Atmos Duality said:
Treblaine said:
You're both wrong
Share IDEAS! Ideas are what can inspire opinions in others. Use facts to back that up (X game has Y aspect and not Z aspect)
Well, if you're describing something that's both an arbitrary ("Good/bad") and qualitative measurement, it's going to be an opinion. Supporting evidence is nice where you can get it, but that isn't going to change their experience with something.
You're missing the point of exchanging ideas, it's not about "describing your position" it's about SELLING IT, by using prose and
This isn't good vs bad, this is a matter of gaming WORTH!
For example on could say "Dead rising is overrated shit"
Or, one could say that for 2006 Dead Rising filled a very valuable niche in the zombie market with the hiatus of Resident Evil from Zombies and upped the ante on the gore. Yet it was very quickly superseded to such a great extent looking back on it it seems it was enjoyed more for the novelty of the premise (which would not be novel within a few years) than any timeless element of gameplay.
Qualitative measurements CAN be compared and analysed, it just takes an adept use of language and deep thought of the games and entire industry and history.
It won't change people's experiences but it may help them see them in a different light, if they really hare open minded to other ideas. If they aren't then they should NOT BE ON ANY FORUMS!
Fools troll forums for mere facts.
In a nutshell: IDEAS are how you
can change people's opinions, not merely describing your own opinions.
An idea would be actually analysing HOW you actually developed your OWN OPINION! This is hard for a lot of people as most don't put much thought into their preferences, they just take the sum emotions at that which is fine. But if you can't articulate how you have come to your stance then your opinion is quite worthless.
The the "idea" for the "dead Rising Overrated" opinion is considering the context of 2006, the history before 2006 and subsequent years.
As a species, and a society, as civilization itself, if we can't combine out opinions and personal qualitative analysis how can we possibly how to achieve anything? You can't boil everything down to quantitive absolutes for objective comparison.