Thread:Fire Eater/@comment-24152851-20151029065609/@comment-1037137-20151102023117

That also is A-okay. Better than this mechanic you say was introduced in its place.

I know. Halo usually does a good job with that. But this is a bizarre twist I hope they can pull off without taking it too far in the long run. Even if the feeling of loss is nothing new to the series.

Perhaps so. Isn't that kind of like what Halo Wars is doing?

Hating for the sake of hating is not my bag. I think that's a silly attitude to be taking up. If I have no opinion on something, I remain neutral. But all of my hate for anything comes with a reason. I'm not so sure about that though, people are still fairly disbelieving if World Tour comes under scrutiny, or just laugh and praise it as the "best" whenever such a comment is made. The love for that season gets obnoxious sometimes, which does not help my opinion of it. I definitely don't consider it the best written or the best in its intentions. If anything, it's the first season that was straight up nasty in tone. Great setup, but marred by the kind of bullcrap that was multiplied later. I don't see why World Tour deserves a free pass. Yeah that may be so, but World Tour maintains a strong fandom that too eagerly tries to justify some of its more infamous aspects. Which just makes me roll my eyes at it in disgust. You may recall that World Tour was the first season that made me want to quit the series, and that that's where my excitement for the show began to wear out.

I do my best to be a rational critic most of the time, because I want to offer productive, constructive, and insightful criticism aimed at improving something. Of course there are things here I hate with a burning passion. But when I criticize I am not doing it just for the pure sake of it. I know some people hate how much I critique and criticize, but I do have my reasons for doing it and I have no shame in it. I only regret the blows I've come to with some for my own bad attitude at certain points in the past when I got too aggressive with it.

Oh no, I know what you meant. I should've joined the ride maybe, but I wasn't excited so I didn't feel any compulsion to join it. Part of me regrets not having been able to follow along with everyone else after it turned out it wasn't all bad, apparently. That's an experience that I won't get to have now. But I'm not going to fake excitement on the urgings of the rest of the crowd. As for TDPI, I think it's average. It's not TDAS but let's not pretend it was anything special (Not that that many people are now, actually). It had what I consider the least engaging cast in the series yet, with only a handful of standouts like Jasmine, Shawn, etc. Most of that cast left no impact on me, and I do not consider that a good sign. And of course there's annoying things like the karma-dodging Chris and that miserable finale. It's an okay season, and if you're going to watch season five, just watch that half of it. But I don't think I lost anything by not watching it when everyone else did.