Game Of The Year Tracker 2020 - The Last Of Us Part II - Now Most Awarded Game of All Time!

[DonFerrari]

Chazore said:

JWeinCom said:

I certainly haven't deflected any criticism of TLOU2. As established, I haven't played the game so I generally don't know if any particular criticism is valid or not.

I don't know what being a mod has to do with anything. I have not moderated you, nor have I threatened to. And, I've never moderated anyone just for speaking negatively about a game they haven't played. Not speaking for other mods, but my response to you was simply in my personal capacity telling you that I found your analogy to be shitty. Which is demonstrated by the fact that you can't actually defend it in any meaningful way except to point at other people.

As explained, you can indeed make a decision based on reviews or lets plays or whatever. In deciding whether or not to buy the game, that's the best information you could get (unless you can play it for free) so you got to go with it. That's what I did. But, since I only read reviews and watched gameplay videos, I recognize that my information is limited, and won't make any statement more bold than "I didn't think I'd enjoy it based on what I saw/read". Generally, if I haven't played a game, I'm not going to comment on its overall quality. Which again, isn't a an official rule, but I think a pretty sensible way to act. 

I'm assuming you'd agree the best way to have an informed opinion on a game is to play it. Watching videos of it would be a very distant second. Reading/listening to the assessment of someone who has played the game is a really distant third. Reading the assessment of someone who has only watched the game and read accounts from players is an incredibly distant fourth. 

No, I wasn't referring to threat of moderation, but more of you having these kind of talks with those who "spoke ill" (which is what I'm getting from you and 3 others in this thread so far) of games they haven't played on other platforms (PC included, and there's a lot on this site who don't play on PC for that matter, ergo, not having played those games that never touched consoles).

For another, yes I actually can, just saying "your shitty analogy" and "can't defend it", doesn't make it so. You and 3 others, who all just happen to love this one game, and defend it to bits, think it's "fucking shitty".

Information is only as limited as what you decide to look for and how long for. There are plenty of LP's on Youtube and other sites, giving you literal start to end, full cheevos, full walkthroughs to give you every nook and cranny of story to watch. Again, you chose to look for a few, and thus your information is limited in scope, no ifs or buts, it is limited in scope due to your choices.

I haven't participated in American voting, yet I'm able and right to comment on how shitty it's turnout was, or the riots that followed afterwards, and I'm not even from the US. People on here freely shit on PC's games because it's all "MMO's and RTS", without having played many a game on there, let alone those two types of genres, and yet they freely are able to toss out whatever ill informed comment they make.

No, I do not agree, because I'm actually able to find information I want and when I choose to. Just because you didn't, doesn't change my opinion, and from our previous interaction, I can tell you and me are going to disagree a lot, so I'm just going to leave it at that. 

I have played about 60h of TLOU2 to plat it, and read some reviews and participated in some discussions about the game. Are you seriously trying to say you put more hours researching for this game without playing? Even though you have no interest in playing it? Confess you just searched for negative opinions and pig back on them without really knowing if they are true issues or just the opinion of others you decided to carry over?

BraLoD said:

DonFerrari said:

Same with me, wasn't to keen on playing it, and it started a little slow for the first couple hours but ended up liking it a lot.

It really didn't interest me pre release, I played the demo and found the combat quite good but the game felt like it would be pretty bland and if the combat was all there was to it I would skip it.

We had Nioh, Horizon and Persona coming all close together and Nier really didn't catch my eye so I didn't pick it up at launch like I did with those, but @estebxx kept telling me how good it was (he was hyping it to me since before launch) and later in 2017 I went and picked it up, and boy oh boy that thing was amazing.

It's one of my 10/10 this past gen. Absolute masterpiece.

My problem on starting it I don't think had to do with the games that launched close to it, I think it was more like "never heard of it and most jrpg I played didn't impacted me besides FF" I think it was like that at that moment. Then I was at a moment of low backlog and tried it and liked. Can't remember for sure but I think it was this. I probably bought it for like 10USD in a travel on the basis of "metacritic isn't to low and price is very good, may as well try it".