I just don't get why that's popular

SCRawl · Post by **SCRawl** » 2007-12-26 04:44pm

Schuyler Colfax wrote:
muse wrote:Daytime soap operas. Why? Why do people watch this shit??!
I'll second that brother.

Amen, sister! (I know you can't tell from looking at the avatar, but I'm pretty sure Muse is a she. But not really my sister, that's just an expression.)

Schuyler Colfax · Post by **Schuyler Colfax** » 2007-12-26 04:48pm

SCRawl wrote:
Schuyler Colfax wrote:
muse wrote:Daytime soap operas. Why? Why do people watch this shit??!
I'll second that brother.
Amen, sister! (I know you can't tell from looking at the avatar, but I'm pretty sure Muse is a she. But not really my sister, that's just an expression.)

Thanks I'll remember that.

ANSWER: Starcraft - The reason I still like playing SC is because I have a group of friends who like to play it (so we can get good games going), and because it's a very well balanced game. Obviously, it's a bit dated.

Try playing with my friends, they'll definitely ruin it for you. The only reason I never stopped is because I started playing.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-12-26 06:17pm

That someone of your age is playing Starcraft at all is either hilarious or deeply sad. It's a shit game, the only excuse for playing is 'played it in highschool'.

You were, what, FOUR when it came out?

Why don't you go buy a Ramones t-shirt?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2007-12-26 08:02pm

Stark wrote:That someone of your age is playing Starcraft at all is either hilarious or deeply sad. It's a shit game, the only excuse for playing is 'played it in highschool'.

but but but it's the most perfectly balanced RTS ever made

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Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-12-26 08:10pm

That IS why they're making StarCraft 2, or so I hear.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-12-26 10:10pm

It was wellbalanced enough, had enough variation between factions, and was very well polished. Throw in the awesome story and that explains why I loved the hell out of it and have been waiting for the sequel. It's not deserving of the fanwhoring it recieves, though.

I mean for fucks sake, it's no FF7.

Metatwaddle · Post by **Metatwaddle** » 2007-12-27 01:01am

I don't understand the appeal of Battlestar Galactica. When I try to watch it, I end up taking out a laptop about 20 minutes in.

Post by **Surlethe** » 2007-12-27 03:01pm

I really don't get RPGs and role-playing. I've tried in the past, but every time I get bored with the game; there's just no appeal in the dry details.

speaker-to-trolls · Post by **speaker-to-trolls** » 2007-12-27 03:06pm

Battlestar Galactica is popular because of the quasi realistic/documentary feel it has and because of the gritty (yes, I hate that word as much as everyone else by now), militaristic atmosphere, people also liked it because it was a new take on space sci fi. I happily watched the first season and then close to the end of the second I came to the conclusion that all the characters had turned into ambulatory dicks and I didn't care if the Cylons killed them all.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2007-12-27 04:19pm

Discombobulated wrote:I don't understand the appeal of Battlestar Galactica. When I try to watch it, I end up taking out a laptop about 20 minutes in.

Are you watching the third season? It started going to shit in season two but it turned into a full blown clusterfuck after they escaped from New Caprica in season three. The Starbuck/Apollo plot was unwatchable. I gave up at the boxing episode.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-12-27 05:36pm

Gods dammit, now I remember how much I hated the third season. I still hope for the kind of stuff we got in the first season, it'd be decent of them to end it well.

NeoGoomba · Post by **NeoGoomba** » 2007-12-27 06:11pm

Flagg just jogged my brain on something else that drives me up the wall.

Why the hell is FF7 so goddamn popular? Is it the asshole-ish girlfriend/identity stealing Cloud? The effeminate yet charisma-less Sephiroth? The wonderful MIDI soundtrack?!

WHAT!?

Zablorg · Post by **Zablorg** » 2007-12-27 06:15pm

I don't get E.T. Not only do I not get it, I fucking despise the thing. I hate Elliot, I hate his sister, and I fucking hate E.T.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-12-27 06:24pm

Zablorg wrote:I don't get E.T. Not only do I not get it, I fucking despise the thing. I hate Elliot, I hate his sister, and I fucking hate E.T.

You shut your filthy mouth, child.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2007-12-27 06:25pm

NeoGoomba wrote:Flagg just jogged my brain on something else that drives me up the wall.

Why the hell is FF7 so goddamn popular? Is it the asshole-ish girlfriend/identity stealing Cloud? The effeminate yet charisma-less Sephiroth? The wonderful MIDI soundtrack?!

WHAT!?

While this will vary from person to person, the general reaction I've seen is this:

It was their first RPG game. Because the FFs, PSs, and even DWs were rather low key with small runs few people played them. Thus they tend to develop a rather niche fanbase. Many claim graphics weren't up to snuff, but really they were usually on par or better then most of the games of the time. Then with FFVII having some of the best FMV at the time(the graphics though have aged absolutely horribly) it galvanized the graphic lovers to even give a twirl, that and it had MARKETING(something Square barely did with the other two American FFs, and no other company even tried).

So it attracted people both with eyecandy and actually getting the name onto people's lips.

But now? A lot to do with rose colored nostalgia.

