How dare gamers want video games to be challenging

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How dare gamers want video games to be challenging.

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I hope both OP and author of that article get stabbed by a nigger in the streets.

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Why am I being kink shamed?

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What the fuck happened to the golf thread

What does that mean?

is it bad that i get aroused when playing good at vidya?

Nothing, modern journalists can be replaced by this, it creates gramatically correct worthless sentences www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

wow, i should stop posting, anytime. I fucked up fagpost when quoting the dipshit journo and now a sentence with link to post modernism generator.

what kind of vidya are we talking about, just any?
I do too, but only with RPGs when the dice roll with me

I thought that was normal, user.

Any game with high action that gets my adrenaline rushing.

it is?

I don't know. How dare they?

Remind me again why people that hate games decide to make them a central feature of their lives?

Can't make this shit up
How dare you tell me I can't design your bridge?

Because there LITERALLY isn't anything other they could do, including activities like mendicity, snitching or prositution. Not a single trade or profession is a viable choice for those failures.

God that shit was stupid. I had to stop reading at "games are a conversation-" to protect my sanity.
I mean, how pretentious can you be? When did this "games can be art" fad escalate to "all games must be art"?

Because it's an easy as shit "job". It's basically as if you got paid to shitpost on Holla Forums.

I think gameplay can be art. "Art" doesn't mean you must absorb something without interacting with it.

I can blow this argument out of the water right here. To be a good music critic you merely need to have a good ear for what good music is. This can be achieved simply by listening to good music. What he is saying is to test an instrument you don't need to know how to play it. He's an idiot, go figure.

His whole argument hinges on the belief that all games should be movies so gameplay isn't important. But of course he relies on skill so much in his life. Bet he wouldn't go to a person with no skills compared to an expert if it was important.

This shit turns my stomach. You can hear in his pompous tone that he 100% believes this shit.

Do they actually believe that shit?
Or do they say it on purpose to draw attention?

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LOL
Pinché negro perro quemado maricon
Asi si vas hacer tus opiniones validas.

What a cuck.

Puto Macao.

FUCK YOU

He's some fucked mix between spic and nigger.
SPIGGER

This giant fucking mariconazo traga leche doesn't even know how to pretend to be a spic.

wew

WEW

Going off of personal experience, I'd say that the exact thing that makes these people so terrifying is that they can actually delude themselves into genuinely believing the shit that comes out of their mouths.

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He is everything I don't like in a person

That's what I'm saying. I don't think he's doing it for attention. I could still be wrong though or it's like said.

He's just LOW IQ. He wants videogames to appeal to people like those who have shit tier reaction times, so the most braindeads.

Did you meet any games journalist in person or something?

They're the people making videogames better than ever™ goy.

Those aren't mutually exclusive things, my friend. Have you taken a look on /salt-left/? Three fourths of them are redditors from r/socialism with an intelligence inferiority complex.

are you saying this fag is culturally appropriating something?

You say that but regular Holla Forums isn't much smarter. Most of them think vaccines cause autism and a 3rd of them still worship pagan gods like stupid hipsters or are hardcore Christcucks. I think politics in general term people retarded.

He might be a spic that was born in the states and never lived in Mexico nor spoke a lot of spanish in his life.

I lost about 150 pounds in the last two years or so and playing games or watchign videos sometimes just makes me get hard without warning. I've gotten out of bed every single day for nearly a year now with a painful half erection, which I'd imagine had been pitching a tent in the sheets for a few hours by the time it woke me up.

Yeah I see that a lot, pampered spics raised in America that suddenly feel "honoured" by their mexican heritage so they start speaking broken spanish and it's pretty cringy for anyone who studied even a little spanish.

Holla Forums can be pretty retarded sometimes, but I would be willing to have a five minute conversation with someone from there rather than listening to someone from Holla Forums drone on and on about how Karl Marx was a secret genius about economics and how communism always fails because of the CIA and not because it's trash to begin with.

You truly are the goodest goy, user.

Is it a meme? I just put the word Christ and the word cuck together. Does putting the word fag after something make it a new meme too?
Are you a cuck who is offended?

