- "The Tales series is only about ther battle system."
Bulldroppings. The series used to have atrocious, only half playable battle systems and got by on the plots and characters. Symphonia and Abyss are perhaps my two favorite games ever for the character interactions and the overall plot, and their tight battle systems only made them more enjoyable to progress. Vesperia pushed the series more mainstream, with a less developped cast and more emphasis on the battle, which has been attracting a lot of mainstream JRPG fans who are so used to games with so little going for them that a little character devellopment is "too much talking, boring, let me fight already." Appealing to a more mainstream audience leads more sales with means one of my favorite series has been ruined and has fallen into "just another crappy mainstream JRPG" territory.
- "PS1 games are classics." "Gaming is relatively new so by relativity even games from last gen are classics."
Copious amounts of bovine fecal matter excrement samples obtained from a male specimen. Punk rock from the 1990's will never be considered "classic rock." Harry Potter, among other books, will also not be considered "a classic" for a very very long time to come. Why? Because the very definition of "classic" either means something is the original, OR, and this is the relevant one, it has stood the test of time. A new form of digital art that's been around for 5 years wouldn't call stuff from year 1 "classic" because the medium itself is still new. But noooo, the community is full of self-gratifying people who want to sound elegant by calling their own personal favorites "classics" without even stopping to think about what the goddamn word even MEANS! This pisses me off more than you can probably guess, especially when Sony has the audacity to call it's PSN Store sections "PS1 classics" or even worse, "PS2 classics." Before using a word, learn the meaning!
- "Patriotism is American."
The word patriot refers to one with pride in their country. I am a patriotic Canadian, for example. But, in recent years, most notably since 9/11, I've seen a swell in the number of Americans who think it's THEIR word and ONLY applies to them. I was once on a forum where a woman from France said she was patriotic, and some American chimed in "Yeah, we're that awesome that even Europe wants in on this, fuck yeah America!" I have an American friend who said he was an American Patriot and was met with "Stop being so redundant, asshole." Now, don't get me wrong. My fiancee is American. Some of my best friends are American. I know these morons are very much the minority. But the thing is, they're so vocal that when one pops up, he or she is impossible to ignore.
... man, I'm seriously working myself into frustration, here. Gonna post more later and leave it here for now.