Anyone here familier with Solomon Ashe?

(hamstein) #1

There’s this guy in the 70’s okay?

He gets bored one day and is all like; “Ima make an experiment!”

Now this here experiment involves putting some fellows in a room, these are some mighty fine college fellows too.

Mr. Ashe shows them some lines, tells them to choose the longest.

3 of them are in cahoots with Mr. Ashe. They choose the wrong one.

The last chap chooses the who ain’t ever met Mr. Ashe, will copy them and choose the same one.

What’s going on here is the last guy decides to agree with the crowd, doesn’t matter what he thinks is correct.

With BRINK and all the haten’ going on I can only think of this experiment, people don’t know whether it’s a good game or not so when IGN or Joystiq (the spelling of that makes me what to cut myself) say the game sucks everyone agrees that it sucks, even with the anonymity of the internet people don’t want to feel like the Black sheep of the flock.

I’m sure you guys know about Treyarch, their CoD games are exactly the same as IW’s yet they get so much more hate. MW2 was a fine game which initially had very few hackers and lag, yet PC gamers bashed the hell out of it because some 14 year old posted something, which a 16 year old and 13 year old agreed to, sharing his opinions until they spread like wildfire.

TL;DR

If BRINK had very good initial reviews and very few initial haters, I guarantee more people would be talking about how much they love the game rather than their hate for it.

PS: The “this game plays like it was made in 2007” argument is true, 2007 had some of the best games ever, and that’s a fact.

(Linsolv) #2

Actually Black Ops had some really severe flaws on the PS3, at least in the MP. I never played it on any other platform, and I spent only a really small amount of time playing the campaign.

But when the game would inexplicably run at 5 fps for up to 30 seconds at a time every other game, and bullets would chase you quite far around corners despite having a 4-bar connection, that’s a problem, and it’s not a problem on my end.

However, I liked World at War a TON, and everyone hated it for some reason so I see what you mean.

(hamstein) #3

Actually Black Ops had some really severe flaws on the PS3, at least in the MP. I never played it on any other platform, and I spent only a really small amount of time playing the campaign.

I didn’t play BlOps mainly cause I grew tired of CoD after a few months of MW2.

(klinesmoker) #4

This and the Dunning-Kruger effect are common in the gaming community.

(hamstein) #5

This and the Dunning-Kruger effect are common in the gaming community.

I’m actually surprised it works on the internet when everyone is anonymous

(Linsolv) #6

Everyone wants to be cool. It’s cool to hate things, especially things other people hate.

(goodpain) #7

when everyones a nonconformist, I’ll be the only conformist

(Linsolv) #8

No, you’re a conformist now. You’re spouting pseudo-witty lines about how when everyone is a hipster, no one will be.

(goodpain) #9

but…i actually like this game? despite the criticism, even with the bad reviews

(Linsolv) #10

Conformists can like games.

(goodpain) #11

you’ve completely missed the point of the post. Its cool to be a nonconformist didn’t you hear? Its cool to buck the system!!! down with the man!!!

(Linsolv) #12

I heard that but then I heard that calculus was uncool, and given the choice I’d like to learn more math. It’s pretty much the only thing I learned in school I’ve used since on personal projects.

(goodpain) #13

see? thats good. I wish I hadn’t been a nonconformist in school. I’d be better off.

If everyone hated BRINK, I would be the only one that liked BRINK