I'm surprised leftyfags haven't blamed Communism failing on the Russians like they do with everything else these days.

Seriously. At least honour your own language.

A lot of Holla Forums thinks Hitler was an economic genius despite all of the stupid decisions he made too. Fascism isn't viable just like communism too but you see idiots defend it or even worse say we should have a monarchy.

I don't believe in sky jews who tell me to submit when someone is stabbing me.

They kinda already do with the "That wasn't real Communism!" meme.

I don't know anything about who made Cuphead, but I feel kinda bad that this stupid fabricated controversy is the majority of the media coverage their game is getting.

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lmao
Is this the greatest instance of damage control in a decade?

Fuck, I wish I had that cap of illiterate book reviewing saved.
What I want to know is why faggots such as this haven't been run out of the industry, if not lynched outright.

Keep trying flip-flop.
Then what is it?

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Jesus was born because God cucked Joseph. Cucking is at the core of the religion.

Wait, weren't they saying that the guy playing the game just writes about the business side of gaming? Did they go back to the social experiment excuse again?

I'm not surprised by this kind of garbage anymore. I want to gas every fucking journalist in this world.


Here you go

Funnily enough, this controversy is only on-going on English publications.
Spanish new sites are a lot more humble and they're all positively praising the game for its difficulty and art direction.
English speaking critics are pretentious and use the games as a gateway to post their agenda.

I don't we're in Hell anymore, we transcended deep into the Abyss, where not even the Devil dares to thread. Holy fucking shit, I thought "This is a post truth world" was a joke.

Thanks m8.

It's not that non-English critics are any better, they're all faggots after all, it's just that English speaking critics have gone so far off the deep end the rest of the world has trouble keeping pace.

I don't know, pretty sure that say Japs won't complain about it.

I don't believe in black-and-white thinking. I think there are several degrees of faggotry, and while most game review sites are not good, some can at least say they're not absolutely horrendous like this guy.

If you're so incredibly shitty at video games, you've never felt the adrenaline rush of beating a really hard encounter. Or the satisfying feeling you get from getting 2 shotted by a mob reload after reload, only to eventually perfectly dodge every attack and retaliate at the perfect moment 20 times in a row after which you stand triumphantly over the corpse of your enemy.

Then you do it again and again without improving your character between kills, and realize how much better you've become and it's all from tactics, reflexes and reading the opponent.

Why do they all type with the same vernacular? God damn grow a personality.

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Don't slaughter entire bloodline over a simple wrongdoing and give 1 (one!) chance for them to redeem themselves and apologize.
Whatever you are (likely a fedoracuck), you prove you're either retarded by not distinguishing nu-church (post 2nd Vatican Council) from the good one, or you're omitting it on purpose out of malice.

Meet the numale, a byproduct of consumerism and monoculture. We thought the world would be taken over by machines coming off an assembly line, but our only mistake was not realizing that was a metaphor.

This article left me wondering something…
Are there any reviewers WITH skill? Even if its just one sort of game, or dumb luck. Is there any reviewer that can actually say they are an authority on the subject?

Was there any ever? I remember this review for Earthbound in a magazine back in the day where the reviewer clearly didn't play for more than an hour and believed that the Happy Happyists were the bad guys. He gave the game like a 5.

Pretty much every time someone is good at a game and gets a big enough audience to even bother making videos they either become sick of it or become obsessed with it, warping their perspective and turning them into shills. To answer your question though, no.

Christ Centered Gamer.
Also includes both an objective scale of the game's quality and a morality rating.

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Take the article, make it about literally any other hobby, and look at how stupid the points become.

I don't know of any that work as (((Professional Games Journalists))) but Matthewmatosis is quite good at all of the games he reviews, when reviewing something like DMC he makes it a point to SSS rank everything in it. Joseph Anderson also seems to do this but he doesn't play games that are too skill intensive which is still fine.

Ate you seriously lumping blacks and Mexicans with him? They can handle hardcore material like fighting games.

