Point being, there's too many "I" in your text, and frankly that's not the target audience of the game.
That is not much of an argument, seeming as it can defend absolutely everything. Think Twilight is bad? Doubtless, it is not because Meyer is a hack writer, you're just not the target audience. Think Eragon sucks? Obviously Paolini isn't incapable of characterisation or making up his own stories, you're just not the target audience.
It's especially faulty, seeming as I
am part of the target audience. I love free-roam, non-linear games. I like action RPGs. I enjoy going spelunking in dungeons and killing monsters, picking up fat lutes as I go and stuffing them all over my virtual housing until the whole place explodes in a hail of pointy things, skulls and flawless gems every time I enter it. This is the kind of games Beth is making. Like I've said before, I'm at over 100 hours, and I'm still probably going to be playing it for a month or two more, even further when the good mods starts getting released. But I just don't think they're that great at what their doing. Skyrim could be so much, much more.
I didn't say only praise them (I have many complaints about skyrim), I said don't complain. About the same thing. Repeatedly. I hear so many people complaining about politics all the time, about the same things, and when I come here, MORE COMPLAINING. It would be some constructive debating/discussing if it was actually constructive and non-repeatable, not something somebody five-pages before already told. I get it, leveling system is shitty, broken etc. Alright. Why repeat that? That's not even discussing, that's outright complaining. I come to discuss, that is talk about quests, classes, monsters and shit, and indeed I may express my complain to find out other genuine opinions, but why every five pages on same things?
I'm not a beth fan, skyrim fan whatever, I just hate nagging.
Bolded - and in hindsight, it was dumb of me to say you did. However, the point I was making is that what you call "complaining" is part of what makes discussion discussion. For example, just yesterday or the night before that, I talked about the awesome fight I just had (involving me, Lydia, a guard, a dragon, a giant, an ice-troll and some bandits) and then I went on to "complain" about a feature I wish would have existed in the game (dynamic, temporary friendships between otherwise hostile NPCS and intelligent creatures that have fought another creature, a dragon in this example, together). I felt something was missing, had an idea, and wanted to share it (as well as my awesome fight-experience) with bay12. I've "complained" about the extremely, to the point of crippling the player's experience, linear quests in a supposedly non-linear game, because I need to vent the annoyance I feel every time Beth decided I can't do something my character should logically be able to do in that situation.
Find proof in a dungeon that the guy wanting to hire me for a job was only going to use me as a scapegoat? Surely I can go and kick his ass for it, or at least call him on it? What, not even a meaningless dialogue option for keeping up the illusion of choice? Because I have to do the quest in the exact order Beth wanted me to, and wasn't supposed to find that proof until after the quest was done? Great non-linearity there, Bethie-boy!
People will complain about the same things over and over, just like people will praise the same things over and over. If everyone agreed to only say the same thing once, there would be what, ten pages to this thread? And the same people will keep saying the same thing if they feel it needs to be said. That's how things are, both here and IRL. It's okay for you to dislike that, I won't tell you not to, or call you a fanboy for it. But complaining about how people are only complaining doesn't make much sense (especially when "people are always just complaining and never say anything constructive, they should just shut up instead" is one of the complaints I encounter the most on the Internet), if I'm going to be honest. To me, that just proves you do it as well, just like the rest of us.
I am a Beth fanboy, and I say - Keep on nagging