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Torillian on 17 September 2012
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TruckOSaurus said:
happydolphin said:
TruckOSaurus said:

I can guarantee you that people were just as stupid back in '97 as they are now. It's just that back then the Internet was still kinda new, forums weren't as widespread and Facebook and Twitter didn't even exist. If the Internet had been as developped as it is now when Square made the decision to release Final Fantasy VII on PS1 we would have seen a shitstorm of epic proportion.

I spoke to quite a few people back then about games like FFVII and MGS as a Nintendo fan, and I can guarantee you that thoughts like this never even crossed my mind. To me, the internet brood this in people, it feeds that wolf inside of them that causes them to say stupid things. It wasn't like that prior to the net, usually it was limited to one or two trolls out of 15 normal people. That's my experience of the matter. Remember your school friends, people you talked about this with. Were things this stupid being said? I can't remember it.

 

Anonimity brings out the stupid in people. So yes, Internet is the perfect place for stupidity to breed but it's my opinion that these people were just as stupid before.


It's also a numbers game.  Out of the totality of people that played Bayonetta (roughly 2m) how many people have actually said stupid things on the internet?  Let's be generous and say there were 2000 separate people that said something stupid about the Wii U exclusivity.  That's still only .1% of the total so it absolutely makes sense that when you only talk to 15 you can easily find a group that are all acting completely rationally about the whole situation just like the bulk of Bayonetta fans are acting rationally about this one.  But on the internet you have a place where that .1% can all come together and make a big mess of things.  Anonimity brings out people's stupid, but I agree that it was there all the time and probably in the same amounts too.  And I definitely disagree with the idea that the N64 period was some magical time where people were smarter about these kinds of things, they just didn't have a forum to present their stupidity to the world.



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