The argument isn't about the content. The point is that, bugs aside, Morrowind is playable (despite of its many faults) out of the box. That's why it doesn't need mods, even though it may be highly recommended nowadays. So, yeah, "everyone played these games modded, always" is not true.
Eh, that's not the real problem, and there's something to be said for not hassling the player every 3 seconds because his ability to fly fish specifically in a river specifically at dawn went up by 2%. Fo4 had a much better system than Fo3 and Oblivion, which really did have 4 perks per skill and the levels between were irrelevant.
MODS CAN NOT FIX BETHESDA GAMES
Because you don't fix what is not broken?
It most certainly isn't because the second you reduce things to the point they did in Fallout 4, you reduce the amount of things you can do with the game. The easiest example of this is locks. You went from the capability of having 100 different types of lock down to Beginner, Advanced, Expert and Master. This spreads throughout the design with everything that used to be a skill that was turned in to a perk. Sure, you could also add an attribute factor, but you also run in to the problem where attributes vie for the same pool of points that the perks take, meaning you have to decide between raising the attribute or getting another perk as opposed to the original system where attributes start off a certain significantly higher level, but are more difficult to raise. In the original system, it's much easier to gauge what to check for when you're looking to make something the level of difficulty you want. In Fallout 4's system, it's pretty much chaos when it comes to attribute checks which is why you don't see them much in the game. It degenerates to any character can do most anything because you can't really pin down what level character and what build should be required to do something.
I know about Shattered Space, I think Varuun was intended for the core game and the DLC was originally about something completely different, probably whatever happened after the Unity.
No, but they can enhance them if you already like the core gameplay loop. Mods are just for rebalance and additional features for people who are already enjoying what the games have to offer.
That just means you have low standards and a low IQ.
yeah because when I think of people with low IQ, they would love crafting Veryl-Treated Manifolds to level up their Xenosociology
No Man's Sky apparently did this.
It's not enough that I get high IQ games. Others should be deprived of their slop, too.
Thanks for proving my point I guess.
And almost 15 years after Skyrim there's still no sign of a new mainline Elder Scrolls.
This would be the only interest I have in the game. It would probably be the only reason I'd get it. Then I looked more and more in to the systems and it lost me. I can understand you need bigger engines to power bigger things, and stuff like that. What I don't understand is why components are locked to skills. Skills are somewhat understandable, I guess, but explain the level requirement to me without totally breaking the immersion that Bethesda is supposed to be so good at. I can completely get behind having factions in the game and the requirement of faction reputation being part of what faction equipment they'd be willing to sell you. That's a model that makes a bit of sense. But please explain who would know what level I am and deny me access to something because of that?
it is also future fallout, obviously Terrormorphs are Deathclaws, the Brotherhood is Constellation, NCR is Freestar, etc.
It is the power of marketing. Even if normies know that these games are shit, they collectively delude themselves in thinking otherwise to align with the conception they had of these games prior to release. A weird case of "too big too fail". Even is TES VI is shit it will be highly profitable just because of the status of Skyrim with normies. They will be able, in time, to convince themselves that it is exactly what they wanted, whether the initial reception is good or bad.
Locks are exactly the kind of thing I mean. In the older games it was just an RNG check anyways, so the only difference between a 65 lock and a 60 lock was you maybe using a different number of lockpicks or savescumming. As soon Oblivion came around, the exact skill level became irrelevant because the only impact it had was at the thresholds that let you attempt stronger locks. All the numbers in between were pure window dressing.
