Mattaru said:
Reviews, screenshots, what people have said about it that you know personally, the companies advertising strategy, I am sure such a game would get news media so interviews etc.
The example was only meant to show knowledge of a subject, almost any subject can be derived by second hand.
EDIT: And secondly what keeps getting continually misconstrued is that my min critique does not even rely on the fact that I have played it or not, it relies on the fact that it is a video game and what implications that holds. I just choose not to continually retype that every post because I can assume everyone can read.
Chasym: your post would have been fine if you didn't say "But dont call the game what it isnt if you DONT KNOW" again, because I've offered reasons why that is untrue and you continually refuse to even dig into them.
how am i supposed to "dig into" the fact that you say your basing what you think it is on what other people say and not from what you know. i'm not the only one scratching my head on your logic in that against me saying to not call it what you dont know about it. Because its a solid fact, that you do not know.
cause ya know i was told not to watch lady in the water cause it was the worst movie of the year, and every review i saw said just about the same.
So i watched it lastnight, and i understood the movie to where other people said it made no sense, and i thought it was a great movie. Im never going to limit my choices on anything based on someone elses word.
But thats me, i like having a grasp on my views about something so i have a reason to speak for or against it.
you can believe and rally along with someone else and how they feel about it, but fact remains your probly rallying with someone else who also, has not played it.
but hey, lets step aside from the people who were not involved in columbines opinion for a sec, away from my opinion, away from yours and the people screaming blasphemy and lets look at what someone who lived through it, and its paralyzed from the waist down because of it has to say about the game that is so "wrong"
"Richard Castaldo, one of the students injured that day, had a different take. He is paralyzed from the waist down after being shot in the back, chest, arm and abdomen. He's a gamer -- he wants to be a sound engineer for games -- and he's played the Columbine game. There are some parts that were tough for him, the 24-year-old said, but he thought the game has a unique take on that day. "It's weird for me to say this, I guess, but there's something about it that I appreciated, seeing the game from the killers' perspective," Castaldo said."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901979_2.html
This guy, who was directly affected by the incident sees the game for what it actually is, because even tho it pained him to think about and begin playing it, he did before he judged and claimed it to be what everyone else said. And that is highly respectable that he took that time out regardless of the personal pains from it, and learned that it was much more than what anyone thought. This is opinion based on personal experience and not someone elses word. im sure he, like i and all others flipped and were disgusted when they heard it was a game.
Its not saying much to base your opinion on anothers words at all.
you dont have to play the game. But for the final time, dont call it what it isnt because you DO NOT know.
the reasons you offer are your not playing it because you were directly affected, Respectable.
Your calling the game sick and absurd when you never played it and dont know if its sick or absurd, not respectable.
