Stupidest reason to shoot down a game

[Mafoobula]

My brother did not like Chrono Cross. Did he play all of it? No. Does he remember how much he played? Not really. Is it every bit as good as Chrono Trigger? My brother and I played Chrono Trigger at the absolute height of impressionability, when nostalgia is at its strongest, so, not really.
Also, not a single word about the heart-breakingly gorgeous art or soundtrack. I guess that, like the game in general, he doesn't think anything could top Magus's theme.

So, I guess my contribution to the topic is to mention how nostalgia can sometimes seriously skew a person's opinion of a game.
Perfect example: Pokemon. For some reason, there's a fair chunk of gamers who think the Pokemon series outright SUCKED after Gold/Silver, and they'll happily shout that opinion from the rooftops. How much would you like to bet there's an even crazier sect of those same nostalgia-worshippers that hated HeartGold/SoulSilver, even though they're the EXACT same games as back then, just with some more stuff thrown in?
Even funnier are the people who keep saying that World of Warcraft is ruined, and they've been saying that even before the first expansion. Meanwhile, subscriber numbers keep going up.

Here's a great one: Hating a game because you hate the people who play it.
Halo, for all the flack it gets, is one of the games that defines its genre, and is likely THE most popular online game other than WoW; think what you want of it, but it is FAR from being a bad game. And yet, there are some people who might hate the GAME because a bunch of frat boy douchebags happen to like it.

 

[zombiejoe]

"Kirby games suck because he's pink."
....... STUPID!

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that's a good one

 

[Mr. Gency]

When talking about Halo Wars: "You can't shoot with the right trigger."

"I don't like it, so it sucks."

At first I lol'd

Somebody literally said this to me when I said that I enjoyed Team Fortress 2.

Then I serious'd.

And theeeeeeeeeen?

I quoted you then you quoted me while I was catching up with Critical Miss updates.

 

[zombiejoe]

Dumbest Reason to Shoot Down a Game:

Racism.

IT HAS BLACK PEOPLE IN IT IT'S RACIST!

You know what game i'm talking about.

Um...Megaman?

lol jk I think I know what you mean.

 

[smashmaniac64]

(if theres guns) its just gonna be another halo/COD ripoff
(no guns) its not hardcore enough
(nintendo) nintendo is only for kids

 

[LeighAlura]

When talking about Halo Wars: "You can't shoot with the right trigger."

"I don't like it, so it sucks."

At first I lol'd

Somebody literally said this to me when I said that I enjoyed Team Fortress 2.

Then I serious'd.

And theeeeeeeeeen?

I quoted you then you quoted me while I was catching up with Critical Miss updates.

Meanwhile, I was damn close to falling asleep on my keyboard.

I need to go to bed...

 

[Mr. Gency]

When talking about Halo Wars: "You can't shoot with the right trigger."

"I don't like it, so it sucks."

At first I lol'd

Somebody literally said this to me when I said that I enjoyed Team Fortress 2.

Then I serious'd.

And theeeeeeeeeen?

I quoted you then you quoted me while I was catching up with Critical Miss updates.

Meanwhile, I was damn close to falling asleep on my keyboard.

I need to go to bed...

Good night.

 

[hollowminds]

"Im not nerdy enough to try starcraft 2" - COD:MW2 Fanboy friend
"Its on the Wii" - Myself

I admit to shooting alot of games down due to being on the Wii, but i really dislike playing on the Wii and it puts me in a bad mindset. Due to paying the $400 on release for it and playing Twilight princess once. Its not a great attitude but i feel cheated.

 

[zombiejoe]

"The reviewers said it was terrible"

I swear if I hear that one more time I'll eat this chair.

EDIT: apparently I have to clarify, I dont like it when I say: "I want buy [insert game of choice here]" and a certain friend of mine replies that such and such said the game was shite.

Yes. This!
Apparently I'm not allowed to buy Alpha Protocol. I bought it knowing the reviews were bad, it's just that I liked what I saw, and I got exactly what I was hoping for. But somehow whenever it gets mentioned people roll their eyes and say it was stupid of me to have bought it, before they have even played it!
Bah, so annoying.

I loved Alpha Protocol. I don't understand why people hated it so much. Sure the controls where a little weird sometimes, but if you work with them it becomes a fine game.

 

[Romblen]

"It's not a real game like Modern Warfare 2."

 

[zombiejoe]

It's not Cod.
- Every single retarded CoD nerd ever.

Lol, you may be banned but I still think that was funny.

Sorry about the ban

 

[triggrhappy94]

bad graphics, um... look at any old game. Even Oblivion starting to look below average, and that's one of the best games on the 360

 

[darkstarangel]

Yeah Im gonna have to agree with graphics. Final Fantasy 6 was one of the best RPGs in the whole series & when it was re-released on the playstation years ago some of my friends wouldnt play it because it wasnt as flashy as the more recent mundane sequels.

I would actually love to play FF7 & all others after it redone with 16 bit graphics.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

I think its a bad game and I will debate with you on our reasons.

I hate the control scheme. I have never understood why it is move like a tank, or run in only one direction. I had this problem with Resistance 2, it was walk slowly or sprint too fast, what ever happened to a good brisk walk and sprint option?

I can't believe you think multilayer was good. I admit the first one was ok, it held my attention for a month but it just got stupid. Every single round would end the same, people rolling around trying to shotgun each other. I can't speak for the second one because I couldn't even play it, it was broken for a very very long time and that is not negotiable.

