lestatdark said:
I also don't agree with Halo being the most overrated series, but isn't that scenario just as bad as this one? These lists brings out the apparent splits between the major groups in videogames fans today. It's a shame that such split exists. |
The scenario I described is what happens. People use games as ammo in fanboy wars, to persuade people to one console or another. You can't get an accurate assessment here. Also "most overrated" is more of a measure of how much someone deviates from a crowd of followers behind a game. Any game that has a large following, that someone doesn't like, is considered most overrated.
Splits happen because you end up having teens whom will have parents buy only one console for, and then they hope and feel it has to matter, and have sufficient support and they made the right choice. They face peer pressure and the like. The devotion takes on religious overtones.
My personal experience, which is hinted at by my avatar symbol, is back to the 8 bit computer wars. I happened to be Atari all the way, and watch the Commodore 64 trounce it in sales, and it not get the same support. I said "never again" would I be that partisan. ANd I did, over time, I did get a Commodore 64 for my gaming interests.
However my experience as being partisan does remain, even if it is to a lesser degree. I will own up to my biases, but I still try to call a "spade a spade" and give credit to good things, wherever they are (I praise certain PS3 exclusives I liked, and also characters in them). But I have a tendency to side with the new guy in stuff. I did go to Sega over Nintendo with the Genesis. I did find the original Playstation really cool. And then sided with the Dreamcast in regards to games. I do run into shepples who side with the masses and gloat about stuff. And their trolling champions get annoying actually. When I saw the Dreamcast go down, I endured garbage posts by the Blig Merks/Omarichus (Usenet posts) of the world, who decided to say how anyone but Sony sucked (and Sega was doomed). And then there was me with the Jaguar on the last hurrahs, and Peter Sinclair in the Atari usenet group. Well, I do end up usually own everything in the end.
To say now I don't have some delight in Sony being third, would be a lie. I do feel a bit glad that things did turn around on that, and hope Sony does finish third. It does come out of partly wanting to see the trolling fanboys get theirs, but also that companies don't do what Sony did with the PS3 again, by pricing it so high that it is unreasonable to buy.
The splits will exist, so long as there are multiple standards people commit to. Key is for people to own up to such biases, and make sure they don't get in the way of benefitting others with what you say.
