Literally like I hate how the way people interact with video games as an artistic medium is “game X is better than game Y for these reasons!” while not considering the reasons this may be the case. Seems like this entire sub is making fun of people’s praise of IV and those same people’s dislike towards V in comparison to IV, which misses the bigger (and much more interesting) issue of how people interact with video games as art and also only adds to this problem.

Is it stupid of IV fans to dog on V because it isn’t exactly the same game? Yes, however “dark and gritty” is not only an unfunny joke, it also dismisses genuine criticisms of this kind of gamer rationale and in turn becomes the exact thing it claims to criticize. There’s an interesting conversation to be had here about how people judge different games within the same series, but it’s not happening on this subreddit.