Rather than looking at a list of overrated franchises, I simply am looking at a list of commercially and critically successful franchises that random people happen to not like. I believe in objective quality, but I do not think that any of the answers given are correct.
WRONG, it's usually a 70%-30% split, 70% percent of a console/system's games are shit, and 30% are good. "
Would you mind informing the class which orifice those percentages come from?
The point Meowayne was trying to make, and I apologise if I am incorrect on this, is that the majority of games on any platform are not worth playing. Hence why nobody plays the majority of games on any platform that they own. Splitting hairs with arbitrary percentages is beside the point. Are you trying to convince me that you play 30% of Playstation 3 games? Certainly you do not, and no one will believe you if you claim otherwise.
No, a small minority of games on any platform are good games, and in absolute terms the Wii has just as many games worth playing as the Playstation 3. Period.
I never said anything about the PS3. For all you know, i could be talking in relation to the Wii or even the DS. No flame war here, so dont start one. "
The only thing the Xbox 360 isoutselling is the Playstation 3, so by default that is all your first statement can possibly apply to. Unless you are comparing the Xbox 360 to retail products unrelated to modern videogame devices, this is the only thing you could have meant.
Halloween is today considered a secular celebration Christmas and Hanukkah are not. But regardless. I still don't see the big deal of just saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah, because I guarantee there are people from both religions that will get offended if you say either Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah. But why do Christians get offended if you say Happy Holidays? Because believe me, my family gets offended if somebody says Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas and I've seen others get offended if you say Happy holidays.. So tell me, whats the big fucking deal if we say Happy Holidays in stores so we don't leave anybody out or accidentally offend somebody. People need to get over it. "
Really now, I think that you do know why 'happy holidays' bothers people. They see it as an attack on their culture. This isn't just about an alternative saying, its about the assumption that a classic greeting meant entirely in good will has been condemned by businesses and cultural relativists as offensive, when it has not offended anybody. I'm not saying that the offense is entirely grounded in reality, but neither is any perceived offense at 'Merry Christmas'.
I am not bothered by 'happy holidays', and I have used it before, without thinking, a large number of times. But that's not the point. What I've done idly you claim to do with the goal of not offending people.
And the irony of all this is that 'Happy Holidays' is the one that is offending people! So why use it, if the presumed reason for using the supposedly 'inclusive' term of 'happy holidays' is to avoid offending people?
Is it perhaps you find the offense of an intolerant non Christian more worth avoiding than the offense of an intolerant Christian? Why would that be?
"How would you guys feel if a large store started putting up "Happy Hanukkah!!!" everywhere instead of Merry Christmas? "
Anyone here with skin thicker than wax paper probably wouldn't even think about it, let alone muster up the self importance to care.
I am also fine with Happy Ramadon and Happy Pagan Lamb Sacrificing.
Believe it or not, most people who are not Christian are not offended when someone says 'Merry Christmas' to them. About the only people who actually believe this happens are overly careful businessmen who worry about losing any business whatsoever and uptight, politically correct 'intellectuals' who think that WASPs are the scourge of the human race.
Christmas is only vaguely religious for most people, Christian or not.
"Some shit made for girls by a lonely just divorced spinster that's been around long enough that boys like to too. Twilight will be there in about 4 years. "
This assessment can only lead me to believe that you have no idea what you are talking about. You can argue that it is kids literature, but the only way one can come to the conclusion that it is somehow made for girls is by talking out the wrong orifice.
EDIT: And this is not to say that there's anything wrong with literature aimed at a female demographic, but that the idea that Harry Potter somehow is makes no sense whatsoever.
There is a logical fallacy with the complaint. Just after he supposes that JRPGs are stagnant he mentions the exceptions.
All that ever good in anything ever are the exceptions. There are billions of stupid first person shooters, but we do not call the entire genre stagnant because there are the precious five percent that do not suck. Of the five percent, some even manage to innovate.
There are a small handful of japanese role playing games that are actually good. The same goes for first person shooters, real time strategy games, and even western role playing games.
And as others have wryly noted, Bioware is hardly the most original company in the business anyway. Remember, for every japanese girly man there is a bald space marine (or an arthurian knight, verily) to balance the ph.
well I played new super mario bros wii when it was on the ds or when it was mario 3 "
that was an almost witty insult except it was very difficult to decipher because without grammar or punctuation of any kind one cannot tell whether the words you are typing are meant to have any sort of logical construction or whether they are simply coming from the hands of a ritalin child
(PS: I cannot be held accountable if I am being trolled. That I truly believe that someone can be posting like this with sincerity is a dismal thought indeed!)
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