INCOMING SPERG RANT! PREPARE YOUR "AUTISTIC" RATINGS!!
Okay Porkchop - here's a breakdown as to why people are laughing at you and your jowl-heavy funnyface.
1) Dark Souls and Skyrim are considered to be two of the most important games to have come out not only in the last 5-6 years, but of the entire previous console generation. If they were more niche titles like trying to tell the difference between the "Tales of..." series if you're not a fan, then that might be understandable. This isn't.
2) The outright smug justification of you not knowing the difference, claiming them to be "the samey-looking grim medieval fantasyscape." First of all, again you bias is showing by the fact that anything with realistic proportions and has shadows must be "grim." Second, it's a sad, pathetic excuse for someone who can't just say "oops, I should've known that, ha ha." No, you have to like like some superior jackass, as if knowing the difference makes a person lesser than you. Granted, at this point they probably are less than you when it comes to the Body-Mass-Index, but I don't think that's what you were flailing for.
To put it another way, that would be like someone saying something like:
"Is that Patrick Stewart or Bryan Cranston? I can't tell, they're just samey looking old bald white guys."
or... tell me if this sounds familiar chucklenuts...
"Is this Spiderman or Deadpool? I can't tell, they're samey looking superheroes in red masks and snarky attitudes."
3) The new "I'm not a professional game critic" bit we just got recently.... PACINO TIME...
Okay, maybe you're not titled a "professional games critic." You still do however have worked with Escapist Magazine and Screwattack (twice). You are also the proud curator of a lagging series called "The Game Overthinker."
Motherfucker, WHAT.
Are you telling me in the years that you have been sucking up fast food fat and depositing it into the sides of your faces and in your egregious man-titty parade, you haven't bothered to fucking absorb any even fucking passing knowledge of things that while maybe not of interest to you, are still important to the community you are supposed to represent? Are you so much a repugnant, myopic, self-important shitsack that you couldn't even be bothered to learn basic common gaming knowledge and still have the gall to think you have any place to explain thing to other gamers?
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Bobby, I ain't even mad anymore. Just go fuck yourself sideways with a rake.