While the majority of posts here tend to be entertaining and/or interesting and/or informative, this thing where people just go into random threads to complain about recent games they didn't like is starting to get old. It's frustrating when a big game comes out and a quarter of the posts are inevitably complaining about why someone didn't like the game with virtually no effort to make the post relevant.
When you complain that a game/sequel/series is the worst game/sequel/series you've ever played/seen/experienced/heard of, you're implicitly admitting that you have bad judgment/extremely limited experience/an inability to understand the topic of a thread.
In the last few weeks alone, I've seen a number of threads about "worst games", "worst gameplay", and "worst sequels". In each of them, a sizable minority, sometimes even a majority, of the posts are about recent games that people simply didn't like.
When you claim that Modern Warfare is the worst series ever created, you sound like a like you discovered video games last week. There are a lot of worse game series, so either you're passing judgment despite your hopeless inexperience, or you're completely ignoring the topic and using the thread as a soapbox to complain about things you don't like. Compare Modern Warfare to, for instance, the Big Mutha Truckers series.
When you claim that Dragon Age 2 is the worst sequel you've ever seen, you are either lying or you haven't gotten enough experience with games to see one of the truly, infamously terrible sequels in gaming history. Either way: awkward.
When you claim that Mass Effect 2 is the worst game you've ever experienced, you're either being an ass, or you've never been in a store long enough to see one of the dozens of "The Movie: The Game" games sitting on the shelf. It is exceedingly rare that any AAA title will ever even begin to approach the badness of something like E.T..
In every case, your attempt to shoehorn your complaints about a recent game are not just obnoxiously off-topic, they're also making you look like you have no idea what you're talking about in general.
To pretend like this isn't just soapboxing and is actually intended to be a discussion: Does this bother you too? (obligatory vaguely self-righteous question inviting people to start an argument
Am I somehow mistaken? Do you guys honestly not realize that you sound like this?
When you complain that a game/sequel/series is the worst game/sequel/series you've ever played/seen/experienced/heard of, you're implicitly admitting that you have bad judgment/extremely limited experience/an inability to understand the topic of a thread.
In the last few weeks alone, I've seen a number of threads about "worst games", "worst gameplay", and "worst sequels". In each of them, a sizable minority, sometimes even a majority, of the posts are about recent games that people simply didn't like.
When you claim that Modern Warfare is the worst series ever created, you sound like a like you discovered video games last week. There are a lot of worse game series, so either you're passing judgment despite your hopeless inexperience, or you're completely ignoring the topic and using the thread as a soapbox to complain about things you don't like. Compare Modern Warfare to, for instance, the Big Mutha Truckers series.
When you claim that Dragon Age 2 is the worst sequel you've ever seen, you are either lying or you haven't gotten enough experience with games to see one of the truly, infamously terrible sequels in gaming history. Either way: awkward.
When you claim that Mass Effect 2 is the worst game you've ever experienced, you're either being an ass, or you've never been in a store long enough to see one of the dozens of "The Movie: The Game" games sitting on the shelf. It is exceedingly rare that any AAA title will ever even begin to approach the badness of something like E.T..
In every case, your attempt to shoehorn your complaints about a recent game are not just obnoxiously off-topic, they're also making you look like you have no idea what you're talking about in general.
To pretend like this isn't just soapboxing and is actually intended to be a discussion: Does this bother you too? (obligatory vaguely self-righteous question inviting people to start an argument
Am I somehow mistaken? Do you guys honestly not realize that you sound like this?
