Codex has been eagerly awaiting and playing Bethesda games at least since 2007. Skyrim was popular here before it even released. I have no idea where you got this notion that this forum is some hardcore community that doesn't jerk off to anime and shower Todd with money.
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There was a Somali Swedish poster baronjohn who made a thread "Skyrim is worse than Oblivion in every way possible" upon the release of Skyrim and it got 100+ pages in the first week. Baronjohn himself clocked a mere 200 hours on Skyrim (as per his Steam), and complained about it every step of the way.
By contrast, make a Wizardry or Might and Magic thread, and it will fill up 10 pages....in 10 years.
Mass Effect also has produced more megathreads than any other game in Codex history, and RK47's Mass Effect playthroughs are the most read on the site.
By contrast, make a ToEE Let's Play and there will be 2-3 people who follow it.
Same applies to Codex interest in other forms of entertainment. Everyone here hates Game of Thrones which has the largest TV show thread here. Make a thread about Patrick McGoohan's the Prisoner and only 5 people follow it.
I may also add that the edgiest posters are from the Third World - Skyway from Ukraine, baronjohn from Somalia, circ from Arab refugees in Finland, pre-2012 me from India (I am no longer edgy), laclonquan from Vietnam, hiver from Balkans,.etc. Being edgy about videogames is the only sense of superiority you get from being born in a Third World shithole. First Worlders don't need to prove how intelligent they are from the adult children's entertainment they consume.