Well now… what am I basing my 'opinions' (facts) on? Let's see:
I liked DA: Origins. I didn't like DA2. I went on-line (after I had determined this) to see what other people thought. Without question, everywhere I went I found 'general opinion' to be pretty much "it's effing awful" with the occasional guy saying "heeeey, it's not THAT bad".
You obviously didn't look very closely, as a lot of people liked it very much. Once again, a third of the users who voted on Metacritic gave it a positive score. That's the "occasional" mediocre score you found, right?
Confirmation bias ring a bell?
I looked at the critics versus the user reviews. I felt insulted by the critics and felt vindicated in my opinion by the user reviews. I looked at the sales figures, big on release day, tanked almost immediately after that, which vindicated my thoughts (I bought it well down the line).
Yes, you used your own personal opinion about the game as a guage about whether critics were being honest or not. It didn't occur to you that they might have liked things about it that you didn't like - and they didn't care about things you disliked.
That's called being closed-minded and conceited.
Meaning, once again, that you can't get past yourself and you can't accept a reality where people don't agree with you. They must be wrong or paid off.
If I am having this experience and I'm just a guy, I feel pretty damn confident that the owners of Escapist would have exactly the same experience and knowledge, only more so, to the point of exactitude as to where the game precisely fails really so hard.
Yes, you feel confident that Escapist would agree with you - because…. well, because otherwise they wouldn't agree with you. Obviously, you consider your own opinion flawless and the only correct one.
A few critics liked it, some people liked it and the owners of a publication can say anything they want so there.
A few? You mean most of the critics liked it - and a third of the people voting on Metacritic liked it.
This simply means that a LOT of people seem to like it. I certainly can't establish that they don't.
As such, it would be completely irrational and unreasonable to consider the game objectively bad.
That's ok. I know that your refusal to answer my simple and direct questions means you're going to have to confront your own position on this.
Take your time - and when you've grown up enough to realise that the opinion of other people aren't necessarily incorrect or corrupt - just because they don't match your own biased perception of reality - I'll be here, ready to embrace your new open state of mind.
I'm glad to have been of help here
