci-fi series ripped off Gears of War’s designs. After he was called out and encouraged to revise his review, his apology featured a caveat that Mass Effect should’ve been more like a completely different game.
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In the past, the game journalist panned a role-playing game called Mass Effect with a bad review in 2007, not knowing how to level up.
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This wouldn’t be Takahashi’s first instance of being illiterate to the medium he writes in, disappointing the readers he’s supposed to be catering to. Video game literacy is every bit as important in covering games as actual literacy when writing book reviews. While this may be the case with new gamers still on their training wheels, Dean Takahashi-a veteran game journalist of over 25 years-has been on the scene for longer than many game journalists have been alive. These so-called professionals claim that the expectation of basic competency and literacy of the interactive medium is a form of gatekeeping and GamerGaterism. Unable to read the on-screen instructions, Takahashi spent over a minute trying to perform a basic maneuver that, as I highlighted in another tweet, was easy enough that even a four-year-old could figure it out after just a few seconds of watching.ĭuring the preview event, the game’s developers told Takahashi that they didn’t think their game was “difficult.” It was merely “challenging.” Takahashi disagreed, stating that he “quickly put the lie to that terminology.” It’s worth noting that the game journalist even misattributed Cuphead’s creators to another popular video game made by an entirely different team. He made the game look harder than it was, and even struggled for over two minutes with the brief tutorial. The game’s wonderful, 1930s inspired art was marred by Takahashi’s performance. In my tweet that has since gone viral with over 2 million impressions, I highlighted a snippet of VentureBeat gaming contributor Dean Takahashi’s painful playthrough of an upcoming video game called Cuphead. How do they think they’re qualified to write about games? /KbsGIBvQtD Game journalists are incredibly bad at video games.
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Such expectations are unreasonable, and the only ones making that claim are game journalists upset that one of their own was made fun of by yours truly earlier this week.
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Just as sports journalists don’t have to be professional athletes, game journalists don’t have to be esports champions. Game journalists, for example, are expected to be familiar with the medium and have a modicum of skill in playing them. His post was political propaganda for the disenfranchised gamers, the sort who went from Gamergate to the alt-right and elected Donald Trump as president.It’s not too much to ask for a professional to be competent at his or her job. He used me to condemn all game journalists, raising the smoldering issues around Gamergate and its focus on game journalism ethics. He clipped it to the 2.5 minutes of the most damning inept gameplay, and he posted it to his followers. If you are angry about this video, I apologize to you.Īnother game journalist (and some say “shitlord”) saw my video. I unintentionally created my own tweet storm. My Cuphead gameplay video from Gamescom blew up, inspired rage, and spurred discussions about the death of game journalism across Reddit, YouTube, and Twitter. My game crime: I was so bad at playing I was deemed unfit to be a game journalist. You may have heard that I failed miserably in playing a demo of Cuphead, and the video I posted mocking myself has gone viral on the internet.