viranimus said:
All Skyrim needs is...
To have simply been the unequaled 2011 RPG of the year.......Dark Souls?
To not have been unjustly popularized to the point it lets Bethesda adversely effect ALL RPGs.... AGAIN?
To have something other than "ITS TEH WURLD!!!" as its point of justification?
To not manage to excel at both tedium and mediocrity?
To be a 10 month old game and have the audacity to only JUST receive its first MSRP price break... down to 40$?!?!
Wait, those aren't things that can be made additions to a video game? What the? Oh. Oh I see now.
Yeah, there is really no end to this. Actually I sort of find this thread refreshing because It was starting to seem like Bethesda had almost Valve like truthful criticism armor for the mental gymnastics people go through in order to defend them.
That may be but some people acknowledge the problems and still love the game. That's an
Elder Scrolls staple, after all. When you don't at least demonstrate some kind of understanding of why that is even if you still think it's dumb, it kind of makes it look like it just went over your head. If you find this thread refreshing you should come here more often, we have three of these a week and each one is more refreshing than the last.
Dark Souls: ""IT'S HARD SO IT'S GOOD" wow look how dumb Dark Souls fanboys are". See how annoying that is?
I'm very curious to learn how Bethesda is adversely affecting ALL RPGs other than by making a game that you don't like.
I have to agree about the mental gymnastics people do. It rivals some creationist arguments at times, in terms of out right stupidity...
At least Valve make good games. If Bethesda was a car manufacture, they would be based in Russia...
Creationists are typically very defensive, quick to dismiss arguments, abusive, and they love to erect straw men to beat up. If Bethesda was a car manufacturer, they would make awesome cars.
Look guys, this isn't right. You can criticize a game very harshly but lashing out at the fans doesn't make you look cool and it smacks of insecurity in your opinions. And we really didn't need a thread so you could tell us you went out of your way to reinforce the opinion you already held.
Soopy said:
Mygaffer said:
Skyrim is technically great but as an experience actually very mediocre, the worst of the Elder Scrolls games yet, of course I have only been playing since Morrowind. I really don't know what is wrong with it, but it just gets boring in a way that Morrowind never did.
Morrowind rewarded exploration. It encouraged exploration and the narrative was interesting.
The world is unique and interesting and the characters well written.
In short, the polar opposite to Skyrim.
Oblivion you mean.
Skyrim does all those things pretty well, but not as well as
Morrowind. But way better than
Oblivion.
Terminate421 said:
It's that the animations are unavoidable and often bullshit. I'll be 90 degrees to the left of an ancient dragon and hit with something, next I teleport in front and am forced to watch myself die, I know dragons are supposed to be dangerous in melee but there's a difference between powerful and bullshit.
The death animation is occurring because you suffered fatal damage. It's unavoidable because you are already dead.
EDIT: I think I better clarify. It looks like you're being killed by some crazy special attack, but it's just an animation. If the animations had been disabled, you would have been killed by a normal looking attack and just fallen to the ground like normal.
