Complaining about your favorite game not "getting high enough"

[Vault101]

heres a little thing Ive noticed

you have a game..its great game, you fucking LOVE this game, and the critics also share your apreciation and its 5 stars and rainbows all round.

but then

mabye its a certain reviw...a "top 10 of all time" list or somthing like that..but they totally trash/snub your beloved game (and could mean giving it say..8.9...THE FUCKING NERVE!![/B]

and thats not fucking good enough

OBVIOUSLY this person is wrong..oviously they are a troll..obviously they dont knwow hat they are talking about so THEY MUST BE CORRECTED...ensure all your mighty fanboy rage

ok ok now I might be a little harsh here. Now obviously this has alot too do with the VERY skewed scoring systm games have...anything below 80% is absolute trash...and even in the eighties

but anyway, what I dont get is when you have a game, a game thats ALREADY reveid very well and is a big hit...yet for some reason [i/] thats not good enough[/i]

why?

this brings to mind say..jim sterlings reveiw of Arkham city ot Yahtzee not putting Skyrim higher on his top 10

sure you like the game..but do you honestly need the vailidation of EVERY SINGLE critic? cant you not be happy unless its %100 all round? has as we have heard before..that devalues the score (not thats its already messed up)

and Im not talking about a game that got avergae scores that you feel deserved better, Im talking about stuff thats already well reveiwd and well loved

personally, the way I see it, its the height of fanboy annoyingness, and I now understand why peopel loathe those who we could call "fanboy" its annoying, especially if you dont like the game in question....and I figure thats where alot of internet hate-dom comes from

so what do you guys think?

[sub/] if you dont alrady know Skyrim is the worst offender here...that game shits me to no end [/sub]

 

[Zhukov]

Two things:

Conformity. It's no secret that human beings in general have a powerful urge to conform with those around us. So when people encounter an opinion different to their own, especially from someone in a position of relative authority, it makes them uneasy. It casts that tiny bit of doubt on their own views. Easiest way around this? Try and invalidate the other persons opinion. They're stupid, they were paid off, they're just trolling for hits etc etc.

Metacritic. Don't ask me why they do this, but people frequently set out to "protect" a games 'metascore'. Any score below the average will lower that average. And clearly that would be a terrible tragedy.

*sigh*

Fanboys, amirite?

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Even worse are the people who don't like a game, so the game automatically becomes the worst piece of shit ever made and they give it a zero on metacritic.

 

[Vault101]

Even worse are the people who don't like a game, so the game automatically becomes the worst piece of shit ever made and they give it a zero on metacritic.

ahhh yes..gamers perspecitive.....I dont see it applyed to many other mediums excpet games

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

I think that whoever thinks the opposite of whatever I think on whatever I'm thinking about has the option to think differently because I'm not thinking for them.

Really, if someone likes a game that I don't, that's OK. I might quote somebody who, for instance, doesn't like Metroid Prime and say something along the lines of "what's wrong with you?", but in such instances I'm just kidding and I'll say as much very soon after.

Meanwhile, if you're really bothered by a review score, maybe it's because you're not having as much fun as you think you're having? Maybe if Mario Kart 7 got panned all the way across the board and you're angry about it, it's because there's a little niggling feeling in the back of your head that you're not having as much fun as you'd like to think you are?

"You" as in "anybody that might be offended by their favorite game not being someone else's".

I loved that zero punctuation episode where he responded to the hate mail over his SSB review. That was probably the funniest line.

 

[ComradeJim270]

I'm not bothered in the least when a game gets a lower score than I think it deserves. I'm very slightly bothered when a game gets a higher score than I think it deserves. I only actually get upset when a game gets a higher score than I think it deserves, and gets it from everybody. This pisses me off because it makes me feel like there's no reliable source of information about which games I should spend my money on.

