These types of threads are unfortunate because all they accomplish is giving people a forum to bash quality games without putting much thought or critique into the criticism.
What many fail to grasp is that you can still respect a game without actually enjoying it on a personal level. You may find a game like Gears of War to be something wholly unappealing but that does nothing to negate that Gears is –objectively – an incredibly well made game from a technical and mechanical standpoint.
Example: I find most JRPG's to be unbearably dull but I would never unzip my fly and piss on the genre or specific, well-loved games merely because these titles don't interest me personally. That's egotism rooted in the narcissistic belief that what I don't personally enjoy must be lacking.
The overwhelming majority of titles listed here are objectively very good or even great.
To dismiss that outright and let pure subjectivism take over is a mistake.
If you can't understand at some level why games like Skyrim, Gears, GTA, Portal, etc. are universally praised then you've got the problem, not the game.
Grammaton-Cleric
For the most part I do agree with what you're saying, but sometimes it's nice to give an opinion on something where you genuinely don't get the hype. Like 1 game in a series not the whole series per se. Previously I stated I wasn't a fan of Skyrim but am a big Elder Scrolls fan have been since Daggerfall, I doubt a lot have even heard of Daggerfall since Morrowind is what catapulted Elder Scrolls into the mainstream. I respect the work that goes into it I just didn't find it to be more than what Oblivion had to offer. A lot of games that have been mentioned should be respected. Gears I found to be an amazing series, technically it was solid; graphics, gameplay, story, great mp and co-op and not glitchy. IMO it was flawless. To hate a series like that or say it's over hyped is just being pretentious or you just don't like that style of game. Where as games like Skyrim and GTA lV are flawed games and can be tedious and unoriginal compared to other games in the series.
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