Judging games before you play them

[Veldel]

You know theres going to always be games that we all dont like but some of us like to judge a game and think of it a certien way without even playing it or anything. Personaly I dislike it when people do it.


I dont see how someone can properly get a good opion on somthing without playing it is all.
Like my one friend refuses to play a game and he hates it.

What do you all think and whats a game you thought you wouldnt like but ended up liking alot?



For me its Animal Crossing I thought it looked dumb but when I played it I was addicted lol

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I was skeptical of Persona 3 and 4. Social sims and demon summoning don't go together. I stand embarrassingly corrected.

 

[TheEvilCheese]

I tend to ignore pre-conceived opinion when playing something for the first time.
It affects the enjoyment of the game for me.
This behaviour has grown from being repeatedly surprised by how good games are after looking at them and thinking 'Meh'. For example; Spiderman 2, Mass Effect, SW: Battlefront 2, The World Ends with You. All some of my favourite games of all time.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

Judging things before you do them is as much a test of general ability to judge as it is a test of how well you truly know yourself.


You may judge something correctly but if you base your "I'll like/not like this" on a false image of yourself then the end result would be equally bad.



I generally am a very judgmental person and I know myself sufficiently to instantly be able to judge how much I'll like something before I even play it and almost always be correct. It's basically that I hype stuff that deserves it and I end up rewarded by the hype coming true.


On the other end, things that leave me bored before playing them almost always don't last me more than an hour till I'm done with them.


I pride myself in not having played a game I didn't absolutely love in over 5 years now.
I suppose it's the effect of being an INJT personality type.

 

[dkyros]

With a lot of product reviews even with out playing it we can make a pretty damn good educated guess as to whether we will end of liking a game prior to playing it. Seriously, I only buy games now, the last time I rented a game to "see if I would like it" was like 5 years ago. I am happy with the games I buy bc I prejudge them based on what I know about the franchise and how the reviews portray the game. Reviews now-a-days will even go so far as to say "If you liked game X you will feel comfortable playing game Y."
So, yes I have prejudged a lot of games in my time and it has served me quite well. It may have prevent me from playing some good games but every game I own I thoroughly enjoy so I don't see it as a loss.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

I've played enough samey gritty brown/space clone shooters in my time to know I don't like them. I don't need to play every installment of COD or Halo to know I hate them. One was enough.

Any game that looks like it is doing something even slightly different I will try. But any game that is just trying to be a clone of something else...no.

It's okay to judge things before trying them. I don't need to try eating garbage to know it tastes bad do I?

 

[Delock]

For my game, it wasn't so much that I hated it before I played so much as I played way too little of it and never really gave it a chance.

The game was Shadow of the Colossus, a game I played at a place that I could only describe as a "new arcade," a large collection of HDTVs and consoles with an enormous library of games you chose from. Rather than using a token system, you payed by the hour.

Needless to say, this lead to me rushing into Shadow to see the gameplay, which isn't what the game was about, so I ended up missing out. The first boss turned out to seem way too tedious to waste all my time on (I thought to use arrows only to find out they were didn't do much damage).

Later, I looked up how you would go about beating the boss, just to see if I was right about it being nothing more than a long ass long-range fight. When I found out you had to attack his leg and climb up, I decided I would pick up a cheap copy of the game and at least beat the bastard and see if things got better (bit of pride on my part).

Turns out I was completely wrong about the game and have clocked over 100 hours (don't know exactly how much, but over 10 playthroughs, the first the longest and the shortest being somewhere between 6-8 hours).

Otherwise, I was pleasantly surprised by the following games:
-Demon's Souls
-.hack//GU
-Castlevania Lords of Shadow
-RE5 (though not that much with it, but it wasn't AWFUL)
-F.E.A.R.
-Crysis 2
-CoD: Black Ops (much more fun than I thought it would be. Still glad I only played a roommate's copy though, as I doubt I'd replay it before other shooters)
-The Darkness (if you can get past a few problems, such as Jackie's mouth, learning to properly use crawling dark and minions, and the lightning part, you've got a great game here)

On the opposite side, there were a few games I got let down by
-Half-Life 2 (this is your fault internet. I got to play this around the time the Orange Box finally hit bargain bins. This game had been overhyped to hell and back)
-inFAMOUS (not bad mind you, but I played this after Prototype so Cole felt significantly underpowered
-Bethesda games (especially the Elder Scrolls games. Fallout 3 turned out to be much more fun when I took a recommendation to use melee weapons though...)
-Grand Theft Auto 4 (I truly hate this game. Not only was it nearly as hyped as HL2 when I got to play it, but it really wasn't that much fun for me)
-Borderlands (just not as "wacky" as I thought it would be. Not it's fault consider the "For Real Gamers commercial wasn't Gearbox produced)
-CoD: Modern Warfare 2 (Ugh, this one wasn't as big a let down due to the internet reaction, but to sum up this properly, it is the reason Black Ops surprised me for the better)

 

[gigastar]

The only game i did dislike before playing was BlOps, after i did get a round with it, my hate was justified.

Apart from the sucession of CoD's, any game i havent played has at worst no opinion from me. Im still not sure if i should hate DMC2 like the rest of the fanbase even if i didnt play it.

 

[KingofallCosmos]

Funny that a lot of people think they can. I for one never know it in advance, and I'm notorious in returning games, even though later it may occur I happen to like the game after all. I really have to put my attention to a game for like two hours and even then I'm not sure.

Too many examples, but maybe Vanquish is a goodun, cause I don't really play shooters. I really loved the tight gameplay of Bayonetta so I figured I could get into this one even if it's not my genre and I fukin loved it.

 

[timeadept]

Spoiler: -snip-

You know theres going to always be games that we all dont like but some of us like to judge a game and think of it a certien way without even playing it or anything. Personaly I dislike it when people do it.


I dont see how someone can properly get a good opion on somthing without playing it is all.
Like my one friend refuses to play a game and he hates it.

What do you all think and whats a game you thought you wouldnt like but ended up liking alot?



For me its Animal Crossing I thought it looked dumb but when I played it I was addicted lol

You know there was an entire Extra Punctuation on this (and i really wish i could find the link), but the general idea was that it is our duty as consumers to judge before we buy. For one thing, if we take that idea to the logical extreme and never judge anything before we try it then we end up accepting a great deal of absurd ideas. Like we ignore that stapling our fingers together will probably hurt because we've never tried it before, and you can go much further than this. So unless you take it to that extreme, you have to admit that it is logical to judge everything before you try it, even if the judgement tells you to never try it.

It's true that it's good to experiment every now and then, because you might find something new that you like, but it's difficult to look down on someone who says that they don't want to spend their time or money on a game because they doubt they'll like it.