A lot of this game's perceived quality is elevated by ****ing WEIRD validation seeking.

[blossom]

"See? See? My favorite genre isn't dead! JRPGs are thriving!" Who cares? A game doing something you think isn't being addressed in other games doesn't affect the quality of a game judged by its own terms. It's a good game, but to prop it up higher than it deserves to be just because of some supposed forthcoming renaissance... I don't get it.

[Evilsod]

Do you really have nothing better to do?

[Ratsplat]

If enough people say 'I'll take the Mimes', these threads will disappear.

[Modest Mauser]

This sure is a thread.

[HighMik3y]

"who cares" well, you enough to make a post about it ...

[Vashe]

why so much rage... You're free to not like a game. A lot of people like it, why can't you accept it ? Your life must be sad...

[blossom]

Well reasoned rebuttals.

[Tiasmoon]

Just honestly appreciate an amazing game for what it is. It is not perceived quality, it is real quality.

[blossom]

Originally posted by Tiasmoon:

Just honestly appreciate an amazing game for what it is. It is not perceived quality, it is real quality.

That's fine to do. It's the people who say turn-based JRPGs weren't taken seriously by publishers and now they will be, like this game will be some savior. Why does this genre need "saving"? Just because people are bitter that Final Fantasy has abandoned turn-based combat?

[zefyris]

Originally posted by blossom:

Well reasoned rebuttals.

That's pretty much the same quality as your opening post. With your reasoning, there's no point in saying anything back. Not because you're right, but because you can just keep using the same ad hominem argument again and again. Your opening post doesn't actually explain why you think peoples praising this game are wrong; instead, you go ad hominem instantly and questions their motive for not agreeing with you.

TL;DR : if you want peoples to take you seriously in a discussion, don't open that discussion with an ad hominem argument.

[blossom]

Don't use fancy Latin phrases if you don't know what they mean. It is indeed ****ing weird to seek validation for a genre's "revival" when it was never dead.

[Senki]

losers are trying so hard to be contrarian no matter how good the product that becomes popular is

sad to see

[Senki]

Originally posted by blossom:

Originally posted by Tiasmoon:

Just honestly appreciate an amazing game for what it is. It is not perceived quality, it is real quality.

That's fine to do. It's the people who say turn-based JRPGs weren't taken seriously by publishers and now they will be, like this game will be some savior. Why does this genre need "saving"? Just because people are bitter that Final Fantasy has abandoned turn-based combat?

nobody says that

[zefyris]

Originally posted by blossom:

Don't use fancy Latin phrases if you don't know what they mean. It is indeed ****ing weird to seek validation for a genre's "revival" when it was never dead.

I'm pretty sure you're the one that didn't understand what it meant. Which is fine, as long as you make the effort to learn. Unfortunately, as Asimov said in the 80s,
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ;

But the reality is that no, your ignorance isn't as good as people's knowledge, so you can't brush aside other peoples' rebuke just because you didn't understand one word in it, especially in the age of unlimited internet connection.

[Constant_K]

I guess the question is "would this game be getting the same praise if it were an anime game?"

Or would anyone be praising this game if ubisoft had published/made it?

Tough questions to answer as we'll never know but to me this game does nothing new. The combat wrinkle is a hit with the soulsbourne gatekeepers it seems and as OP says it is being heralded as the game of the year and new saviour of gaming putting AAA studios to same for... some reason?

I thought the game was overhyped a couple of days after starting it and now after finishing it I find the hype totally weird. It doesn't seem to be forced/fake though, people genuinely think this is one of the best games ever. You see it all over the internet.

I'll just add it to the phenomenon I don't get, with Harry Potter and the rest.

[Diabolical Taco]

Show us on the doll where the fantastic game touched you. It's okay, you're in a safe place. Maybe it'll also help make your sentences coherent.