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The Wave Master posted...

I guess the problem a lot of us have with the gushing and glowing reviews of Breath of the Wild is that the final "Perfect" or "Near Perfect" review scores is that they seem to ignore a lot of the flaws with the game.

That's all games considered a 10/10, though. There's always going to be a list of things that could have been done ever-so-slightly better, and I have a list I could rattle off for BotW for sure. But these tiny issues usually don' add up or amount to much, so no need to dock points for it. No game could ever get a "perfect" score otherwise.

And some things people are calling flaws, really aren't. Someone may not like the durability weapon system, for example, but that's not a objective flaw, because that was implemented on purpose. If it was implemented poorly, then that's another thing all together.

For comparison go back and look at the Halo 5 reviews. Reviewers complained endlessly about the resolution of the game.

"What do you mean Halo 5 isn't running at 60fps and 1080p? It's Halo!!!"

If I had to guess, I would say Halo 5 was likely promised to run at 60fps and 1080p before launch, so if it broke that promise, then people are going to rake them over the coals for it. The significance of resolution also matters more since a large reason why anyone even buys Halo games is the multiplayer, something BotW doesn't have.

To be fair, when a large vocal core to a fanbase are annoying as fuck or otherwise repulsive human beings, it's a very natural and justified response to basically ask yourself "Man, if THESE shitbags all love this thing, then what does that say about its quality?"

But who cares, though? These people have no real-world power or presence. It's not like they are out protesting in the streets over weapon durability. They are confined to message boards such as this one, where they can be safely ignored if you wish to ignore them. Not to mention, there's no such thing as a fanbase that DOESN'T have a "large vocal core"; there are only variations of such (like how XBox Live gets a bad rep.). Unless these people are directly hindering your ability to enjoy a game, you have no reason to engage them or let them influence. You're just doing it to yourself at that point.

In some ways, it's similar to how people find out that Orson Scott Card was pretty anti-gay, and find it prevents them from enjoying his writing, or when Mel Gibson had his little tirade about women and Jews and people became less inclined to want to see anything he makes.

Not close in enough ways to be a good comparison. This is comparing the stances of 1 person, the creator of the content, vs. thousands or millions of fans, who don't create the content. While I believe in separating the art from the artist (and thus the transgressions of OSC and Gibson don't distract me from their art), I can get not wanting to support or not being able to enjoy a game/book/film because you consider the person behind it to be vile. Voting with your wallet, and all. But it's inane to have that same reaction to thousands of fans, whom you have no control over and will rarely, if ever affect the art in question itself.
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