I think mindless positivity and pretending everything is perfect, is utterly worthless. However, you are right, while exploring games should promote discussion on here the replies I mostly get are “why are you so negative” and then some anecdotal personal experience they use to claim I am wrong. So maybe this is the wrong environment for the type of person I am.
I see myself as a fan of video games. I see this site as my number one place to go to spend time with other fans and celebrate video games.
I normally have a long list of users on my Ignore list - as time goes by I have less and less tolerance for wasting my time reading random people's comments that spoil the fun and positivity I come here to share in. Only yesterday there was a news article about a Yooka-Laylee follow-up, with a few users trashing on what was a colourful, fun, pretty good first game in the comments section. I've got no time for that... 'Ignore'. That's not mindless positivity or pretending everything's perfect, it's just refining my experience of this site to a set of users that can express positives and negatives about games in a more reasonable manner.
Your NL account is a couple of months old and you've been a very active poster, so I don't want to put you on ignore, but my finger has hovered over the button more than once because I don't see the point in wading through what is beginning to look like a recurring pattern of negativity. It's not what I want to spend my time reading. I'm not trying to change your mind about the games, I just don't want to read the griping. I'm not questioning the validity of your views or your right to express them, but the way you've been doing it hasn't aligned with what I look to get out of visiting a Nintendo fan site. I stopped going to watch my local football team because I'd find myself sitting having to listen to moaners sat around me for 90 minutes (no ignore button in a football stadium). I'm not paying £30 to listen to that either.
I think mindless positivity and pretending everything is perfect, is utterly worthless. However, you are right, while exploring games should promote discussion on here the replies I mostly get are “why are you so negative” and then some anecdotal personal experience they use to claim I am wrong. So maybe this is the wrong environment for the type of person I am.
I see myself as a fan of video games. I see this site as my number one place to go to spend time with other fans and celebrate video games.
I normally have a long list of users on my Ignore list - as time goes by I have less and less tolerance for wasting my time reading random people's comments that spoil the fun and positivity I come here to share in. Only yesterday there was a news article about a Yooka-Laylee follow-up, with a few users trashing on what was a colourful, fun, pretty good first game in the comments section. I've got no time for that... 'Ignore'. That's not mindless positivity or pretending everything's perfect, it's just refining my experience of this site to a set of users that can express positives and negatives about games in a more reasonable manner.
Your NL account is a couple of months old and you've been a very active poster, so I don't want to put you on ignore, but my finger has hovered over the button more than once because I don't see the point in wading through what is beginning to look like a recurring pattern of negativity. It's not what I want to spend my time reading. I'm not trying to change your mind about the games, I just don't want to read the griping. I'm not questioning the validity of your views or your right to express them, but the way you've been doing it hasn't aligned with what I look to get out of visiting a Nintendo fan site. I stopped going to watch my local football team because I'd find myself sitting having to listen to moaners sat around me for 90 minutes (no ignore button in a football stadium). I'm not paying £30 to listen to that either.
That is cool with me, you do you. (: You won’t be the first person ignoring me nor the last, lol!I know people find me quite negative but I find critically engaging with games is part of my enjoyment. It is how I celebrate games but I appreciate that on the context here it often just comes across as grim negativity only, even if that isn’t necessarily my intention.
I don't think there's anything wrong with criticism, but I do think most ppl play games because they enjoy them, and the vast majority of their time playing is time enjoyed. So it makes sense the majority of time talking about the games played would be talking about the things enjoyed. It does seem odd when the majority of what one chooses to discuss is criticism.
Again, not that there's anything wrong with criticism, but I think all things in moderation. When the 90% of posts are complaints about games, it makes me wonder, 1) is this person not enjoying 90% of the time spent playing the game, and thus their conversation reflects their experience? If so, why continue playing a game you're only enjoying 10% of the time? Or 2) is this person enjoying the game 90% of the time, but nonetheless chooses to spend 90% of their time talking about it focusing on complaints?
I do think there's a point where, if one is spending more time talking about things they don't like in games than the things they do, it can become a drag for everyone involved, especially since ppl typically associate in message boards to share in their enjoyment of the hobby. Never ending criticism kinda puts a damper on that. Again, not that criticism is bad, as long as it's in proportional measure.
I don't think Pizzamorg is being dishonest with their criticisms, I genuinely believe that's just how they are- naturally very critical. That's what brings them enjoyment. At the same time, I do think some self awareness concerning how it can become overbearing and excessive toward those who do not derive enjoyment from the majority of discussion being things other's don't enjoy, would be beneficial.
I hope I've expressed this in a way that's not overly offensive to anyone. But sometimes honesty has to assume that risk.
All have sinned and fall short of Gods glory. Wages of sin is death. Romans
God so loved the world He sent His only Son- whoever believes on Him has eternal life. Unless you believe, you will die in your sins. Whoever believes, rivers of living water flow within them. John
Some people find the glass half empty, whilst others find it half full. But just because you find it half empty it doesn't mean you can't also say the other half is filled with a delicious beverage at the same time.
I'll just say this: I don't care for others telling people like myself or @JaxonH that our style of posting is too positive, which has happened in the past. In the same way, as long as it's targeted, specific, and civil, which, IMO, it has been, I think @Pizzamorg 's more critical posting style is fine as well. People enjoy games in different ways. And, for the record, they've also posted about the aspects they like in games such as SMT V and BotW.
I'm fairly intolerant of the sort of mindless negativity that pervades a lot of gaming forums, but it's also important not to shut down legitimate, fair-minded criticism, even if you don't agree.
People who are offended simply don't need to engage or can put them on ignore. It's what the function is there for.