I am quite aware of muh old church and muh not real Christianity. Any and all act of retaliation on behest of Christians has nothing to do with the values of Christianity. It is rational though finally acting after a long period of inaction. For instance your muh crusades happened after countless jihads, not after the first signs of danger from sandman hordes. Any and all positive Christian values were never actually Christian, they were merely adopted from the values of Europeans who pre-date it.
I also believe mass religion was the first instance of globalization, as it drowns out a nation's original identity in favor of forced mass ideals.

I don't think he did that. This guy just listed some stereotypical traits of some entitled liberals

Then I'm blaming culture, I don't know how someone who's both is somehow worse

LOL

You can't SSS rank a level in DMC1, but I get what you mean.

I want this faggot to have a serious health condition only for him to go with a surgeon, and the surgeon fucks up his surgery, and the surgeons tells him "well, who cares about my skill, right?". Or for some driver to crash against him, because fuck driving skills.
This is why there are so many failures still having it easy in life, this is why niggers are now rapping as their college thesis, and succeed. Hell, let the Olympic games and other sport competitions be played by chubby, sorta okay athletes, after all, it's not about skill, it's just a game anyways.

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fucking hell i cant unsee this shit anymore

Why is that woman raping a autistic man?

Nothing will feel better than finishing a no save run of an arcade game, or 1cc a shmup.

shmups don't take much skill

If you're bad at them, they're hard.

He does look a little like Burch in this, doesn't he?
At least Jesus wasn't a niglet.

Yes, he was.
The bible doesn't outright give any descriptions of his appearance, but it does imply that he didn't look much different from his disciples. That is, he probably looked like the typical Semite of that time era. So he was a negrito.

I understand the reaction to this article but

Only when you dress as a girl while playing games, user.

Sem had blond hair and blue eyes. It was Sem's brother (((Ham))) that had curly black hair and a big nose.
(sage for offtopic)

no requirements, aversion to any job where effort is required and cronyism


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The faggot who couldn't jump that pillar got so anally blasted he brought his friend journo and the dev on a stream. His friend sucked his dick half the stream (a 1 hour stream) while the dev just nodded and stood uncomfortably there

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He was a Galilean Jew. which meant he looked Mediterranean in appearance, with swarthy skin at best, he wasn't black. This is historical fact, there is no contesting this

btw, pic related are the people of Peki'in, Israel, believed to be the modern descendants of the Galilean Jews
Do they look fucking black to you?

They do look darker than a white person, yeah.
I said black as an exaggeration, didn't literally mean African, don't be autistic.

Forgive my autism, because whenever I hear people say Jesus was black I always imagine them being WE WUZ KANGZ. He obviously wasn't white, His skin was probably like that of modern day Syrians, in the sense that it's brownish but not completely dark

That's alright bb

is that a splodge on her forehead?

It looks like a scar.

Imagine thinking you are some form of aristocrat because you make nonsensical, word-salad reviews of what is essentially a toy.

Want that Beretta. When I was a kid in the 90's I had a battery powered squirt gun that looked exactly like that pic. Same color scheme and everything. Friends all had super soaker 50's and soaked me good but I didn't care because I felt like a bad ass with my big ole' fakeretta.

those lips look like an asshole.

Get out.

What more could you ask of a woman?

Nigger, the shroud of turin is all the evidence you need to know even the Vatican feels the need to prove Jesus actually existed.

wat

Gay.

That looks like a mighty tasty doughnut, user. Mind if I have a bite?

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You're a retard. His Crucifixion is well documented by the Romans as well as his baptism by John the Baptist. These are historically documented facts. Do these prove he was a divine being? Fuck no, but he sure as fuck was a real person.

I am dubs thief, if dubs then you have 10 posts to steal them back before I get away and nobody else in this thread can have dubs!

Jesus did exist, as did Mahoma and Zoroaster (doesnt mean they were right tough).

Without physical evidence it means less than nothing.

We don't have physical evidence for half of the historical figures that are generally agreed to have existed. We have pre-Biblical evidence for Jesus' existence so its fair to say he was a person who existed

Once a time has passed out of living memory only the most gullible swallow a narrative without solid physical evidence to support it.

