Do you ever hate game forums?

[Doobie_wop]

Yakuzaice said:

Doobie_wop said:

A few examples of game forum stupidity would be colourful games. Everyone cries about how games aren't colourful enough, games aren't unique enough, everythings an FPS and so on, but then when a colourful, unique game that isn't an FPS is shown, it's criticised to hell and bombs. Enslaved is a perfect example. It's a game that tries to do things differently and when the first screenshots were released, forums like Neogaf, IGN and Giant Bomb started shitting all over the game, with some people saying it's too colourful. Then as soon as a brown shooter is released, those very sites have massive threads discussing and praising games like Call of Duty, Gears of War 2, Bad Company 2, Medal of Honour and then they all look forward to upcoming games like Battlefield 3, SOCOM 4, Gears of War 3 and Killzone 3. 

This is just silly.  Enslaved didn't bomb because it was colorful, it bombed because it was a short single player game that wasn't really anything special, and people didn't want to pay $60 for that.  Actually I guess this is the perfect example of forum stupidity since you ignore games like LittleBigPlanet 2, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Gran Turismo 5, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Cataclysm, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Minecraft, etc.  Those are just fairly recent games, and even then there are tons more.  None of those are brown FPSs, yet they all sold well and are generally liked on forums.

Makes it seem like you just hate Call of Duty's success.  If you think games aren't colorful enough then stop playing brown first person shooters, those aren't the only games on the market.

I personally have nothing against brown shooters. Hell, I buy every Call of Duty that get's released and Killzone 3, Gears 3 and a whole plethora of shooters are on my wishlist for the year. I used Enslaved as an example, not as a generalisation of all titles with colour. Part of my argument that I forgot to add was that people always talk about how everything is an FPS and they are all brown and gray, yet as you've shown, there are plenty of colourful titles that get released every year. 

I have nothing against what the buyers buy, I'm against the people whining about the lack of colour, innovation, JRPGS or whatever on the market, but then never go out of their way to pick up any of titles that satisfy their apparent demands.