Why do you like NMA?

I like RPGCodex since they support the incline of RPG's. Without them we might not have Age of Decadence or UnderRail or Serpent in the Staglands or Wasteland 2. Both of our communities are basically striving for the same thing. Styg and even Avellone post on Codex occasionally. It might be a hostile place but the great thing is you can tell people to go fuck themselves and it is no big deal.

Bethesda games deserve all the hate they get. They are good for what they are but they lack substance. Due to rampant fanboy brown-nosing we now have Fallout 4, one of the weakest entries in the series thus far. All of that is off topic but it should be noted. Good to get some new blood. Stay frosty. :ok:
 
TorontRayne said:
I like RPGCodex since they support the incline of RPG's. Without them we might not have Age of Decadence or UnderRail or Serpent in the Staglands or Wasteland 2. Both of our communities are basically striving for the same thing. Styg and even Avellone post on Codex occasionally. It might be a hostile place but the great thing is you can tell people to go fuck themselves and it is no big deal.

Bethesda games deserve all the hate they get. They are good for what they are but they lack substance. Due to rampant fanboy brown-nosing we now have Fallout 4, one of the weakest entries in the series thus far. All of that is off topic but it should be noted. Good to get some new blood. Stay frosty. :ok:
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The Codex is a good community. To me, it's like having a conversation in real-life -- say what you want, no mod to hand you a ticket if you say something "out of bounds", no one banning you for your opinions. I think the place just scares people who lack a good layer of thick skin.

NMA is a good place too -- very mature community generally, great members.
 
Well sometimes speaking your mind can sometimes get you branded with a Bethestard or a Dumbfuck! tag, not that I have any concern about getting a tag. It is funny watching Bethesda fanboys over there getting Bethestard tags. :lol:
 
Originally, I came to this site to mod Fallout 1. Then I read about a lot of criticisms of Fallout 3 on the forums, which was a game that I liked at the time but didn't love like New Vegas and Fallout 1. So I kind of started to hate Fallout 3 because I thought everyone here had good points. Later on, I really came around on it and formed my own opinion on the game and I really don't think it's a bad Fallout game now. Especially now that we have Fallout 4 and it showed just how much worse the Fallout IP can be treated.

To address the main topic though, I honestly like this community because it's full of people that are extremely critical towards Bethesda and as long as it's constructive criticism, even with a little bit of shit talking thrown in, I think it's a positive thing and that it's absolutely necessary. Bethesda may own Fallout but they didn't create Fallout and they deserve to be put under a microscope, analysed and picked apart for it. A company that owns and works with an IP that is as special as this one is needs to be critiqued because they didn't create it.

However, I do think sometimes the criticisms can be unfair but I'd rather take unfair criticism to no criticism at all because so many gamers tend to kiss ass and suck up to Bethesda. I also like this site because of all of the Fallout 1 and 2 love, which is extremely under represented because so many gamers skipped them to play the modern games.
 
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TorontRayne said:
NMA/tO and RPG Codex are the last bastions of monocled video game taste on the internet.
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Monocled taste for everything else too, it seems. I've barely ever heard of most songs, films and games everyone here talks about. I feel like a peasant on here. :???:
 
TheRippaMan said:
The Codex is a good community. To me, it's like having a conversation in real-life -- say what you want, no mod to hand you a ticket if you say something "out of bounds", no one banning you for your opinions. I think the place just scares people who lack a good layer of thick skin.

NMA is a good place too -- very mature community generally, great members.
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Seriously last thing Codex is like is a real life conversation. If that was the fact we would go extinct in no time due high murder rate. It's not mature; it's as juvenile as it gets.

There was a time i liked reading Codex but as the time passed it was apparent that people there doing a circle jerk that would put NMA a shame. So many times thoughtfully written posts shitted on by people who never read anything (if they read at all) slightly intellectual in their whole life.

While NMA has such as well, majority of moderators and old members are balanced and decent. So due to this tone NMA lures decent people with genuine criticism. I like how NMA is accepting to new fans but way too deterrent to become another Reddit. NMA is the last palace to have decent discussions about Fallout.
 
I keep hearing this reverence to 'old members'. Why not cut the bullshit and turn into gerontocracy where we worship the old eh?

And then, we shall find inner peace.

Amen.
 
I hate this place. Just knowing the fact that there are people who prefer FPS open-world over Turn-base Isometric on this forum piss me off.
 
I got annoyed with Fallout 3 and needed to find a place to reaffirm my opinions, and Reddit wasn't working for me.
 
GlutinousRice said:
I hate this place. Just knowing the fact that there are people who prefer FPS open-world over Turn-base Isometric on this forum piss me off.
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Ben Soto said:
I got annoyed with Fallout 3 and needed to find a place to reaffirm my opinions, and Reddit wasn't working for me.
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Pretty much the same story here, just replace Fallout 3 with Fallout 4. You know, Fallout 3 was actually my entry into the series, and I fucking loved it. Main game, DLC, everything, I just had a blast. It was only after I played New Vegas and all it's expansions that I looked back and noticed the flaws. The nonsensical story, the lack of interesting enemy factions, settlements with no effort to make them feel alive (except Rivet City, that's still pretty cool). Around that time, must have been 2013, I remember coming over here and reading some posts that reflected my feelings toward the game (distinctly remember it was Walpknut who said something that resonated with me), but I didn't really feel like jumping into the conversation myself. I then played Fallout 1 because of curiosity in the origins of the franchise, and although I had little to no experience with isometric turn-based RPGs, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Fast forward two years and we have the release of Fallout 4, where I find myself being even more disappointed than I was before. I thought with the release of New Vegas, along with that pretty cool E3 trailer, that Bethesda was going to turn it around and make a really good Fallout game. But we all know how that turned out. So I came back here on a whim, remembering that this place housed people who were not afraid of criticizing Bethesda (coughcoughReddit). I made an account and actually posted a bit, and now here we are. Despite what a lot of the apologists say, NMA is actually a really friendly place. Ironically enough, you guys treat fans of Fallout 3 and 4 (as long as they don't flip out and harass people) better than the folks on Reddit treat us. Never change, NMA.
 
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