OS Fact or Fiction: Gamers Should Remember to Have Fun

[LingeringRegime]

Fact: Life is too short to nitpick a game to death.

[Fresh Tendrils]

Fact: I don't see the point in nit-picking a game to death. If you enjoy, that's great. If you don't then sell it/take it back and don't buy it next year. There are more greater things to worry about than what's wrong with a damn video game. It seems like people spend a lot more time worrying and complaining about whats wrong than praising the things/games that are fun and genuinely entertaining. Maybe some people have a lot more time on their hands, but I'm lucky if I can get an hour or two of gaming a couple nights during the week, much less have enough time to hunt down inconsequential "bugs" and "glitches" in a game.

[Armor and Sword]

Fact.

I have always been first and foremost in the "have fun and enjoy the game camp"

I guess it is a matter of perspective. I come from the Atari 2600 generation. I am a pioneer console gamer. I have seen and played it all.

Therefore with each successive console generation I am having more and more fun.

Of course I don't like when a game is ridden with bugs and what not. But at least today they can patch. Where as the past generations.....you were stuck and you made the best of it or returned the game.

Just picture this. Imagine going from having to use your imagination playing the grandaddy baseball game back in 1981 Intellevision baseball to now immersing yourself in the beauty and spectacle of MLB The Show 2011.

If you can do that.....you know exactly what I am talking about.


Enjoy the games kids you only live once.

[DJ]

Quote: Originally Posted by Fresh Tendrils

Fact: I don't see the point in nit-picking a game to death. If you enjoy, that's great. If you don't then sell it/take it back and don't buy it next year. There are more greater things to worry about than what's wrong with a damn video game. It seems like people spend a lot more time worrying and complaining about whats wrong than praising the things/games that are fun and genuinely entertaining. Maybe some people have a lot more time on their hands, but I'm lucky if I can get an hour or two of gaming a couple nights during the week, much less have enough time to hunt down inconsequential "bugs" and "glitches" in a game.

I agree 100%.

[dcal]

I try to use my early gaming years as reference. Lots of fun and that was the goal, the reason I played. Personally, if gaming begins to feel like a job, what is the point? People are not perfect and that means the games won't be either.

There is room for criticism for poorly made games where promises are made but underdelivered, or lingering issues that keep carrying over instead of being fixed. We are paying for the product after all. For me if a game is not fun and presents too much frustration I just move on and play something else.

[Mjphillips]

Fiction: I have fun when the game plays like what I see on Sundays period. FUN games are mario kart and smash brothers. I want a game that challenges me in the most realistic ways possible and presents it in the right way. The only game that does that currently is CHoops 2k8. I can't play anything else.

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