YZQ wrote:FeroxAnima wrote:simmr001 wrote:Also suggest you stay away from reviews, they ruin the end reward picture.
Yeah, I personally dislike reviews in general - I tend to disagree with those I happen to read the big majority of the times, and all the "good" they do is expose weaker points that just ruin the enjoyment for me xD
Also, it usually - though not always - feels to me as if "professional" reviewers believe their opinion counts more than the opinion of others, which is rather annoying
I have a friend like that, his main point as he claims that animes I like are bad is "I watched more animes than you did"
There is always something good in anything "bad", and bad in anything "good". Nothing is perfect (the second part) and very few works have utterly nothing redeeming. Look at the review, sift out the personal views of the review, and look at the technical facts.
Of course... It is the friend I mentioned who brands things as "bad" or "good", not me
And I don't really feel like I need reviewers to tell me these things xP
You usually have 2 main reasons to read/listen to reviews:
1. You enjoy them, or
2. you use them to decide whether or not to watch/read/etc whatever it is they're criticizing.
But with me, I don't actually enjoy them, nor do I use them in the way I detailed -
Through short research I can usually understand the general idea/style/atmosphere(/the "technical facts" you mentioned) of the reviewed product, and deduce, myself, whether or not I'm likely to enjoy it.
Experience tells me I know myself better than any reviewer
Of course, though, that this is just me. I don't work well with reviews... While many others do
Sorry if it was a messy and hard to understand tl;dr. My limited English vocabulary often leads to me expanding too much and using words that don't really fit, simply because I can't think of ones that do
Edit:
Xanatos wrote:simmr001 wrote:"Dodges knife"
We watch.about 5 of them before we decide our opinion.
How did your argument go?
Some guy kept blathering on about how something was objectively terrible (ignoring the fact that the very premise of his argument was subjective) then listing subjective opinions as to why, and consistently failing to comprehend the meaning of "objective". As he puts it, critics prove his point as they exist to determine the objective shittiness or lack thereof of any product...Which begs the question why many disagree with critics and critics themselves do not hold unanimous views...Apparently though, something like "Sonic 06 is bad because [bad story, unbalanced difficulty curve, etcetera]" is as objective a statement as "Oxygen is required for human life."
Been there XD I've often had very similar arguments with friends