Opinions on how TCR & FG are dealing with AAMFP criticism

[Cuyir]

LOOK!

SOMEONE ELSE'S OPINION!

THIS PROVES I'M RIGHT!

It does prove that AMFP is not as well regarded overall, I'm not one to use argumentum ad populum, but the evidence does stand to show that at the very least.

And? So people expected different things because of x and y (which I won't get into because this discussion is already tiresome) and a massive amount of them are having fits.

I've read the comments from people here and on websites and the only way the game would have gotten a better overall reaction was if they had done the same things as from TDD and called it a day. Sorry but that's the truth, call me ignorant and arrogant. That's not to say that there aren't people who didn't like it for what it was but just that there were a lot of more people that hated because of what it was not.

Quick example: I knew what the Dead Space series offered (I played through the Penumbras and A:TDD before I got to DS). I knew it was atmospheric and gory but with a focus on action and action-y gameplay. I loved all three. Want to know why? Cause I enjoyed the games for what they were. If I had played them expecting (somehow) another Black Plague i'd have been furious. But I didn't cause, well, yeah.

Another example: I bought RE6. I knew that ever since RE4 the games had taken an even MORE action-y focus. So i played it and enjoyed it for what it was, ie, a very clunky designed game that was ok but had some gameplay mechanics that could be polished and used to make another RE2. It's nowhere near my favorite game (6.75 or 7.0 out of 10 for me), it's such a lost opportunity that it's almost depressing but I didn't hate/dislike it because it wasn't RE2 (or the game I want them to make which i'll make a topic about...someday) but rather judged it on its own.

ANOTHER example: I played TF2 and didn't enjoy it much. I didn't enjoy it because of what it WAS, not because of what it was not.

So I ask again, and? Does linking the opinions of others do anything really? I have never linked anyone's opinions, much less the conglomerate of opinions that is metacritic (the same place that shows how hilariously overrated a few games are), to back my opinion. I just stated my opinion as it was and left it there. Why? Cause I don't rely nor give the same level of credit and attention a lot of people give to other people's opinions.

But yeah, the image/reaction does answer a lot of questions after analyzing a few of the reviews and user ''reviews'' but not in the way the poster of those images intended.