JazzB1987 said:
This has nothing to do with being desperate tho. No need to tell myself that I am special because most people that dont like mainstream actually are. (even if special is just used as SPECIAL rather than superior) but that works both ways. Some people feel special because they are e.g vegetarians. And the "normalos" think the vegetarians are stupid and the "normalos" are superior.
I avoid mainstream as much as possible. Pop culture, drinks or food, I dont like chart music and dont like MichaelBay movies etc.I hate DLC (no addons tho! Episodes from Liberty City, MK8 stuff or Borderlands2 Tiny Tinas Assalt on DragonsKeep is awesome)
But on the other hand I "dis"like dude-bros as much as emos or punks or hipsters or whatever. I see no point in trying to be anti-mainstream by being part of another stream. Whats the point in being an individual when you want to be like other people?
I do my own thing and do have punks and emos and dude-bros and hipsters etc etc. all of them as friends. They dont like each other sometimes but thats their problem not mine.
But enough of me :)
Not all games today are bad.
There is new games I really like but those are rare the most games are just meh IMO.Because they are a completely unpolished mess.
I like Borderlands1+2 (dont like PreSequel because it seems to be a cashgrab) I like Xenoblade. If GTA5 would not be a 25FPS game I would also like that (Waiting for the PC version)
IMO Respect where respect is due and if people dont understand that retro gaming deserves respect I dont have a high opinion on them. I for myself HATE Super Mario Bros. I cannot play that game because of those strange controls. But I understand why they are the way they are and would never say the game is crap even tho it took me a long time to finish that game.
And if you liked old school gaming you cant tell me that you are not annoyed by the fact that todays games are made for mainstreamers and so everyone has to deal with streamlining because people cant think for themselves etc.
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I never played any games released before 1995 so... unless you consider that old-school enough... I never played NES/SNES games, I was a PSX kid.
And I'm afraid my taste in games evolved with the times perfectly. I played (relatively) old games, hard and unforgiving and I enjoyed the crap out of them and I play today's "streamlined games for mainstreamers" and enjoy the crap out of those, too. So... no, I'm not annoyed at all.
See, mainstream is mainstream for a reason. I don't really care if what I enjoy is mainstream or not. I like non-mainstream music, I like old cars, I'm interested in things nobody else cares about... but I do watch Michael Bay movies (except Transformers, I mean come on 
). There is a thin line between someone who by coincidence dislikes everything mainstream and a confirmed contrarian... I don't know where to put you yet.
Oh, and Super Mario... you see, most modern platformers are better than that in all objective aspects, the only things playing for Mario are that at the time, it was the best of its kind and that we played it as kids. So it really depends on how you define "better games". If you discount "innovation value" and nostalgia value, it's not really that impressive, is it?
