{"id":22873,"date":"2014-04-22T19:24:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T00:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22873"},"modified":"2014-04-22T20:16:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T01:16:53","slug":"experinced-points-why-i-hated-resident-evil-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22873","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Why I Hated Resident Evil 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/11339-Why-I-Hated-Resident-Evil-4\">my column this week<\/a> was actually prompted by the fact that Resident Evil 4 recently got an HD re-release, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=urpHwgOujcw\">SuperBunnyHop did a retrospective on it<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But more importantly it&#8217;s prompted by the endless needling I get from Various Parties when I fail to like things. Or if I don&#8217;t like them enough. Or for the right reasons. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s your own fault you&#8217;re bad at the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which doesn&#8217;t change that fact that some people really want to know how demanding a game is, and how punishing it is. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s your own fault for not knowing the lore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it&#8217;s the storytellers job to make the story interesting for the audience. In any case, &#8220;This story is bad for newcomers&#8221; is valuable information for newcomers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You shouldn&#8217;t have played the game if you don&#8217;t like QTEs \/ morality systems \/ romance subplots \/ grinding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what parts of the game is the critic allowed to critique? Using this logic, a game can only be reviewed by people who are already fans of it, and are only consumed by people who already know what they&#8217;re getting. Which means the fanboy is using reviews as as way of reinforcing their opinions, and basically declaring artistic reviews and consumer advice as invalid. Moreover, if I was supposed to know better than to play a game with [feature], how am I supposed to find out about [feature]? You&#8217;ve already said it&#8217;s wrong for critics to bring it up! <\/p>\n<p>This is all a waste of time, of course. Fans will be fans. In fact, I predict reflexive defense of RE4 <em>in response to my article about how reflexively defending things is terrible<\/em>. There&#8217;s no cure.  <\/p>\n<p>Still, I can always hope to make a few converts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my column this week was actually prompted by the fact that Resident Evil 4 recently got an HD re-release, and SuperBunnyHop did a retrospective on it. But more importantly it&#8217;s prompted by the endless needling I get from Various Parties when I fail to like things. Or if I don&#8217;t like them enough. Or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-22873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-resident-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}