Even MORE Ryse

[Lulz]

JoeTheBro said:

Lulz said:

JoeTheBro said:
I thought everyone could do that?

I'm not even being sarcastic here. You can't look at a game and tell if it's enjoyable or not?

No, I cannot, and I seriously doubt the credibility of anyone that claims to be able to accurately critique or judge a game based on watching a video of the game, and nothing more.

I could give you a list as long as my arm of games that either exceeded or failed to meet my expectations based on trailers I'd seen leading up to the games. Just a couple fo examples would be Halo: Reach far exceeding my expectations, and Crysis 2 boring me to death when I thought it looked pretty good before I played it.

Trailers don't count of course. I'm referring to watching uninterrupted gameplay, like the live stream they did for Ryse.

Even then I like to try things myself. I'm a big Twitch.tv guy, and I watch all sorts of different games being played. The ones that look fun I try for myself, and sometimes they end up playing as well as they appear to on stream, other times they don't. 

I also don't put 100% faith in reviews because entertainment is largely subjective. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I just prefer to actually experience things before I judge them. I find it absurd to allow someone else to tell me how I am going to feel about something. I find it even more absurd to pass those opinions on as if they are my own. It's seems quite ridiculous to me when I see people on this forum spouting off about which games suck based on the opinion of other people that they have never even met.

Again, maybe I'm the strange one, and everyone that lets others tell them how they should feel are the normal ones.