My opinion of the pieces aside, it's one thing to give all these explanations of why they are what they are. And another to post them as the entirety of an update people have been clamoring for for months.... what did they expect?

update should have been something else, anything else...

I can understand standing up for Matt and being defensive about some of the over the top comments here. But to look at the pictures posted and not understand why people excited about this game are disappointed is borderline delusional.

LOL at 10k by Christmas guy calling people clueless and naive!

Yeah, I'm thinking that's the right idea.

I'd prefer the book be inset in the apron I guess than up there.

I've accepted that Smaug will be a huge let down from what I expected. Especially after the hype along the way.

I think we'll keep hearing about gameplay being clunky and slow, that was expected. Drop targets give a clunky feel by nature I would think.

I hope they have Smaug say "penguins" at least once.