The day of reckoning will come - I predict at some point in the early 2020s - when people on the Codex finally realise that Skyrim is basically just Morrowind with janky action combat instead of janky RPG combat, and no spellmaker. Other than those differences, both are games about walking around, getting ultra-linear quests, beating the shit out of 85% of individuals you meet, meeting boring NPCs, stuffing your inventory with relics and equipment you'll never use like the Gauntlets of Unending Wanking, and reading books. I like both games btw.
Eh, I don't enjoy any of the elder scrolls games, though Daggerfall was an okay time waster as a kid. But this is like saying Fallout: New Vegas is basically just Fallout 3 with better content. Trivially true because that "better content" goes a long way.
Sure, Morrowind shares most of Skyrim's flaws. People love it because they enjoy tooling around with the magic system and they like the setting, which is a hell of a lot more interesting than Oblivion or Skyrim. Skyrim is like a gigantic bowl of oatmeal and Morrowind is like a smaller bowl of oatmeal flavored with cinnamon and maybe some apples. Though, personally, I'd rather eat real food, some people who can't stand plain oatmeal will eat that shit up when you add a little flavor.
way better porn modsI thought Skyrim was kind of bland and boring. Does it do anything better than Oblivion?
I think Skyrim is shit but Oblivion was even worse. Morrowind is the only Elder Scrolls game that even came close being ok.I thought Skyrim was kind of bland and boring. Does it do anything better than Oblivion?
with elder scrolls it's the other way around, the further you go back, the better they get.
you mean codex' philosophy on everything.
So I'm moving house, & whilst doing so some of the old games which I bought many moons ago have been unearthed. So I thought I'd have a blast on them & decide whether to keep them or not.
Originally I had Skyrim down as a shit game, which showed you all it's tricks in the first 20 hours and quickly became dull afterwards. That said I did have some fun in those first 20 odd hours.
Returning to it now and Jesus wept, I can't believe I was that kind to it. I mean it's truly fucking awful beyond belief. I couldn't believe how flat our fucking bored I was, and just how many basic things the game did badly.
But worst of all it was just SO empty. Literally nothing of note worth finding or exploring for. And the quests, I mean, I remember them being mundane but fuckledoody we're talking some real, real low end shit here.
We all know it's wank, but I never had it down as painfully wank until now. Literally not even a game.
This is actually because Bethesda can't UV map for shit. It's been a problem since Morrowind. Below I'll post the rather infamous wooden post, which still looked like total shit even after Bethesda released their high-resolution texture pack. Forts and walls are also a rather good example of their ineptitude, as can be seen in the UB Tweaks mod. I think a lot of this was fixed with the Special Edition, although I could be wrong.I was blown away by how ugly the textures were! I looked at a wooden wall and it was like smeared shit.
Fog of war. Used in strategy games since times immemorial. Nothing wrong with it.Morrowind does it best: it automatically maps out the areas you visit but the rest are hidden until you visit them (and you can use this dark fog as an indicator of how much of the world you've visited).