I fucking love this. This is exactly my point why i so grossly hate Overhype(watch) :D
Or typical shooters in general.
Or overly flashy and polished games.
Or arena-based-pvp type games.
Or games with 0 actual story that you can play through and get to know the characters and develop any sort bond with a specific character.

I've been burned so many times because of AAA company's and indie companies; taking 5star games and turning them into a steaming pile just because of the hype behind their name and the dev group making it milked it like the cheap whore of a cash cow it was worth (aliens col marines)

I've been betrayed so many times by game companies, and the stores who sell their games altogether where i do NOT even bother shopping around anymore for the last 7 yrs. (technically 3-4 years since H4 and aliens col marines were my official last console games i purchased and i resigned from console gaming in general after that)

In all of my brutal honesty(and hatred). I absolutely hate where the gaming industry has been in the last 5 years. And i still see it getting much, much worse in the coming years. Insane over-saturation of games constantly coming out. Nothing new or original. Just the same shit. Either under-developed(early access lies), or they spent WAY too much into the graphics to the point they pissed all their funds and that left for nothing to be put in the game for a story, so it just turns into PVP TEAM ARENA TROLLER:THE GAME.

I second this.

Hah, The century old point.

I'm not a fan of FPS and MMO games (save Team Fortress 2, Spiral Knights, Elder Scrolls series, WoW, and LoL) and only ONE thing interested me into Overwatch; the...erm..."plot".

I never got into the hype of anything, Undertale, so what? Overwatch so what? Battleborn so what? The only time I got into the hype if it was for something I liked, like star wars or Dragonball Z. Otherwise I just waited till the hype went down then played something. Getting over-hyped about something due to what everybody else is saying is just following the crowd.

I don't follow the crowd I go against it most of the time. Now there are some things I do get excited for, like Cuphead, or Monster Hunter generations, but that's because I've seen how it looks and I like how it looks. It appeals to me, I don't like it because people are saying "Oh my god this game looks soooo good." I like it because, "I like how it looks, I like the mechanics, and I like how it delves into a lore that it was built around." stuff like that.

I just wish people put more weight on things like characters, plot, and mechanics BEFORE they actually decide on whether or not they want to buy it. Like Monster Hunter Generations I like the new mechanic of the hunter styles it'll take a while to get used to but I'm eager to work out how it works. And I know this has nothing to do with movies but that's how I feel about it. Don't say I'm gonna buy this because everybody say's it's good, buy it because YOU feel it's good, because YOU feel it's interesting. Not the other way around. That's my piece on it.

I've never told anyone they have to watch, play or eat something in order to decide if it's good or not.

But I HAVE said it seems unfair to that movie, game or food to summarily dismiss it as pure shit 'just because'.

Recently I had a conversation with someone in another journal where the person was convinced Zootopia was going to be a horrible movie purely based on the people involved with it's creation. I suggested to them that rather than judging a thing completely based on other things that don't determine the end result, they first try watching the movie, THEN making a judgement. This person spazzed the fuck out over their talking points, claiming that they were enough to judge the movie on. I again told them that it was fine if they thought that was a good enough reason not to pay in theaters to watch the movie, but that there was no real reason to badmouth the movie that hadn't even been released, and that I thought they should still maybe catch it for free someplace before rendering final judgement.

They took it to the NEXT level then by ranting at me that because I had suggested they see the movie before judging it and maybe missing out on something good, they would never watch the movie, either in theaters or on DVD or even as a bootleg. They then blocked me from replying to them anymore.

I've since seen nothing but good or even great reviews of the movie and after seeing it twice myself, I can verify it is a very good movie.

The point of all this is, ok... maybe you have a hardcore hatred of certain things. And if you honestly feel that you're unable to move past that, then there's nothing you or I can do about that. ...But you might be denying yourself something that's not quite as bad as you think it is purely because you don't want people telling you what to do or try. And that's just being stupidly stubborn, not discerning or knowledgeable.

Good video thanks for linking it!

And once you make that reply, I guarantee after 1:00 minute of that video, they'll find something else that interests them and stay stuck to the notion that "you need to watch the movie before you can judge". /endof

Well; this was interesting to listen to as I to suffered from the same mentality. Halfway through this, I was going to argue against until blue in the face, but that changed almost as suddenly as my intuition to bash the keyboard into oblivion with a long-winded argument.

Thank you for sharing this, shocking. I enjoyed listening to it.

And jfc, anyone who doesn't want to watch the 6-minute video, it boils down to subjective validation and bias on the part of person telling you to "go watch the movie before you judge".

Cheers, shocking.