Like Your Sh** And Be Proud (But Try to Understand That Not Everyone Has to Like It)

"So, it's happened. A game that serves a somewhat small but very passionate fan base has come out. The underwhelming game has been met with indifference from the mass market and a critical bloodbath.

"There is nothing wrong with liking something that's not popular. Moreover, there's no magic rule that says things being popular makes them inherently better than other things. So why is the fanbase getting so defensive and uppity? Relax. Every single one of us likes games that most people don't. Conversely, every single one of us hates games that a lot of people love. So what? Does it matter?" -GR

[knifefight]

I like Nier and that one got critically hammered. Ain't no shame in liking what you like.

[Summons75]

That's a bit different. Nier got hit for no reason whereas Godzilla has a lot of problems. But there isn't anything wrong with liking it still. Heck, I love terrible movies that really have no good redeeming factors there are a few games like that too.

[Bass_fisherman]

Its not diferent at all, games need generic design gameplay formulas otherwise the media wont like it. Just because a game uses outdated or simply diferent ways of gameplay that take a bigger learning curve people start imediatly complaining about it.

Godzilla game represents the tone and feel of the classics movies perfectly IMO, the reason why people buy games is because they like them not because everyone is playing them, at least thats the way i see it.

[rainslacker]

I don't think it's much different. Some people like different things, and I think we could all name at least one game where the subject matter matter made the game tolerable or not so bad or even good. Heck, movie adaptation games have run off this premise for the longest time....although I'm not sure that's really a great example to illustrate my point.

[medman]

@knifefight
I liked The Order:1886 (as did many others) and that game was no critical darling.

[Lamboomington]

If you liked it, then it's great !

here on n4g, almost every review below 7 was either passed off as "clickbaiting", "bashing for no reason" "xbone fanboy" "conspiracy against PS4" "just because no multiplayer"
(none of which were actually true)

It's not just first party exclusives. Talk about the Witcher 3, Batman Arkham Knight.
Any review below 8 and it's the same damn thing. Call out the reviewer for one or the other thing. Gamespots review of Arkham Knight ? My word, should have seen the reaction.

People can like what they like, but on any popular game, you have this circle-jerking and fanboyism build up as a part of this "I like this game even though critics bash it" thing. That's the annoying bit.

'Like what you like' needs to go both ways. So many people need to understand that it means others can not like it and provide an opinion. Sometimes it just so happens that those others are professional reviewers.

Nothing wrong with liking any game, as long as you enjoy it, then awesome.

[3-4-5]

I played plenty of "bad to ok" games when I was a kid and I found a way to enjoy all of them.

Even the ones that sucked, you admitted it sucked and then tried to find a game within a game that made it not suck and that usually worked.

Also I've learned this.

Being "into" a certain type of genre at the time you play a game is huge. If I'm not into or wanting to play a FPS game right now, then none of them will be that appealing.
If I am, then even the lesser ones seem more appealing.

[Hoffmann]

I liked Rise of the Robots and peaople still laugh at me because of it.

I will never ever sell my snes copy and remove it from the living room.

ROTR is a hidden gem.

[mydyingparadiselost]

You're a RotR fan!?! HAHAHHHAAAHAHAHAAA!!!
(I beat MK 1 with every character... on the gameboy... Also owned and extensively used a Tiger RZone)

[Hoffmann]

Real men beat Supervisor with every character! (Oh fuck..there was just one!)

[Bass_fisherman]

Well said. The media still label games like DNF for being bad and the sheep still coment about it around the internet about how "bad" it was for no reason, good games bad games...all that matters is what you want.

[ZaWarudo]

I enjoyed Superman 64...

Nah, just joking.

I find the HyperDimension Neptunia games fun. That series always seems to get low scores from the critics, but to hell with them! I be neppin' all day!

[FullmetalRoyale]

Playing that Rebirth 1 on Vita(my first experience with the series). I like games with great stories, but I also appreciate a game that is just fun. Fun to play, fun to listen to, whatever. I've played for about seven hours, almost all of which I have just spend grinding. I enjoy the combo turn based battle system. It's perfect when I either don't have a lot of time, or attention to spare.
I'll definitely be getting the others down the road.

[Sharingan_no_Kakashi]

I enjoyed Lair. Hope for another game like it with less glitches and better mission structure.

Right now i'm enjoying color guardians. Reminds me a lot of Crash Bandicoot but they're actually nothing a like.

[Jag-T1000]

Wait! There's a Godzilla game? When did this happen?

[uth11]

Nothing wrong with liking things others hate, or disliking what others love. I like Knack and The Order, but find TLOU boring.

[mydyingparadiselost]

I'm still hyped about the Godzilla game, I've watched a couple of let's plays and I don't think it looks anywhere near as bad as reviews say. This is why middleware developers disappeared, of your game isn't the new hot s$#@ it's a pile of garbage according to reviewers.
After Nier, Godhand, Deadly Premonition and numerous others I knot take reviews semi seriously. To many amazing gems get bashed on by the reviewing community to take their word as golden.

[ShadowWolf712]

Played the Godzilla demo for PS3 when it was out in Japan. Cannot, for the life of me, understand the complaints for it. Control scheme was unorthodox and awkward at first but I adjusted to it by the end of the first demo stage. The only thing I can think is that people either aren't used to that or they expected it to be unnaturally fast-paced like the old Godzilla brawlers on PS2/Xbox.

This was one reason Demos were so loved last gen, they helped you cut through the BS and decide for yourself if you liked it or not. Wish people'd bring them back for that reason alone. I wound up loving several games that most critics bashed or called meh simply due to actually getting to try it. Legend of Dragoon comes to mind there as well;got a demo disc with it on it and loved it despite critics giving it a lukewarm reception.

In the end though, you like what you like.