» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:16 am
I think the default state is "excited about the game," for those here. There are a whole host of factors, subtle and unsubtle, relevant and not, that might lead a person to hold strong negative feelings towards a particular game. Some of those will be perfectly justified, and even constructive, but all of the negative feelings can and will be voiced in the developer-forum atmosphere.
It's also worth considering that many people seem to expect to like everything about a game, which can only occur when one builds one's own (a thankless and daunting task even as a designer and writer, let alone an artist or programmer).
Anyway, add me to the "very excited and happy about 99% of what we know about Skyrim so far" list.