Yahtzee's hilarious, but you shouldn't pay attention to most of his negative reviews, especially on those games unfortunate enough to lie in genres outside of his preferences (JRPGs, fighting games, pretty much anything Nintendo's made this millenium), since these games have virtually no hope of being liked or recommended by him. He's not a reviewer, he's a critic, and a damn good one. Don't pay much heed to his negative rants, but whenever he goes against the critic mould and says something positive about a game, you'd better sit up and pay attention, because most of those games are (in my own opinion, of those I've played, even if they're outside MY preferred genres) good.Fire Daemon post=9.70411.691104 said:
Personally, I don't hate something because it's popular. In fact, rarely do I actually hate a game. I may not LIKE the game, I may not ever want to play it again, but I rarely actually hate it just because it doesn't suit me. Hate implies that you believe it should be destroyed, which is a ludicrous stance on anything as subjective as gaming choice.
Even more ludicrous is hating things because they're popular. It's just silly. And it's every bit as conformist as liking things because you're told to like them. I only like games I genuinely like, and whether my interests coincide or diverge with the mainstream, I couldn't care less. Last time I checked, I played games for personal amusement, not to appease a culture.
