God-Mayor of Sim-Kind
...So now I'm curious as to why people can't handle constuctive criticism about the things that they enjoy.
Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to break
People take it as a personal attack on them. That's all I really know about it. I don't understand the attitude myself as I criticize the stuff I like myself....
The Chew Toy of Gaming
Constructivity of criticism is subjective. What one person may see as constructive criticism ("too hard, pls make the next one easier so all can enjoy"), another may see as an attack on whatever the criticism discusses ("the difficulty's the entire point of the series").
Lampshade Hanging: It's a lifestyle.
This isn't unique to games, people have a great deal of separating themselves from things they like in general
Lost in Space
I'm going to close this thread, for a couple of reasons. First, it's unproductive. Second, it's demonstrably off-topic for the Video Games forum.
I realize that a common reaction to a difficult experience in RL can be to gab about it in the nearest forum, but that's not what these are here for. You might consider one of the general conversation topics in Yack Fest.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
So I've just played 3 old games that I`ve never played before on my Game Cube; I said that I liked "The Haunted Mansion" until I made it to the finale, and then I tried the other two: An Tetris one and a Pac-Man with Mario Party elements in it for an few minutes each. And I promptly declared my dislike of them on account of how unappealing they were. Now my autistic stepbrother is throwing a fit because he thinks I'm biased against their ESRB ratings and I'm "draining the fun" from them. <PSP text limit>
Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to break