Xyga your post was so good, it got me to drag my ass out of bed so I could get on my PC to try and respond properly.
Xyga wrote:
Like I said I have popular games that I don't like too, yet I know it's almost always because of my personal preferences and taste, and I'm very well able to understand why so many other people do love them, Because of that I don't play what I don't like
This is something I've never understood from so many people. There are lots of people that don't seem to know what they like, it's truly bizarre like it is some process that requires witchcraft and sacrificing a goat. I think deep down it's more likely that they know they won't enjoy something or are planning to hate it because it's more fun for them to be negative which leads us to...
Xyga wrote:
and don't let my guts dictate me to go on a massacre rant to blow some steam off and encourage people to share some bile, because that'd just be dickish flaming that doesn't do any good.
As I said I won't again go into details with the games that were the topic that brought us here, I've seen it's pointless to try and risky to insist, but they're very good examples of when that internet abusive thrashing and inflating process is in action. No need to tell you nor ask me to say more, just google and browse opinions about those games again, then tell me we're dealing with legit 'criticism' and not cases of people finding anything to justify and feed their own fury and other's. Internet favours trashing, not criticism which rather annoys readers because they don't like nuanced opinions they interpret as attacks.
You've touched on it a lot already in fact I'd say it is your main point that well
it's cool to hate. Even the top comment on that video completely nails the same point. It's internet culture at this point.
Back to my point of knowing what I like and what I don't. I typically do a really good job of knowing if I will or won't like a game, movie etc... Sometimes I will try something anyway like Ass Creed 1 for any number of reasons. Usually it ends up I was right but sometimes I am pleasantly surprised. In the case of AC1 I didn't like it and I also didn't feel compelled to run to the internet and tell everyone that likes it they are WRONG for doing so.
Now for some last thoughts I want to circle back around to this.
Xyga wrote:
whether in the past or present putting things into time context too which is important.
The zeitgeist in which something was made does matter but of course games are being played now. I think it can be important to view old games objectively and not I played this game when I was 10 it's perfect and I'm totally being objective and not biased.