Stupidest reason to shoot down a game

[Bored Tomatoe]

I hate it when people rail on a game because it's not polished to a mirror sheen and is kind of rough around the edges, especially when it's something really fresh and imaginative that had to be done on a bit of a lower budget than triple A american titles.

 

[CoverYourHead]

It's popular, so it sucks. Yes, I understand not all popular things are great, but sometimes things are popular because they're good at something. Judge it for yourself, don't hate it because it's cool to hate the popular crowd.

 

[Spectre4802]

Graphics rank pretty high on the worst reasons to judge a game. I know people who avoid perfectly good games just because of graphics.
It's makes my blood boil. Especially if they favour the lastest f#cking Halo game over it.


The whole "Xbox exclusive game? Bah, it'll be crap" is mostly said by people who, obviously, don't have an Xbox. I suffer from this.

It's because it isn't released on the computer and us computer gamers can't play it. Instead of saying "damn, that really sucks for me" or contemplating bying an Xbox (which I'll never do - controllers and I don't mix), we tell ourselves the game will be crap so we don't feel like we're missing out on anything.

 

[Megacherv]

I have a new one:-

"It's too over the top"

This is whilst we're discussing Portal...which is quite a simplistic game if you compare it to a lot of games nowadays.

This same person also said that the Ratchet & Clank games were "for 3-year-olds who hadn't developed motor skills"...twat...

 

[feather240]

So yesterday, I was at a friends, and he brought up E3.
Friend: So what was your favorite part of it?
Me: Seeing Goldeneye, I'll finally get to play it on the wii!
Friend: It's gonna suck.
Me: Why?
Friend: The graphics suck, and it's on the wii.
Me: So?
Friend: To me, graphics are the most important part of a game, and the Wii probably couldn't even run Halo 3!

Your stupid reasons?

You summed it up right there, people that think graphics are everything and don't care about the storyline or gameplay are shallow and need to learn theres more to life then shiny lights. Thats not to say graphics arnt apart of a good game, but at the end of the day its not the be all and end all.

I'm very shallow then. It doesn't have to have wonderful graphics, but it can't be too blocky.

 

[Ih8pkmn]

"That game causes violence!"

I am going to personally mail a piece of my fecal matter to a certain ex-Florida lawyer if I hear this again.

 

[Sylveria]

My stupid reason is usually the art style. I've played a lot of games that were "good" but the art style just turned me off. FF9 and Dragonquest 8 are two of my more notable ones. I also drop a game faster than a sack of wet rocks if I don't like the appearance of the main characters. Star Ocean 4 fit that bill.. other than the game sucking on it's own merits, having to star at Edge in his retarded orange and white pseudo space armor for 40+hrs was gonna be agonizing.

The reason I find most confusing for dropping a game is graphics (which I realize saying I do it cause of art style is somewhat hypocritical). I guess if you've been spoiled by fancy latest gen stuff, getting on a game with sprites or lower resolution may make it seem "ugly." But, more often than not, those sprite based games slashed their graphics budget to make a really compelling game (see almost anything Nippon Ichi Software puts out). Graphics are the lowest common denominator and games that put all their focus into that * and have really shitty gameplay *cough* Final Fantasy 13 *cough think the buyer is only interested in the bright lights and colors.

 

[A Playful Shark]

Yes, a game being on the wii is a good reason to shoot it down.
The better wii games don't use the shitty motion control.

Metroid was alright, but the controls were still hard to use.
Having a game on the wii eliminates the entire fps genre, i honestly think it can't be done.

 

[Lamppenkeyboard]

Siants Row 2: "The story sucks and it isn't as realistic as GTA IV"

He hadn't ever even seen the game.

 

[OmegaXzors]

"The reviewers said it was terrible"

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

I'd pay to see you do that. I demand you yell "NOM NOM NOM!" as you do it.

A lot of people usually compare any shooter to Halo or Call of Duty, shooting down all of them. I usually like to ask people to play a game first before judging it. Of course, a lot of people in this world didn't deserve to be the fastest swimmer.

