I was watching “…why Skyrim?” by Razbuten on sloptube this aft and it’s so weird that it finally took Starfield for people to realise. Like Fallout 76 wasn’t enough, only now are negative things people were first saying about Skyrim in 2012 finally bleeding into mainstream consciousness. It’s so wild, like wow they ruined the magic system? The game has worse writing than a PS1 era Mega Man X game??? Skyrim is just shitty Game of Thrones?? Welcome to thirteen years ago!!

Bethesda hasn’t made a really good game since 2002, but it’ll probably be years before that realisation sinks in.

  • FearsomeJoeandmac [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    If I want to play a full rpg. I’m not going to be playing a post daggerfall Bethesda game.

    It’s just not that good of a role playing experience

    Better than Skyrim or Oblivion? Sure. But it’s not some masterpiece of rpg gaming Bethesda games have since morrowind and todd Howard been far more about the exploration than the role playing

    If you’re trying to gatekeep rpgs with Morrowind. I’m sorry but that’s laughable to me

    Keep in mind these are video game treats people. Please don’t go insane because I’m not a morrowind fanboy

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      3 months ago

      NO I wouldn’t gatekeep anyone. I fucking loved Skyrim for ages and think anyone who likes it more than Morrowind (or even a lot more) or any game more than Morrowind is completely valid and reasonable. Art (even silly escapist art like video games) gets way worse when it’s a “whose better” wankfest

      • FearsomeJoeandmac [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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        3 months ago

        I didn’t think you were trying to gate keep my friend

        I just meant some Morrowind fanboys do and it’s irritating whenever I bring up enjoying Oblivion. Morrowind fanboys pop and tell me how my tastes are shit or how in supposedly a casual (whatever that means)

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          oh yeah I can get how that’s frustrating asf

          If it means anything I do think Skyrim is a genuinely fun game. Like it is super broken but that is kind of fun for me and also I can’t criticize when I think it’s fun in most other games