Hating Mainstream and You!

[riskroWe]

I don't think anyone actually likes or dislikes something because it's popular or unpopular, but it certainly influences whether or not someone is willing to check it out, or to give it a second chance if it fails to make a good first impression.
I never would have noticed or played Fallout 3 if it didn't receive so much attention.

 

[Legion]

The Halo games would be rubbish whether they were mainstream or not.

I'd expect a less flame-baiting reply from someone who has been here almost two years.

It's called having an opinion.

There is a difference between saying:

"I would dislike the Halo games just as much if they weren't mainstream as I do right now."

and

"The Halo games would be rubbish whether they were mainstream or not."

As I said before, the first example is an opinion and the second is flame-baiting, and I'd expect someone who has been here around 2 years to know better.

 

[wewontdie11]

I'm so non-conformist with games I don't conform to the non-conformists or the mainstream and play ball in a cup instead.

Nah I don't care if something is mainstream or not I get it/listen to it/watch it if I think it's good. I don't generally give a crap what other people think.

 

[aww yea]

fuck mainstream!

im going to live my life without enjoying anything that looks enjoyable!

have fun with your fun faggots Ive got obscurity

that about sums up my view of hating mainstream

 

[BonsaiK]

Okay, okay. You guys win. There will be joyless, boring, humour-sapping "this is just my opinion, it is not objective fact"-style disclaimers in all my posts that present an opinion about something potentially controversial from now on. Can you all stop treating me like the child who just stole a cookie now?

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

There is a difference between saying:

"I would dislike the Halo games just as much if they weren't mainstream as I do right now."

and

"The Halo games would be rubbish whether they were mainstream or not."

As I said before, the first example is an opinion and the second is flame-baiting, and I'd expect someone who has been here around 2 years to know better.

No, it isn't. He didn't say:

"I hate the Halo series, it's shit, I hope anyone who likes it dies in a car fire, and if you don't agree with me fuck you."

That is flame-baiting. He just presented his opinion, did not try and pass it off as fact, and kept a civil tone while doing so.

Is this really the kind of world we're living in now? Where we have to put up fucking disclaimers before everything we say as to not offend people who hold a contrary view?

Just stop it, it's embarrasing.

 

[Christemo]

mainstream is generally something i avoid, unless its WoW or a valve game. i got quite a few mainstream things that i hate, miley cyrus just to name 1.

 

[Affero-Dolor]

I think two things - if the thing in question (a game in this case) becomes popular because the publisher has a shitload of money to advertise and everyone gets to hear of it - that's not entirely fair.

If a game, however, becomes popular and mainstream through its own merits, then it deserves to BE mainstream and we should give it a try.

It matters what you define mainstream as, I guess. However I'm not going to avoid something just because it's in the public eye, nor am I just ging to buy things that are edgy and surreal because I think it'll make me cool somehow.

 

[Julianking93]

I tend to not like mainstream things.

 

[Christemo]

Apart from halo and COD 4, I have no idea what the "mainstream" thinks is cool right now. I haven't seen a TV or online ad in several months now and my friends don't follow trends either.

you havent seen TV in several months?

 

[BlackIronGuardian]

If I like it, I like it. Simple, really.

 

[Fairee]

I usually find that something which is popular/has been recommended to me (and that can be mainstream or not) is never as good as people have made out. So yeah, don't recommend stuff to me, I'll end up hating it.

Hence my severe disliking of kittens....

 

[Spirultima]

If I like it, I like it. Simple, really.

Same rule that i follow.

 

[AkJay]

I just dislike people who "Hate" Mainstream, just because they think it makes them cool to do so.

 

[Ophiuchus]

I hate what I hate and I like what I like, whether it's mainstream or not. The only real issue I have with mainstream stuff is that it often gets played out to the point where I get completely sick of it, like a good song being played every half hour on the radio for example.

 

[DoctorObviously]

You forget that the lands of mainstream games (with GTAIV, Halo and Gears as country's to put it figuaratively) are ruled by 12 year-olds or adult people with enough brain damage to be the equivalent of one...

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Mainstream is annoying because it's good to be different. Saying you like Halo is nothing special because everyone else likes Halo (for some reason) and therefore is uninteresting. Saying you like an obscure game like Beyond Good & Evil which no one has ever heard of is therefore more likely to spark interest in to person you mentioned your interests to (like "Oh really? What's that about?" instead of "Oh Halo, yeah everyone plays that."). It's good to be different, but not hating something BECAUSE it's mainstream. It's also not a bad thing to have things that aren't mainstream going mainstream, which is what a lot of people hate. I think that if something you like becomes mainstream, then it's better because now more people know what it is and if more people liked Dark Tranquility instead of Flo Rida, I think that we can come one step closer to becoming a peaceful society.

I hate to quote Yahtzee, but sometimes popular things are popular for a reason. There's no reason to hate on Gears of War because everyone likes it. If you didn't like the gameplay or way that it was presented is one thing, but hating it because everyone else likes it is very dumb and closed minded. It's like that one kid that everyone knew that said that they didn't like pie even though they do but just wanted to sound creative or something.

You forget that the lands of mainstream games (with GTAIV, Halo and Gears as country's to put it figuaratively) are ruled by 12 year-olds or adult people with enough brain damage to be the equivalent of one...

I have to agree with you. I like Gears of War 2's online, but hate the community. Sometimes you'll find someone that's intelligent, but most of the time it's "OH MY GOD ****** I JUST RAPED YOU" (obviously not understanding what the words "******" and "rape" mean) so that's why I mostly play without a headset. At least the only thing bad about the Gears online is the headset chatter, unlike Halo where they just screw around and don't help the team or anything. I own Left 4 Dead for the PC so I was used to teamwork. I was talking to a friend who said he didn't like Left 4 Dead and he had it for the 360. He was talking about how if you join an expert game, it was just a bunch of kids running around and shooting each other and the laughing into the headset.

 

[Emphraim]

Apart from halo and COD 4, I have no idea what the "mainstream" thinks is cool right now. I haven't seen a TV or online ad in several months now and my friends don't follow trends either.

you havent seen TV in several months?

i haven't seen a TV ad in several months. They are 3 tvs in my apartment, but the one in my room has been broken for the last 2 years or so, and the others ones are used by my parents. I don't watch TV.