Sorry about my last blog-post, which is now hidden for good. Should have thought twice about it.

Anyways, this is a follow-up article to my last post where I described the many methods on how to show your appreciation for a game. But what do you do if you actually hate the game? How do you show that you do not like a game or a genre at all.

Many people would respond and say that you basically do the same stuff for games oyu hate then you do for games you love: You write about them. Articles about why certain people dislike certain games and genres are pretty common on the C-blogs, and while there is a lot of harsh criticism, some of it is quite constructive and very interesting to read. In contrast to the games described, these articles can be of great quality.

Another method is the one employed by the Angry VideoGame Nerd. He also does reviews of these games, but in a rather sarcastic and satirical kind of way. It is quite impressive, how much creativity even bad games can spawn if you consider that particular long-running series. You also have got to admit that there are a lot of imitations around that also try to trash some bad games.


Argh! My eyes!!!

But what about actually playing said bad games? Do you actually complete these games? I find myself giving up on bad games pretty quickly. My best examples would be Red Ninja for the Playstation 2 or Hoshigami for the Nintendo DS. I hate these games! I tried several times to get into them, but they are so shitty to me, that I can't get past a certain point in them. I for myself actually never talk about these games because of their shittyness.
Other people actually try to complete them, before they react to them in the before mentioned ways.

In the end, I find it quite impressive, how much creativity bad games can spawn, even though, some of these games did not deserve a place in the spotlight to begin with. But who am I to determine that?