Defending Shmups

[FatCobra]

I think deep down inside, everybody can enjoy shmups.

Yes, even the "hardcore" Madden player Joe Sixpack may have a dormant shmupper buried within the confines of his blackened football-worshipping soul. Introducing shmups to him may either cause him to tell you it's gay, that he enjoyed playing those games as a kid, or look hardly at his Madden collection and tell himself, "WTF was I thinking?" He'd throw away all of that crap, import himself a Saturn and some shmups and be cleasned of the form of Satan known as John Madden. And the shmup gods would proclaim: "Another soul saved!!!" And all would be good. Amen.

All I gotta say is this: Just show them the games, show them the TATed TV, the Japanese games, just show it all to them. If they are not convinced, then they are a lost cause. Who knows, you might get them to buy a copy of Gradius V.

[sethsez]

I think everyone can like anything if they're forced to stick with it long enough. Yes, that means that you, FatCobra, could figure out how to enjoy the Madden games, understand and care about all the the differences between iterations, and get excited about roster changes. If you were stuck on a desert island with nothing but Madden, you'd learn to love it like nothing else.

But you don't want to, because you don't want to put the effort and time into forcing yourself to enjoy something. And why should you? There's plenty of other stuff you enjoy without having to work for it. The same goes for the people who don't enjoy shmups.

[Minzoku]

Hmmm...I wasn't aware simplicity was a bad thing.

Does that mean he can do something like walk a tight-rope? All you do is walk; it's simplistic, so it must be easy.

Everyone can have his/her own opinion on what he/she likes, but it annoys me when people base it off assumptions. Atleast have a valid reason for not liking something.

This reminds me of a different topic that came up:

We got on the subject of Live [the band], and Kiken's brother Thomas hadn't heard of them, so Kiken said, "They boil down to a Christian rock band." Thomas rolled his eyes and said, "Oh, then they suck."

I said, "Hey, they're not THAT bad. You should hear them first... THEN hate them, if you must "

So, yes.