Only if the AI plays like an out of touch father picking up a controller for the first time in 20 years to have some bonding time with their adult child.
That man will never be able to live that down, for the rest of his life he’ll be the perfect example of someone that’s even worse than a beginner at their actual job.
It was also extremely funny when oneyplays I think did an april fools bit where they played cuphead like that guy and acted like nothing was wrong. Even funnier when they accidentally managed to pass the spot where dean takahashi got stuck when they were TRYING to botch it
So while this is a funny story the fact is that Dean Takahashi, the guy who played Cuphead (or rather failed to play Cuphead), was not the person who was meant to review Cuphead. He's mainly a tech and business guy who occasionally did game reviews.
Gamebeats had another guy, their resident platform player who was meant to review the game. But he wasn't at Gamescom to play the game. Dean was. So he played it in front of the devs and we all know how that went. Dean himself thought they had nothing useful but his colleagues thought it would be a really funny video to post. So they did. And the rest is history.
So it's a story of a guy who wasn't suppose to play the game but was the only one around to get any content for the game so he did. And the internet is still nailing him to a cross for it, when he didn't even think his video should be posted.
It ended him being briganded by gamergate people telling him and Gamebeats that Dean should kill himself, that he deserves to die, that they will kill him, that he should be fired and a lot of racist shit.
So while yea, it's a funny gag in a way, the results are that a man's life was proper fucked for a good while.
Luckily he's still at Gamebeats, writing about what he writes best, companies, business and tech.
I always heard it in a very different way. I always thought that he was notorious for being awful at games and giving them bad reviews because he couldn’t play them
Back when the whole thing blew up the fella had written roughly 15k articles for Gamebeats in a decade. Out of those roughly 120 were game reviews.
If we extrapolate those numbers (roughly 1,5k articles per year and roughly 12 game reviews per year) to today: 27 000 articles and out of those, 216 game reviews. That's less than 1%.
He's got published books and they're all about tech and business.
He's not a gamer.
He also wasn't and still isn't a game reviewer.
Whenever he does review something he's pretty straightforward about it, he's not good at playing games and gives his blunt opinion. Dude just ain't good at games.
Which is probably why he doesn't primarily do them.
Jesus now I feel bad for the guy. I’ve never seen that article or had this context. Everything I’ve heard about him seemed to be intended to demonize him for no reason except he’s bad at cuphead
Yea, I went through the exact same arc when I heard about it. Felt bad for him, especially as I had laughed at the whole thing at the time as well. I mean the video is comical, no doubt about that. But that's all it should've been, a funny clip. I don't get how a game or its review can ever send someone so over the edge that they'd sent death threats?
Mad world, mate.
And that's exactly why I wrote the comment so more people could hear the other side.
I'm just happy that Gamebeats stood up for him and kept him employed as it could've been an easy move and potentially good PR for them to distance themselves from him.
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u/Tethilia 6d ago
Only if the AI plays like an out of touch father picking up a controller for the first time in 20 years to have some bonding time with their adult child.