Mass Effect and Halo hate

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mrstickball said:
Sigh. Let me take the side of the anti-hyped games, and such.


I think with any game, it comes down to a few sensibilities about a given game:

With an ultra-highly rated, revolutionary game in a given genre that someone loves (ie, a WRPG fan being madly in love with Mass Effect, or a FPS person liking Halo 3 and Bioshock), we have come to have a deep-rooted respect for the given game.

So when someone dissents out of personal opinion, it attacks our strong feelings about our enjoyment of a game. Millions of people spend vastly more time on Halo 3 than probably every single Wii game combined around the world. Yet despite that, Halo 3 isn't the be-all end-all of games. It has it's flaws, but also has a great multiplayer environment. However, not everyone likes that.

Mass Effect is the same way. It has a ton of shooter elements in it. Approaching Mass Effect, I have always been leary of the idea of adding too much TPS elements, and muddying the waters of what a quality RPG is. Now, in my case, I'm trying to get beyond that (ie, an elongated Gears of War with quests). However, for some, they cannot get beyond that, as it stabs their beloved Final Fantasy, and such in the back.


I've experienced something just as heinous: all the Blue Dragon bashing. It's a near-flawless gem of a Japanese RPG. Nearly perfect in every way, backed by a rabid fanbase of owners that realize how truely awesome this RPG is. Despite this, it's had bad reviews (77% avg), and alot of stupid bashing from these forums. Does it make me mad? Of course it does, expecially when idiots attack it that don't realize that they're missing out on a Dragon Quest and/or Final Fantasy-level RPG.

But then I realize: it really shouldn't matter what other's think. The people that bash these games DO NOT OWN A 360. Not only that, they'll never buy one: they're too stupid to do that. Because of that, I can't worry. They are just going to have to miss out on the fantastic library of games that they'd probably love if they got off their N-tard or Sonyfan rockers, and tried the library. Likewise, I am sure I miss a few great Wii games with my bias to the X360.

That's just life. Get over it. The X360, from reviewers, is the king of quality gaming. If the 60% of people on this forum that consider the Wii the best system of the next gen's + handhelds want to ignore and bash the X360, that's fine. I'm the one laughing because I haven't had a video game drought since the X360 launched. They have had to trudge through crap game after crap game thrown at them.

So in the end, I smile. I get Mass Effect, they don't. And that's the sweetest victory: denying your enemy a chance to enjoy themselves as they play Mario Party 8 and their Boogie-esque games while I enjoy Sakaguchi and Mass Effect.

I'm sorry, but I seem to be sensing a case of video game snobbery over here. You enjoy your Mass Effect, your Halo 3, your Blue Dragon. You're more than welcome to. I don't think you need to say that I am "too stupid to buy an Xbox360". In fact, I prefer to think I'm too smart to buy an Xbox360, Because I'm not interested in spending $560 for it when I'm only interested in two games for it, (one of which is getting released for PC).

There seems to be this strange idea that people (such as myself) dislike these games because they are on the 360. That I really want to play this game but for some unknown reason, I have too much Nintendo fandom that I cannot go out and purchase an Xbox 360 to play them, so I must convince myself I don't want them. Nothing is further from the truth. I am simply not interested in Blue Dragon. I am not interested in Gears of War. I am not interested in Halo 3. And it is because of this disinterest that I do not own an Xbox 360. It's as simple as that.

So enjoy your games, and I'll enjoy mine. Don't think I'd be happy with the "king of quality gaming". Don't think I'm disappointed by the Wii's software drought, because from my viewpoint, the PS3 and 360 have had much worse software droughts. And don't call me stupid for not agreeing with you.