why do people hate great games?

Things that seem small and insignificant to one player can annoy another player to no end. Hence you might think a game is fun, but somebody else can't get past the unresponsive controls so they hate it. There's also hype-factors in which if a fan base says GameA is the best game ever, and a player thinks it's good, but not that good they tend to negate the hype. Hence they'll call a good game crap to balance the fanboy hype.jrhawk42

Because not all "good" games are actually good. WoW sucks and lots of people say it is good. I personally never liked the games on the Orange Box that much but everyone else seems to (mabey I just need to give it another try, I didn't play it that much). Some games just aren't fun to some people.RancidSumo

The biggest selling box office movie of all time was titanic...must be the best movie ever! Or alot of people have bad taste....same goes for games.

[QUOTE="RancidSumo"]Because not all "good" games are actually good. WoW sucks and lots of people say it is good. I personally never liked the games on the Orange Box that much but everyone else seems to (mabey I just need to give it another try, I didn't play it that much). Some games just aren't fun to some people.xwolfghost

I can hardly find games that I hate, hell I love even American McGee Bad Day LA, though I consider it a bad game. Generally speaking, people tend to hate things that are popular to the masses. Take for example a match between Real Madrid and Real Santander. The people out of Spain will almost all support Madrid, because it's so cool, has a great history and the best players. But I say hell no, where's the fun with a powerful team. I chose the weakest just out of principle. That's why PC gamers love indie games more.

Then there's the "cooler" effect. Say all people play TF2. This guy comes and sees a bunch of people that love the game. He didn't even try the game, but says it's bad because he judged by the fact that all those people were saying that TF2 is cool, but never mentioned why. Like this:

(1st player)-I love TF2!

(2nd player)-Best game ever!

(3rd player)-Team Fortress 2 is my God

(4th player)-Yeah!

Then that guy goes and finds a not-so-popular game and calls it The Best Game Ever. People that didn't hear of it will blindly believe him and call him cooler, because he talked about a neverheardbefore game and didn't repeat like a fool the words of the masses. Yay, now go find yourself a JRPG!

The third is the "older" effect. People tend to hate older games that launched before they started gaming and games that try to recreate them. You can see often posts like Icewind Dale is sh*t or Baldur's Gate, or even now Dragon Age; same goes to the first HL, System Shock, Deus Ex, Neverwinter Nights, Quake series... Just yesterday I was playing Savage: Battle For Newerth and somehow the discussion ended with Quake III, the first guy said that the game is good, then a bunch of players appeared and said Quake III is sh*t I responded with "Quake III is God", then one guy comes and says "go buy yourself L4D and TF2 and you'll feel the real gaming". Well that made me think. How does the fact that L4D and TF2 are good games change the fact that Quake III is also a good game?

People who don't like a game will inevitably be louder than those who like it, because those who like it are too busy playing and enjoying it. Impressional people who have never played the game will read forum posts and user reviews about it, then join in on dissing the game, feeling good about themselves because they never wasted any of thier precious time playing it. Plus, it's much easier to hate something than to try to understand it.

I guess what I'm saying is that all Fallout 3 haters are racists. :D

Once you've been around for a while you realize how everything is a copy of a copy - if you are new to this you are easily amused.

Same thing with girls, the harder you are to please the less you have to choose from.

If we all had the exact same taste in games, there wouldn't be alot at all. It's like saying IF everyone ends up liking Sci Fi, then they'd make star wars/star trek etc movies.

Anyway, yea , everyone has different opinions especially when my friend told me he hated Assassins Creed so much, but IMO it was fun while it lasted, maybe needs better gameplay, but all in all quite decent.