http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JweTAhyR4o0
This guy has my feelings articulated in an admirable way.
He makes some valid points and some fair comparisons, but his strawman of "casual/kid gamers" (hey, there the same right?) is quite annoying. Prefer not walking around in circles to find a quest location? Your a casual gamer, apparently. It also makes you
feel that if you disagree with a point, you are "a casual/kid gamer" and your points/arguments are invalid because of it. He also assumes that casual gamers are the reason that Bethesda did everything that he dislikes to the series, not allowing for any other possibility.
He says that Morrowind NPC's had more chat options and the later games did not, and that this makes the world more noticeably fake. However, most chat options in Morrowind were
all the same for almost every single NPC word to word.
That makes the world noticeably fake. If you were to strip away all of this redundant chat than the ammount of chat becomes
much less.
I agree with him on the puzzles though. Skyrim does not have puzzles because there are no puzzle elements to pushing E until two images align. What he failed to consider though is even "casual" gamers probably found them a waste of time/too easy, he just assumed that because it was dumb that of course it was made for casual gamers
.
However, I understand his anger towards kid gamers.
But his anger is directed towards
casual gamers. Or kid gamers. Or both. He uses them interchangeably.
What defines a "kid" gamer, and what is wrong with kid gamers? The only information he has given me is the strawman that they don't like to take responsibility for their own actions and other points of information that don't seem to be implied from being a kid/causual gamer.