You know what really grinds me gears? The natural born cynics here on Crossfire - A Pessimism Community.Sometimes it would be nice to see people liking what others are doing, but those occurrences are few and far between! On sites like ESReality the users are bread to hate everything that is not CPM but elsewhere there is a vague sense of optimism, however on Crossfire the pessimism clouds are growing darker and I can never understand why.
The new Wolfenstein is coming out this summer and you already hate it, you’ve seen some screenshots and read some reports about the single player gameplay and decided already that this game will fail like Quakewars did. You ignore the fact that something is coming that could well give you a renewed enjoyment and new challenge, and focus on the disappointment you’re sure will lie ahead. Has your heart been broken so many times that you feel the need to protect yourself or is it just easier to hate?
The same comes when a new map comes along, or even a new config change, anything out of the ordinary. It doesn’t take much to anger grumpfire.nu – anything that’s got a hint of graphics is bad, one journal about another game (let alone a newspost) can often incite waves of flame about something that clearly has a following regardless of the readers opinion. To coin Heath Ledger, Why so serious?
My question is when did you all become 80 year old grumpy old men? Reading some of the comments of Crossfire users reminds me of the two muppet’s characters Stadler and Waldorf [pictured]. They would sit after a performance and say “Hey that wasn’t half bad!” “Nope, it was ALL bad!!!!”. The majority of the people on this site are 18 not 80, isn’t it time you found a ray of sunshine in your life?
And that’s what really grinds my gears!
The new Wolfenstein is coming out this summer and you already hate it, you’ve seen some screenshots and read some reports about the single player gameplay and decided already that this game will fail like Quakewars did. You ignore the fact that something is coming that could well give you a renewed enjoyment and new challenge, and focus on the disappointment you’re sure will lie ahead. Has your heart been broken so many times that you feel the need to protect yourself or is it just easier to hate?
The same comes when a new map comes along, or even a new config change, anything out of the ordinary. It doesn’t take much to anger grumpfire.nu – anything that’s got a hint of graphics is bad, one journal about another game (let alone a newspost) can often incite waves of flame about something that clearly has a following regardless of the readers opinion. To coin Heath Ledger, Why so serious?
My question is when did you all become 80 year old grumpy old men? Reading some of the comments of Crossfire users reminds me of the two muppet’s characters Stadler and Waldorf [pictured]. They would sit after a performance and say “Hey that wasn’t half bad!” “Nope, it was ALL bad!!!!”. The majority of the people on this site are 18 not 80, isn’t it time you found a ray of sunshine in your life?
And that’s what really grinds my gears!
Everyone reacts differently to this, one might embrace the challenge while someone else might stay away because he is scarewd of the change. Although usually with a 'isolated' community such a ET has, people are more likely to defend their comfort zone more with flaming everything else which threatens them to change and step out of their own pattern/comfort zone.
Cookie jar wisdom !
It's the polar opposites that 'grinds my gear'. Those that can't see the wood from the trees... there's many that're down right aggressive about change, 'n there's those that constantly lambast those people - when the truth is, the majority are happily languishing in the middle.
Realistic as opposed to optimistic, that's a reasonable mantra.
Ppl are proud of playing ET and they like the game. And over time you start thinking wow it would be nice if the game had more of this and that and then once a sequal is announced and you see some random screenshots and think ..... ok not what i expected so it sux.
Then its just a simple matter of saying the same thing that everyone else does if its not good pound it into the ground and make sure everyone shares the same opinion as you do.
On the other hand i also think that this is also a certain amount failure from the developers. You have to know some of what your gamers want and not assume for them what they will think is cool. Obviously its hard to satisfy everyone but still they claimed ETQW would be more of the same as some of the old games were and its not. So thats not good for there credability :P
I also think that you should not forget that ET came a long way as well it was far from perfect when it was released. But i must say that the trailer of the new wolfenstein looks far better then the ETQW on did so im optimistic
even if it is true
Andre o/
On other note: ET is the perfect game, we dont need anything new :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mFQdXFfnb0
e: already a subject for #3? :>
...just kidding xD
and maybe ppl just flame other games because they hope ET stays alive?
+ ETQW sucked, ET is not updated anymore, no new maps are made just remakes of old stupid maps that never worked in the first place, PB fucking SUCKSSSS!!!!!!!!. srsly what the fuck are you talking about? we are getting but fucked by ID and you want us to be happy and post cheerful comments about Wolfenstein.
Well when they pay my ticket to quake con or you send me some of your happy pills, i will.
Actually I'm looking forward to Wolfenstein, as the designers clearly don't put their emphasis on the graphics, which seem to be from the year 2006. I already enjoyed ETQW and had hoped for it to be be more successful as it is.
Crossfire admins removing a poll that seemed to have unveiled an unknown love for ETQW.
cu @ cc7
Usually the changes are just bad (yes, I'm a cynicist), and I don't want to bring my hopes too high for the new Wolfenstein. Either it will still take a long time to be published (expecting delays) or it really will be a bad game. And if it is actually a good one, then I'd like to be rather positively surprised than be sadly disappointed as I was as for QW.
Apparently they picked the wrong things to change in Wolfenstein. Kinda retarded, cause it wasn't so hard to figure out what would be the key to success, especially after shit like QW.
Pretending to enjoy something thats shit doesn't make you happy unless you are shallow as fuck in the first place. RTCW2 will be terrible the same way ETQW is terrible, CoD4 is terrible and Q4 is terrible. I don't know how you can expect optimism when there hasn't been a good commercial MP computer game in years.
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