- BadJMan
- |
- Exalted Legendary Member
Posted by: TIGHCLOPS
"I don't really like participating in community threads because they almost always reek of hypocrisy. I will, however, comment on the high horse attitude with regard to discussion on graphics.
Unconditional loyalty to companies is a phenomenon particular to gaming that seems to have supplanted measuring the size of one's e-peen. Bungie.net is a striking example of this, and that's where the high horse comes in. People, for whatever reason, take pride in the fact that they are satisfied with the way things are looking (read: they have low standards, often love old-school stuff, and somehow feel superior because they blithely ignore the importance of good art), that they feel every suggestion or critique is a base attack which they would never resort to (they aren't big enough fans to want improvement), or that they'll take whatever Bungie gives them because they're diehard fans and it's good because Bungie says so, not the other way around. It's especially amusing when so many make it so obvious that they have some bizarre hope that Achronos will see their post and will rub his chin and go hmmm, that guy sure is a true fan. And it's even worse when they start making ridiculous claims about GoW.
And as far as formally voiced opinions, you can't really argue that that's a common feature of those posts in defense of Bungie's decisions. Again, there are as many, if not more, juvenile posts coming from Bungie loyalists that single out dissenters as "high-pitched kids" who won't have to be dealt with on the 25th, that state "gameplay > graphics" and other equally dumb and inappropriate platitudes, or that make trite remarks that people do nothing but -blam!- and whine (self-references, maybe?). It was the same way in the Halo 3 Beta forum -- there would be maybe one or two posts per page criticizing the graphics yet every thread would be filled with dozens of rabid fanboys with a persecution complex complaining about how "everybody" was bent on maligning Bungie and its art style. Having read a hell of a lot of threads the Halo boards, I am certain that the vast bulk of bad posts are definitely from this camp. If you think that even a plurality of half-assed rebuttals in Bungie's defense are more thought-out than the average graphics complaint, you're misguided."
Wha... what? Are you serious? I've seen more idiotic and utterly senseless complaining at and about Bungie here than I have at any other forum; including this post. Granted, yours is the first I've seen that's actually seen the better side of a spell-checker and probably a dictionary, but it's still the same inane crap that's been repeated in so many other posts. "Waaah, you're all fanboys if you don't agree with my self-inflated ego. You're just a loyalist! You can't take criticism!" Amazingly, I've seen more of you tossers lie about statistics and other facts than any other kind of poster here, so the second I see this 'Everyone is against me!" attitude I feel perfectly justified in dismissing everything they (that includes you) say as crap.
This is not a phenomena confined to the gaming community, tools like you show up in every walk of life.
It's funny because you went and did exactly what he said.
I agree with him. It doesn't bother me that people post their opinion on the graphics. I get far more sick of the bungie defence drones, personally.