The characters are more like robots trying to imitate human emotion. I would have felt bad for Dom if there was any character development, instead we get shoehorned this love story right from the start with no relations what so ever. It's a bad mid-day drama. If they just stuck with "Kill shit because we want to survive" and act all desperate than I would have bought it
and I would have no problem with them, but like I said it's adding simulated emotions to a tin can.

I am not shitting on you for liking the game, I am just stating my reasons for not liking it. Now swing away at me.

Well we agree on 2 things.

First that Gears of War 2's multiplayer was broken (it has subsequently been fixed - mostly) and second that no one really plays these games for the great emotional characters and development etc.

What makes Gears of War a great game? Well first off it is something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from the same old CoD and Halo. Now I am not going to argue story with you at all for if you read my post you will see I said best MULTIPLAYER game, I don't find the story bad by any means but I'm not some drooling fanboy over it (leave that for COD4).

The multiplayer in Gears first grabbed my attention in late 2006 when I had just purchased an Xbox and a mate brought it round, we didn't have live yet but I had a great time playing with all the strange weapons and running around, sticking to walls, blindfiring and rolling. I purchased the game for myself early 2007 and with it hooked up to Xbox Live, but I didn't go online straight away because the cool thing to play online at the time was Halo 2, when I did go online on gears it allowed something that halo didn't. It allowed me to choose which game I'd like to play, something I thought was reseved for PC.

One of the things you mentioned you disliked about gears is infact one of the things that i love most. Rolling around with a shotgun, this was something that I had never seen before, being fairly new to online gaming and I found it immensely fun. The game had a great physics engine and no amount of in game "bullshit! That **** should have fucking died" could ever convince me otherwise. The shotgun was the weapon that gave the game longevity sure the trademark chainsaw was fun at first, but the fastpaced shotgun in a relatively slow game (compared to halo) kept it interesting and mastering that, along with the sniper and torque bow was something I really wanted to do on the way to 10 000 kills and seriously.

Maybe this next point is more about the Live community, rather than the actual game, but I maintain that it is such that it was unique to gears of war. The fact that I could join a game, 99% of the time having all Australians, nearly always lacking that annoying singing kid, there was teammwork in Gears of War and whereas every Call of Duty playlist could have an FFA chucked on the end of it (Lol Team Deathmatch Free For All - you know it's true) gears actually had people working together, communicating and making friends. I actually bring this down to the games mechanics which required teamwork to actually win 9 times of out 10. Add to that with the fact that one could always choose their host, so you never have to play in lag, it's always easy to get all your friends in a room at the same time on the map that you want.

I met 2 of my best friends in real life today on Gears of War and we all, as well as many many more who I can name, still maintain that Gears of War is the best console multiplayer game of the generation, if not of all time.

I went back to Gears of War on saturday night with some friends (for the first time in a few months) and it was honestly the most fun I've had on Live in ages, i still play Gears2 online alot rather than MW2 or Halo which bore me (and I really can't think of another multiplayer game that rivals either on 360).

Reading back through this I think I've given more sentimental reasons why I love this game, rather than reasons why you should like it, but honestly there are only 2 games ever made that I love more than Gears, this is the game that got me into online multiplayer 4 years ago and even the people I know who hate gears2 still love the first one, everytime we go back we say "damn this is fun, why did we leave" and it brings the same sentimental feelings to me that I get when going back to old N64 games from my childhood.

I think that is enough of an off topic post, just to keep something OT; I heard this one at tafe half an hour ago "I don't like guitar hero, because it's too hard."

 

[zombiejoe]

Me: Are you going to play GTA San Andreas?
Friend: 'Ourse no! The main charecter is black!
Me: So?
Friend: I wont play it...

O___O

Wow, just...wow...did the conversation just end after that?

 

[omgct]

I prefer to game on PC, not for any reason in particular, but what makes a game for me is story, how much effort you can tell was put in the game by the designers, the physics, and the control layout (especially hate it when its a bad layout and can't be customized) the best game of this current game generation was definitely metal gear solid 4, the level of detail, the story, the controls, physics and superb game play (although one could be forgiven for thinking of it more as an interactive movie ) 2 years later I'm still looking for a game as good (detail and story wise) but the worst thing a game designer can do is use a generic graphics engine instead of building their own (the unreal engine is WAY too overused)

 

[zombiejoe]

"Oh no thanks, I'm not interested in mindless violence and shooting people in the face over and over again."

THATS NOT THE GOD DAMN APPEAL OF SHOOTERS.

O___O
It's not?

lol

 

[tombman888]

Someone in my class hates TF2 because they think it is too generic...

 

[RowdyRodimus]

Anyone who said the art design puts them off...and that covers about 95% of the FF9 haters.

FFIX was the best in the series as far as I'm concerned. I always felt the art style was the best of the FFs on the PS1 (not counting the re-releases in the chronicles packs). Not to mention that the game itself was a great mix of the old and the new.

OT: I hate when I hear (usually by teenagers thinking they need to approve their manliness) that a game rated "E" can't be good. I also hate when I people complain about sprite based games (truthfully I hear that less and less as time goes on) and a game can't be fun if it isn't in 3D-they usually are the first people to complain about the camera oddly enough.

 

[Snotnarok]

People who hate games that are popular, just because they're popular. It's clearly a weak attempt for them to be different and to try to be cool.

Here's a thought, play the game and see if you like it, if you genuinely don't like it, NOW have reasons not to like it. (Like me with Killzone 2, played through it and hated it)