Not true at all. Brand loyalty is what most fanboys are all about. Fallout would come to mind, I remember a fan of the original Fallout sent death threats to Todd Howard. They were, and still are more than ever, raging about Bethesda taking the licensee from Black Isle studios. And then take Obsidian Entertainment, they can churn out anything and everyone would call it a masterpiece. If that's not being a fan of the designers I don't know what is.

This. Evidently some people don't have a problem with repetitive gameplay of "pointlessly run forward and swing your sword again and again and again", as long as beating it makes them feel they're part of an elite group of hardcore gamers elevated above the filthy casuals.

@bussinrounds: Would you kindly explain the "reactivity" to your actions in New Vegas? Or what it was in Fallout 3 that was majorly different to Fallout 1? Cause all I ever hear with these anti-Bethesda "arguments" is lots of adjectives and openly knee-jerk brand loyalty to Black Isle/Obsidian.

@KHAndAnime: Puzzles and environment interaction was nothing new. Half Life 2 had greatly improved physics and graphics, but physics and graphics improve in time with all games. In terms of gameplay it was as generic as they get, run through very linear levels while shooting stuff.

Doom was one of the first shooters ever made, it created the genre and it's mechanics along with Wolfenstein 3D.

Half Life 2 was just following the same old fps formula (run forward and shoot stuff) with no real innovation.

What impact? HL2 was just another generic shooter.

@ReadingRainbow4: I get it. You're regurgitating some forum posts or that's what your favorite youtube personality said. But really, you shouldn't pass judgment on Skyrim unless you've played it.

Trust me, you really should play it, you don't know what you're missing.

There is something strange, the fact they're trying to milk as much money out of the initial purchase as possible, this implies the publishers know this game is going to end up like SWTOR, so they're making sure they just cover the game's budget, cause again, they know subs won't last more than 2 months.

This is what happens when game development is controlled by businessmen in suits who never played a game in their lives.

1- Dark Souls. Fucking awful boring monotonous hack'n'slash game that only got to stardom cause of the marketing gimmick "It's so hard it's only for the manly gamers! Are YOU a manly gamer?"

2- Bioshock 1

3- Bioshock 2

4- Bioshock Infinite

5- Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm

Dark Souls is not an RPG, it's a metroidvania game.

@ReadingRainbow4: You've never actually played Skyrim have you?

@uninspiredcup: Here's your typical JRPG: