Pretty much this. There are games which I didn't enjoy at first, but then tried a different approach and found them a million times more fun - but whenever people mention the game online, they played it the first way, and have all the same complaints I did before I realized I was doing it wrong. Similarly, there are games which I don't enjoy, but am fairly sure I'M playing wrong, because I see other people enjoying them and talking about the game mechanics to a depth I never even realized existed.Vykrel said:i feel most people here dont get the idea. its not "i suck at this game or i couldnt get into it, therefore it is bad".
i am terrible at Team Fortress 2, and i couldnt get into Fallout 3, but i know they arent bad.
on topic: i really hated Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. i bought it used, along with CoD2 and 3, because of the lack of games being released at that time. it was truly awful. it was confusing, very difficult to complete objectives, had terrible team AI, and the enemy AI was ridiculously overpowered. the game has about an 85% on both Metacritic and Gamerankings.
speaking of Call of Duty 3, that game was also piss-poor... easily one of the worst games i have ever played in my life. it is beyond me how it has over an 80% on MC and GR. i would give it a 5, at the MOST. but i gotta say. Treyarch showed a massive improvement in WaW and Black Ops. those are both genuinely good games. i suppose they just didnt give much effort into CoD3
Essentially, people don't generally enjoy games unless they're good in some way. If there are people who enjoy a game you don't, it's unlikely that their brain is just wired up wrong, and more likely that they're either playing the game differently or are simply in a different mindset to you when playing.