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And while you went into Skyrim with rose colored glasses, I don't see how you can go from that to this unless you yourself changed as a person on how you look at games fundamentally.
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I went into Skyrim with the same attitude I go into any game I play. I don't want games to be bad. I want them to be good. It's really easy to see how someone can change their opinion in light of new experiences or evidence. In 2011 I was almost out of college and I spent like all of Thanksgiving break and winter holiday playing it. But it didn't really stick with me then apart from "Yeah I guess it's good?" I can play a game like Chrono Trigger today and still have the same exuberance as I did in 1995. I can play Final Fantasy 8 and still enjoy every minute of it even with its super specific issues and flaws. I can't say the same for Skyrim. It's not that I changed. It's that Skyrim refused to change enough. 

You can't go home again, kinsman.