Have you played Morrowind?

BlackScythe0 posted...

I know someone like you. At first I thought he was kidding, but no he's an actual contrarian. His primary concern on how much he likes something is how many other people like it.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I don't even dislike them because they're popular - I disliked most of them before they were popular. They just don't appeal to me in any of the aspects I actually enjoy in games.

I'm sorry that reading comprehension is not your friend.

For what it's worth, I like plenty of games that are popular. I just dislike THOSE popular games. And I mentioned them in the first place because far too many people online act like it's an outrageous statement for anyone to dislike them for any reason. Which is a very groupthink mentality. Which, as I am pointing out, is bullshit.

(it is, in fact, an actual logical fallacy - the argumentum ad populum , or consensus fallacy)

The thing most of those games have in common - now hold on to your butt here - is the writing. There are other factors (Ocarina is the first 3D entry in a franchise and followed directly after Link to the Past, Undertale relies on bullet-hell combat mechanics, etc, Chrono Trigger uses Toriyama art, which I tend to dislike), but all of them have narrative elements, characterization, or presentation that simply doesn't appeal to me, in one way or another. In Chrono Trigger's case, the problem is likely that I played Chrono Cross first, and felt like Chrono Trigger wasn't as good. With Undertale, I liked the concept of the game more than I liked the application of it - I find it clever, but not necessarily something I want to play through. For Ocarina, the problem is likely that I'm not a 90s kid - by the time it came out, I was already in college and generally looking for better storytelling. I really haven't found any Zelda games all that interesting since Link to the Past

It's almost as if people can like or dislike games without actually caring what other people think of them. Imagine that!