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HylianSwordsman on 02 August 2019
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Barkley said:
HylianSwordsman said:

I love unlocking things too, but you're seriously telling me you'd rather spend more of your limited life and gaming time grinding the same shit over and over again? Let me guess, you like the sense of pride and accomplishment? Give me a break. You're in denial.

I would have played the games tons online whether there was anything to unlock or not.

On the subject of the grind.

"Mario Kart 7, Nintendo decided to make truly customizable vehicles. It went beyond the weight-class system of Mario Kart Wii to unlocking parts by, primarily, collecting Coins. Most races will also usually take about two minutes to four minutes, depending upon what happens in the track and its length. Mathematically put, you could have (20,000 / 7 * 2 / 60) hours of gameplay to (20,000 / 5 * 4 / 60) hours, depending on your own skill and ability to maintain these totals. (For the record, that is 95.2 ~ 266.6 hours, which averages out at around 175 hours.) By earning all 15,000 of those Coins, you'll have finally earned the majority of the kart parts for the customization process." 

95.2 - 226.6 hours to get enough coins to unlock all/most kart pieces in Mario Kart 7. Good job they didn't have microtransactions, thats much longer than Crash.

That's an irrelevant whataboutism argument. And first you like unlocking things, then you would have played it whether there was anything to unlock or not. Listen to yourself. This is just blind brand loyalty. If there was nothing to unlock, then either it was all unlocked from the beginning, which is fine so long as no content is sacrificed, or there's just less content, and you're saying you're fine with less content. Even if you are fine with that, it would still be a completely legitimate thing to criticize. But you'd defend even that, because it's not about the merits of the criticism for you, just about blindly defending a game you like no matter what is said.

Here's something you might be glad to hear. It's okay to like a game despite its flaws. You can criticize it without committing some kind of blasphemy. The microtransactions make the game worse, at least for some people, you have to admit that much, and to deny it is selfish blind loyalty at best and moral cowardice at worst. Why are you so afraid to accept criticism that's not even about you, just a game?