binary solo said:
You conveniently ignore the caveat to make a useless retort. If you were only physically capable of doing 4 sit ups a year ago and you can now do 5 that is impressive, your physical capacity for doing sit ups has increased 25%. Consider a stroke victim for instance, making improvements in physical capacity of what would normally be considered as slight is impressive. Sure if you are capable of doing 100 sit ups but you only did 4 last year and did 5 this year that's pathetic on both counts. What's impressive is relative to ones own capacity, if you exceed what you were previously capable of then that is generally an impressive achievement. If you want some absolute comparison then nothing is impressive unless it beats CoD / GTA opening weeks. |
There you have it. With that stroke victim example you are now getting closer to the actual definition of "impressed" - making a strong impression, all things considered. In your next example you say "significantly improve" which is also importat point. CoD/GTA comparison is pointless, simply significantly exceeding expectations can make a strong impression. This is all common sense so I don't know why you decided to lecture others with your own absolute definition. I was expecting MGSV to do better and split between PS4 and X1 tells us it failed to attract xbox gamers so I can't really call myself impressed. Of course it's UK only so far.
But hey, Xbox One is tracking ahead of 360 so far, I'd expect you to describe Xbox One sales as "impressive" from now on :)
