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Post by laurarenamuehl on May 4, 2013 9:56:46 GMT -5
MegaTuga - You said "Skyrim... I still have my doubts about that game but meh, let's leave that for another time." What do you have your doubts about?! My obsession for MML can only be matched by my love of Skyrim! And anyone else here, tell me what you think of the game. I just love the atmosphere, all of the detail that went in to everything, the abilities, the characters. I love all of the guilds/groups you can join, all of the side missions. I've beat Dawngard, and Dragonborn, and I've built an awesome house in Hearthfire. I don't know...Everything about that game is perfection to me. And I am like Dashe- I don't really play/like many video games at all. I started out watching my husband play, and my curiosity was piqued. I remember I played from 4pm to 6am NONSTOP. Man, all this talk about Skyrim makes me want to play...
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Post by Kyle on May 4, 2013 12:29:38 GMT -5
Skyrim? I thought it was fun enough. Bought it on launch day and pumped about... 200 hours into it. Personally, I think that they really dropped the ball with some of the guilds. Thieves Guild was okay, but the Dark Brotherhood was a complete joke compared to its Oblivion counterpart. Magic sucks, too. Bethesda seems to have focused more on the visuals than the mechanics, since magic scales with the game horribly. Dawnguard and Dragonborn were pretty damn good. Not Shivering Isles tier, but definitely worth the price. Since Morrowind was my first Elder Scrolls game, going back to Solstheim really indulged my feelings of nostalgia. Redoran buildings, bonemold armour, Telvanni mushroom towers. Just like the good ol' days.  |
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Post by Adrian2040 on May 4, 2013 16:34:43 GMT -5
I never really enjoyed Skyrim to its fullest. Sure, there were a lot of side missions and stuff, but as I played more and more things started to get a bit stale. I felt as if I was playing a single-player MMORPG. When I played Oblivion, I had fun messing up with stuff randomly. The capacity for this exists in Skyrim, but it's not as satisfactory. On a lesser side note, all the white seems dull.
Sure, you could say I need to give the game a bigger chance for it to captivate me, but if a sandbox game hasn't captivated me by the 20 hour mark then I just leave it in the shelf until I decide to keep playing it on a later date.
What I REALLY liked from Bethesda was Fallout 3 and, though technically Obsidian made this with Bethesda's tools, Fallout New Vegas. I just loved the settings, the old music, how the characters survive, the various relationships between each character/group and all of the different ways to complete a mission depending on what you say, on your action and of your skills. Every side-quest feels like a huge story of their own, with their own catastrophe that needs to be fixed or destroyed depending on what you want to do. Also, abusing Charisma in this game is fun. Plus, the combat ain't too shabby. At first it just seems like a post-apocalyptic Elder of Scrolls game, but then you start seeing the impact on how you complete missions, how important are your stats and perks and how every decision can affect future missions.
You made this topic for MegaTuga, but would you mind trying to convince me to continue playing the game? I stopped playing in some sort of Magic School, where things started to drag.
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Post by MegaTuga on May 4, 2013 19:01:52 GMT -5
... uh.. you made a whole thread because of my blunt opinion on a game...? You could have sent a PM to me you know...
First of all I never played it (only seen videos of it), so obviously I cannot say much.
As for my doubts it's a matter of personal choice you see? Skyrim is too much fantasy-based to my tastes. That's it. I like how interactive the game is, however... Fantasy/Medieval is not one of my favorite genre, that is why I cannot get onto it. And that is the reason of why I did said such a thing. One day I might get used to that setting but for now I rather avoid Skyrim.
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Post by Kyle on May 4, 2013 19:05:26 GMT -5
... uh.. you made a whole thread because of my blunt opinion on a game...? You could have sent a PM to me you know... As for my doubts it's a matter of personal choice you see? Skyrim is too much fantasy-based to my tastes. That's it. I like how interactive the game is, however... Fantasy/Medieval is not one of my favorite genre, that is why I cannot get onto it. And that is the reason of why I did said such a thing. One day I might get used to that setting but for now I rather avoid Skyrim. Hey, she gets to ask for your opinion and MMLS gets a new thread for discussion. Everybody wins!  You could actually do much worse for that whole 'fantasy-based' thing, too. Have you played Morrowind? That is fantasy, while Skyrim is more... semi-realistic with small doses of fantasy thrown into the mix. |
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Post by MegaTuga on May 4, 2013 19:11:53 GMT -5
@kyle
Okay, that is a valid point I guess.
No, I haven't played that but after a quick "googling" I can immediately see that I never could get into it. That sort of genre is really not my thing, I realized that after playing a game called "Two Worlds".
It's the same deal: medieval with magic and monsters. It was fun at start but the the quests kept dragging and felt repetitive. Not to mention that the music was always the same and the scenery only changed for one major town or another. Magic... magic was fun but chugging mana potions to keep it going is absurd.
I still have to complete the game but I haven't touched it since October, so you can imagine my feelings about it. Sometimes I really feel like moving on but I just can't.
