I 100% agree with you. So many internet forums and blogs are just full of people complaining the whole time. I think it's something about the internet that makes people release all their bitchiness. there is also some kind of "mob-mentallity effect" where is becomes cool to join in with everyone else and complain about whatever we are complaining about this week.
Geez, I'm British... we are permanently negative and expecting the worst... but even I have started to get really annoyed by it.
I've been playing games since a ZX spectrum and I can honestly say that in about 20 years of playing video games i've only had about 5 or 6 games that were actually BAD.
Sure, some games had bugs, some had flaws in certain areas, some weren't as good as i'd hyped them up to be... but almost all could be enjoyed.
Of those 5-6, 4 were spectrum games... (for example Airwolf, which was about 4 screens long, totally impossible, and which i never got past the 1st screen. ) Gamers these days don't seem to know how lucky they are, and how polished and easy the experiences these days are. No loading a game from a tape for 20 minutes only for it to crash at 99%. No messing with HIMEM and QUEMM and a different boot disk for each game. Patches that are delivered almost immediately... games in the old days rarely ever got patches, and if they did you had to wait for months for a magazine to have it on the floppy/cd.
yet throughout it i had fun.
In all that time, I only remember returning one game to the store (other than for hardware incompatibility.) Daggerfall. And I bought that game again a few years later and enjoyed it a lot.
Driv3r gets bitched about, and some of it's levels were insanely frustrating, yet i finished it and overall i enjoyed the experience... same goes for almost all the other games people like to moan about... they all have fun to be found.
If there is a flaw in the game, but the rest of it is good... ignore the flaw and enjoy the game!
and stop moaning...