In Defense of Fanbabies: Why It's Okay To Love "Bad" Games
Channel: Video Game Story Time
Date: 2017-12-29

EDIT: People are sharing their own favourite "bad" games in the comments, and we're having fun reading them! Please feel free to share your own!

Hey everyone! It's that time of year when everything slows to a halt, and as such, we've done a quick little video this week that's a little different to our usual thing.

We almost didn't finish this, and we both have some misgivings. BretonStripes is worried that the script sounds too preachy (Kotor think anything sounds good when read in this voice), while Kotor is worried that the simple, speedy artstyle is low effort (BretonStripes and an informal poll on Twitter suggests that it should be fine).

This idea for a video has been kicking around for a while inside our heads. Some awesome people have been wanting to know our thoughts about Sonic Forces, and now seemed like a good time to cap off the year by addressing not only this game, but also other big disappointments of the year, like Mass Effect: Andromeda.

This isn't to let big game studios off the hook for rushing game development (see our video on Star Wars: Battlefront II to see our opinion of EA), but sometimes, it's worth celebrating when someone loves a game in spite of its flaws, rather than hating on a person for having a different opinion.

Hopefully we do a good enough job of conveying the message. This is a bit nerve-wracking because the video is so opinionated, so if you don't like it, feel free to disagree, and let us know (politely) in the comments where you think we're going wrong - with any aspect of the video.

If you guys like this, we'd like to do more similar stuff, which might make nice filler for weeks when we're too busy to be able to create a full Video Game Story Time video. If you'd like to see more, please do let us know.

Anyway, here's hoping you're having a wonderful festive season. We'll see you soon with another full video.

BretonStripes (http://twitter.com/bretonstriped) and Kotor (http://twitter.com/kotorcomics)

Music: River Fire by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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