Note this applies with North America, and by some extent Europe/Australia. This has no bearing whatsoever on Japan.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2007-12-27 08:02pm

I don't get grunge. It's the most listless and grating genre of rock that ever went mainstream, and whatever limited charm it once had was long ago beaten out of it by endless radio airplay of the same boring shit over and over (and over and over and over) again.

hongi · Post by **hongi** » 2007-12-27 08:21pm

I don't get beer. If it tastes good, yeah. But it tastes like shit.

DrMckay · Post by **DrMckay** » 2007-12-28 12:22am

-the fashion industry in general.

-More specifically, why people by designer pre-ripped jeans that are more expensive than it would be to buy a pair of jeans on sale and cut holes in them.

-Ripped jeans themselves: I remember each pair I wore between ages 5-12 would end up with ripped holes in the kneecaps with use and falling down, but people paying for colthes with holes in them? WTF?

-Fantasy Role-Playing Games. I just never got "it." If you like them though, more power to ya.

-Texting-We've gone from tapping out messages over wires to talking over them-back to tapping out messages by the letter.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-12-28 12:35am

Ghost Rider wrote:
NeoGoomba wrote:Flagg just jogged my brain on something else that drives me up the wall.

Why the hell is FF7 so goddamn popular? Is it the asshole-ish girlfriend/identity stealing Cloud? The effeminate yet charisma-less Sephiroth? The wonderful MIDI soundtrack?!

WHAT!?
While this will vary from person to person, the general reaction I've seen is this:

It was their first RPG game. Because the FFs, PSs, and even DWs were rather low key with small runs few people played them. Thus they tend to develop a rather niche fanbase. Many claim graphics weren't up to snuff, but really they were usually on par or better then most of the games of the time. Then with FFVII having some of the best FMV at the time(the graphics though have aged absolutely horribly) it galvanized the graphic lovers to even give a twirl, that and it had MARKETING(something Square barely did with the other two American FFs, and no other company even tried).

So it attracted people both with eyecandy and actually getting the name onto people's lips.

But now? A lot to do with rose colored nostalgia.

Note this applies with North America, and by some extent Europe/Australia. This has no bearing whatsoever on Japan.

That's pretty much it. It was my first RPG and the first game I ever played that had a story beyond "you must rescue the princess". And it's hard to deny the sheer quality of the game. It had a magnificent story and some wonderful characters.

And I'm not a Final Fantasy fan. The only other FF games that I've played through and didn't hate were the tactics ones.

But yeah, it's mainly a nostalgia thing for me at this point. I've played much better games since, and much better RPG's in particular, but none has that special place in my heart that FF7 does. I can say without shame that it's my favorite game of all time. And if Sony did an HD remake for the PS3 I'd wait in line to buy the fucker.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2007-12-28 12:41am

Surlethe wrote:I really don't get RPGs and role-playing. I've tried in the past, but every time I get bored with the game; there's just no appeal in the dry details.

Honestly, if it were just the game itself, I wouldn't play at all; at least half the fun is in bullshitting with your friends while playing the game.

Gullible Jones · Post by **Gullible Jones** » 2007-12-28 01:26am

Stephen King.

It's not that he's a bad writer, exactly; but four out of five times it seems he just can't get his shit together. He creates great characters and great scenarios, and then pulls some random crap that breaks SoD. He takes an interesting idea, and turns it into an artifically hopeless situation that he resolves with a literal deus ex machina. Some of his stuff is good all the way through; but more often than not I find it tremendously frustrating, in some ways more so than that of authors who are pure hacks.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2007-12-28 01:37am

yeah, he's overrated, I consider peter shroud and many others much better horror writters. But King is like the Tom Clancy of Horror. He jumped the shark so long ago, that the poor fish died trying to catch him as he passed overhead. And now he just needs to write some shit (quite litterially) on a diner napkin and it's adapted into a movie.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2007-12-28 02:47am

Gullible Jones wrote:Stephen King.

It's not that he's a bad writer, exactly; but four out of five times it seems he just can't get his shit together. He creates great characters and great scenarios, and then pulls some random crap that breaks SoD. He takes an interesting idea, and turns it into an artifically hopeless situation that he resolves with a literal deus ex machina. Some of his stuff is good all the way through; but more often than not I find it tremendously frustrating, in some ways more so than that of authors who are pure hacks.

Take his magnus opus for that, around the middle he fucks up the whole story and it just gets progressively worse until the end, and it was such a fucking good story at first.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2007-12-28 03:00am

I don't get Metallica's popularity. Their music is good enough to listen in the car to pass sometime once or twice. But it is not something I can listen over and over before a headache sets in.

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2007-12-28 07:57am

Expanding on the FF7 thing, I couldn't stand it. It was far too slow. "Oh, but if you play it for an hour or so, you really get into the story", friends cry. Fuck that. Why can't you make it interesting right from the beginning?

Actually, I don't get Japanese RPGs in general. Annoying whiny characters, and a railroaded plot. I'm sorry, but maybe it's my P&P RPG background; if you don't get a choice as to what's going on (or even who you're playing), it isn't an RPG. It's an adventure game, get over yourself. Nothing wrong with Adventure games; I loved Discworld, Simon the Sorceror and Beneath a Steel Sky. Final Fantasy never clicked with me, though. If you've got a story to tell, write a fucking novel. Or make a movie.