 

[Redemption003]

"It looks childish" has to be one I get fairly annoyed at. Just because a game has pretty bright colours doesn't mean it won't be fun and (heaven forbid) actually a good game.

I also had a friend that wouldn't play Morrowind at first because he hated the combat system (he's ok with playing it now strangely), whereas I personally think that it adds to the feel of the game. That's just how I see it though, not really a stupid reason to hate it I guess.

 

[bulbasaur765]

My nephew (around 10 yrs) said he didn't like Pokemon Sapphire because its too hard.

 

[omega_peaches]

Yes, a game being on the wii is a good reason to shoot it down.
The better wii games don't use the shitty motion control.

Metroid was alright, but the controls were still hard to use.
Having a game on the wii eliminates the entire fps genre, i honestly think it can't be done.

Also, using your logic, I can say that Megaman 1,2,3,4,9 and 10 all suck because they are on the wii.

 

[Always_Remain]

Here's a great part of a conversation I was having with my Anti-Anime/RPG/JRPG friend.

Friend: What game you playing?
Me: Sigh. It's called Disgaea.
Friend: *watches me play it* lol wtf. You barely even move your character and it's all anime-ish. I bet it's an RPG too.
Me: Yeah. A tactical PRG.
Friend: That sounds pretty gay. Everything RPG related should go die in a fire.
Me: Guess that means Fallout 3 and Borderlands should too right?
Friend: . . . Well anime is still fag-tastic.
Me: Ever look at some art for the Zelda games? Link often is drawn in a anime way. His character models look anime-ish too. Oh then there is Pokemon which you love . . That probably should be burned too I guess.
Friend: . . . . . Fuck.
ME: Owned =D

Basically I dislike it when people say that anything with RPG elements is horrible.

 

[Yoshemo]

People who refuse TF2 because "cartoons r 4 baybeez"

 

[Johnny Cain]

Considering every graphics system not running on the patented Modern Warfare 'Brown-o-mat' shit and not worth two pennies.

 

[omega_peaches]

Yes, a game being on the wii is a good reason to shoot it down.
The better wii games don't use the shitty motion control.

Metroid was alright, but the controls were still hard to use.
Having a game on the wii eliminates the entire fps genre, i honestly think it can't be done.

Also, using your logic, I can say that Megaman 1,2,3,4,9 and 10 all suck because they are on the wii.

I think what he meant was pretty obvious.
So i guess we can't say virtua-boy sucks or we're also saying every mario tennis game sucks.

Not all Mario Tennis games are on the Virtua-Boy.

 

[A Playful Shark]

Yes, a game being on the wii is a good reason to shoot it down.
The better wii games don't use the shitty motion control.

Metroid was alright, but the controls were still hard to use.
Having a game on the wii eliminates the entire fps genre, i honestly think it can't be done.

Also, using your logic, I can say that Megaman 1,2,3,4,9 and 10 all suck because they are on the wii.

So i have to buy an extra controller? I have enough shit lying around.

Also, read my post. Do the mega man games use motion control? No. They're fine.

 

[onewheeled]

One of my online buddies went into a GameCrazy, actually held The Orange Box for 360 in his hands, and turned it down because the box art and screenshots on the back looked boring. He's just like "You said Portal and TF2 are amazing, but the pictures on the back looked GAAAAAAAAAY!"

So he bought Fable 2, which I had previously recommended to not buy, as it got very boring very fast for me.

 

[Liquid Paradox]

Probably because its a genre you don't like, if people dared stray out their precious comfort zone they'd be a lot better off

I have to disagree with you on this one, or at least offer a slightly modified version.

You see, I don't play sport games/racing games/fighting games/Real time strategy. One might say they are "Outside of my comfort zone." But in all fairness, I don't plat these games simply because the objective doesn't appeal to me. For example, sport games: Heck, I don't even like real sports! Or racing? Feels boring to me.

However, some people refuse to play a certain genre of game just because. I at least have given all genre's a chance. Well.. except for Rapelay.