I'm starting to lose a lot of trust in this site. It's getting very hard to turn the other cheek, but I find that the information that I get here seems to be laden with overblown, overhyped and obsessively supported opinions.
Not that I believe that mine, theirs, yours or anyone of our opinions really matters but I have noticed a severe problem. Just recently a review for Morrowind was posted by one of the people from XBA. They gave it 5s across the board and said that this was the bar, the marker to base every game made after it. I'm sorry but how is this game perfect?
A similar thing has happened with Bruce Lee. It has got nothing but poor marks everywhere else, but not XBA oh no, we'll give a half dead donkey with 3 legs a 5/5 just as long as I can play with it!
The support here is maniacal and it is aggrivating when I come here to seek information and all I find are a bunch of drones slobbering over the same ******* praise they regurgitate towards one another. When the site starts to do this as well I tend to believe that it has alterior motives. Whatever products seem to fall into the hands of anyone around here(for free mind you) it tends to be blown out of the water as the GREATEST thing of all time.
A lack lustre product that is below the level of quality we should be asking for, is praised as being the best...nothing could ever be better right? These are the people we are looking to for our information from the industry, a guide to what is out there because we don't have the time to be neck deep in video game information everyday. It's a great service to us all. But it seems that I'm getting the same level of over loved xbox slop as I get in OXM.
Knowing that products being put out in the market are destined to fail or succeed is the nature of the industry. I don't mind some form of praise that makes sense, that backs up its claims and has pertinant reason for being barked out. But the constant melting over this Xbox system has gone so far that its caused negative reinforced reaction. Again when praising a game I agree it is a good idea to touch on the great parts of a game for as much as it should be said...but totally ignoring the bad points is just silly. It's actually irresponsible in the view of say game sites/magazines/critics to the average user to fully endorse a game when it clearly has flaws. And you cannot even begin to defend or say that it is opinion because Morrowind was filled with a lot of mediocrity and frame rate problems and draw distance problems and repetitive gameplay problems and texture quality problems, etc.
I would have understood saying yes I like this game and it is what I was looking for in an RPG, give it its praise and then for those who actually think for themselves, point out the possible flaws, the mechanical flaws, the things you encountered during the experience and other points of interest. Not out and out just lambaste the damn thing with praise until it shines as the best steaming pile of crap this world has ever seen.
I'm only pointing this out because its going overboard and it's ruined this site for me. Hell it's ruined just about EVERY site for anything. People get in there just to have a voice, don't care what they are saying, just have a voice and spread their monotonous lies all over the canvas and watch all the sheep gobble it right up.
What happens when Unreal Tournament comes out, or Splinter Cell...hell Brute Force, Project Ego or even the next Halo come out? Give them all 5's too and say yeah BEST GRAPHICS EVER! And then claim that Morrowind is anywhere near them? How is Morrowind anywhere near Halo? Halo has basically no distance draw, clean and crisp textures, engaging gameplay, great controls, interactive environments, multiplayer ability, the list goes on...and it has also sold numerous amounts of units and was one hell of a launch title and could still stand on its own as a normal release none the less. And you rank Morrowind the same, top of the heap, nothing better right?
Whatever...take your blindness elsewhere. But what ****es me off is that it was HERE that did this. I can't believe you all take your gaming so seriously and yet you frivolously throw around your praise to the next best hype. And you'll all defend the site because it has all the give aways (promotions at its best) and all your other 'bretheren' in arms??? in the console race....oh my god get over it!
I don't take things so seriously, I don't 'support' my system with 'spirit' or 'excitement' as some die hards do around here. But when I try to research a little into how well a game fairs and all I get is this windbaggage form of critique, well it ****es me off that we'd all be so careless in what we say, especially when certain people here are part of a certain industry.
Blech....
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