Hey there fellow gamers.
Is there a game or series of games that you don't really care about, but everyone else doesn't seem able to shut up? Does their inability to shut up about them make you more hostile towards the franchise?
I've got several, but I'll only give one so I don't make too many of you feel like piping in would be redundant.
Assassin's Creed. I've never really cared about the series. When the first one came out, I was somewhat interested, but I didn't play it for three reasons.
1. I didn't have a computer powerful enough for it and I hadn't bought my Xbox yet.
2. I have a fundamental problem with a stealth game that involves being among crowds where the protagonist wears an outfit that just screams "I'm here to do something dangerous and/or illegal." A brooding guy wearing an eye-concealing hood ain't subtle, guys.
3. Yahtzee's review mentioned some faults in the game mechanics that sounded too tedious and annoying to be worth it.
Now Assassin's Creed has had several sequels, and we're only now getting to the one that's officially named 3. It's practically got its own cult following and it's hard to find a forum or web-comic that doesn't have a nerd-gasm about Ezio at some point.
Edit: So apparently some viewers of this thread are under the impression that I've made another "Let's all be hipsters and bash the triple-A games!" thread. That's not the intention of this. Despite what they'd tell you, hipsters follow trends. They're the other kind of conformist. If Emo kids are the creepy larvae and pupae, hipsters are the disgusting and freakish adult moths. This isn't about following the trend of bashing trends. This isn't about hatred, it's about indifference that can become annoyance from all the noise.
To make it abundantly clear that this isn't a hipster thread, I'll share another game I'm sick of hearing about: League of Legends. That's right, you're allowed to list Indie games in this thread.
Is there a game or series of games that you don't really care about, but everyone else doesn't seem able to shut up? Does their inability to shut up about them make you more hostile towards the franchise?
I've got several, but I'll only give one so I don't make too many of you feel like piping in would be redundant.
Assassin's Creed. I've never really cared about the series. When the first one came out, I was somewhat interested, but I didn't play it for three reasons.
1. I didn't have a computer powerful enough for it and I hadn't bought my Xbox yet.
2. I have a fundamental problem with a stealth game that involves being among crowds where the protagonist wears an outfit that just screams "I'm here to do something dangerous and/or illegal." A brooding guy wearing an eye-concealing hood ain't subtle, guys.
3. Yahtzee's review mentioned some faults in the game mechanics that sounded too tedious and annoying to be worth it.
Now Assassin's Creed has had several sequels, and we're only now getting to the one that's officially named 3. It's practically got its own cult following and it's hard to find a forum or web-comic that doesn't have a nerd-gasm about Ezio at some point.
Edit: So apparently some viewers of this thread are under the impression that I've made another "Let's all be hipsters and bash the triple-A games!" thread. That's not the intention of this. Despite what they'd tell you, hipsters follow trends. They're the other kind of conformist. If Emo kids are the creepy larvae and pupae, hipsters are the disgusting and freakish adult moths. This isn't about following the trend of bashing trends. This isn't about hatred, it's about indifference that can become annoyance from all the noise.
To make it abundantly clear that this isn't a hipster thread, I'll share another game I'm sick of hearing about: League of Legends. That's right, you're allowed to list Indie games in this thread.
