Developers Weigh In On The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild's Brilliance

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onionberry said:

pokoko said:

Bullshit.  What you're trying to do is obvious.  Your line about how everyone in the world loves it except forum goers made that crystal clear.  It's just poisoning the well.  If anything is blowning things out of proportion, it's the response to criticism and the need to assassinate the character of anyone who breaks formation.

worse than that is the people who criticize the game WITHOUT playing the game and the people who say the game "is not that good" without playing the game, any game.

I'd argue the opposite. Declaing a game "bad" without playing it is certainly petty and ridiculous, but dismissing someone else's opinion and going after their character for having an opinion that differs with yours is far worse because it's a personal attack. As a rather silly example, if I say "I hate chocolate milkshakes" without having tried a chocolate milkshake, I'm being spiteful, but my spite is only directed against a specific item. However, if I go after a person or a group of people who dislike chocolate milkshakes and decry them all of them as simply holding some ulterior motive for criticizing milkshakes, as if there is no room to both have a well thought out opinion and still dislike chocolate milkshakes, is orders of magnitude worse. Why? Because I'm directly going after the people themselves, not the object. I'm ignorantly insulting the people instead of the product, and wrongly insulting a person is in nearly every instance going to be worse than insulting an object.