Forum Overview :: Xenosaga :: A Rant

[quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote name="Jason Love"]Are blanket statements and rampant generalizations a problem on the Internet? Many people seem to think so. Do <b>more</b> blanket statements coupled with sarcasm do anything to stop them? I don't really think so.[/quote] You seem to need something explained to you, so I will endeavour to do so. When someone says most people suck, they are saying that of the small sampling of people they encountered the majority of the ones that pissed them off stood out so much that it poisoned the well. When I say most PC games suck, it is because unlike you I have actually played most non-sports/non-racing PC games. I am not joking or exaggerating to any particularly great degree. I'd like you to consider how much time it would take you to do the following: beat Deus Ex from scratch, beat Planescape: Torment from scratch, play two 300+ turns of Master of Orion 3 (an incredibly tedious and lengthy game with an ornery interface that takes forever to navigate), beat Freelancer having never played it before and beat Splinter Cell having never played it before. For most people you are looking at two months worth of gaming. Chief, those were my last two weeks, no lie. When I tell you that 'most PC games suck' it is because I have honestly played far, far more games that you can safely imagine playing over the course of the last ten years and chances are unless you are actively modeling or programming in the industry right now I know more about what's entailed in both with respect to games than you do. This shit is like breathing to me - I picked up an Atari controller when I was three years old and I've not let a year slip by since when I didn't pull at least four hours a day on average playing games - in the past two years closer to twelve. You know that crazy librarian lady who has reviewed 4,100 books on Amazon.com and reads 20 a week? I'm like her except I don't write reviews - I'm trying to cling to my last scant shreds of sanity here, not actively obliterate them. I can't write reviews without starting to break down into tears about what a waste of my life nearly every single game I've played in recent memory was (especially Neverwinter Nights, Jesus God Almighty. Neverwinter Nights was the fucking 9/11 of the gaming industry - three thousand people died when that game was made from heartbreak alone, and if they didn't they should have). I am telling you right now, flat out - most PC and yes, console games suck heinous and unbelievable amounts of cock. It is embarrassing the shit that gets fobbed off on the public and while I'd like to say that no other industry has standards remotely this low, in any industry where lives are not on the line it is my experience that this is not the case. Nearly every review site you go to will give four out of five stars or higher (or whatever their equivalent is) to the majority of games they review. The developers of Morrowind were gods for their vision but when reality bit the result ought to have earned those mighty brains permanent mounting on pig poles. Publishers letting this shit get out to the public without quality assurance instructed to do more than 'rubber stamp' the game (I've worked QA and had tons of friends in it - this is what happens more often than not), or worse yet installing useless anticopy software that breaks the game and which everybody knows where to go to circumvent ought to be killed through whatever means of violence the game in question entails. Ninja game? Ninja-star them to death. The Sims? Bore them to death and build a house with paisley curtains over them, or maybe trap them in a giant kitchen-fire. The possibilities are endless. The public needs to have higher expectations beaten into them through cynicism and I certainly wouldn't have any part in, nor host, a website which does any other. We've gotten lazy and complacent because we're too damned well-fed. For $50 we fucking deserve better. --SB[/quote]