I do always try and be balanced between offering the things I am enjoying and the things I don’t like. But that balance will be determined by how much I am enjoying something overall. And in fact, the more I like something, the more critical I will probably become because I like breaking down how things tick. I guess that is just how I am wired. Never my intention to drag the air out of the room though, lol!
If you don’t know about it, Deku Deals is a great site to keep track of the games you are interested in so you can jump on deals. (I am not sure if I am allowed to link it directly, but you can find it on Google). I think it was @JaxonH that made me aware of it and it’s been of great use to me ever since.
Deku Deals is great, I just wish it gave you a way to specify whether you want to be notified for a particular game's digital version price rather than physical, while other game notifications are for physical price. Right now it's kind of all or nothing, AFAIK. So automated alerts are often false alarms.
That aside it's excellent.
All have sinned and fall short of Gods glory. Wages of sin is death. Romans
God so loved the world He sent His only Son- whoever believes on Him has eternal life. Unless you believe, you will die in your sins. Whoever believes, rivers of living water flow within them. John
Deku Deals is pretty good, but the tracking of 'physical' prices is pretty iffy - I tried using it for that purpose not too long ago and all the cheapest deals it sent me to were 'code in a box' filth versions, or had other such issues. Plus I still have to use another site to compare prices across eshops. I do like that it has screenshots and a hyperlink to the metacritic page though. If it did eshop price comparison then I'd use it for all my eshop browsing.
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
Picked up Shield as it didn’t look like it was going on sale using one of my NSO Vouchers. I had played this before on my Sister’s Switch but I think over the years I had just really remembered the worst version of this game.
While the pop in is some of the worst I have ever seen, the wild areas have some of the worst performance the Switch has ever provided for a first party title and some of the animations are insultingly lazy (especially when you compare it to say SMT games or Stories 2), all of this doesn’t hurt the overall experience perhaps as much as I had built it up in my mind.
Like while no one should forgive the pop in or wild area performance, I think just focusing on that and not talking about how nice a lot of the game looks otherwise, docked or handheld, is sorta doing a disservice to a lot of really great art design.
And while it is a shame that the Pokemon don’t properly connect and there are no balls to the wall craziness like in the above listed games, I had kinda remembered every move to be just Pokemon jumping up and down on the spot but that isn’t really true or fair. There is plenty of animation for the Pokemon and the attacks, just not perhaps enough when you consider this was sold as a full price, modern, console game on a system with similar games with way better animations.
Plus, while I am trying not to do this again so I will keep it brief, whereas games like SMT are all about friction, there is something to be said for how easy Shield is. There are almost no barriers to anything, it is just about the joy of being in that world and catching cute and cool looking monsters and while that may get tedious over time, the utter casualness of Shield just makes it such a pleasant time.
We’ve got updates for GTA Trilogy, Disco Elysium, Hot Wheels, Neo The World Ends With You, Metroid Dread and Rocket League from the last month. Because I just downloaded these games when I got the OLED, and they were up to date then.
Just an FYI.
All have sinned and fall short of Gods glory. Wages of sin is death. Romans
God so loved the world He sent His only Son- whoever believes on Him has eternal life. Unless you believe, you will die in your sins. Whoever believes, rivers of living water flow within them. John
Picked up Shield as it didn’t look like it was going on sale using one of my NSO Vouchers. I had played this before on my Sister’s Switch but I think over the years I had just really remembered the worst version of this game.
While the pop in is some of the worst I have ever seen, the wild areas have some of the worst performance the Switch has ever provided for a first party title and some of the animations are insultingly lazy (especially when you compare it to say SMT games or Stories 2), all of this doesn’t hurt the overall experience perhaps as much as I had built it up in my mind.
Like while no one should forgive the pop in or wild area performance, I think just focusing on that and not talking about how nice a lot of the game looks otherwise, docked or handheld, is sorta doing a disservice to a lot of really great art design.
And while it is a shame that the Pokemon don’t properly connect and there are no balls to the wall craziness like in the above listed games, I had kinda remembered every move to be just Pokemon jumping up and down on the spot but that isn’t really true or fair. There is plenty of animation for the Pokemon and the attacks, just not perhaps enough when you consider this was sold as a full price, modern, console game on a system with similar games with way better animations.
Plus, while I am trying not to do this again so I will keep it brief, whereas games like SMT are all about friction, there is something to be said for how easy Shield is. There are almost no barriers to anything, it is just about the joy of being in that world and catching cute and cool looking monsters and while that may get tedious over time, the utter casualness of Shield just makes it such a pleasant time.
I agree that anything but the wild area (of the base game at least) is quite pretty, my main gripe is how tons of it isn't explorable. We see cool buildings, gorgeous towers and the like, yet when we enter it's a single room or in some cases we can't even enter at all. The routes of SWSH are some of my favourite of any Pokémon game, but they're also very short. The result is that Galar, to me, doesn't feel alive and connected, but more a collection of halfbaked ideas. And that's the thing about Pokémon, at its core it provides a singularly charming experience: the wonder of exploration with adorable or cool creatures, a sense of wonder that connects you to your inner child, but the later games have all been about new gimmicks, introducing mechanics and forgetting about them the next generation, and simply not having the same care for the things that defined the series in the first place.
@JaxonH Deku Deals does have the option of filtering between physical/digital/platform etc. I've got all my Xbox wish list set to digital only as I've got a Series S.
Just click the (edit details) button (under the little bell icon that shows something's on your wishlist) to set preferences for each one.
I think there's also a setting for the account default, so you don't have to change them all individually - the default seems to be set to both digital & physical initially.
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