Videogame Culture Needs to Stop Fetishizing Skill

Why do so many people hate games with gameplay and want more (((cinematic experiences))) instead?

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Seriously, just go watch a movie if you don't want to play a video game.

These people are too dumb even for movies.

At least link to the real article dude

pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/09/videogame-culture-needs-to-stop-fetishizing-skill.html

It's the future you choose.

I sat here trying to think up a good analogy for what these people are trying to steer videogames into becoming, when that goal is already served perfectly well by TV and film, then I realized I couldn't because it makes no fucking sense.

It infuriates me that these people want in on my hobby yet seem to have such a disdain for everything that makes it unique.

Sony is cancer

Are you retarded?

>It infuriates me that these people want in on my hobby yet seem to have such a disdain for everything that makes it unique.

It's because they watch footage of games being played, want to be able to perform feats like they saw, but don't want to put in hours of practice to git gud so they can do stuff on that level. The same kind of thinking more or less gutted 5e D&D, which simplified combat to the point that just having 2 characters stand near an enemy constitutes advantage so that players could get more epic moments.

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maybe if they drop their cuck fetish first

>be racing journalist
>you go to review a new race track
>you need 20 minutes to get your car to start
>you crash your car at the very first turn

You do not post links to original articles because you do not want people following those links and rewarding those clickbait sites with ad impressions.

Literature culture needs to stop fetishizing the ability to read

Story > gameplay

blame sony, just shity QTE and walking simulator games.

I'd argue that the pigeons task was much more difficult. It had to physically manipulate an object, it wasn't directed at all on what to do, etc.

dont spoonfeed newfags, friend
just insult them and move on

thanks
can't believe this is real

The link to original article is in the page linked in OP. Thanking someone for posting a link to clickbait. Kindly off yourself. You do not deserve to be here.

Hm, well I personally think that the author deserves a click because we read his work. So I made sure to click on a few other articles on the site to make up for the guys who only read the archive

Watching that was the longest minute and a half of my entire life

I'd rather just go to the original site

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>even for movies
UNLIKE GAMING THE HOBBY FOR TRUE INTELLECTUALS

Now this is some top notch bait

His work is aiming to destroy everything that is good about videogames. Well fucking done rewarding him for it.

hey guys
what if these people don't actually play or care about videogames at all and are just the same chads who have always hated video games and "nerd culture" and are trying to destroy it out of the jealousy that we can enjoy what they can hardly comprehend

i love when these piece of shits start their articles with "X" and "needs to stop"

no i dont fucking retards

>Fails at something a child could handle
>Everyone makes fun/criticizes
>Skill fetishism/gaming community is the problem

Makes sense to me. When can I get off this train?

>More women are playing games and can't compete.
>Millenials want instant success and satisfaction, not a grindy run into glory because they don't have the will to do it.
>You can't market political agendas as easily in gameplay oriented video games

Off the top of my head.

hahahah fuck

Its gonna balance itself out m8s. SJW-PCs dont play/buy games anyway and they are the vocal minority of "gamers". When publishers and devs have lost enough money on their shit, we are gonna go back to people making the games they wanna make instad of inserting the sjw agenda.

this
>clicking random links on Sup Forums

kill yourself dante FUCK YOU

You mean everything that you personally like about video games, which no one who matters actually cares about

>Be human
>Be dumber than a fucking bird
>Get paid for it

SJWs work by infecting high level positions in companies. Like with parasites, killing the host actually is desirable, so that offspring can infext the next one.

You are wrong.
This is not a cycle.
Comics are already dead due to said individuals and they are hardly coming back after that.

That would explain the whole "sonic was never good" shit I keep seeing now that Mania doesn't hold the players hand.

or, more simply, everything is always terrible, the world is shit, and nothing you ever do will change that in any way

You don't have to be able to read to be a literature critic - you can have someone read the words to you. Similarly, you don't have to play video games to be a games critic - you can watch gameplay and get an impression of the game from that.

For you

yeah I guess you're right, should probably just kill yourself then I suppose do it

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This guy's been watching his rick and morty thats for sure

>don't spoonfeed the fucking rules
???

What the next step of your plan?

