Hpw about you let people like what they like and not like what they don't? No one is forcing you to like things you don't no matter how much sense it makes to them and not to you.

People really think they're the centre of the universe. If something goes against their opinion, it's wrong and it goes against common sense. In reality, far from it. I already explained why for me it's not about how long the loading times are, but whether they make sense (for me) in the game.

Feel free to have your own opinion but don't act like it's anything more than it is, i.e. your opinion.

Can you really be consistant with two different game systems? Perhaps the reason why you wouldn't find the slowdown's in Skyrim annoying. Is because your aren't taunted, like BOTW does. You have limited means of counteracting stuff, in Skyrim. But, does it stare you in the face. And cause you small pecks of annoyances? I remeber Skyrim's limitations. And I belive BOTW is more annoying. Because of the fact, it pecks at every little area. VS Skyrim.

You have this limit. And you can't change nothing. Till you get a certain upgrade. But, aren't flooded with inventory screens. You have one. And everything shares it. VS BOTW. It's broken up. You are menu diging more, than in Skyrim. While in a fight. VS drop this, equip this to this hand, or that hand. You have to confirm bows, and swords, in two menus. What for?

I think the game would aliviate the complaints. If a weapon broke. It automatically select the next best weapon, you have. So that you don't interupt your fighting.

I'm afraid that was the opposite of my point. I said I don't particularly like Souls games and I don't mind waiting for a minute because I see it as part of the punishment for dying. Tekken 6 was my first platinum, a game of a franchise that I've loved since I first played Tekken 3 when I was around 10. Yet the loading times of Tekken 6 bother me (despite loving the game). They bother me because they make no sense in the game.

In other words, my point was that it's not always about fanboyism or (in this case) how long the waiting time is, but why I'm waiting for something in the game. I don't like difficulty in simple, fun games like Megaman. I like it in Souls games because it bonds well with the atmosphere.

Stuff like this is one of the many reasons why I take professional reviews with a pinch of salt, especially when they're reviews of heavily hyped games with "enthusiastic" fanbases.

The way these fanboys reacted was totally predictable and should not have come as a surprise to anyone. But it makes me wonder how many other reviewers out there are too scared of the backlash to give honest scores to games like these. Sterling might have been honest with his review, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were a bunch of other people who wanted to give it the same score but erred on the side of caution and gave it an 8.

I won't defend the people attacking his site but not totally against it either. Sterling is a troll. He is proud to troll and pushes his trolling all the time. He trolled with the 5/10 for VanQuish. He just likes to troll. I like Warriors games but he awards them perfect 10's. So yeah. He just cries when he reaped what he sewed. The people attacking him are wrong and two wrongs don't make a right.

Why do people care what this dumbass has to say? I took one look at this dude years ago and knew I would listen to him.

When people has to defend a review, you know how bad it is.

Nintendo pioneered rolling the button from sprint to jump with Mario, so I don't know what you're going on about.

You can be consistent about the justifications underlying the criticisms. I found neither system annoying. Elder Scrolls games always start with slow movement, it is part of the ambiance of the world. But I understand why some people were annoyed by movement in Skyrim (and yes they existed), especially because you couldn't change it too much. Morrowind did it much better by allowing you to (passively) upgrade movement speed as a skill so that you could actually feel the function of the upgrades. I think BOTW also does this. In the beginning you are slower and need to worry about weather constraints. By the end, you don't care because you've upgraded your stamina so that it is more expendable. The criticism I think Jim justified the best (surrounding this issue) in his review is that it is ugly being placed above the character, but in the grand scope of things that seems trivial. 

As for inventory screens, I have played the PC version of Skryim so I had the best UI possible in that game via mods. BOTW's inventory system is a flaw, and should have been better polished. It is my one moderate gripe with the game. But even that became less of an issue later on when I became comfortable with the quick menus. I don't see how any of this is relevant to the stamina complaints, however. They are two separate things. 

That was merely a suggestion to make it work.

At the end of the day, any combination that places the jump and sprint buttons next to each other would work out.