It's 12am and I cant be bothered traipsing through the forums to look for things which are blatantly obvious to anyone who spends more than 5 minutes a day on here. Just look in the GT5 thread for evidence of people hating something purely because it's a popular game/franchise.
you're imagining it (that its an ocuk trait). every game get's it share of little boys slating it, just to be a voice. to be heard. But no, by large gt5 was pretty well received even if it wasnt the super racer some people thought it would be. Even if there are some obvious flaws in the game, people are still actively playing it now. So where's this ocuk hatred towards it? i dont see a boycott, i see a handfull of people slating it. big deal.
I don't care who agrees or disagrees with me but when your first post is a rolleyes what do you expect?
I expected it to make you think, thats all.
And now you're acting in the exact high horse manner that I just mentioned. I'll tell you what a waste of time is, someone who doesn't even bother to read posts properly.
I'm not on any high horse and it would see you're doing plenty of that not-reading yourself.
Where did I say I don't like people criticising mainstream games? I didn't, I said that on OcUK it seems to be the "in" thing to do, to criticise a game which is hugely popular/liked by the vast majority of players and critics alike.
it was an assumption, based on the fact you linked the criticism of gta IV to it being a mainstream game. you saw the posts here and you instantly thought 'mainstream', as if you are unable to take them for what they are - people not liking certain things about the game. You said this in such a way as to infer (yes, infer) you didnt like it.
If you read some of the posts regarding games like MGS4 you'd think it was possibly the worst game ever created, some of the posters here just spout sensationalist bull**** just because it's the cool thing to do, to go against the grain.
a hand full of muppets (which you get on any forum i might add) and a lot of people who dont like a game that consisted of roughly 1/2 gameplay and 1/2 cutscenes. For me, thats completely understandable. What i think (that it's an absolutely masterpiece) is irrelevant. those people are entitles to their opinions and i get it when people say its slow, and boring. it probably is, to them.
When I say mainstream games I'm talking about games that are predominantly high scoring among critics and users, as GTA4 is, and reading some of the posts in this thread you'd assume it was absolutely terrible which simply isn't the case in the opinion of a vast majority of people. What I'm saying is that OcUK seems to have many of the people that seem to think classically good games are steaming piles of turd.
Yeah, and im saying thats rubbish. Like i've already said, it doesnt matter if the game gets 100% in every review. If people dont like the game, or some of the features, then again they are entitled to do so.
Where did I say you were on a high horse because you didn't agree with me? I didn't, so stop putting words in my mouth and take more than 30 seconds skim reading a post before you bother to reply.
You keep saying im on some high horse but you haven't said why. You do know that that for that to be the case i'd have to be be sitting here and
not accepting the opinions of others on these games, right? but I'm not doing that at all. Whatever i think about these or any other games, doesnt make me any more or any less right than anybody else.
bandied about all the time it gets on my nerves. People wouldn't act this way in real life in a conversation so why do they do it online? Probably because the consequences of acting like a right nob jockey (not you) are virtually non existent. Anyway, it's 1am, I don't want to spend my last few minutes awake arguing with some random over mine or their choice of words. We both agree it's a good game, we both agree that others don't think it's a good game. 
