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Then again, considering that ES is a world where apparently even the most untrained of nitwits can hurl fireballs about and most dudes with even basic training can fuck you up good with spells I suppose the need to expand upon those wasn't really felt.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
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It was just that it was changed from a cool and pretty unique setting as per the previous lore into TotallyNotBritain #98446, filled with generic knights and wizards.
That shit sucked after Morrowind's awesome visual style. Shivering Isles helped, but couldn't fix the main game.
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In no particular order: mountain lions; incredible boring quests - that always involved going to some incredible boring multi-layered cut-paste dungeon; uninteresting world, uninteresting characters (didn't join the assassin's guild this time, oh well); instanced towns
Now, Morrowind shares many of the same problems and more (the combat sucked, the dungeons were even worse) but at least that game offered an interesting world to explore. I'd always start a new character, go to some unknown place on the island, do a couple side-quest here and there, maybe become a werewolf and jump over the ghostfence to kill the the ash vampires and then start again. Somehow I've found the game to be much more fascinating despite only ever finishing one quest line in it (Solstheim).
Only on a narrative technical standpoint I would say sequel to Fallout 2 and parallel game to 3 hits the mark.
1,2,NV is west side of the USA. 3 East.
About ESV. I just hope they made some new additions to their writing team or that Beths better writers are deep in the project,
If they can address the empty feeling and make the world feel more alive then I'll give it a fair shake, with or without multiplayer.
I might give it another play through in preparation for this.
Its like they have this one dude who does the animations but they don't have the heart to tell him he sucks.
The fact every shop in morrowind actually had the items to steal inside them was awesome.
The fact I could accidently find the a badass set of glass armor and weapons like 2 minutes into the game was awesome.
The fact I could become an insane god flying around one shotting everything by abusing the system was awesome.
Oblivion basically gimped you so you couldnt game the system as much. The odd thing is, i never even did any of that, I never found the glass stuff in the first shop that you had to jump up and look atop a bookcase to grab. I never broke the level up system to totally make myself immortal.
I DID steal stuff i wanted instead of buying it..
But knowing I could do that stuff in Morrowind made every second walking around more random and spontanious, I never knew what id see next.
I hope the next one revives that sense of anything could happen that morrowind had.
News about TES V is very exciting indeed.
I always imagine its the bosses wife or something.
Is...is this a joke? Because im pretty sure it IS the bosses wife. So, im assuming your joking and you know this too.
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Wait. DOES the bosses wife do the animation? That'd explain why they haven't been fired yet.
Now I'm curious to know if Bill Gates' wife is the one who invented That Fucking Paperclip.
I still haven't finished this damn game.
One thing they need to move away from in the ES series are the cut and paste dungeons. They are better off not including those all together. Most of the forts in the game have no relevance.
Why not just go the whole hog and make it an MMO.
Not out of the question, but I can't see them doing that, to be honest.
Edit - Unrelated: Igort, I demand to know where your avatar of Haruhi is from.
SCANDAL!
I honestly think a TES MMO is already a forgone conclusion at this point. Most of the big players in the game world here in the west want an MMO in their portfolio.
http://www.mmocrunch.com/2010/01/22/bethesda-mmo-details-leaked/
That's an old article, maybe it's been dis-proven already... but I think that TES would make a rather easy transition into an MMO using the same, albeit tweaked, design as the current games. I know I'd play it.
I disagree on that. A lot of my fun in Oblivion was exploring the insane amount of dungeons.
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If they had some kind of significant reward or surprise in them it would have been better.
TES seems suited for a sandboxy mmo ala Old school star wars galaxies. Yeah theres combat, but also if you want to be world renowned for making the finest blouses in the land- you can be. If you wanna be the best farmer ever you can. Maybe i'm deranged.
You have found the worthless, Rusty Dagger of Bob! Huzzah!
Can't do that with Gandaaaalf and Brodo running around.
It would also be horribly boring if every cave had something interesting. Some places just have to be uninteresting. And some places just are awesome hidden gems. I remember in Morrowind I found a cave with an awesome hammer floating in a shrine. It was awesome because you DON'T see those things often.
Man if I could have played Asheron's Call like that...
It just seems like making an MMO is generally a bad idea considering how big World Of Warcraft is. I don't really follow the MMO world, but that's one hell of an act to compete against.
Google is your friend. I have no idea where I got it from, or how I found it, sorry.
The trick to succeeding in the MMO world is to accept that you will never be as big as World of Warcraft and pick a better goal than trying to top it.
The more I talk to people about it the less I think that not finishing Oblivion is unusual or anything to be ashamed of. I'm starting to think that making a character and randomly dicking around doing sidequests and improving your equipment and skills until eventual boredom is actually the correct way to play the game.