I seriously hope the devs don't cuck out and make the game easier.

Thanks doc.

I like to imagine those guys as some nutcase trying to become an artist in 1400 or something
And then they run around covering the penises of statues

stop.

I hate whites

Sauce?

You know I'd understand if it was at the very least a stream. But the mere fact that it's a video that no one looked over and decided "maybe this needs editing" or "maybe we need to get someone who isn't shit at the game" boggles my mind. You don't air out the fact that you're so utterly shit at the game and didn't even bother recording better footage or editing it and then whine and moan that people are calling you out.

OH, MY GOD! YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO SHOW ME THIS! I WAS HAPPY NOT KNOWING THIS SHIT!

No. They design the bridge. To actually lay it out in the real world is down to surveyors, and the construction workers. Also it's a fake picture, sadly, it would've had an interesting story behind it if real.


How can an illiterate write that though?

On a semi-unrelated note: I think you do have to be a musician in order to actually be a good music critic. It drastically changes the way you listen to music. You get much better at picking out and isolating individual instruments. And you can much more easily tell when the songwriting and musicianship is lazy, and when it's taking an incredible amount of skill.
Polite sage for sort of off-topic.

Yeah, but things like music and food are much more subjective than literature and games, or even art. Even if you can tell a song is good on a technical level you could still not like it, and some people just like a greasy burger over some gourmet meal.

On the other hand, it's much easier to determine if a game is good or bad objectively, based on how well it runs and what the gameplay mechanics are like.

It's not a bad assumption, it's not even an assumption at all. It's basic reasoning, you nitwit. If you're reviewing a game, then it stands to reason that you should be able to engage with that game, at least on the same level as the average player, and then analyze its various elements in its entirety. If you can't reach the fucking end, how is your review a relevant, accurate, well-thought-out interpretation of the game? Would you humor a book review that was written by a critic that didn't even bother to finish reading the book in question? Why or why not? Furthermore, why should anyone take your opinion into consideration, when it's clear that you don't have the basic level of understanding that is necessary to even play the game at a beginner level?

Games are built upon systems, and in order to critically analyze said system, and in a manner that is worth its salt to any potential readers, you must have an understanding of how the system works, which means you must be capable of at least a BASIC LEVEL OF COMPETENCY IN THE GAME, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST. Without a basic level of competency, then your reviews are essentially worthless opinion pieces that are colored by your own limited perspective. Hell, even with a basic level of competency, your reviews are essentially worthless opinion pieces that are colored by your own limited perspective, but at least you'll be equipped to deliver a review that can cover all of the game's content.

In short, fuck you, this is just yet another one of the many reasons that I don't give a shit about reviews. You're shit at games, so why should I take you seriously?

The joke about a car reviewer unable to drive ancient at this point. It's not funny anymore. Fuck you goobergoyim for not fixing this shit.

no, it's called learning and being rewarded for being fucking awesome.

Somebody post the taco bell showdown.

You know there's a rank higher than that, right?

Why do they use Cuphead as the image for the article? Yes Dean sucked at it, but he sucked at it because HE sucks, not because the game's hard.

I sat there, staring at the screen, unable to believe that I had just done that.

Yup, SS/Pure Platinum, depending on the game. I really need to convert more copies of my playthroughs to webm form since that battle was from my first playthrough of the game and I've gotten better

That's the thing, these retards are so bad at games, they are trying to point out how cuphead IS hard (even though it isn't) and that Dean is faultless.

They're hardwired to shill the latest game.

It's… frustrating, as a skilled writer, to see these dopey trustfund babies receive regular paychecks for their glorified facebook rants.

IT'S PAYBACK TIME

Seeing bad game journalists always inspires me to try and write my own shit, but I never follow through. What do you think of this Holla Forums?

The latest controversy sweeping games journalism is Dean Takahashi's absolutely abysmal attempt to play Cuphead, an upcoming 2D action platformer, notable for its fast-paced run 'n gun gameplay and its ability to flawlessly translate the aesthetic of 1930s cartoons into video game form. In said video, Dean struggles for minutes to try and jump a single obstacle, despite on-screen indicators telling Dean exactly what to do. Yes, Mr. Takahashi got stuck on the tutorial!

