Is There Something Wrong With Me?

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Magazine critcism-the display of opinions. As I looked at my latest issues of video game magazines, I notice that I seem to like games that these editors shoot down. Huh...do I have bad taste or something? I always feel like there's something wrong with me. Do any of you guys go through bouts like this?


....Actually, I'm probably just rambling on.

[John Mora]

Re: Is There Something Wrong With Me?

If you have bad taste, do what Red Dragon does and ignore everyone else in order to cope with it.

[Ωbright]

Re: Is There Something Wrong With Me?

Some of my favorite games were heavily panned by the critics (Virtual Hydlide), so I know how you feel. It just means that we're freaks, that's all.

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: Is There Something Wrong With Me?

People have different tastes? Video game magazines are quite possibly exceptionally biased to the large market games and the "quirky, indie" games? They get PAID to reward certain games with high score reviews?

But perhaps you just have a layman's taste and the social inadequacy you present can't fathom the cultural significance to the games they rant and rave about. And maybe their reviews are appealing to the lowest common denominator, and you happen to be a step or several steps above.

Perhaps our society is to blame. We are a failing society after all.

[John Mora]

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[waits for Karr]

:3

[Toaster]

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Nothing's wrong with you, it's just that your tastes aren't that refined.

Which can be a blessing, in ways. I'm way too picky and find faults in just about every game. It's because I look at games from a design standpoint and it's easy for me to say "that doesn't work" or "that's not right". I look at games as a cohesive experience and everything should work together--my main example will be Chrono Cross. A beautiful game in a lot of respects but it really falls apart at the seems under closer inspection and in it's execution. So by having refined tastes you'll just be taking the joy out of a lot games. This is why as people get older, they tend to enjoy videogames less and less. Have you ever gone back and played a game you once really liked and said to yourself "WTF was I thinking?"

So you happen to fall under the Lion Franco / Red Dragon camp. There's nothing wrong with that. You're just easier to please (I guess).

[John Mora]

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Having refined tastes also means you can respect and even enjoy the mess that is Chrono Cross' pacing. n__n

[Ωbright]

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'Critics' are any people with an opinion that can form a sentence, and the second rule is very lax.

[Toaster]

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Having refined tastes also means you can respect and even enjoy the mess that is Chrono Cross' pacing. n__n

Which is very counterintuitive, to say the least.

I enjoyed the game a lot, in retrospect only though. It just leaves me wondering "what could have been".

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: Is There Something Wrong With Me?

Why are we still discussing this? Society is to blame, end of topic.

[Toaster]

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Why are we still discussing this? Society is to blame, end of topic.

What the hell does that even mean?

[Biggie]

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Its all just a difference of opinion. Besides, most poeple think a score like a 7 is bad, when that normally means good. Hell, 5 is average. I don't think bad of bad scores, they are there to warn you not to go waste your sixty bucks.

And if you disagree with the masses, then just come here and tell them why.

[Ryner]

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The average game magazine has the integrity of a spank sock.

[Big Rick Cook]

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There's some cross-topic poking at Karr going on here, Toasty.

[Toaster]

Re: Is There Something Wrong With Me?

There's some cross-topic poking at Karr going on here, Toasty.

Ok. For a second I thought you were actually serious.