DraQ
Arcane
It still doesn't mean it was *THE* patient zero. At best it was when the decline hit with full force.I bet Oblivion too - it was like a kick in the balls in every single aspect (maybe except for modability ot this). Other shit games of this times were like "ok, it's not good, but who cares", Oblivion was like "Why everyone is trying to convince me this shit is actually good?" Bad game is bad game (U9 for example, or M&M 9 to stay with 9 series), but bad game with all 10's in every single gamers magazine is like red alert for gaming industry.
For me it was Diablo 2, but never was it so apparent as with Oblivion.Oblivion is when I first noticed that game "journalism" was a hoax
Good post.