Befuddled Halfling
Educated
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2011
- Messages
- 188
villain of the story said:I'm done dealing with newfags who work hard to earn their title. It's all very typical and very predictable: "You hate every game that came out after 2000, every game that is 3D and every game that is real-time/isn't turn-based, blah blah blah". Year after year. Always. The Same. Completely .Unsupported. Bullshit. Bullshit that's proven false every time a new game comes out and again anytime a discussion about any recent game takes off. Gotta ask, do you even read the Codex at all? or just go with the popular outsider opinion of "them Codexers don't like a single game since 2000" bullshit? Not a real question, don't bother answering since the answer is obvious (and I've already pressed the Awesome KKKodeks Butan! and something awesome indeed happened). I mean, it gets tiresome to respond to such unsubstantiated bullshit after a point. Not any fun either. I myself alone can think of at least 10 games released since 2000 that enjoy relatively high opinions of Codexers. And that's excluding some console games (yes, a good amount of people here even think that some exclusively console RPGs are rather good. Hard to believe? Well that's why your opinions sucks and isn't worth a shit.)
I guess this is aimed at me in part - so for what it's worth - I started gaming on an 8088 PC and spent an entire school holiday on Ultima IV. Been playing BD&D since 1984. Lurking on the Codex since Oblivious (yeah, it only clicked then, late bloomer thing). My preferred combat system is turn based, and my dick is approximately 5.7 inches. So no awesome butans for me, despite the join date.
No-one's denying that games, and particularly RPGs, have been getting dumber since 2003 and its good that at least on the Codex, we don't just bend over and take it. And that we measure new stuff against games that had a soul, gameplay and depth, however many years ago they were released. It's not the hate per se for a new shit game that I personally am butthurt about (throwing around the accusations of nostalgia goggles). I'm just trying to understand if the criticism of DAO is rational or knee-jerk. Serious or tongue in cheek. A matter of taste, or a matter of 'fact'. In judging what are the terms of reference? Is it to the classics only? I'm trying hard to get to a point where I can understand the perspective of those calling it shit, to at least achieve an 'agree to disagree' stage...