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Message: [QUOTE="Deleted member 77791, post: 219332, member: 77791"] The way I grew up, way pre-internet age, when the greteast technology was a brand new color TV, I had no idea if video game magazines existed or not. Not many kids in the school cared to play a video game so we had to test the waters like me standing under the stairs of the school in a dark corner and asking random kids "pssst, do you know what is a video game" and they were usually like "video game? What's 'video'?" lol. Mind you, these kids are the same kids who didn't believe Saturn existed when I told them, I mean the planet in our solar system, because the education system didn't care about the solar system but I learned just because I was living in a public library lolol. So imagine such a society, we had to explore the city to find some shops selling video games. Americans and Japanese people may cannot understand it because video games were huge obvious parts in their life, but not in my society. So we had to search for video game shops via recommendations just because some kids in the schools randomly found them or they were living very close to such shops. What was weird is video game consoles were sold in seperate places that rather you wouldn't expect them to sell it but they were just selling it by trying to convince parents when they were buying carpet or something lol. With a console they were also selling the most popular video game it can be and that's it. Lots of these kids who had a video game console had no idea there are actually new video games being sold. They thought they released a video game console and like 3 games with and then they called it a day lol. In video game shops, the guy would just throw a box on us and say "pick the game you want in it, kid". Then all we could do was checking its box. Until SEGA Genesis the games were sold just by cartridges (in my society). What was good about SEGA Genesis games were they had screenshoots from the game at the back of its box. The only "review" system we had was no different than public library and picking a decent book. You would say "dude I wanna play a game like Contra" and the guy would give you some. Good thing was in some places you could test the game in the shop before buying it. Yes, in the video game culture we grew up in there was "Play first, buy later" mentality as a fundamental fact we all grew up with. But sometimes we were interested in a game enough to buy it without testing it. We became expert on how the video game is by just checking its cartridges or box. Perhaps lots of kids became fan of certain video game company and used their knowledge as a "quality control". For example back then Konami and Electronic Arts (EA) games meant "the game is likely good". But Konami games offered fun games, EA was mostly about "good graphics" that sometimes can be boring. Since we lacked a way to get to know about different or new video games, all we could do is going to the house of the kid and check which games he has. We would trade our games and all. This was the most useful review system we had. Video game magazines are very new in my life and then when I read them I was like "how pointless it's". I remember reading about Metal Gear Solid 3 review. The guy clearly had no idea what kind of series it is, had no care for the stealth genre, he just said "dude the game is so boring, you have to wait in bushes for hours, my review score is 65/100, no sane person would buy it". This was not what I used to because usually kids would play the few games they had and appreciate the fun it has, we wouldn't bash video games on the floor unfairly. In a way after so many bad video games we had to experience but still managed to have fun, we were very aware of what makes a game "bad" is just because player has no idea how to have fun with it. Then it gaves us a review logic of "if the game allows good fun then the game is necessarily okay". Perhaps it's video game magazine culture that ruined video gaming. I can imagine some random guy played Top Gear 2 and instead of appreciating how you can modify your car he was like "it has no story" and his review score was 40/100 because of that then it would only generate a mindless customer type who believe what the majority believes cancel out personal opinions. Then they would only play a game just because there is a sense of "popularity", not because they personally like it. Then it would cause people to hate some games like "Technocop" because "it's not popular" then they would like Sonic just because it's popular. IMO Sonic was popular, no one would deny it, but I never cared about a Sonic game other than the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 just because it has a fun gameplay unlike the previous games. Playing as an animal is not my cup of tea anyway. In comparison I even like Technocop way more than Sonic games lol. And then I was very crazy about "Outlander" despite there were kids who didn't like it much lol. So all I can imagine is growing up with video game magazines or internet only caused a gamer type who was brainwashed to believe they have to either like X game or Y game. For me there was lots of instances when a kid would a hate a game so much he would talk about it in the school but then it would make me learn about this wonderful game that I still enjoy playing (Streets of Rage 1) lolol. "Dude the game is bad because the stab you a lot." Yeah dude, go play Mario then lol. [/QUOTE]

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