I was watching "...why Skyrim?" by Razbuten on sloptube this aft and it's so weird that it finally took Starfield for people to realise. Like Fallout 76 wasn't enough, only now are negative things people were first saying about Skyrim in 2012 finally bleeding into mainstream consciousness. It's so wild, like wow they ruined the magic system? The game has worse writing than a PS1 era Mega Man X game??? Skyrim is just shitty Game of Thrones?? Welcome to thirteen years ago!!

Bethesda hasn't made a really good game since 2002, but it'll probably be years before that realisation sinks in.

  • FortifiedAttack [any]
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    4 months ago

    I feel like the turnaround coincided perfectly with the 8 hour Morrowind essay guy shitting on Skyrim for 20 hours straight in 2022, and suddenly everyone agreed with him, doubly so after Starfield came out.

    • magi [null/void]
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      4 months ago

      No idea who you're talking about but Bethesda games have always had some part of the community that disliked what came next with each subsequent release.

      Fallout 76 was the beginning of the nainstream discourse, Bethesda didn't help that either with the fumbling over the bags, the bad pr and dark rum at some point lol all very silly but that was the start of the shift in perspective.

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      4 months ago

      The who what? Is that like... PatricianTV? No idea who you are talking about honestly.

      But also Figures it'd be something like this glasses-on

      • FortifiedAttack [any]
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        4 months ago

        Yeah PatricianTV.

        He also did a bunch of streams of him watching other people's Skyrim retrospectives and reviews, and most of those were pretty terrible.

        • ashinadash [she/her]
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          4 months ago

          Whoever that is, sounds like some 4channer. Pretty lame how Youtube White Boys (see also hbomber) can just steer the entirety of opinions on something.