This has opened up yet another conversation about the role of skill in games criticism, with the usual suspects trying to quell the usual complaints that people who are incapable of operating a video game on a basic level have no business judging the quality of said video game.

"The implication isn't hard to find…", writes Dante Douglas of Paste, whose first name unfortunately bares no relation to the quality of his opinions about video games; "There is an assumption that in order to be a good games critic, you have to be good at games."

An astounding assumption! It is almost as if readers, when looking to read a critical assessment of a video game, expect the critic writing the assessment to be of a skill level sufficient enough to enable them to offer valuable insight into aspects of the game's design that they themselves cannot! After all, if such readers were just as knowledgeable and skilled as these critics, and if they could assess them on a level of equal depth on their own, what use would the review have to them?

This is the chief reason why traditional games journalism is dying a rapid (yet still excrutiatingly slow) death. The simple fact of the matter is that most gamers know more about games than most gaming journalists, making one of the (if not the) primary purposes of someone who writes about games completely moot: to inform and enlighten their readers.

Watching a speedrunner play a game for 30 minutes offers more valuable insight into a game than one could ever get from a modern game review. While the average games journalist is seemingly of lower skill than the average gamer (and thus is limited to observations and critiques that fail to penetrate the surface of the game in question), a speedrunner is of a higher skill level than the average gamer, and thus can make observations that the average gamer can't, bringing things to their attention that they otherwise may have never noticed. In other words, the average gamer learns absolutely nothing from reading reviews written by low-skilled game journalists, because the average gamer has a deeper understanding of games, and thus can make deeper insights, than said journalists.

So if the average game review in 2017 is of no value to the average gamer in 2017, who does stand to gain something from them? Who is the target audience of such pieces? One can only speculate. Surely non-gamers can't be the target audience, because non-gamers don't visit gaming outlets on a regular basis and likely will never read such pieces; yet the painfully basic level of insight that most game reviews offer can only be of value to someone who lacks such a basic level of understanding of games. Surely gamers can't be the target audience, for reasons illustrated above. The most likely candidate, it seems, would be what has been referred to in the past as "casual gamers", but perhaps a more accurate term may be "cultural gamers".

What are "cultural gamers"? Well, they could perhaps be defined as people who would describe themselves as gamers, or who identify with gaming, on a primarily cultural or social level, without a deeper appreciation or understanding of the medium as a whole. In recent years, video games became cool in an ironic sort of way; you'll often encounter people who eagerly exclaim how nerdy they are, with a facade of bashfulness, because they play Zelda games or Halo or other wildly popular and accessible surface-level franchises; or, worse yet, because they watch let's players play them, without playing them themsleves. Such people desire a feeling of inclusion and a sense of community from gaming, and are attracted to the hobby primarily for social reasons, rather than a genuine interest in the medium itself. This happens to all hobbies when they reach a sufficient level of popularity.

Many of these "cultural gamers" likely feel as though they are scrutinized by so-called "core gamers" or "hardcore gamers" or just what has been traditionally known as gamers, and rightfully so. They are. The fact of the matter is that these "cultural gamers" offer no valuable insight to "core gamers", yet, without core gamers, the game industry that they find social inclusion in would not exist. And because these "cultural gamers" cannot get validation from core gamers, who generally either ignore them or tell them outright to leave them alone, they must get validation from elsewhere.

This may be one reason for the prevalence of low-skilled games journalists, who are paid for writing insubstantial fluff that offers no real insight into a game beyond what the average gamer could express. The increasing amount of "cultural gamers" can then share and parrot these critiques or opinions as their own, and, by extension, feel validated and well-informed, and their sense of inclusion within the broader "gaming community" is no longer threatened.

In such a case, there is now an entirely seperate, but attached, sphere of gaming and gamers. Journalists with no true appreciation for games for their own sake, writing fluff pieces aimed at gamers with no true appreciation for games for their own sake, sharing their surface-level, uninsightful observations and opinions with each other, for the sake of their own social status and consumer identity.

