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  • Not all NPC interactions are tiny. I’ve discovered some absolutely insane shit just from talking to people, or just observing. The haunted Molag Bal house? Didn’t discover that until a couple years later. Terrified me. The fetch quests? Yeah I can understand. Don’t like those. But if you can provide some variety and rewards for them I can tolerate them, which they did in Skyrim.

    But again, don’t understand how that makes the game “shallow” lmao. And please don’t compare it to Assassins Creed. We don’t talk about that fucking franchise. I have such a love hate relationship with it. It’s a shadow of its former self.


  • Oh my god yes this. I have no doubt the ship building will be fantastic. I personally really enjoyed the base building in Fallout 4. Only issue I had was the power system which felt tedious, but I do think Bethesda will learn from that. If not, no big deal. Wasn’t a huge turn off. I think that definitely is subjective.

    I’m gonna spend an hour building my ship lmao.


  • Yeah, I agree. I feel that way about No Mans Sky though, and it creates a scenario where you are entertained for a couple hours and then realize there’s nothing to do anymore. It’s just a loop. For all that they’ve added, and as much as I commend them for that, the core mechanics are still flawed.

    With Skyrim I don’t get that. I’m always finding shit. Something different. Cutting off fast travel was a game changer.


  • I have not tried those games. I’ll look into it.

    I don’t understand the hate either. I think personally Fallout 76 was what caused the Bethesda hate train. I was there when Skyrim came out and it was universally acclaimed. I mean hell, there are crazy bastards that actually think Oblivion is superior. Which, I’m okay with. We SHOULD argue about that as it shows how good Bethesda is at creating living, breathing worlds. Fallout 4 with all its shitty flaws, does feel alive for the setting.

    You will not believe the hype Fallout 4 got too. Even if it was one of the weaker games Bethesda put out.


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    I don’t personally understand how you can say Bethesda games are incredibly shallow. I’ve put HOURS into Skyrim for years now and yet I keep finding new things in vanilla. I haven’t even done all the quests, and the list just goes on and on. IMO the world building and attention to detail they do is amazing. Yes I think Obsidian in general does a better job, especially story wise, as I played The Outer Worlds and it was incredible what you could do, especially with the variety of story elements. And I’d be lying if I said there weren’t anything that frustrated me that they did in Oblivion or Skyrim story wise or player choice wise. But to say it’s shallow? I don’t get it.

    And personally I feel the only thing TRULY half baked that Bethesda does is the stability and bugginess of their games. Skyrim was a mess on release. Fallout 4 was better but still pretty buggy. They do fix bugs but yeah I get it. They do sort of leave it all up to modders and personally I believe that was a big reason why they tried so hard to get mods on consoles.