WOO-SAH, WOO-SAH. Relax, reflect, chill the **** out! : V - Skyrim

» Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:53 pm

yes how dare people get excited over the future game of the year

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i mean seriously how dare they they've only waited 5 years to play this game and theyre EXCITED???? get outa town :shakehead:

» Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:55 pm

I would like to begin this thread by saying i have been a fan of TES since i picked up my first copy of Morrowind. Im relatively new to the forums as a member, but i started coming here as a guest to read and get updatedes in anticipation of Oblivion about six months prior to release. I would say that im moderately familiar with how things work around here and i know and recognize how extremely dedicated some of us are about this game, some of us i must say, are a little too dedicated, and thats what motivated me to start this topic. Now, I am not a psychiatrist or a doctor of mental health, but my human intuition and common sense tell me that some( way more than just a few) of you are what proffesionals would decribe as " Freaking Nut Jobs!!!" What i dont understand, and someone please try to explain, is how an idividual can become so completely and personally attached and defensive about a game. Granted, i will recognize that TES is no ordinary game. Also i do understand just how some people get such great RP value from this game. I personally have never found myself as immersed in any other game ive ever played. This is the game that i dreamt of playing when i wad a child. Now with that out of the way, the disussion i would like to see in this thread is as follows:

Who else thinks that some people take the upcoming release of Skyrim and the things they would like implemented way too personally and seriously to the point that you seriously feel sorry for some of them. And why is it that some think that they literally know whats best and will be actually hurt if certain things ie: "Spears" dont make it in game. Something like this will literally ruin thier lives.... Also, what would you say to them to bring them back to reality?

Personally, my response is: "Dude/Dudette, I am nobody to judge or disrepect you and what you are into, but seriously, take a step back and read some of the stuff you say to people who are new to this forum or started a thread that may have already been posted, or even made a simple opinion that you flamed them for. If those thing you said to them were flames solely to say that your opinion has more weight than joe blow TES player. Please seek help before your brain implodes when u finally realize...if u ever realize that your happiness is revolving around animated entertainment.."

Okay, so you're complaining that people like the game more than you? And in YOUR opinion, that's just messed up? I think you should just relax a little and let people do what they want to do. Some people here have been playing since Arena and they have a very strong opinion on the game and will strike down any 12 year old's post pertaining to TES. Since Bethesda is trying "expand" their audiences to the kids, it just makes the veterans of the series more agitated by the continual threads of "i want spears lulz, r we gettin werewolves lawl, here is meh poll, wuts your opinion lolol."

It's not that we are so seriously attatched to this game and we have no lives (quite the opposite actually.) It's that we don't want this game dumbed down to CoD standards. So yes, we do tend strike down on the less educated threads, because we're trying to protect the very essence of what makes TES; It's RPG factor.

So really, I think you're in no position to call people "nut jobs" when people just like a good quality video game. Thus, I see no point in this thread's existence.

Have a nice day.

» Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:22 pm

Everyone has a right to their opinion, and if expressed politely, and opinion is presented as such, rather than as fact, everyone has a right to post those opinions on this forum. If you think guys are getting a bit crazy now, go to community discussion, read 'Ten years on this forum', things seem calm and sensible compared to some points in the past.
Or try some other forums, the moderators here actually do their jobs, and the discussion here seems intelligent and sensible compared to anywhere else I have looked, rudeness and arrogance seem endemic, and these forums seem to me like almost like an island of tranquility in a sea of insults and bragging.

This. For the most part things are pretty good here, at least until you bring up fast travel or mention PC being a more powerful platform.

» Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:37 pm

What i dont understand, and someone please try to explain, is how an idividual can become so completely and personally attached and defensive about a game.

Because people defend the things they have become attached to and feel strongly about. It's what animals do.

» Fri Apr 29, 2011 8:42 am

Complaining about complainers, flamebaiting, calling other members names and questioning their sanity? Wow, this topic started really badly and will not be allowed to continue.