Better question, who here has liked the exact same things, exactly the same way, ever since you first experienced it? Sex, pizza, your first car, your first kiss, that toaster over that only worked on one side. Love fades, old problems are looked back on with nostalgia, and our subjective view of the world is only that, subjective, and ever changing
Maybe, the medium and part of its audience is so reflexive against such notions that even just discussing this notion is intellectualism and critical analysis for the level of discussion and discourse regarding the medium. I mean, this is the medium where "walking simulator" came from and where people say stuff like Journey or Gone Home aren't games or are critic bait.
I don't think it's a better question just because it's the one you'd rather ask.
But I'm sure you reserve the right to change your mind about that in the future.
I used literally incorrectly. Apologies. Regardless, the article is completely unnecessary. I mean, no shit you can change your mind? Why did he feel compelled to write an article about it? I mean, its good clickbait. "I couldn't find anything wrong with God of War, but I might!"
He's a writer. There's no limited space in which he has to be picky about what he wants to write about.
He should have just wrote "dear diary." But hey, if it gets clicks for Waypoint, then by all means. Do what needs to be done.
You could say that about any thinkpiece on the internet. Why levy it against this one?
Personally there are some posts I can only take before I need to cut it off and move on. Any post that goes into extreme hyperbole, which there are A LOT, I can't even begin to start a discussion and I just pretend it was never posted.
Did you think this was funny? Like, when you finished making it, you just a "Yeah!" motion with your fist and thought "I got him now!"
Whatever gets clicks. Which is obviously what this piece is. I think it makes the author look a little goofy, but thats not reason not to write something.
Oh, I guess you are right. It was just packaged up in a bit of a disingenuous way as to use a big popular title name, then really talk about another game, then sort of talk about the overall point. But hey, not my website.
This is a good example of why, when this kind of response is a possibility towards such a seemingly obvious and reasonable notion. Oh, he says he might change his opinion in the future, he has no backbone
Are you not going to answer seriously? You keep repeating that the piece is unnecessary and that fact bothers you. What defines necessity? Are you just going to retreat into whining victimization?
An opinion of a game is more than how the gameplay is. Themes and story and the like is just as important as the gameplay in what impacts a person and what makes something appeal to them
Using a prior example to frame the state of mind which you relate to a hot new thing doesn't sound particularly unheard of. Again, what is the problem?
It's not about if the game is good or not. It's about viewing something in a different light, from another angle, with a new perspective.
Gameplay is never what solely defines a game. Especially not on a scale like God of War which, by the creator's own admitted ambition, wanted to touch on fatherhood, masculinity, and more.
There is a timing element to this. Having been so fresh off the heels of the real review, it seems like he is hedging against his future-self. He may have missed some thing in the game that deserves criticism, he can't identify it, but wants to make sure he can come back and say he said he might change his mind! But see below.
I was being serious.
It usually takes time to process how you really feel about something. Yeah, your first time is your genuine reaction but your also not thinking critically to evaluate. Your kind of just living the moment. This is why people are constantly skeptical of festival showings of movies or any early premier of a DC movie cuz your caught up in the hype and the surprise that it sometimes blinds you. It doesn't have to change your overall opinion on something. I still like Infinite. I also don't love it as much as I did when I first played it, but I still like it. The "wow" factor isn't their anymore and what I'm left with is a story that kind of sucks and a setting with lost potential. I consider that to be my final thoughts on the game years later.
This thread isn't filled with anything as extreme as your example and yet it made him hit the limit. Is there zero faith that the mods curate discussions? Manually blocking a 1000 people is simply absurdly extreme and sounds like he'd want the board to be something it isn't.
There's no shortage of glowing critical reaction to it. Plenty of people were over the moon on it.
So he's supposed to say "I liked a thing" and never further reflect on it upon other people sharing their own perspectives on it?
No problem. There is nothing offensive about the article. Its just an article. It would not have been something I would write, but it is something this author would write (obviously). And onward we go.
I know some people that still really enjoy it because of its gameplay. The content and themes of the story doesn't bother them in a way that would prohibit that.
I still can't believe why. Yeah the story was really interesting and the art direction was top tier but that's it. The terrible encounters design made the game a really meh experience for me. I really can't understand why everyone rated it so high.
Yup, some of my favorite games are games that I didn't like very much the first time I played them so yeah, I understand what Klepek is saying.
