@chacobo: What-ever! By that argument Darkest Dungeons should have been in place of Bloodborne. That game does all that stuff way better in context of the category. It actually has Styyyyle where Bloodborne is bland.
Bloodborne= edgy teenager NOW Darkest Dungeons ...just no go away
Jeff’s continuously repeating the same two arguments against most of the games brought up over the course of these, end of the year deliberations. He’s either completely dismissing games because while he believes they have good aspects he’s constantly following this up with, it’s not as good as I think it could be. Which of course is not an invalid argument but it is also a sentiment that could be felt about pretty much any piece of art that has ever existed. He also doesn’t really present much of a case beyond that core sentiment, as to why he feels the way he does most of the time, just his general feelings on the game are given and that’s about it.
Honestly the general laziness in the way he approaches his critique of most of the games brought up is one thing and I don’t really mind it however the second aspect of this recurring sentiment that I do have a problem with is that he then takes this as a legitimate argument to them completely dismiss the game in question if not outright say it’s not worth damn and that they should move on, this gets rather frustrating after the seventh time.
His other primary approach that’s kind of grating on me the more I listen to these deliberations is when it’s a game that he’s not spent any really time with, which differs from the first because it seems a lot of these he spent less than an hour with , again if the games didn’t click with him then that’s perfectly fine though I would question the amount of opportunity he really gives these games to grow on him very little it seems. The issue I have is that he starts all of these by just stating that the game wasn’t really for him and so he stopped playing then if the discussion goes on regardless of his very minimal input he gets progressively more hyperbolic until the game he seemed apathetic about suddenly seems like one of his most disappointing games of the year, that all gets rather ridiculous after a time.
I know these awards don’t mean anything (apart from taking over the whole website for their duration), I also know Jeff likes to play up his role of naysayer and seems to be having a lot of fun in these I just wish I was to, instead of feeling progressively more tried as the same antics are repeated. Love the site.
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