I see there are also educated people here.
Last 4 pages summarised by this. It is super ironic that people parachute in Psychology 101 to conclude that the writer must effectively be suffering from strong delusions... isn't that exactly the same kind of nonlogic that the writer uses to argue that people must not remember what the IE games were like? You might as well also argue that everything
Sensuki says is bullshit because he's just butthurt he laboured 800 hours on the beta, and that everything
Darth Roxor said in his review is bullshit because he just has confirmation bias for his negativity and is trying to get KKK.
There is no need to presume any psychological wonkiness of
Decado, because it's easy enough to substantively show the problems with the review. Playing on Normal in itself doesn't guarantee that he doesn't understand character/combat mechanics very well, but his numerous comments, like mages are direct damage cannons (Sensuki shows couple other examples), do so
substantively. It is difficult to take anything about mechanics in this review seriously, no matter your opinion about POE, in that case.
There is more emphasis paid to writing and story, but it is not much better there. The first paragraph about the setting is devoted to "funny sounding words", which has always been a ridiculously trivial point of debate (by the way, don't see anyone complaining about TW3). As Sensuki says, killing Calisca off is so fucking mundane it might as well be on TVTropes, the Tutorial Person Who Dies In Prologue, and saying it shows big brass balls makes you seriously doubt the reviewer. The praise of Durance and GM in the first two paragraphs of Story/Writing is almost devoid of any content; when your 'analysis' lacks substance, you invite people to just blanket claim that you must be a fanboy.
POE has numerous real points of controversy and possible weakness. Everyone knows encounter design and itemisation isn't good, but there are different arguments as to why that is so or how that impacts the game. Many readers will want to know
substantively whether it evokes the IE feel and how, instead of being told they must have memory problems. There are people who insist that POE is too autopiloty and even easier than IE, whereas others (myself included) dispute this claim. And so on. By providing no real substance on any of this, while not bringing any new point of debate to the fray, the review basically renders itself a Eurogamer "My Weekend With POE".