This is, of course, only speculation, but it may be one reason for the increasingly large disconnect between gamers and the gaming press, and mainstream gaming celebrities and figures who capitalize on gaming culture. In other words, maybe Dean Takahashi's job isn't to offer valuable insight into Cuphead, or to be skilled enough to offer an opinion that is insightful to the average gamer. Maybe it's to provide a reference article for people to fall back on when the validity of their social status as "gamers" feels threatened.

just like a games journalist, you give an essay no one asked for. do you want me to staple a kotaku application to your paycheck?

I just want to write about games in a way that's genuine. I didn't write that as a Holla Forums post, but with the assumption that it might be the first time someone heard of the controversy with Cuphead, otherwise I wouldn't waste time on all that exposition.

Quicksaving casual get out

if you want to write, do it. you don't need permission; damn sure current journalists don't ask for any.

I just don't want to be another person adding nothing substantial.

Tens of thousands of people have seen the Cuphead video and laughed their asses off. Only reddit tier cucks actually defended him. Hell, the whole industry was laughing at Polygon's Doom video. It's not like you're telling people anything new.

identical to a white man's stance on reproduction.
now imagine that the Escapists are refugees, Kotaku are niggers and Polygon are spics.

are you going to let yourself get outbred?

And I thought I had a girls and big boobs fetish.

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It doesn't matter to him because he doesn't give a shit about video games.

Which one?

Fucking lol!

Call them posers.

They’re a bunch of whiny posers who think if they tweet enough they can assert control over a longstanding cultural scene. They're gamers like a kid who gets his mom to buy him a hot topic jacket is punk. This is a direct analogy that is relatable to the left, and has far more history that "gatekeeping". “Git gud” is up there with “roastie” as the most effective shaming tactics I’ve seen against liberals because it finally operates on their level. Near 100% of Marxist debate is bemused scorn from the socially validated high ground (of their creation). All opposing rhetoric should try and flip the debate, which "learn to play, moron" does.

Shame by shaming the belief, and consequently the people who believe it. You aren’t attacking anyone specifically because you’re a happy, clear headed dude. But you do have contempt for posers, which is fine and correct. You aren’t a poser are you?? lol!

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Art.

What if this is all just a marketing stunt to get people to play Cuphead?

The Dark Souls of tutorials.

I doubt it, usually when these types of marketing stunts occur, it's "nazis" or some shit used as the fall guy so that the journalists can tell you all how you should buy the product to spite them. This looks more like a legit fuck-up, especially with all the journalists, goons, neofags, and similar types rushing to defend him.

Literally the single best response anyone can give, because there is only one way to respond to it without sounding like a whiny bitch making up excuses, and that's by asking "ok, how?" - something these posers will NEVER do because, obviously, doing so would mean having to accept that mommy and daddy were wrong about them always being perfect, infallible snowflakes who're right about everything and never do anything wrong.

I just realized that these assholes would probably say the intro stage to Mega Man X has a game breaking bug that traps you in an inescapable pit.

I think he'd have great difficulty starting the game, because obviously following goddamn instructions written in big, bold letters in the middle of the screen is too challenging for someone with a university diploma.

Hitler was bad xDDD

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We don't.

To me, that happens a lot with tight as fuck racing games.
That mean == NO MARIO KART. ==

This dude looks like a lesbian. I'm not even kidding.
What are they putting in the water that there aren't any actual men working for videogames? What happens when there aren't any in, say, construction, or jobs that are actually important in general?

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Gas yourself

If video games are "young" then films are too.

Recorded or performed?
Only older by 50 years or so

Not to mention that you can also compare it to table tops with started in similar period for eg

Older than vidya.

Films are a young medium.

In a game with no auto save or checkpoints where you're forced to manually save your game, how else are you expected to play?
Yeah let me just arbitrarily decide that I'm only allowed to save every 15 minutes.

nothing is young any more you damn dinosaur

Well, I was going to play it anyway. If there's a push to make more people play skill based run and gun games I can't say I object to that.

