-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
article title of the year: "It's the game of the year (CP2077) in the same way Hitler was Time's Man of the Year"
- Thread starter Kolx
- Start date
The comparison doesn't really work though because who has anointed this GOTY? The last week or so has just been media outlets left and right shitting on it (whether warranted or not).
Good lord what obnoxious hyperbole. This is almost as bad as that guy comparing the last of us part 2 to Schindler's list
The article is about how it is the 'game of the year' (for the wrong reasons).
Making the comparison to Hitler is always the nuclear option.
I think everyone "mostly" gets this
It's just, you know, you can't help but feel the comparison invites the acknowledgement that this is a video game, and Hitler was Hitler.
You may have made a technically correct comparison/argument, but you've lost the overall point by admitting you couldn't find any other way to make your case without invoking one of history's greatest monsters.
In a discussion about a video game.
It's just never a worthwhile tactic to go for.
I think everyone "mostly" gets this
It's just, you know, you can't help but feel the comparison invites the acknowledgement that this is a video game, and Hitler was Hitler.
You may have made a technically correct comparison/argument, but you've lost the overall point by admitting you couldn't find any other way to make your case without invoking one of history's greatest monsters.
In a discussion about a video game.
It's just never a worthwhile tactic to go for.
Reminds me of this nonsense.
Christ on a pogo stick. Is this real? O_o
Gaming journalists need to farm less obvious examples from history to make otherwise good points. Between this and Schindler's List, it's like my goodness, have you consumed any other media in your 30+ years in this earth?
Of course, but it's still in poor taste and obviously clickbait to do a compare/contrast in the title using Hitler in a videogame review.
I fucks with Paste's music reviews where they've done a solid job over the years , but this?
Really good point, I can kind of see what they were going for in that case but...man, that's one helluva nasty clickbait way of pulling in readers.
I fell for it. So, I guess I could say is that yeah, it work :/
I understand, what the writer is trying to say. But if you have to explain your title, so that people are not confused or disgusted, you may have overshoot it.
Yeah it's definitely and unquestionably tasteless and designed for clickbait, but some of the responses seemed to miss that it wasn't comparing the magnitude (i.e. Cyberpunk is as bad as Hitler) but was drawing more upon how 'Person of the Year' works, but definitely the title was designed to provoke a reaction.
You are on a gaming forum, this whole place is full of hyperbole. This shit is just dumb nothing to do with being "boring"
CP2077 has a ton of problems, but instantly comparing anything bad to Hitler is the dumbest type of lazy writing.
Some brave enough soul made through the article and can provide us with this article insightful excepts?
Maybe they should have used Trump instead of Hitler and made the same point without the repercussions.
I fail to see how Hitler and Cyberpunk are being compared here. The point being made is that both are remarkable in bad ways, not that they are actually equal in any way. It's an edgy sentence, but you guys are really reaching.
Yeah, it's a tactless comparison, but I can't say I necessarily completely disagree with the intentioned message. Though I'd say Animal Crossing or Among Us should still win that honor.
The article itself it's not that bad, it mostly detailing all the things CDPR did to lie and mislead people. The article is also about how Cyberpunk it's becoming a poster-child of everything wrong on the industry.
Obviously, the article title itself tho, was only made to attract attention and clicks.
Hyperbole is fine. Comparing a Polish studio to a man that killed several million Polish people is so utterly stupid that I can't comprehend what Paste was thinking.
I think they're saying "this is such a disaster that it typifies 2020 and is thus the ultimate game of 2020 in the same way Hitler was once named Man of the Year for bad reasons and not complimentary reasons," but there are less edgy ways to express the idea that the game is so bad it represents a bad year well while not invoking the holocaust.
13 Sentinels erased all of the black people who were actually there in the battles historically?
