@xUnrationalistx You said you "barely" played the demo, which I do not think constitutes as a reasonable enough game experience to judge the entire game on. Also, in your first post, you said - and I quote - "Let me put this shortly:" which implies that you were promoting your own views and not just someone else's (even though it was in the form of a post from someone else). My issue is with the fact that you're choosing to use someone else's opinion as the entire basis for your own, rather than being reasonably objective. I understand that you may not agree with everything in the post, but then you shouldn't have posted it as if it represented your own views to begin with and rather given us your own opinion based on your own experiences or observations with the game.
In the end, I do understand that some games may just not seem appealing to you. Hell, I skip a lot of games just because they don't come across as appealing to me either and with how much games cost nowadays, it's not surprising or unreasonable for people to do just that. However, just because I've decided to skip a game that doesn't look like it will appeal to me, that doesn't mean I'm going to go onto metacritic and give it a low score just to be snide when I haven't even played the game. I don't see how I even have the right to score a game at all when I have yet to have any experience with it beyond a few minutes in a demo or after watching a few trailers at the most. To me, that just seems unfair on other gamers who are given the wrong signals for all the wrong reasons.
@xUnrationalistx I see. So you're going to base your opinion on the opinion of someone who may or may not have played the game with an open mind and a fair analysis. Are you also going to believe the next person who tells you that the Tooth Fairy is real just because they say so?
Sorry, but this is exactly the type of mentality that I find to be absurd. If you had played the game I'd take you seriously, but you're just finding reasons to bash it without any real personal experience with the game.
*Gamers accuse politicians for unfairly bashing violent games and blaming them for real world violence to further their own agendas and preconceived ideals. Said gamers then go on to unfairly bash a game in a similar manner for no reason other than to fulfill their own agendas and preconceived ideals even though they probably have yet to play the game.*
I see... so gamers are turning into politicians...
@Double_Wide I bet you 90% of the people who scored it low haven't even played it yet. It's hard to take someone's opinion into account when it's based on nothing.
I do think that Deep Silver may be feeling a bit of pressure regarding all the media hype linking violent video games to real world violence that has been going around lately, so the release of this pack with a statue that appears to glorify violence, particularly against women, may have come at an inopportune moment. Perhaps they are trying to appease disgruntled fans as well as mitigating any potentially "wrong signals" being sent out into the media as a whole.
That being said, this doesn't really interest me in any way. There's nothing appealing about having what looks like a butchered carcass on my shelf and Dead Island as a whole is not a game I've ever considered buying. I don't have anything against people who do like it though, however, I do think Deep Silver could have made a bit more effort to create a statue/model that appeals to a wider variety of tastes, rather than only appealing mostly to hormonal male teenagers who might have a slight case of necrophilia.
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