"developers: Please ignore this person" tag...

[almondblight]

We can absolutely do without this kind of fair weather developer. Every day that passes convinces me more that he only posted at the codex when it stroke his ego. Why does he not come back and adress a few of the valid points, and simply ignore everything else (which is always the prudent thing to do when someone is below our level)? No, now he doesn't come back at all, which is (as someone said before) nothing but an ad hominem directed at the nature of all critical discussion here.

Pretty much. The guy seemed OK at first but one newly registered member (one that registered after the developer himself) hurts his feelings and he blames it on the whole site, then packs his things up and goes home. Then people actually apologized to the guy? Maybe he should apologize to us for getting pissed at everyone over what one new member said. Hell, if any non-developer member of the Codex acted the same way (got insulted by one new member, blamed the site and then left forever), we'd be laughing at them.

Publishers saw the 10k raised by the Codex and thought it was a good site to drop by, let us bask in their glory, and then have us through gold at whatever garbage they were selling. Now they're going to be less inclined to do so. This is a bad thing?

 

[abnaxus]

The original developers of Daggerfall are long gone anyway, probably never even touched Oblivion or Skyrim development. That was back when Todd was an unwanted for the company.

Todd was a Daggerfall designer, no?

He must've made an impression since he was Morrowind's project director.

 

[Malakal]

Why do you people even bother with developer opinions or feelings. I dont care if they feel hurt by my criticism, they make us a product and we are in every right to have opinions about it.

No reason to make them feel special in any way too. Too much ass licking going over here.

 

[crojipjip]

I think the "tone" of the codex has pretty much toned down since we know most all the games they continue to make today are still basically shit. The RAGE was over how they even further dumbed down Morrowind in Oblivion. Now we know any Bethesda game is still the same.

They will never ever ever go down as making anything even remotely complex (because that doesn't sell!) as Daggerfall. In fact I doubt they would even know how to program such a game today....

RAGE was the best post apocalyptic title published by zenimax/bethesda yet!

 

[Black]

I think the "tone" of the codex has pretty much toned down since we know most all the games they continue to make today are still basically shit. The RAGE was over how they even further dumbed down Morrowind in Oblivion. Now we know any Bethesda game is still the same.

They will never ever ever go down as making anything even remotely complex (because that doesn't sell!) as Daggerfall. In fact I doubt they would even know how to program such a game today....

RAGE was the best post apocalyptic title published by zenimax/bethesda yet!

And least buggy?

 

[Johannes]

No, Codex staff shouldn't start taking official stances on what is an acceptable opinion to have.

 

[Vault Dweller]

The original developers of Daggerfall are long gone anyway, probably never even touched Oblivion or Skyrim development. That was back when Todd was an unwanted for the company.

Todd was a Daggerfall designer, no?

He must've made an impression since he was Morrowind's project director.

He did. On Zenimax which bought Bethesda after it almost went bankrupt. He was a bright-eyed lad with new ideas on how to make games that sell like hotcakes.

 

[Jaesun]

And sell he did...

 

[Vault Dweller]

 

[DraQ]

TBH I no longer think Todd is a cynical turd trying to cram whatever sells the most in his games without any integrity or anything like that.

After Skyrim I think he's a genuine, semi-retarded manchild who can't coordinate team's work, focus, nor critiacally assess ideas of both his own and the others. Therefore he's a very hit-or-miss person. Mostly miss, but I think he might actually appreciate something genuinely good provided it came in an attractive and fairly accessible package.

 

[DragoFireheart]

TBH I no longer think Todd is a cynical turd trying to cram whatever sells the most in his games without any integrity or anything like that.

After Skyrim I think he's a genuine, semi-retarded manchild who can't coordinate team's work, focus, nor critiacally assess ideas of both his own and the others. Therefore he's a very hit-or-miss person. Mostly miss, but I think he might actually appreciate something genuinely good provided it came in an attractive and fairly accessible package.

So instead of being evil like EA, he's just a special needs child with good intentions?

 

[crojipjip]

I think I might change my vote to be a deist/theist. something very strange is afoot. WTF. I CAN ADD today's date to make 127. like my credit card balance before i ordered 40.27 dominos. and internet bill which was 40 something made 127 to begin with.

