Cassidy said:
Two years ago Vault Dweller and others were arguing DA was good for what it is with skyway.
Now the retarded fanboys, conformists, quislings and LARPers are trying too hard to argue Skyrim is a good game with Vault Dweller.
RPG Codex should be renamed to ESFourChan.
These arguments usually originate from the fact that many of those bashing Skyrim are:
1) Bashing it for the wrong reasons. (Outright lies)
2) Generalising/Stereotyping because of their own narrow experience. AKA: I got one shotted by a bandit. Level-scaling is whack. Or; This dungeon
feels the same as one I went to before, nevermind the fact that they are both Imperial forts. All dungeons in Skyrim are similar and I have no reason left to explore.
3) Throwing a lot of criticism about specific aspects of the game around without context, or plausible alternative. Skyrim has many dungeons, I expect all of them to be absolutely different; Daggerfall and Morrowind didn't manage to do that, but I expect it all the same regardless of the practicability of it. Skyrim has no gameplay, I can use a certain method of approaching all encounters in a system of primitive AI and prevail, it wasn't fun and never will be.
Nobody is saying that Skyrim is perfect, but theoretical talk based largely on previous impressions of the company (Bethesda) and expectations
originating and built on what the game doesn't have as an argument against the game is quite futile, as a whole.
Valid discussions and hatred of the crafting system, for example, has yielded great insight into why it is easily broken, and why such a system cannot be thrown into a game without thought of balance. That is what optimistically should be happening on a forum that is filled thinking people, not lol skyway is baaad cos it has X but Y is better, or 1/X is baaad so X is totally retarded. And when you ask for specific instances supporting viewpoints people backpedal and refine their opinions so it doesn't look like the extreme, irrational claims they made earlier; which is even more damaging, because their opinions become generalised with a failsafe retreat, which brings nothing to the table other than vague negative vibes.