| DMeisterJ said: This game was damned if it did, and damned if it didn't. People were going to find reasons to dislike this game whether it was or wasn't a masterpiece. The fact of the matter is that people will make excuses for, and for not liking any game on any console. It's what people do all the time. It's called "marginalizing". People have to bring other games down on other systems, since they don't want to admit that a game is good (or bad), and it's what's always happened. As long as the people who are happy with the game, are happy, good for them. |
And incidentally people like you will find any reason to defend it.
Expectations for this game where high so its only natural that the awkward end product would prompt some mixed reactions. People will debate just how high those expectations were, but not everyone with reservations about this game are out to take Sony down a notch or marginalize a PS3 victory. Say what you want about people like myself but stop lumping the rest of this forum into the same category simply for being realistic about a game that is very much a mixed bag.
In truth, none of this is even really about defending MGS4 as a good game is it? It's really more about defending your self-entitled expectation of being able to celebrate this game with others (no matter how it did) unabaided by naysayers. I'm sorry the balloons and streamers weren't waiting for you when you logged online, I'm sorry there wasn't a banner pasted across the VG chartz logo saying, "Congratulations PS3, you've earned it!" to welcome people to the site, but stop attacking people for wanting to discuss the game as something other than Mana from Heaven. For God sake not everyone is out to slight Sony and the PS3!
