No no. lets not be hiding behind the "It's just personal opinion" line, when we know, full well, that there's a LOT more going on here.
-Saying that melee combat physics doesn't exist in the game, when it does, in an obvious and graphically demonstrative manner is NOT a personal opinion. It's a false claim.
-Claiming that every single perk in every single skill tree is just a statistical modifier, when any *honest*, *objective-minded* player can show you several perks in
every single tree that AREN'T, is not a matter of opinion. It's a false claim.
-Claiming that there are only 2 ways to advance a specific skill, when there are 5 ways to advance it...is not an opinion. It's a false claim.
-Claiming that there is *literally* nothing to do in the game world in between map points (his words, not mine), when in fact, there's a HUGE list of wandering encounters to engage in, enemies to fight, quests to pick up, Dragons to battle, treasure maps to follow, alchemy ingredients to pick, Ore to mine etc.....is not an opinion. it's a false claim. It's also further proof that this entire review is written by someone who simply dislikes open worlds, and wishes this game was a short cinematic action thing, like Dragon Age or Witcher 2 (which are different types of games - which must keep their narratives tight to succeed , which means open spaces are deliberately removed for pacing purposes)
Why am I mentioning all this? Am I just nit-picking? No. I'm bringing it up because 1) this article isn't even a review. it'sjust a garden variety message board post pretending to be a review. and 2) because it's really *really* easy to take a masterpiece and then assign it a bunch of flaws
it doesn't actually have in order to conclude that it's a flawed POS that "sucks". That's...not how any professional reviewer operates however. and this guy isn't doing anyone any good. A fence sitter who's contemplating buying Skyrim for Christmas is going to be Misled by something like this. No, this 'author".... He should just stick to spouting his nonsense on message boards, like me and you. But of course if he does, everyone will see him and call him out for what he is: A troll. lol
But where were we? Oh yeah. The review.
Next we've got plain old author Hypocricy.. He criticizes Skyrim for its laundry-list of soulless fetch quests that lack the element of choice. Ok. On its own, this can actually be a *valid* criticism.... right up until you read the comments section for the article, where he gives a short list of RPGs he absolutely loved. And this list includes..... Planescape Torment. Now, don't get me wrong, Planescape torment is indeed one of the best RPGs ever made..... It's also filled to capacity with these exact same types of filler, brainless, soulless fetch quests which take up the majority of that game's quest log as well.
And lastly, I *get it*. The correct way to bash a game is to criticize every part of it. And that's what this guy does. Now you might be thinking to yourself: "wait a minute... everything is covered here except the mustical score" right? Wrong. This guy criticizes the music. But he runs into a slight problem: he can't seem to find anything to criticize the music
about so he does what any ranter does: He improvises by giving us an almost completely incoherant argument. He shamelessly writes up a paragrah where he ADMITS that he can't cite any of its flaws, so he just calls the music "indescribably generic"... whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. Then he leaves it at that. I mean... Really? (yes. really) LOL
Modifié par Yrkoon, 20 décembre 2012 - 01:03 .