WouldBeCreator
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- Feb 18, 2006
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I want you to find a single post I've made concerning Oblivion that is based on the actual merits of the game, as opposed to the internal logic of those who are criticizing / defending it. (I've hit people on both sides for their illogic.)
Furthermore, the whole, "You must play it to judge it" logic is fairly specious; it means that we cannot rely at all on what third parties say in rendering our own judgments, which means that for everything from diet to rocketry, we've got to ignore everything we know. Surely that can't be so?
When someone comes and says, "You'll love Oblivion because it has light bloom all over the place and also because the combat is twitch-based" -- a kind of combat I've defended elsewhere on these boards -- it's perfectly legitimate to respond, "The light bloom looks ugly in every screenshot I've seen and I don't want to play twitch-based combat. If that's all you can say, I'm betting Oblivion ain't much of an RPG." For you to wah wah wah all the way home because the responder didn't buy Oblivion before deciding whether he'd likely enjoy it or not strikes me as ridiculous.
Furthermore, the whole, "You must play it to judge it" logic is fairly specious; it means that we cannot rely at all on what third parties say in rendering our own judgments, which means that for everything from diet to rocketry, we've got to ignore everything we know. Surely that can't be so?
When someone comes and says, "You'll love Oblivion because it has light bloom all over the place and also because the combat is twitch-based" -- a kind of combat I've defended elsewhere on these boards -- it's perfectly legitimate to respond, "The light bloom looks ugly in every screenshot I've seen and I don't want to play twitch-based combat. If that's all you can say, I'm betting Oblivion ain't much of an RPG." For you to wah wah wah all the way home because the responder didn't buy Oblivion before deciding whether he'd likely enjoy it or not strikes me as ridiculous.