The Cuphead CONTROVERSY: Should Reviewers Git Gud? – DeadLock (ft. Mother’s Basement)
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VOTE: Writing Comes First! ►
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Cuphead broke the internet. When Cuphead gameplay of a journalist struggling to finish the tutorial hit the web, an age old debate was rekindled: Should gaming journalists have to be good at games to write about them? Or does writing come first and foremost? We’ll be debating this very question, but in the end your answer will be the one that needs to be heard!
Also note that all sides of the debate are RANDOMLY decided, so the debater may be arguing for a side he or she doesn’t agree with. We wanted to keep this as neutral and unbiased as possible. NO HATE!
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MatPat just got rekt
Get rekt MatPat
I don't really get the point of this argument…didn't the guy they're talking about that messed up in the cuphead video actually heavily praise the game and didn't let his bad gameplay affect his positive attitude towards it? Still not the best but that doesn't sound like bad journalism to me.
Simple solution hire gamers/writers I know many gamers who also write things as a separate hobby hire people who play games and are good at writing gaming is a hobby people who have this hobby usually don't just play one game or one genre of game. I play games because I enjoy them I'm not a great writer by all means, but for something I'm passionate about like video games I can write reviews or backstories for rpg characters etc. These are the people these companies need to hire those who play games as a hobby I don't know about anyone else but I have never met a person that plays video games for enjoyment and only plays one style of game therefore they could be qualified to write about the games not because they are good writers though they could be taught to be fairly easily because most gamers can pick up on things quickly especially things as simple as controls or writing. Now like I said I'm not great about writing but when I'm passionate about something like video games I can write a fair amount and have a fair knowledge about most genres the genres I'm not I could learn about if you sat me in front of a computer and told me I had unlimited time to play the genres and learn how it worked and played I would have a ball and learn it
Anyway that's my thoughts
-Michael
Matpats views are the best in my opinion and it doesn't just stop at games but things like resteraunts why is a random journalist who doesn't or hasn't cooked for a job allowed to critic the chefs who cook for their jobs or how movie journalists can criticise a movie when they have no experience in directing producing or acting
I don't expect the reviewers to be good at games, but can you really make an opinion about a game if you can't even complete the tutorial?
Also no offense but the tutorial doesn't require anyone to be good. It only required reading comprehension, a writer with no reading comprehension? Sad.
Game theory
Reviewers should at least be gamers.
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I think this is one of the only times I have whole heartedly agreed with Matpat in a Deadlock episode.
10:58 just because you're giving me a hj doesn't mean i trust you
Git Writing!
When you consume a news media, do you…
1. Take the opinion of the first writer?
or
2. Read more than one article on that same topic so that bias is minimized?
I take the later
Reviewers should be able to play a decent amount of the game, but the skill to complete it by a deadline isn't important. They don't necessarily need to be great at a game or genre to give it a fair chance; they just need a little bit of experience and a casual level of skill. Rather than having one guy who is a master at FPS games, one who speedruns platformers, one who is perfect at stealth games, and so on, gaming media outlets just need to have a good mix of well-written, well-rounded gamers who can each play a variety of genres fairly well. Each of them might have their one best genre, but that doesn't mean that that is the only genre that they are qualified for.
Finally, and most importantly in this system, make sure that you have overlap in their skills that way you never end up having to give someone a genre that they never play. Just because your primary JRPG guy is busy doesn't mean that you have to give Final Fantasy whatever-number-they're-on to someone who has never touched a JRPG game in their life. It just so happens that both your main platforming and FPS people knows their ways around the Dragon Quest series and can pick up the slack while he is writing about the new Mother sequel(that I really hope will eventually exist).
Last time I watched one of these… The entire TF2 fanbase nuked this channel.
when it comes to reviewers, they need to get though a large majority of a game BEFORE they write the review(IMO).
Aww what happened to the little sprite battles at the bottom of the screen…
Mat seems like such an artificial person idk like his voice and face just seem robotic to me ugh
That beginning literally felt like the gaming community vs. the anime community!
Mat pat should win.
1/4 of the Deadlock was just personal burns. Was there no actual debate points to go over?
They should be better if they could judge it they should not be bias and uninformed reviews based around there anger or experience
Git gud boi