NeverEnder wrote:
I have played
Resident Evil 4 on the Wii and absolutely loved it... except for one isolated, graphic/programming error. I will not try to describe it but the one and only time I saw it I felt that the experience was ruined for me, the carefully-constructed virtual world came crashing down.
This was an obvious visual error and I thought "
Is it too much to expect the designers to fix this before the game is released?"
. I obsessed over this for awhile even when not playing the game. When playing the game it almost felt tainted. This is my OCD speaking-- it even extends to video games.
Sometimes, but I work to prevent this from happening. Its the same thing with music -- if I'm trying to hear an old or poor quality recording, for example, then I distract myself worrying and hoping I won't notice the static (or whatever the problem might be). It's a strange and unusual phobia. Maybe deriving from the fact that I feel like I can't control the nature of the qualitative judgements I make of things, so I try to take control of them by ignoring problems. I just watched a film the other day "Gentleman's Agreement" and spent the entire time trying to ignore all of the weaknesses I saw in it. Looking back, I really think it is a terrible film.
Sometimes an experience, with a video game, or anything else really, just goes sour. The key is to have control over this.
EDIT: It's your description of the game as tainted that made me respond to this. I know exactly that feeling, and the fact that it can arise out of the smallest detail.