Feeling less individualized for liking a popular game

[MisterMaster]

I'm a highly intelligent person with an exquisitely refined taste in video games. I too loathe the filth that is the mainstream... and more blah blah blah.

Seriously, staying clear from great games just to be some special snowflake? I guess I can sort of relate to that, but I've grown out of it and no longer care what others think of me. This need to differentiate myself from others usually manifested as such: I take a competitive multiplayer game and then choose a class/race whatever, that was the most unpopular and underpowered. Surely nobody wants to play a gimped avatar, so I would be guaranteed to stick out of the crowd.

Nowadays I don't give a crap. I play whatever the hell I want.

 

[Rooster893]

Who cares? So you like a game. If anybody says you suck for a liking a game that's mainstream, fuck them. They obviously don't understand the concept of your YMMV. Idiots.....

 

[bitCrusher]

Yes it is, but that doesn't mean obscurity makes a game good and popularity makes a game bad. Generally speaking games get popular because a lot people enjoy playing them. If you disagree with most people, then okay, that's your personal preference. But liking unpopular stuff doesn't make you a unique and beautiful snowflake.

nice response man

You were not special in the first place. There's no glory in liking something unpopular.

I see more people bitching about people who like mainstream games then people bitching about obscure or indie games.

Everyone bitches about something. Play what you want and to hell with what others think.

If you need validation from an internet forum, you may want to take a closer look at your life.

wait, is that directed at me? I don't need validation, lol

 

[Prince Regent]

No I never base my opinion on popularity. Though I am more likely to join a discussion where my vieuw differences from that of the the majority. Simply because I like defending the underdog.

 

[TheDooD]

Liking a popular game doesn't mean you are less of a gamer; it just means you happen to agree with the 'majority' in the case of that game. It doesn't make you less of a gamer to like games that a lot of other people like; if anything it makes you less of a gamer if you refuse to give a game a chance based soley on it's popularity.

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This 100%

I don't know how many times I heard people shit on a game just because they never heard of it. Yet rant on how good a game is just because other people like it.