And by professional, I mean (((video game critic))).

This is more painful to watch than polygon's Doom.

His response to the backlash:

I've watched the comments on this thread just to see how mean they would be. I think it's useful to show my gameplay experience. I did not intentionally play poorly to "troll" anyone. But it serves as an interesting social experiment. I walk into a game cold, and this is the play that results. The video shows it's a notch more difficult than your typical Mario game. In fact, if you are expecting Mario, as the story says, then you are thrown off. And it shows that the developers are going to leave a lot of people who are worse than me behind. Maybe they're fine with that. Maybe they want to target gamers with a love for difficult games. That's fine. But I think they should signal that. How many games actually come with a tutorial these days? They're not popular. But if it's necessary, that is a signal this is going to require some skill. As for other comments on this thread, I wonder why they are hostile to someone who is viewing the game as a beginner? Are we that intolerant of people who are not "gamers"? Should I have played the scene over and over again until I was good at it, and then turned the recording on, like so many of those perfect video walkthroughs you see? I believe that games can be made accessible and inviting to people who are not hardcore fans, and these people can be accommodated inside the same game that is appealing to hardcore fans, through difficulty levels. So when people tell me that I shouldn't be playing this game because, on my first play, I was pretty lousy -- that's an attitude that argues that games should be shut off in their own little corner, only played publicly by the masters and the experts. I disagree with that view entirely, and I believe it leads to elitist attitudes that allow gamers to look down on other people, and that only leads to a more fragmented world of haters.

just like dark souls.

Cuphead and other terrible gameplay thread, I guess.

I only saw 25 seconds of this, but I can already say that person playing a game is a retard, troll or his cat took controls, although even cat wouldn`t play so bad.

Can someone actaully be this retarded

Fuck.

He essentially blames the game for having bad tutorials and pacing, but for the first 5 minutes, he just square-block-round-hole'd the basic jumping mechanic and refused to try anything different.

And it's hardly even an issue with his motor-skills.  He made the exact same mistakes over and over and over again, and it was like he refused to learn from it.  Or it actually was a machine-learning AI.

To be a little fair, playing games at a place like a Gamescom booth is pretty distracting: usually standing up, looking down at a tiny screen at a weird angle, with a ton of people making noise and a bunch of lights going off.  I don't think that's nearly a good enough excuse for his lack of basic problem-solving skills, though.

Hahahaha what's the deal with the Pax Humana guy in the comments defending this Dean guy?

lmao was this you

>When you're so retarded a pigeon is smarter than you.

Dude has some pretty bad skills, but I kinda feel for him. He doesn't deserve this kind of backlash.

https://venturebeat.com/2017/09/08/the-deanbeat-our-cuphead-runneth-over/

>Has a segment blaming gamergate (in the current year no less) and accusing people of being alt right
There goes any sympathy I had.

The only people I feel sympathy for are the developers who've had their p cool video game turned into a dumb meme.

^^^