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Message: [QUOTE="Ikagura, post: 10994, member: 6930"] People should learn to be a bit more synthetic and concise about what they want to convey. A piece of work isn't finished by simply adding the last bit needed but when you remove the last superfluous thing imo. I do appreciate theories (yours about Silent Hills reminded me of how Termina in Majora's Mask was theorised to be purgatory for Link) but they should be clearly what they are: theories, they are not systematically "the true story intended by the devs" nor things to parrot without having any critical judgement about what someone said online solely because they used complex words and are popular but sadly the younger people in an audience will act as if they are canon. Making a long essay to explain the oblivious shouldn't give someone the best score at a test. I dislike the idea that being able to use higher level words systematically makes someone smarter/more professional when in fact even scammers that have 0 scientific knowledge and diploma also tend to use that vocabulary to sell overpriced useless products because they said "it's a quantic tool that will change your life" followed by pseudo-scientific text. Being smart means adapting your language level and actually use specific and technical terms in a good way than spewing many just to feel superior to your interlocutor or audience. I also dislike that sentiment. Angry reviewers from the 00's were at least ironic in most cases but these people are just confidently claiming that well praised games that got good scores and are often treated as being good by many reviewers even years after that they are actually "mid" or "not good" (if not "overrated"). Sure, popularity =/= quality and some games tend to get a better score than what they are because they are from big companies but when it has a success even among gamers around you cannot deny that it has qualities. I feel that some people want to be like the hipsters hating on popular things for the sake of feeling superior to the mass ("I don't follow trends because I'm not a sheep") instead of just liking what they want to like. I understand that it's a human feeling to reject when something gets extremely popular/praised by everyone but it's like saying you'd rather listen to very avant-garde experimental noises than major music groups from history like Queen for the sake of being different. I also have popular things that I don't like specifically but I won't claim that it's bad or overrated solely because I don't like it, it's not how it should work. When I like something more niche it's by honesty and not for the sake of appearing more special than the populace. Pretentious maybe, some essay may be genuine but I cannot tell. Clickbait I entirely agree about that. "[Thing] is a forgotten masterpiece" has become so much of a clickbait title as if you cannot just accept that not everything is one and that some medium can get forgotten because of a lack of visibility rather than people not caring at all. [/QUOTE]

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