All this negativity

[Onyx Oblivion]

Yeah, the curmudgeony gamer bit, it's kind of getting old.

I for one love video games and gaming. I may ***** about a few things in games, but generally, if I don't like a game I don't play it. I won't force myself to play something dreadful to the end just to complain about it.

Just finishing up Sly 2. Loved it.

Remember...Carmelita's voice in Sly 3. Listen for it.

I plan on it. I need something to complain about, otherwise it will just seem like I am a Sly fan girl.

If you want to hear it now...

 

[SimuLord]

Gamers tend to be the most spoiled, self-entitled, nitpicky, "really, are you four years old?" consumers in any industry. One dropped frame, muddy texture, or (gods forbid in a complex computer program!) bug, and everyone's like "zomg this game sucks!"

Maybe because I'm not particularly spoiled, self-entitled, nitpicky, or four years old, but I tend to find even flawed games fun because I enjoy what the developers did right (buying New Vegas at release and calling it my Game of the Year going away even before the 1.2 patch ought to tell you something about how tolerant I am of glitches.)

A game has to really fuck up royally before I'll hold the bugs against it (Hearts of Iron 3, I'm looking at you.)

I agree completely.

Take Bioshock for example, the combat in that game was clunky as hell and aiming was a joke when it came to plasmids, but the story, atmosphere, setting, music and pretty much everything else about it more than made up for it and it's one of my favourite games of all times.

I'll see your Bioshock and raise you Morrowind, where absolutely dreadful combat mechanics that would completely submarine a lesser RPG were washed away by a deep, immersive, interesting world with great writing and great non-combat mechanics.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

Yahtzee's reviews were intially the thing that had drawn me to this site though lately I've become more intuned with the forum discussions and Extra Credits (seems a much friendlier and approachable means of gaming discourse). While I do find ZP to be hilarious and think that the men rather articulates himself in an eloquently profane manner, I'd never be dissuaded from buying a game based on Yahtzee's opinion. Partly because of his largely negative or indifferent opnion towards most games, but also because his logic can appear paridoxical at times. For instance, constantly griping about innovation and yet will settle for a GTA palette swap as his 2008 GoTY and as for his 2010 entry he didn't even seem to think that much of Just Cause 2 in his actual review of the thing, it felt much more logical that he would pick somethnig like Dead Rising 2 which he clearly established to have liked. Also, calling Silent Hill 2 one of his favourite games and then calling the actual gameplay shit seems a bit wierd as does calling the sands of time trilogy the best of the last console generation when he only seemed to like one of them. At any rate, I take it for what it is and I suppose for the most part the negativity doesn't faze me as he spends most of his time ripping into games I couldn't give a shit about.

 

[Something Amyss]

Have to agree, it seems to be cool to hate. You see the xbox vs PS3 fanboys ranting (am I the only one to think they are both good and theres plenty of room in the market place for both?)

You're not alone. I own both. I prefer the 360, but not in some blind fanboyish rage. In fact, the major reason I prefer the 360 is "all my friends have it."

But still, the fanboy extremes are dumb.

 

[Geekosaurus]

Because nobody cares if you enjoy games - we can't have an argument about that.

 

[Nfritzappa]

Its because people want to complain, and if theres nothing to complain about they'll complain about the most irrelevant thing possible.

 

[Shirokurou]

He disliked the "new" PoP. He loved the old ones.
And you've given 2 contrasting opinions. You agree that negativity is bad, but you enjoy it if it's negativity towards everything?

And I did mean the old PoP (Sands of Time trilogy). Just listen to HOW he loves it. Or his Silent Hill 2 review Seriously I guess Portal is the only exception. Everything else is "This shit is where you do this shit, and while acting like total dumbass, but overall I like/dislike it."

I don't like this curmudgeony negativity towards everything at all. I can understand it being used for humor though. But it's overused...

 

[TPiddy]

Because nobody cares if you enjoy games - we can't have an argument about that.

This! I just can't picture conversations going... "Hey, did you like Dragon Age?" "Yeah man, it was great" "Awesome.... sooo... I guess that's all there is to say about that then."

 

[Layzor]

Try not to confuse negativity with cynicism. It's just as much fun to complain about something bad as it is to enjoy something good.

 

[Hazard12]

I generally feel that most stuff is frustrating, and often shit. It's important to like what you like, and if you hate something argue it well and articulately, but I feel that near blanket cynicism is about right.