>game journo rekt by the internet
>game journos everywhere go on full damage control
Reminder that this shit ACTUALLY happened and wasn't a joke.
youtube.com/watch?v=d3pQ0oO_cDE

Many intellectuals of the past would have loved to have been able to play video games.

And that's why I'm NOT a manchild for playing pubg for 12 hours a day

>archive
>random link
better not click on youtube either

if you're baiting please stop. we don't even need confused retards ironically plastering the board with clickbait links for le ebin troll

>you will never get paid to have the IQ of a peanut

Sometimes life ain't fair

No, it's just that Gaming takes more effort on the part of the viewer to enjoy because the viewer is the one moving the content forward in the first place.

>waaaaa da guy who bully me in school is takin muh vidya!!!
HAHAHHAHHAAH

>Videogame Culture Needs to Stop Fetishizing Skill
Yeah, cause so many vydia today require skill.
Fucking normies

I find it kinda funny how skill can "be a fetish". I mean, if you're going to hire someone, you of course hire the one with the most skill. How long before they start talking about skill privilege? It's reality that people want people who work in a field to be skillful. That's what schools are for. To gain knowledge and skill. Are they seriously going to tell us that if they hired a plumber to do some fixing up in their house, and the plumber fucked up and caused a HUGE water leak that totally ruined the house, that they would just say "ok". Bullshit. They would scream up and down the street calling for the plumbers firing along with his head on a stick.

>the rules
Wow, you are retarded

You Dark Souls fanboys need to calm down and let MovieBob school you on this nontroversy

youtu.be/mNKuGZVFZF8

>playing super mario is harder than understanding ulysses

It's not [sp]jealousy[/sp] user, it's fags who see youtube/twitch-rich video gamers and want to hop on the bandwagon and get butthurt upon realizing that some video games actually take skill to play.

Project harder faggot.

I play War Thunder RB/Sim and DCS World and fuck noobs all day with my superior intellect.

(in reality I'm just more patient and climb)

>linking Bob's videos
>giving him any views whatsoever

Kill yourself.

Yeah fuck the guy who actually knows how to write, hire the fat autist who can play on hard mode

Is it? If you are implying MARVEL, there are some sources claiming its going to turn the tide.

(not trusted source ofc): screengeek.net/2017/09/02/marvel-comics-could-be-in-trouble/

We've seen shoehorned agendas into all media (movies, comics, news and games).
Many have suffered economic losses due to interest in the product from said media is shrinking. SJWs are the minority. They dont make up enough of the consumer base to cover the expected sales.
Hopefully we've seen the peak of inserted bullshit by now. Time will tell.

How the fuck am I supposed to trust a critic when they say the game is bad, but they're bad at games? If they can't grasp the mechanics at even an average level they wouldn't be able to understand when the game systems are actually broken.

>Fucking Dean "birdbrain" Takahashi
>A chad
If anything these are the failed normies

If you're going to be reviewing a restaurant you should know how food should be cooked.

Stop lowering the bar for journalists.

i think it's more likely that there are way to many people that pursue education in journalism and then realize that it's a saturated profession so they end up filling any "journalist" profession they can find. that's why we have so many bloggers who are glorified pr machines for game companies with no actual passion for the hobby.

^this

If you're bad at games you are probably a fucking retard and shouldn't have an opinion about anything.

>knows how to write
>claimed Cuphead was made by Team Meat

Thats the problem, he can't even write.

>Sup Forums constantly projects it's insecurities about retards who get paid to be stupid, claiming that they could easily do better
>nobody here has formed a video game site yet
FourLeafGames
All anonymous authors
Etc

what if people had the same standards for other critics? the reason reviews even exist is because consumers want someone experienced with the topic to give them some kind of idea of whether or not the product is worth a purchase. imagine a movie critic who sits down in front of The Shining for ten minutes and then gets up and writes it off as "too confusing" or "too slow".

You find a reviewer/critic that you trust, but STILL don't take only their opinion. Look at several sources and actual gameplay and shit.

>know how to write
Wow. You're on fire today.

>Pigeon doesn't even NEED tutorial prompts
>STILL beats out retard by a solid half a minute.

>wanting to waste time writing about games rather than playing them
i'm already a wageslave user, i don't have time for that. plus christ centered gamer exists and that's good enough for me.

