Many people should have a stereotype: as a game editor, he must be able to play or even be proficient in various games, because his job is to play games, and then tell everyone if it is fun. But there are also realities that break this stereotype.
Well-known game editor Dean Takahashi, editor-in-chief of game media GameBeat, has 21 years of experience in game evaluation, and has published books such as “Opening the Xbox” and “The XBOX 360 Uncloaked”, but it is completely difficult to play games.
However, there is a well-known game editor who has 20 years of experience in the industry. He has published two books and served as the editor-in-chief, but he can’t play the game completely. There is a large-scale editing video of his playing games on the Internet. Whether it’s “Titanfall 2” is a refreshing action shooting game or an action dive game “Dishonored”, etc., Dean can’t beat it at all, and some even have tutorials. Never played. What’s more worth mentioning is that what really made everyone know him was that he played the video of the game Cuphead at the 2017 Cologne Game Show.
“Cuphead” is a retro-style platform action game with a high level of difficulty. It is normal for many players to block levels, but it is not a big boss that stuck Dean first, but a teaching level. You can find the movie at the time and watch Dean’s “famous scenes” at the time. In the full 26 minutes of the film, he encountered various problems, and failed to get through the first level after hanging up again and again. This video was uploaded by himself, and it was reposted and played in various ways. The game players made a merciless mockery at Dean. Some people questioned whether he is a player, and some people have not played the middle of the first level until he died 31 times.
It is hard to imagine that a player of such a level has become a well-known game editor and often publishes game reviews on behalf of the media. But Dean said that in his years of working on the game evaluation, the boss has never asked me how good I play, he only needs me to play at the same level as the average player.
However, if we look at Dean’s so many years of work experience and written content, it is not difficult to find that he is indeed not a “hardcore” player, but he has some insights about the commercial development content or strategy of the game company, but it can be said. Very good, such as the entrepreneurial development story of game company Zynga, and the page game strategy of FaceBook. In addition to game evaluation, game editors actually have a lot of abilities that can be embodied, such as understanding of business knowledge and writing. Therefore, poor game play is not the whole work, and game evaluation is only a part, so there is no key question whether he can become a game editor.
However, if you are a professional game review blogger, it still has an impact on the quality of the game, otherwise the results of the evaluation will not represent the entire content of the game.
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