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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I think the first 39:45 is by far the best game of the year (and possibly my favourite game of all time) but the last 15 minutes is very poor. I still rate the game very highly overall and encourage others who are on the fence (like CaptainCrunch in this thread) to play it. My opinion about the ending is not "infantile" or whatever other belittling word you'd like to use to describe it. I arrived at my position rationally and intelligently.
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If that's directed at me, I think I've made it clear many times over that I have no problem with people not liking it. I just had long civilized discussion about it right here. What Sterling (not me) calls infantile and what so many writers are rolling their eyes at is the angry campaign of activism against it, which is completely weird.
The reason I'm posting here is that this is one place on the internet where I feel like I'm talking to normal adults. Go to a gaming website and you'll see that there's a giant negative feedback loop going on all over the place with people whipping each other to new heights of hyperbole. Every single thing is inflated by crazed rhetoric, every opinion is considered final and demonstrated as if they were dealing with mathematical equations. There's simply a list of items that everyone endlessly recycles. There's a YouTube video that supposedly explains everything, there's a Google document. An outsider looks at it and he'll think it's nuts and worthy a few jokes.