An interesting take on the role of procedural rherotic (Gaming)

by Xenos , Shores of Time, Monday, November 04, 2013, 08:23 (4036 days ago) @ Kermit

Eh, we disagree on that score. Although I find some of the praise of BI to be off the mark, I find much of the criticism to be further off the mark. The irony in this discussion is that I think with BioShock Infinite the praisers and critics both often want the game to have a simpler theme than it does. They go wrong by insisting the game does or doesn't support the simplistic theme they want it to have.

I definitely fall into the praiser category, but yeah I completely agree with you. For example, any time someone brings up race as being the main point of the story I just stop reading. I think part of the problem with any game criticism (good or bad) is that people have trouble understanding how they feel about something as a whole so if they play a game and say "I'm disappointed" they often don't know why. This usually causes them to latch on to something they didn't like as the main reason. Sometimes the truth is you just didn't enjoy it. It goes the other way around too, but we are rarely upset with people liking things on an individual level.