 

[Johannes]

Well, he does give a ton of people what they want.
Don't see how that nbecessarily makes him evil or retarded in any way.

 

[Black]

Bawww, so does EA, Bioware and Activision but I don't see you defending them.

 

[Jaesun]

Good cRPG's do not sell.

 

[20 Eyes]

... for anyone with a proven track record of trolling developers that decide to post on the Codex.

Special Alert for developers = weak
'Please!' = weak

Two signs on weakness in this suggestion, do you want us to look weak? Why not just start begging developers to post here? Do you really think the Codex needs anymore chinks in its armour of hate?

"Please talk to us, guys!"

It didn't work in highschool and it's not going to work on the internet.

 

[DraQ]

Good cRPG's do not sell.

I think good cRPG could sell, but would require some gradual easing in and accessible packaging.

It would also require replacement of quite a lot of traditional features with modernized versions. The core idea (character's capabilities are determined by stats) would stay, the implementation would be different.

 

[Jasede]

And we'd bitch about it all day. We don't want our genre to be accessible! We want it to go back to what it used to be.

 

[abnaxus]

TBH I no longer think Todd is a cynical turd trying to cram whatever sells the most in his games without any integrity or anything like that.

After Skyrim I think he's a genuine, semi-retarded manchild who can't coordinate team's work, focus, nor critiacally assess ideas of both his own and the others. Therefore he's a very hit-or-miss person. Mostly miss, but I think he might actually appreciate something genuinely good provided it came in an attractive and fairly accessible package.

Considering the incline of Skyrim after Ken Rolston left, not to mention the of Kingdoms of Banalur (the game for which he came back out of retirement), I think he should be tagged as culprit, rather than Todd.

There's also the story of Rolston only managing to exit the starting dungeon of Arena once after trying it twenty times. And let's be frank, setting & lore (although 90% of Morrowind lore books got chunneled over from Daggerfall) aside, Morrowind is to Daggerfall what Oblivion is to Morrowind.

 

[DragoFireheart]

Good cRPG's do not sell.

Which is a problem with the populace, not the cRPGs. Classical music doesn't sell as well as rap, but I think you and I know which one is shit.

 

[DraQ]

TBH I no longer think Todd is a cynical turd trying to cram whatever sells the most in his games without any integrity or anything like that.

After Skyrim I think he's a genuine, semi-retarded manchild who can't coordinate team's work, focus, nor critiacally assess ideas of both his own and the others. Therefore he's a very hit-or-miss person. Mostly miss, but I think he might actually appreciate something genuinely good provided it came in an attractive and fairly accessible package.

Considering the incline of Skyrim after Ken Rolston left, not to mention the of Kingdoms of Banalur (the game for which he came back out of retirement), I think he should be tagged as culprit, rather than Todd.

There's also the story of Rolston only managing to exit the starting dungeon of Arena once after trying it twenty times. And let's be frank, setting & lore (although 90% of Morrowind lore books got chunneled over from Daggerfall) aside, Morrowind is to Daggerfall what Oblivion is to Morrowind.

Well, yeah, and some Rolston's ideas were obviously herpaderp: "thou shall not betray the player!".
The puzzling part is that he was strongly involved in Morrowind.

As for the Skyrim, I'm most pissed off by mechanical dumbing down (stats, magic system) and linear dungeons. Well, that and handholding. And Dragons being cliffies 2.0 with derpy AI. Interface is fucking hell but you can learn to live with it.

I might still get pissed off by some lore alterations, and lack of guild interactions is a letdown (but at least they sort of coped with that by reducing guilds' reach), but other than that it's enormous incline over Oblivion, though still not Morrowind. I enjoy random events of all sorts.

And we'd bitch about it all day. We don't want our genre to be accessible! We want it to go back to what it used to be.

I don't want it to go backwards. I want it to leap forward except not from the fucking cliff it's currently standing on.

I want modern RPGs that are to our beloved classics what Deus Ex or Stalker, or TN:SFC, or (on the other hand) Unreal, Hexen or Blood (or even HL1) are to Wolf 3D.

 

[Brayko]

Morrowind is shit, mang.

 

[Achilles]

I don't think it is.

 

[Jaesun]

define "shit".

 

[DragoFireheart]

define "shit".

Anything Bethesda, EA, Activision, Bioware, or Ubisoft makes?