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Opinion - No One Cares About Your Nerd Opinions
7 years ago
Alternative Title - Why Fallout 4 Is The Best Game Ever
I've wanted to make a video rant about fanboys for a while. A sort of definitive rant on the topic. The problem is the script keeps becoming an over long mess listing examples that all tie into each other, but if I cut those rants and examples out, it devolves into a simple message. That being that fanboys are delusional.
I casually follow the drama around a forum called ResetEra. Obstensibly a video game forum, in practice it's more a social justice echochamber with a game themed sub forum. Recently, someone was banned for having opinions about video games. Specifically, Fallout 4.
And his argument was rock solid, and bares some similarities to my own opinions on Skyrim. And like my Skyrim opinions, it's not popular, but no one can argue against it without resorting to name calling. Seeing that ban, and the thread that inspired, filled in the last piece of the puzzle, revealing the truth.
No one cares about your nerd opinions.*
...not even you.
See, you can like Morrowind or Oblivion or Daggerfall or whatever. They can even be your favourite games, but reality is kind of important. You might like Morrowind, but claiming the melee combat is better than in Skyrim is a flat out lie.
Which brings me to the simple, albeit uncomfortable truth. You can rant about how Skyrim is a casual game for babies because they removed the medium armour skill, or talk about how Morrowind had "more opportunities for role playing" due to having a spell crafting system.
But the fact is that Skyrim and Fallout 4 still break the Steam top 100 most played despite their age. Evidently, most don't care that the games have waypoints, fast travel, and whatever else people claim is killing Bethesda games. Hell, it could be argued that part of the reason these games are more popular than their predercessors is BECAUSE they trimmed all the fat. eg. In Skyrim you no longer have to hop everywhere because you want to level acrobatics and not level athetics. Your character is defined by what you do and what perks you pick, not how you balance a spread sheet of stats and skills.
And not only that, but even the haters don't seem to believe their own opinions. In that, people complain about these games, then continue to play them. Sometimes racking up hundreds, if not thousands of hours. And just to be clear, no one believes your story about leaving the launcher open for a month and a half. Even if you only play it for the nude and meme mods, you're still playing the game.
And for what it's worth, I played Fallout 4 during a free weekend, and didn't like it. I was hoping for a mechanically refined New Vegas. I wouldn't mind trying it again, but this time approaching the game as a FPS with RPG elements.
*By nerd opinions, I'm specifically talking about highly technical and esoteric criticisms that aren't really considerations all things considered. Such as changes or even the removal of certain numbers, or an easily abused feature, or cutting something that added little to the game except development problems to solve.
I've wanted to make a video rant about fanboys for a while. A sort of definitive rant on the topic. The problem is the script keeps becoming an over long mess listing examples that all tie into each other, but if I cut those rants and examples out, it devolves into a simple message. That being that fanboys are delusional.
I casually follow the drama around a forum called ResetEra. Obstensibly a video game forum, in practice it's more a social justice echochamber with a game themed sub forum. Recently, someone was banned for having opinions about video games. Specifically, Fallout 4.
And his argument was rock solid, and bares some similarities to my own opinions on Skyrim. And like my Skyrim opinions, it's not popular, but no one can argue against it without resorting to name calling. Seeing that ban, and the thread that inspired, filled in the last piece of the puzzle, revealing the truth.
No one cares about your nerd opinions.*
...not even you.
See, you can like Morrowind or Oblivion or Daggerfall or whatever. They can even be your favourite games, but reality is kind of important. You might like Morrowind, but claiming the melee combat is better than in Skyrim is a flat out lie.
Which brings me to the simple, albeit uncomfortable truth. You can rant about how Skyrim is a casual game for babies because they removed the medium armour skill, or talk about how Morrowind had "more opportunities for role playing" due to having a spell crafting system.
But the fact is that Skyrim and Fallout 4 still break the Steam top 100 most played despite their age. Evidently, most don't care that the games have waypoints, fast travel, and whatever else people claim is killing Bethesda games. Hell, it could be argued that part of the reason these games are more popular than their predercessors is BECAUSE they trimmed all the fat. eg. In Skyrim you no longer have to hop everywhere because you want to level acrobatics and not level athetics. Your character is defined by what you do and what perks you pick, not how you balance a spread sheet of stats and skills.
And not only that, but even the haters don't seem to believe their own opinions. In that, people complain about these games, then continue to play them. Sometimes racking up hundreds, if not thousands of hours. And just to be clear, no one believes your story about leaving the launcher open for a month and a half. Even if you only play it for the nude and meme mods, you're still playing the game.
And for what it's worth, I played Fallout 4 during a free weekend, and didn't like it. I was hoping for a mechanically refined New Vegas. I wouldn't mind trying it again, but this time approaching the game as a FPS with RPG elements.
*By nerd opinions, I'm specifically talking about highly technical and esoteric criticisms that aren't really considerations all things considered. Such as changes or even the removal of certain numbers, or an easily abused feature, or cutting something that added little to the game except development problems to solve.
Isinia
~isinia
Sadly any kind of opinion these days will always summon one or more of the 'stupid entities'.
