Guys I just picked up a guitar and.... You won't believe this: You have to LEARN how to play it.
I mean damn, I just wanted to get home after work and play some music to de-stress but nope, they designed the fucking thing so you can't just pick it up and start playing
You don't have to, and no one is pressuring you to be better at videogames. The only example she provides of this "pressure" seems to be this:I don’t want to get good at gaming, I want to escape the relentless pressure to improve myself
While playing, I’m usually lucky if I can go an hour without getting stuck on one pixel of ledge space where moving an inch will mean falling to my death and having to repeat the last half an hour because I forgot to save the game. In these situations, I usually Google around for solutions. If the game is popular or a couple of years old, there have invariably been people trying to get out of the same tricky spot. The other invariable part is that one person, and often many, will reply to the asker, “Just get good!!! Git gud!!!”
'Scuse me princess, your hyper-competitive millennial life? Man, I never knew that writing smug inflammatory bullcrap while sipping on your caffè macchiato in front of your laptop would be such a burden. Them poor millenials are really having it tough compared to all the generations before.
It's funny, I went to school for journalism hoping to pursue a career in either sports or games journalism. But by the time I got my degree the field was so crowded that I ended up stumbling into my current career. I wonder if I would have lasted. I basically clash with the SJW view of games media today, so I imagine I would have either been driven out by the clique like mentality of it or just burnt out and left it by choice.
“I didn’t read through the article and only skimmed the OP.”Well, didnt read the article and only skimmed through the OP, but I think I got the point she's trying to make.
And doesn't she kind of have a point?
Gaming can be a form of escapism and I can understand that the need to "git gud" might put unnecessary pressure on something you'd otherwise enjoy.
It's why HZD and TLOU Remastered added a "I'm here for the story" mode and why lots of people hate level-spikes in rpgs, for example.
It might be petty to get offended if someone (or the game) then tells you to "git gud", but for some games it couldn't hurt to cater to the "escapism-audience" too, like Guerrilla Games and Naughty Dog did.
Reading through some comments in here, I think there are some gamers who refuse to accept this part of gaming, or they can't comprehend the idea of other people wanting to enjoy the same game as them in a different manner.
I'd say it's harder than Dark Souls by a lot.Is Cuphead really that hard?
Is Cuphead really that hard?
Who doesn’t want to not suck at a game? I couldn’t imagine being so bad at a game and being ok with that.
Then again I think Souls Games are pretty easy
Is this article about her getting her ass handed to her by Father Gascoigne?
Get over yourself, the gist of it is in the first alinea of the OP.“I didn’t read through the article and only skimmed the OP.”
So, your opinion is irrelevant.
Father G is a rough beginning, to be fair.
If you don't want to become better at something that you enjoy, then maybe you're not really enjoying it in the first place. I get the impression that she might not be talking about games, but her own job. At least it would explain why that article is such an entertaining trainwreck of incoherent ramblings.
This is the densest concentration of entitlement I've ever seen in gaming journalism. It may be the neutron star we've been waiting for. Either that, or we've found the equivalent of Jonathan Swift's modest proposal. In either case, I had to read it three times.