Hola, Escapist community! I've been playing Bodycount recently. ...don't look at me like that. It was cheap and by the creators of a game I really liked once. ...anyone point being, I'm rather enjoying the creatively void sponge of a game, and I'm perplexed that the game has actually received well below average scores.
Now I'm no stranger to how mass opinion works, but it occurred to me that I don't only disagree with "da Criticz," but I'd go so far as to argue their point on it. Now we've seen people all the time take popular games and drag them through the mud, but here's a game for you lot: a game you loved that everyone else seemed to loathe. Take that game, and defend it. Don't just say "oh yeah, everyone else hated it but I liked it..." Be a man! Stand up!
Obviously we're going to lay down some ground rules or people are going to start flaming each other to the third degree, so here's a condition: if you're going to post in here, do so positively. If you must correct someone whose opinion is factually wrong, do so politely. If you just disagree with somebody, do so in a calm and reasonable matter. The term "I do not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it" comes to mind. This is meant to be a sort of calming, cathartic thread; getting out in the open reasonable personal positive criticism of a game (or games) that everyone else would otherwise point at you and laugh for your admitting you like them.
So, go, Escapist. Clutch at straws! Cite subjective proofs! Do all you can to defend the games you loved, that those stupid, reasonable people out there hated anyway. You can do so with whatever game you'd like. I'd do it with Duke Nukem Forever, but that's a horse I've beaten to death at this point so... you guys go first. Just be nice, okay? Okay.
Now I'm no stranger to how mass opinion works, but it occurred to me that I don't only disagree with "da Criticz," but I'd go so far as to argue their point on it. Now we've seen people all the time take popular games and drag them through the mud, but here's a game for you lot: a game you loved that everyone else seemed to loathe. Take that game, and defend it. Don't just say "oh yeah, everyone else hated it but I liked it..." Be a man! Stand up!
Obviously we're going to lay down some ground rules or people are going to start flaming each other to the third degree, so here's a condition: if you're going to post in here, do so positively. If you must correct someone whose opinion is factually wrong, do so politely. If you just disagree with somebody, do so in a calm and reasonable matter. The term "I do not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it" comes to mind. This is meant to be a sort of calming, cathartic thread; getting out in the open reasonable personal positive criticism of a game (or games) that everyone else would otherwise point at you and laugh for your admitting you like them.
So, go, Escapist. Clutch at straws! Cite subjective proofs! Do all you can to defend the games you loved, that those stupid, reasonable people out there hated anyway. You can do so with whatever game you'd like. I'd do it with Duke Nukem Forever, but that's a horse I've beaten to death at this point so... you guys go first. Just be nice, okay? Okay.