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Post by Adrian2040 on May 4, 2013 19:21:10 GMT -5
@kyle Okay, that is a valid point I guess. No, I haven't played that but after a quick "googling" I can immediately see that I never could get into it. That sort of genre is really not my thing, I realized that after playing a game called "Two Worlds". It's the same deal: medieval with magic and monsters. It was fun at start but the the quests kept dragging and felt repetitive. Not to mention that the music was always the same and the scenery only changed for one major town or another. Magic... magic was fun but chugging mana potions to keep it going is absurd. I still have to complete the game but I haven't touched it since October, so you can imagine my feelings about it. Sometimes I really feel like moving on but I just can't.How about Fallout 3/New Vegas? My last post in this topic already has a good sum up of my opinions on these games. |
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Post by Dashe on May 4, 2013 20:42:33 GMT -5
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Post by Chiz on May 4, 2013 22:03:28 GMT -5
...and considering said Fallout thread is about 2 years old, posting in it is equally as bad an idea as not posting in it. The relevant-necropost paradox.
Being that Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, and New Vegas all have the same basic bits and pieces, and are all developmentally inseparable, it's reasonable to discuss them in the same thread. Comparisons between them are natural, with the only gameplay differences being an emphasis on magic in TES, and an emphasis on zeerust technology in Fallout.
I haven't played Skyrim. It'd be nice to do so, but a lack of time is the primary downfall. Too many ganes, too little time. And a game like this requires so very much time. Still, I've played Morrowind and Oblivion; I've seen the changes over them, and my heart still lies with Morrowind over Oblivion. That's not to say Oblivion's a bad game, but I have my doubts about Bethesda's latest entry in the series recognizing the flaws in Oblivion's model and Morrowind's strengths. They've certainly made improvements since Oblivion (see F3, Obsidian's FNV) but I don't think those translate well back to the fantastic, magical universe of TES.
Would love to be proven wrong.
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Post by Dashe on May 4, 2013 22:42:53 GMT -5
If I don't have a problem with reviving a two-year-old, generalized thread about a game series, then there really shouldn't be a problem with it. If a post is relevant and the subject matter is general enough that the topic didn't become completely dated, then it's not actually a necropost, considering the size of this community and the likelihood of any more than a small handful of MMLSers interested enough in any given non-Legends game at the same time to be able to hold a conversation about it is relatively slim.
If anyone has any further questions about what does or doesn't constitute a necropost or wants to discuss the matter further, feel free to bring it up in the Questions, Comments, and Complaints section.
As for Skyrim? Yeah, not my thing. Silver likes it, if anyone here remembers her at all.
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Post by SketchMan3 on May 5, 2013 0:36:46 GMT -5
I'm not into the whole fantasy magic thing. I did enjoy "Sherwood Dungeons" back in the day...
So no Skyrim for me.
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Post by laurarenamuehl on May 5, 2013 11:54:09 GMT -5
... uh.. you made a whole thread because of my blunt opinion on a game...? You could have sent a PM to me you know... First of all I never played it (only seen videos of it), so obviously I cannot say much. As for my doubts it's a matter of personal choice you see? Skyrim is too much fantasy-based to my tastes. That's it. I like how interactive the game is, however... Fantasy/Medieval is not one of my favorite genre, that is why I cannot get onto it. And that is the reason of why I did said such a thing. One day I might get used to that setting but for now I rather avoid Skyrim. I didn't want to send a PM and by posting a new thread, I could see what everyone else thought about Skyrim too. I tagged you specifically, because you made a comment about saving your opinion for another time. @kyle - Thought I hate to admit it, I have never played Morrowind or Oblivion. I didn't even know Elder Scrolls was a thing before Skyrim. So I can't really compare the Guilds to what they were before. I absolutely loved Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood. Some of the other ones were alright. @sir Adrian2040 - I didn't find the College of Winterhold, AKA "magic school" to be all that amazing. I mean, I did all of the quests and became the Arch Mage, but I enjoyed the other guilds much more than that one. I thought I would enjoy being a magic wielder, but I only really use it for Healing and a few other things. I prefer to sneak around and use my bow to take out everyone before they see me. Plus it's funny when you shoot someone with an arrow and they say "Is someone there?!" This video sums up Skyrim perfectly:
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Post by Kyle on May 5, 2013 16:04:19 GMT -5
Actually, Morrowind had the Morag Tong as the joinable faction instead of the Dark Brotherhood. Funny thing about them was the fact that their assassinations were legal, so if a guard witnessed you murdering your designated target in public, you can essentially give him the middle finger and get off scot free. As for Oblivion, oh boy. The Dark Brotherhood was awesome. One particular quest involves a Whodunit. Seriously. It's even the name of the quest! You're trapped in a house with five other guests, and are required to kill them all with as little suspicion as possible. Sure, you're able to just butcher everybody the second you step into the room, but you can only get the extra reward by doing so without anybody witnessing you. As you slowly kill off the poor bastards, each guest, depending on their deposition towards you, will get either suspicious of your character, or a different person entirely. Play your cards right and it's possible to have the last two guests duke it out in a battle to the death, with the survivor believing that the murderer is finally dead. ...They thought wrong. |
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