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[–] Enigmius1 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Any article summarizing a game either as a review or a compilation that relies so heavily on the word "flaw" is a disaster. Everything has flaws. Subjective flaws, objective flaws,; there are always flaws. Pointing out that there are flaws is not a helpful, informative, or particularly intelligent.

"I really liked this game but I couldn't get past its flaws..."

There's a solution to that kind of situation. It goes like this:

"I really liked this game" STOP.

"...but I..." NO.

You really liked the game. Fantastic. There's no need to fixate on the parts you didn't like because there's no such thing as the perfect game. Look at all the games that were almost universally loved until the negative kids were the only ones left talking about it in numbers and all they did was bitch bitch bitch. cough Skyrim cough.

It's like sitting two tables away from four catty bitches at the food court that just go on and on about everyone they know and what's wrong with them. They'll even take things that would normally garner compliments and find a way to make them wrong. "Oh my god I totally ran into Cindy the other day! Ever since she got pregnant her tits just keep getting bigger and bigger and she's so smug about it. Like, not in the way she talks or looks at you but you totally know she's thinking that her tits are huge now and she's so much better than everyone. That bitch!"

It's fine to be critical of games and it's fine to express a negative opinion of a group of games, but for the love of Pete, forget the word "flaw". If you're temped to say, for example, that a game has flawed mechanics, take a step back and think about what makes them flawed. Are they dated? Clunky? Convoluted? Unintuitive? Overly random? Overly complex? What? What specifically is wrong with the mechanics? And once that question is answered, you replace "flawed" with the answer. Now we're doing Games Journalism 201, which is the room just a bit farther down the hall from Games Journalism 101 where you can pass by and listen too them smugly pontificate on the "flaws" in the latest AAA release and observe over time that ever since Bob took a desk job and signed up for GJ101, his tits keep getting bigger and bigger.

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[–] Caleb_The_Chosen [S] ago 

Fair enough, I´ll hand that over to the author then. At least it´s not a death threat (a dude wanted to beat me up in real because of my "Mother Russia Bleeds" article).