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Torillian said: 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. |
Trucks agreed with me, that the internet breeds stupidity. So even if stupidity existed before, it's worse today because people feed on it through anonymity and the soap-box nature of the internet, which in turn makes them more stupid. It's like anything, you feed it, it gets worse (or better, depending on what it is).
So I stand by my analysis that things were more magical back then. You will always have trolls, but my discussions on video games were more interesting (though less insightful I'll admit) than they are today online.
I can still remember chats I've had IRL about games like OoT, MGS and FFVII at the time which had much more meaning than some of the things I discuss online today. It's not a rule, but it's there for me. It could be where I was raised, or other things in my experience personally, but I would find "that's just your experience" hard to believe.
