He represents a rather extreme element of the "hold my hand with explanations/tutorials" crowd. Extreme to the point of being frequently wrong. However, since the game is designed with somewhat the opposite mentality, I feel there are a few occasions where he's actually right: the game doesn't quite hold the player's hand enough.
In that video, at 6:40 or so, he starts going on about how Action Points aren't explained. Although of course he goes overboard, I think that first combat screen should include a mention that the green bubbles on top of the skillbar represent Action Points. I'm just talking about adding one sentence to the dialog box, explaining what you're looking at when you look at the combat interface; I don't think it's necessary to explain that you click on monsters to attack them.
Crafting also is something which honestly isn't explained very well. I'm not talking about a huge tutorial or anything, just spending one second --
literally one second -- showing that dragging one item onto another is how you craft. It would be as simple as showing one drag-and-drop, but it's conspicuously absent from the game.
These are both moderate positions, together adding less than 2 additional seconds of tutorial to the game. I want to emphasize that I am not nearly as radical as tx3000 is when it comes to handholding, and I think most of what he has to say about the game's accessibility is counterproductive. But I also think the crowd here tends to lean slightly too much in the other direction, blinding themselves to problems which can be caused by a sometimes counterintuitive AI, a crowd which blames players for things which are sometimes the fault of missing or incomplete in-game tutorials. I feel the best way lies somewhere in between.
Two things genuinely bother me here: first, that the tone which someone uses would blind our community to critically analyze the content of his message; second, and more importantly, that someone with a good point or two would become an extremist with an excessively caustic demeanor.
Or maybe it's just trolling. Doesn't matter; good point's a good point, even when not intended to be. And surrounded by bad ones.
