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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ashinadash@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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.

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[-] Mousy@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah I didn't mean to come off as hostile or invalidating I guess the way people can sometimes talk about art regardless of medium on the internet can kind of annoy me.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

I try not to just be stupid, like I could spend several days posting my GAMING HOT TAKES!! but this thread happened by accident. If I tried to purpose-build a hot take it probably wouldn't even work, I am too autismy. I'm more prone to writing 4000-10,000 words about why something is bad, or good, and often people don't wanna read that which sucks. It's kinda lame that this post got a ton of engagement just for "skyrim bad" tbh.

[-] Mousy@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm more prone to writing 4000-10,000 words about why something is bad, or good, and often people don't wanna read that which sucks

Yeah that's the consequence of so much content being shoved in our face all the time making it what does get the most attention is the most immediately understandable and eye-catching (think buzzfeed articles with inflammatory headlines) so when someone does sit down and write something that is carefully thought out it gets blown by the wayside.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Ideally the trick would be molding the title of your giant essay into a super hot take so people click, and I have seen good Youtube videos do that, but I'm really bad at it, lol. Hard to catch people's eyes...

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