Torillian said:
starcraft said:
The bolded is a whole can of worms for another thread.
I am not saying that people shouldn't make lists. I am also not saying that when people make lists, they shouldn't make lists that include any and all games they want to include.
If someone already believes a console's success cannot be explained by the games on the system, they are hardly going to be convinced by a comprehensive list of games they have never heard of. Oreshika was by those few accounts I have heard of it, a pretty decent game. For every pretty decent low-key game, you're going to get a lot more not-at-all decent low-key games.
The last paragraph...I guess thats a matter of opinion? When someone says the PS4 has no games, I (and evidently a lot of others) view that as hyperpole indicating it does not have high profile games in any great quantity - given its self-evident that the console does in fact have games, being a gaming console.
TL:DR - If people think a console doesn't have many great games, creating a list of games they haven't heard of or are not great won't change their mind of behaviour - but simply perpetuate the pissing contest.
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If people state a console has "no games" regardless of what they mean then they should expect a list of games in response because that is the perfectly rational counterpoint. If they don't want a list of games in retaliation they should probably just shut the fuck up. I mean if I say "Xbox sucks dick" isn't that just hyperbole and what I mean is "the xbox doesn't have enough unique games that fall within my preferred genres to make the purchase worthwhile". But no, you get moderated because you decided to put your presumably rational opinion in a vindictive and offensive way, and so the same goes for "PS4 has no games".
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I agree with you, but I don't think our two points are mutually exclusive.
Is someone says something has no games, and that something is a games console, I am going to know its hyperbole. At the same time, if I like that games console I am going to hit them with a list of games, as you said.
But, I believe nine times out of ten, they were already aware of any and all games that could ever have conceivably changed their mind. So regardless of the fact I couldn't help myself, sending them that list of games was a waste of my time. Tomorrow, they are going to tell someone else that the games console I like has no games, and they are still going to mean it in some general sense, and that someone else is going to send them the same list I did.