Mainstream annoyence. : V - Skyrim

» Sat May 28, 2011 1:05 am

Does anyone else feel like punching a wall when they see some Call of Duty addict say the want ESV to be like rune scape and WoW. I was on the Xbox dashboard and I noticed IGN's winning idea was for it to be a mass multilayer MMORPG. Then there are people wanting guns. Then people who just think none Tes things would 'fit' in.

I might not have shared this in the most clearest fashion but does anyone else worry that mainstream gamers who will play the game for 10 minutes then can it while we play there idiotic ideas for another 5 years? :brokencomputer:

IGN in their report: http://pc.ign.com/articles/114/1141433p2.html Mention nothing about this.

Never trust Dashboards. Ever.

"Mainstream" gamers is not only how we all started out somewhere along the road (thus its fruitless and in poor taste to act like we didn't all start playing pong, pac-man, mario, sonic, etc.)... it's how game companies get paid.

More importantly, you get one guy out of Halo and into The Elder Scrolls, you've done the world a service.

It happened to me in 2002/03. It will happen to others.

I'd really ask all the members of the community NOT to stoop to the casual v.s. loyalist mindset. It only shames the community at large.

Bethesda has yet to disappoint en masse with a TES game.

» Sat May 28, 2011 12:21 am

But "Mainstreamers" aren't the problem per say, its the collective influence of that, which pressures Game development companies to do their best to please the masses SO that they can make money, instead of building a face stompingly epic game of imemorial proportions to rock the very foundations of the gaming nations.

Its people saying I want this and that and yelling over each other that gets good things snuffed out and bad things expanded or misinterpreted, mainstream is a company being drawn into the torrent because thats were all the players/money is, instead of developing a game with as little pressure as managable and become a force on its own, instead of feeding from the mass.

» Fri May 27, 2011 6:30 pm

But "Mainstreamers" aren't the problem per say, its the collective influence of that, which pressures Game development companies to do their best to please the masses SO that they can make money, instead of building a face stompingly epic game of imemorial proportions to rock the very foundations of the gaming nations.

Its people saying I want this and that and yelling over each other that gets good things snuffed out and bad things expanded or misinterpreted, mainstream is a company being drawn into the torrent because thats were all the players/money is, instead of developing a game with as little pressure as managable and become a force on its own, instead of feeding from the mass.

When I read this, I thought immediately of Lionhead, Blizzard Entertainment and SOE's EverQuest 2.

But as for BGS? Even when they skimmed down Oblivion (compared to Morrowind), it was still a juggernaut of immersion. I don't think we ever have to worry about whiners ruining a game that is made by a company that follows the path of "making a game they want to play".

Edit: But to add onto this, I agree with you about most companies. They bend far too much over whiners and forum trolls. Never daring to lose that one annoying bugger wanting multiplayer, achievements, a special gamestop preorder item, etc.

» Sat May 28, 2011 10:06 am

My faith in Bethesda about Mainstreamers died after playing Morrowind (I played Oblivion first, and to be perfectly honest, Morrowind was 5, 6, 77, 78 steps up).

» Fri May 27, 2011 10:42 pm

Besides becomign an MMO, the skills and such from Runescape aren't all that bad. Cooking, mining, crafting and blah blah adds a lot of immersion.

» Sat May 28, 2011 3:34 am

Then Bethesda will have to deal with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwyMB19q7ms.

I hope you realise that ''those kind of people'' is exactly the kind of people we have on this forum? People who will complain and go bat[censored] insane because something in the game doesn't respect the lore. HERE ITS ALREADY LIKE THAT

» Sat May 28, 2011 9:33 am

I focus on that particular group because that particular group has attempted to make me feel mentally handicapped for having my own preference and now, that Skyrim nears, it rises back up to intolerable levels. I wouldn't have to focus on it much if it didn't plague the entire section. This thread started with discussion about mainstream annoyance, but the radical opposite of that is no better if it isn't worse, so why not focus on it? At least the mainstream annoyances don't place themselves on high thrones with golden scepters in their hands.

Now I know you didn't understand what I was saying.

I’m not some elitist crying about how they dumbed down Oblivion. I think people like that are annoying, and I loved Oblivion.

I just want to be able to individually equip pauldrons and such. I like the little things.