Let me put it this way. Person A watches a three-hour director’s cut of a movie from beginning to end, fully appreciating all the little details that enhance the experience. Person B says “three hours is too long, I ain’t got time for that” and watches a compilation of clips on YouTube that amounts to maybe 20 minutes…

If the developers don’t do anything to try and curb toxicity and other bad behavior, maybe, but it’s tough to fault the game or genre itself for that.

It’s not so much about reviews needing to reinforce the fans’ view of a game more that it needs to give the game a fair shake on its terms and not the reviewer’s; when you review something, it needs to be an assessment of it within its genre, not an assessment of how much the reviewer likes the genre in general. Why…

Well, for the former, it could be an intentional design choice of the atmosphere. I know the Soulsbourne games are known for their dark, gothic atmosphere, and I doubt that would be communicated quite as well if you could just faceroll through all the challenges; in that case, the difficulty is high to help…

In that instance then, it would be a problem you have with the genre, not the game itself. Knocking points off a game for what genre it is would be kind of unfair, no?

Not a big fan of the Soulsbourne games myself, but I can understand where they’re coming from when the difficulty is kind of the point and then reviews try to make it out like it’s a bad thing. Like reviewing an MMO and citing one of the negatives as “you have to interact with other people sometimes”.

Speaking as someone who has put considerable time into 5, I can definitely say it takes some adjusting, but it’s definitely the opposite of awkward, slow or inferior. In terms of speed, you might just be too used to the Turbo mode in 4 and 5, and it is definitely the most comfortable, deep and complex combat mechanics…

The rumors floating around on Reddit, which are allegedly fairly credible but should still be taken with a grain of salt, are that:

Apparently, if you’re able to beat this on the first try (one-armed Nero with no upgrades and all) it immediately unlocks Dante Must Die difficulty for you. Absolutely bonkers.

I don’t believe that all games criticism need exclude facts of taste from the set of facts under consideration

You just keep going and going, don’t you? Does it make you feel better to let it all out? If so, please continue, you clearly have a lot of angrer and frustration you need to work out. Know how I know? It’s not the simple fact that you’re cursing, which you seem to think, it’s that you are choosing to make direct…

I mean honestly, I’m just using someone else’s terminology here: in this context, “guilty pleasure” means looking at a bunch of options in front of you and willfully choosing the one that is objectively worse, but for personal reasons. So for example let’s say you have a bunch of cars and one is well-made and has a…

Man, that is some mighty fine projecting you’re putting on me. You try to portray me as getting “very fucking pissy”, yet you are using much harsher and more aggressive language than I am, getting particularly defensive on Mr. Rogers’ behalf.

I almost feel like I need to just link the comment I made on the “holy grail of trash” article, but...look. You guys are kind of missing the point of the whole debate. It’s not that we feel bad because you’re calling something we like low-brow and you have to reassure us that you mean it in a good way, it’s that we…

Oh, I know exactly what he means when he says “trash”, that’s...kind of the entire problem. I’ll refer you to my main comment for my full thoughts on it, but in short, he’s talking about it in very subjective terms (i.e. matter of opinion) and using that to justify giving it objective analysis. He sums up why he…

It’s okay, Mr. Rogers seems to inspire that a lot in people. I almost want to say it’s intentional. On topic, trash is definitely not the right term to use, even if DMC isn’t your thing. The series has its flaws, its high and lows, but painting it with such a superficial brush is inaccurate at best and insulting at…

...So...I feel like we need expand our vocabulary when it comes to discussing videogames, because this article and subsequent comment section clearly communicates just how unclear the terminology some of use is. For example, I am certain most of us are able to distinguish between, “this is trash because it’s poorly…

To be fair, he tends to talk about it as if Devil May Cry (or the people who like it) shot his dog, even ironically.