oblivionenjoyer
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- Apr 7, 2023
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is how lifeless and static all the NPCs are.
Everyone loves to shit on Oblivion's NPCs but at least they actually DID stuff. They worked a set number of hours, took breaks to eat their meals and clean, went to a bar in the evening, to church at the weekend. A lot even did stuff like visiting friends or family on certain days of the month. In Skyrim, on the other hand, a lot of them don't even SLEEP. Or move at all, for that matter. It's pathetic.
Skyrim's a fun game when you're out in the wilderness stumbling onto shit, but the moment you go to a town, fail to interact at all with half of the NPCs, realise the other half literally don't do anything, and then get a quest that amounts to "kill 3 mudcrabs. reward: join the guild's elite inner circle", it goes to absolute shit. Skyrim is at its best when you avoid all towns and NPCs. The only town that's any fun is Markarth, for that whole prison-rebellion questline. The rest of them are just a string of disappointments.
Everyone loves to shit on Oblivion's NPCs but at least they actually DID stuff. They worked a set number of hours, took breaks to eat their meals and clean, went to a bar in the evening, to church at the weekend. A lot even did stuff like visiting friends or family on certain days of the month. In Skyrim, on the other hand, a lot of them don't even SLEEP. Or move at all, for that matter. It's pathetic.
Skyrim's a fun game when you're out in the wilderness stumbling onto shit, but the moment you go to a town, fail to interact at all with half of the NPCs, realise the other half literally don't do anything, and then get a quest that amounts to "kill 3 mudcrabs. reward: join the guild's elite inner circle", it goes to absolute shit. Skyrim is at its best when you avoid all towns and NPCs. The only town that's any fun is Markarth, for that whole prison-rebellion questline. The rest of them are just a string of disappointments.