Then again, I find the whole numerical score thing to be rather arbitrary to begin with, so it's hard for me to get really worked up about it.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

Meanwhile, if you're really bothered by a review score, maybe it's because you're not having as much fun as you think you're having? Maybe if Mario Kart 7 got panned all the way across the board and you're angry about it, it's because there's a little niggling feeling in the back of your head that you're not having as much fun as you'd like to think you are?

Mario Kart 7. Pre-ordered it for the free hat. Played through 50cc. Realised that for the first time in pretty much forever, one of Nintendo's first-party franchises has found a way to devolve. Took it out of my 3DS. Currently have 999 in there instead.

OT: Morons will be morons.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Look, EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN OPINION.

Consider what the critics say not just what the scores say.
Even then don't let other people bring you down.
The Kane and Lynch series are some of my favorite games, mostly because they're fun to play with friends. Most people agree though, they suck. I recognize that and respectfully disagree.

 

[Adam Galli]

I don't care what critics say. If I like a game that's all that matters. There are games I love that get terrible reviews and there are games I hate that are critically acclaimed.

 

[HeatproofShAdOw]

Which is why viewing any Battlefield or Call of duty videos on youtube is a migraine inducing experience thanks to the multitude of fan boys who scream from the rooftops of their superiority, with Battlefield fan boys defending their game to the death..

 

[gigastar]

The problem is fanboys and thier innate need to champion something on the internet as if its some kind of holy war.

Also you certainly arent the first to observe or comment on this phenomenon.

See Also:
Hate out of Ten [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/4966-Hate-Out-Of-Ten]

Eight Point Eight [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EightPointEight]

Complaining About Reviews You Dont Like [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike]

 

[Dogstile]

Gamers usually think on two levels, i've noticed. Or hell, people in general.

"I agree with this"
or
"I don't, it can burn in hell"

This is the phenominom (I am so keeping that typo in) you are observing

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

I don't really see what the big deal is. I couldn't care less what other people think of the games i play which is why i've never gone on any crusade to tell why i liked Duke Nukem Forever or why i still play Adventure Quest every now and then.

Yahtzee didn't put my favourite games on his top 5 list this year and it didn't bother me one bit because as he stated himself it was his own opinion that made the list, and anything beyond the Zero Punctuation list has been willfully ignored.

Come to think of it i actually had a conversation with my girlfriend about the anime Ao no Exorcist and i told her it was an anime i'd never "bothered" watching and after telling her why she just told me i had valid points, but that she liked it and what i said wouldn't change her opinion on that.

And i liked that because if you really like something (at the brink of fandom) then you should love it despite its flaws, which is why i think so many people love Skyrim despite its obvious gameplay issues. Some can fogive that, others can't but i don't think the two groups need to fight each other over it.

 

[AwkwardTurtle]

Reading the OP was absolutely painful and I hate you just a little bit more for typing like that.

OT: I don't really care. "Reviews" are nothing more than opinions, and opinions are subjective. People will inevitably disagree with others. I think that Persona 3 is one of the best RPGs ever, but I know many other people will disagree with me. That doesn't bother me at all.

When I look to a review for information on a game that is by an independent source, as opposed to a gaming site with a series of reviewers, the only thing I might check is how they reviewed a game that I absolutely know is terrible. The thing that makes me lost trust/faith in a reviewer is when they "rate" or praise a game that has been almost universally declared bad by everyone including me. That just gives me the impression that the person isn't willing to criticize or is being manipulated in some way.

 

[Vegosiux]

I'm too busy playing games I like to complain about arbitrary number ratings they get.

 

[BreakfastMan]

You know what? I am sick of this ranting against so-called "fanboys". I am a rabid fanboy of many things and I am not afraid to admit it. Does that mean I am a drooling idiot who rants about whatever changes in the new game in the series or writes multi-page scathing rebuttals against reviewers who share a different opinion than mine? 100% no. And I am sick of people implying that I do just because I am a big fan of something. The people who do those things are insecure jerks. Why can't we just call them that without insulting all people who identify themselves as "fans" of something?