Kuhkmala said:
ThrobbingEgo said:
Not really. It's more like thinking Shakespeare is bad because all the characters are speaking Shakespearian.
"I don't like Shakespeare. It's stupid. Why did people talk like that? It's written in, like, old English."
"No. It's not. You're just an idiot."
Again, you are mixing up the ideas of forming a perspective based upon past actions/ideas and the fresh perspective. He can complain about the game, since he is talking about how it made him feel and aspects he did not like or think were wrong. It doesn't matter whether the past games did things good or bad, its his point of view based on a experience without prior indulgence. He is not entitled to complain about the game if he is comparing it to past games fall out games which he did not play and therefore did not experience first hand.
The quality of a game like fallout cannot be determined by absolute fact, it is personal opinion. I understand your feelings on the game and its series may be strong Rak, but that doesn't justify it as fact. It is another opinion along with the OPs. He has the same rights as you to complain about what he believed was wrong, without experience of prior games as long as those are used to justify his argument. The only justification put forth was how he felt on the matter. I'm trying to state this from an objective point, an attempt to separate fact from opinion and his right to speak.
You're missing part of my quote.
ThrobbingEgo said:
I'm not saying you have to like the game, but if you clearly don't get a design choice that doesn't mean it's bad.
Someone could complain about Shakespeare who doesn't get poetry. What I'm saying was, what he didn't like, involving the setting, is what the Fallout series is all about. It's alright that he didn't like it - he doesn't have to. But to buy the game, play it to completion, and post about how he didn't like the idea of a retrofuturistic setting (when it's all over the promotional material, cover art, reviews, etc) it's ridiculous.
It's like complaining that Stagecoach was a Western. Sure, you're free to not like Westerns, but to
fault Stagecoach for being a Western - it's not valid criticism, it's the genre.
So, no, I disagree.
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And I'm not Rak.