I play a … wide and varied amount of video game genres, and… yeah, a lot of people tend to just stick to one, or a few, and… when I make comparisons between their favorite genre, and another that is actually similar is significant ways, or like, has a fundamentally similar core mechanic, but handles it in a different way…
… usually this causes a freak out.
You can very rarely get a super fan to admit that such similarities exist, and you can also rarely get them to actually define the things that they say make one kind of game better, or preferable to another kind of game.
I almost never start those kinds of discussions, but people like that can almost never finish them, they just tie themselves in knots to preserve some undefinable way that their fav game / genre is better or truly unique.
I got no problem with people having preferences, I hate people who make broad claims that are just objectively not true, not the case…
And then again, also yes with the sort of ‘you’re not allowed to like these two kinds of things I think are mutually exclusive for inexplicable reasons’ thing.
Fucking hell. Like, I actually studied Karate for a decade, I’m not like a world champion or a great top tier fighter… but I do know a little bit of what I’m talking about when I try to describe how the basic mechanics/kinematics of say, a fighting game that is at least grounded in realism should work.
But nope, with so many people, I’m basically just not allowed to know how to code and also know how to throw a punch, at the same time.
Just doesn’t compute for them, even though these are the same kind of people who will swoon over a more famous person with a similarly mixed set of skills.
I feel that, man, so very much feel that.
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I play a … wide and varied amount of video game genres, and… yeah, a lot of people tend to just stick to one, or a few, and… when I make comparisons between their favorite genre, and another that is actually similar is significant ways, or like, has a fundamentally similar core mechanic, but handles it in a different way…
… usually this causes a freak out.
You can very rarely get a super fan to admit that such similarities exist, and you can also rarely get them to actually define the things that they say make one kind of game better, or preferable to another kind of game.
I almost never start those kinds of discussions, but people like that can almost never finish them, they just tie themselves in knots to preserve some undefinable way that their fav game / genre is better or truly unique.
I got no problem with people having preferences, I hate people who make broad claims that are just objectively not true, not the case…
And then again, also yes with the sort of ‘you’re not allowed to like these two kinds of things I think are mutually exclusive for inexplicable reasons’ thing.
Fucking hell. Like, I actually studied Karate for a decade, I’m not like a world champion or a great top tier fighter… but I do know a little bit of what I’m talking about when I try to describe how the basic mechanics/kinematics of say, a fighting game that is at least grounded in realism should work.
But nope, with so many people, I’m basically just not allowed to know how to code and also know how to throw a punch, at the same time.
Just doesn’t compute for them, even though these are the same kind of people who will swoon over a more famous person with a similarly mixed set of skills.
Oh well, normies gonna be normies.