Except that being skilled doesn't equate to being able to being an insightful, well written critic. Mike kob being really good at god hand doesn't mean that he can write a good analysis of the game

god I fucking hate that show and I fucking hate Reddit so goddamn much, I can't wait for that mentality to be fucking dead
you'll get there some day champ
yeah you're probably right
no fag
fuck off

>nobody here has formed a video game site yet

It's redundant when you could just make a "HEY IS DIS GAYME ANY GOOD?" thread on Sup Forums or go to it's general on /vg/ and ask the folks there.

>knows how to write
So everyone outside of Africa is qualified for the job?

>Sup Forums
>playing games
Do you realize now why my idea is fucking perfect? You people literally spend all the time here talking about video games instead of playing them. You even hate literally all of them like the people you are insulting.
Just saying. Take advantage of the stupid people who like this shit and make some money

Putting all those words in my mouth is very unsanitary.

I never said it makes you a good critic, i'm saying to be a considered a good critic you should be able to at least barely play the game you want to judge.

Not until at least another 5 years when the SJW generation finally grows up.

This is another fashion movement, like Rock, like drugs, like fucking every influential trend that has infected (for good or for worse) the diferent media.

The thing is that while you can take a look back and say "well yeah I guess some things from the 90's were really cringy but they were quite some nice things aswell!" you can't and I say CAN'T objectively critique any form of entertainment that panders to SJWs and say "hey, that's kind of nice"

Playing Super Mario is harder than flipping the page of a book.

>tripfag

>Hire the guy who can "write" but doesn't know the fucking basics instead of a guy who may write a bit worse but knows what he is talking about.
Would you defend a journalist that has no fucking clue of car controls making articles about the topic? If not, don't protect a guy that can't figure a simple tutorial step in less than 2 minutes.

>mass of replies
No, fag, (You) fuck off
Not really. That only get you conversation with people from here, not clicks from people all around the internet and advertisement dollars. Blogging is not the same as chatting

This is like reviewing a new car, but not being able to figure out how to unlock the doors. If you are going to speak to the quality of something, I expect you to have even a moderate understanding of what you are reviewing.

Why do they even post this on the internet? Surely they are aware at how shit they are and would not show this footage to save face.

Does this kind of footage get leaked or something?

sure thing user. as soon as the publisher's start sending me early copies of games and access to major events i'll get right on it.

These people are so fucking incompetent that they can't differentiate between being able to play game on a professional level and being able to play game on a most basic level.

And they are being paid to play games and write about them.

>big sister who used to hate video games when it was an actual nerd hobby
>now that video games are cool, she thinks games only need good graphics to be good
>never sure when she's trolling and being serious
>always calls me a looser because I still play old games
>she starts critisizing my games when I hook up the Alienware Alpha to the living room TV
>doesn't shut up about if I am such a huge PC gamer, why am I using a controller to play my games
>tried inviting her to play games like Move or Die, Duck Game, Lethal League, Gauntlet and other local multiplayer games she says the graphics look too old and the game isn't fun because it's not easy
>meanwhile she's always talking about her loadouts and other call of duty nonesense with her friends whenever they bring it up
>sometimes I want to believe they are actually making fun of her but then remember they actually play CoD "competitively"

No, Polygon themselves posted it. For a while it was thought to be a joke, but no, it wasn't. They legit posted this to show gameplay. This is how stupid Polygon is.

>Be me
>Pick up book
>Flip through it, eyes focused on the corner of the page
>Feel knowledge filling the once cavernous space behind my eyebrows
>Realize that all life is an illusion
>Sprint to the nearest high school
>Take the SAT, get perfect score
>Run to the local college
>Shit on a piece of paper and give it to the professor of psychology as my thesis
>Perfect score
>Pass by library as I run back home
>See copy of dick and jane in the window
>Punch through window, pick up the book
>Start flipping pages
>Become enlightened
>Feel body drift away
>Become God of the new world.

>won't even fucking play Duck game

That's one of those titles that literally anyone can have fun with if they have another to play with, how the FUCK can anyone be this biased.

Actually I'd say that "enjoying" great movies is a more intellectual task than "enjoying" even the most complex of games. But it does require more physical effort to play games than watch movies and it's more intellectually engaging than most movies/tv shows

Ugh what a normie

Farmville doesn't count as a game, mom.