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If there's still people around who lived through the start of the medium, its fucking young

please tell me you linked this webm to the journalist on twitter

Hehe i dont believe in anything i win 420

Of course you do shitskin

Whites hate you too, mudrat.

You can't have a discussion on save scumming if you're speaking from a general point of view. It depends on the game.

what are some instances where you would say save scumming isnt scummy?

There you go.

while i agree, i was hoping for a more extreme or controversial answer.

well thats a lazy post.
so i end up playing a lot of mario romhacks and they can be extremely difficult and while thats always fun the length of some of these levels can make completing them without quick saving a nearly superhuman feat, especially if the author didnt include thoughtful mid way points. but maybe thats just me being a casual.

regardless, i often find myself wondering if im being too liberal with the quick saves, my general rule of thumb is simply when a sequence is particularly difficult i save before it, and when i feel its over. when theres a lull in the intensity.

Why are lefties always shit at games?

Because they never liked games and are only here to push leftism on something they see as disturbingly patriarchal, or something.

By definition, save scumming is scummy.

If a game requires you to use cheats to let you freely save at any point, or using options only available because you're playing on an emulator then you're generally speaking save scumming.

I'm the user of and while I was speaking generally, this was me talking about Gothic 2 Odyssee mod (harder than NotR) which I'm playing through right now. The only way to save the game is through doing it manually, which you can do anywhere.
Enemies are very though and many require a lot of practice to beat. You need to know their entire moveset, which attacks you iframe dodge, which you you range dodge, which you block, which you sidestep and which attacks leave them vulnerable. You also need to know how many attack combos you can safely get in and after which attacks. Some attacks just need to be avoided and then bait out a different attack which you can more safely counter attack from.

However I do consider one practice which I do partake in, to be save scumming in this game. I often save before picking chests if I'm lacking lock picks and scribble down notes in the process to reload before the attempts and complete it on the first try.
Another one would be saving mid combat, for additional security.

But you need to understand that even some regular enemies are so ruthless that you will require to hit them upwards to 50 times, while they can kill you in a single blow. Yes I'm going to fucking save before engaging them. And in an open world RPG I don't feel bad before doing so.

These are probably the worst spics because they somehow feel special for being spics yet they lived their entire lives in the USA, as if they were not just grown up anchor babies.

Now they truly believe they're latinos simply because of their parents, while having no idea about their parents' home country or even the people.

Not even spics consider american-born spics as true spics and more often than not get bullied to hell and back when they visit their parents' country. They belong nowhere.

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Pretty much. I found it pretty funny when so many of them were all "lol trump got owned!!" on that one video of Mexico's president denouncing him, only to find out that he's in bed with drug cartels and has allowed all kinds of shady shit to happen.

I thought you were exaggerating about the pigeon but HOLY SHIT at that video comparison. It's fucking beautiful, thank you user.

Why the fuck does he keep using Mario in the comparison? SMB's world 1-1 is a fucking cakewalk (and also serves as a subtle tutorial) and I think the difficulty of SMB only goes up once your halfway through the game. Compared to Cuphead's first level which only looks like it has a few more moving hazards/enemies to watch out for. It just seems like he can't get it through his head that the enemies respawn after death and he should shoot them to clear the path and then keep moving forward.

I'd say Mario actually looks harder than cuphead, if only because Mario has actual momentum. The platforming levels in Cuphead look bottom of the barrel by comparison.

Top fucking percentage.

I might if he analyses what he read properly, on a technical level. But this is not the case here. This is akin to a book review written by someone who can't read.

Momentum is a buzzword

Sometimes I wish the majority of games were rhythm, puzzle, & shmup titles. I would pay money to see these people try to beat a game of Othello/Reversi. They're incapable of abstract thought.

Okay, kike shill. Reported for not even trying.

I love playing this with people because the common mistake new players make is trying to capture as many colors early on as possible. They don't understand the importance of saving moves for later.
I wouldn't be surprised if a journo lost with less than half the pieces being played from losing all available space to play too early on.