I’m a gamer, I love gaming. For most of my gaming years I stuck to my good old Playstation 2 and 3, (Xbox 360 briefly)I then bought a High-End (2011) gaming PC and joined Steam. I always used to check Metacritic, IGN and Gamespot for reviews and impressions of games, I lurked NeoGAF (just for the GIFS) threads every now and again but for the most part I played games. I then joined NeoGAF and subsequently came across this place.....N4G.
Oh God......what a mistake. This place is worse then a mental institution. People fight over the same thing again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again, round and round, all day all night, every day of every week of every year. I have waisted at least 20 full-days of my life over the last year on this site over the last year. My God, what a waste. What saddens me even more are their are clearly intelligent people on this site but not intelligent enough to realize the following thing.
-On the internet everyone has their own closed minded opinions. You are always right to yourself and always wrong to those to oppose you. No amount of disagrees, replies or PM’s are going to change this. So stop trying to argue with people. Their is NO POINT. If you have an opinion on something, keep it to yourself......their is no point on going on a crusade, its a waste of your life. You could be adding to meaningful discussion, helping the elderly or animals instead of lining the pockets of the people who feed off the massive maelstrom of sh*t throwing that goes on here.
Also for &*(# sake.......the graphics whoring that goes on here is DISGUSTING. There are something like 320 comments on N4G, 3 000 on IGN and a 32 page thread on NeoGAF about how Battlefield 4 is running at 720p on Xbox One. You know what? I wish I was a casual I couldn’t notice a difference between 1080i, 1080P, 720P, 900P, 30 fps, 45fps, 60fps, 60hz. It sickens me, how people fight over this sort of thing. I play games, to have fun....yes if the game is running at 19fps it will effect my enjoyment but seriously comments like,
“ Oh my word....what is this Guerilla Games, Killzone: Shadowfall only running at 60 fps some of the time, their is nothing worse than a frame-rate drop, it will look awful on my 60hz TV....thanks for saving me $60.”
I mean really, some of you act like frame-rate drops and 900P are going to give you brain cancer.
Im not even going to touch on the lack of logic here and on other gaming sites.
Gone are the days were I give a flying sh*t that Polygon gave The Last of Us 7.0 out of 10 because that is not going to affect MY own personal enjoyment of the game.
Gone are the days I care whether Killzone runs at 60 FPS “most of the time.”
Gone are the days were I try argue with incredible amount of lack of logic here.
Instead Im going to be playing games instead of arguing about them, I’m going to spend more time with my family, with my pets and doing the things I love instead of cr*p slinging. I don’t care any more and I wish I never had.
PS. Once this is approved don’t bother PM’ing me because I’m never coming back. I wrote this blog to try help you guys to stop wasting your life in the comments sections and threads.
Alan Wake, from Max Payne and Control creator Remedy, is a horror classic, prompting one player to buy 4,000 copies that don’t even work.
Kind of a goody story...
On a serious note, that is why I try activating gift cards asap. It's happened to me where the store didnt scan it right where the card was unusuable. Happened at Wally World.
Usually most of those redemption card have an expiry date on them. If they expired all buyer did was buy recycled paper. And some of those codes are country locked to certain countries. I buy a card from the States I can't use it in Canada.
UKIE published its latest Consumer Market Valuation Report, showing that the UK games market was worth £7.82 billion in 2023, a 4.4% increase compared to 2022's revised total of £7.49 billion.
Final Fantasy is a long running series at this point — it's easily one of the most storied franchises in gaming. But when you're up to the sixteenth mainline entry, you must start wondering whether fresh installments still have the power to pull new players in. Indeed, audience growth will be an important metric for the suits upstairs at Square Enix.
I enjoyed the game but I would like them to try making a turn based FF. It’s been too long. Even if it was a spin-off that would be fine.
"This doesn’t mean that all future Final Fantasy games will take a similar direction to Final Fantasy 16,"
Here is a quote from the article to keep the XVI haters easy .
I enjoyed the game for what it was. What the team wanted to make. And i hadn't enjoyed a mainline FF game like i did XVI since X. Not counting Remake. People say it isn't an JRPG but it's pretty much Kingdom Hearts gameplay wise.
I decided to play some Arcade mode in XVI to get ready for the DLC after 220 hours of Rebirth and i still love the gameplay.
Can't wait for the DLC to hit in less than a week and see how crazy the Leviathan fight will be.
"I wrote this blog to try help you guys to stop wasting your life in the comments sections and threads."
Unfortunately that is not going to happen. Both sides need a reason to bark and yell at each other. Whether it's 60fps vs 30fps or a game running at 1080p or 720p or the latest a lowered poly count (or my favorite a game being paltry). The excuses are getting lamer and lamer.
In the great Sega/Nintendo war their was actual good discussion of what system had what game that made it the best. Nowadays with both systems basically having the same games it is getting harder and harder to argue.
This is just part of the reason we get these lame troll attempts.
The bubble system doesn't help on this site either. This site rewards a certain side that thinks their certain way. It's no secret that that side is Sony, you will find a lot more Sony fans sitting on 6 to 10 bubbles than a MS, Nintendo or PC fan.
That is the main reason why the bubbles need to go. The majority that can speak are all leaning heavy to one side and that makes fair debates or discussions very lop sided.
Anyways, I doubt this blog will get approved since it's nothing more than a rant against the site that has been expressed already by many members.
Good luck elsewhere.
Feel free to leave, no one is stopping you.
One does not simply leave N4G
***This place is worse then a mental institution. People fight over the same thing again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again, round and round, all day all night, every day of every week of every year.***
So, just like everywhere else in life. Politics. Religion. Work. Sports. Yadda yadda yadda. We are a people who just argue about the same thing. It's what we do.
This blog is hilarious!
You are right about what you say though.
Which is why I rarely comment anymore.