Who here actually liked Skyrim or Oblivion? IMO they are complete failures.

[SheepKilla 473]

 However, they are failures with a catch. 

 

The catch is that you want to like them, and feel there is no reason you shouldn't like them. After all, the games are huge and do let you do what you want. There is even fantastic atmosphere at times. The games seem to deliver on their promises sometimes. However, this is a complete illusion. 

 

   The quests are completely mundane and NPCs are boring. The leveling system is awful and there are balance issues with items. Repetitive and glitch-filled world. It's way too shallow.  

 

Oblivion deserved a 6.5/10 and Skyrim a 7.5/10

 

[-GD-X★ 7,728]

aside from the dark brotherhood, oblivion sucked.

Edited July 1, 2020 by -GD- BLM

[SheepKilla 473]

1 minute ago, -GD- BLM said:

aside from the dark brotherhood, oblivion sucked.

I recently saw a youtube vid mocking the game's intro sequence (where you randomly escort the Emperor) and DIED laughing. 

 

god, what were they thinking? an hour long intro in the sewers? Do they have any idea how annoying it is to start a new character and have to see that again?

[SheepKilla 473]

LMFAO. 

 

 

[Substatic 420]

They are okay with mods.

I was a bigger fan of Oblivion than Skyrim. Morrowind shits on both.   

[Delita 698]

I remember people being blown away by Oblivion when it originally launched and was used as an example next gen capabilities. Stop to load every 15 secs in the open world and dungeons that all looked the same  
 

That shit was a damn dumpster fire. So was Fallout 3. Todd Howard sucks

Edited July 1, 2020 by Delita

[Tears of the Cows 1,204]

Worst combat in modern gaming. 

[Twinblade★ 3,889]

Oblivion was kind of a revolution for its time.

 

Skryim kinda sucked though. I enjoyed the beginning of the game but I fell off it real quick.

[SheepKilla 473]

7 minutes ago, Twinblade said:

Oblivion was kind of a revolution for its time.

 

Skryim kinda sucked though. I enjoyed the beginning of the game but I fell off it real quick.

Just graphics-wise and scale-wise was Oblivion a revolution. 

 

The gameplay was a disaster. 

[GeorgeW1000 118]

Oblivion was such a beautiful game -- it made the feeling of open worlds nice. The gameplay was innovative back then. I mean it wasn't great, but interesting enough to keep playing. 

 

What made oblivion great was the art style -- it wasn't dark and slimy like skyrim. It made the open worlds pleasant to explore. Though it's true that I never cared about the game enough to actually beat it. 

 

Skyrim I never gave a chance because everything is just dark, gloomy, and wet looking. 

[-GD-X★ 7,728]

11 minutes ago, GeorgeW1000 said:

Oblivion was such a beautiful game -- it made the feeling of open worlds nice. The gameplay was innovative back then. I mean it wasn't great, but interesting enough to keep playing. 

 

What made oblivion great was the art style -- it wasn't dark and slimy like skyrim. It made the open worlds pleasant to explore. Though it's true that I never cared about the game enough to actually beat it. 

 

Skyrim I never gave a chance because everything is just dark, gloomy, and wet looking. 

oblivion had more pop up than a peep show. it was a technical mess...but with nice textures and lighting. the rest = yuck

[DynamiteCop 2,084]

I loved Oblivion, Skyrim was pretty weak but a good sandbox.

[jehurey 3,222]

1 hour ago, -GD- BLM said:

aside from the dark brotherhood, oblivion sucked.

No way. The Thieves Guild missions were pretty cool.

The final quest was sneaking into the main capital building, and getting into an underground lair to steal an actual Elder Scroll.  And all of the items from previous quests were necessary items needed to accomplish the final mission.

 

I will admit that going into an Oblivion gate straight up sucked, not only because it was bland and super repetitive, but it just kept throwing hard enemies at you and you would barely escape out of there with your life. Therefore, the main quest (which I never finished) probably just sucked.

 

Sometimes you just want to play a game where you just "do things". And the Elder Scroll games fill that urge.

 

One time, in a giant bombcast, they had guests over during E3. And this one drunken guy was trying to be all thoughtful and deep. And he did hit upon a great point. In life, we can't fix our problem that quickly. They're always "Open" items on your to do list.

 

But in video games, you can "fix" and "complete" things. And its kind of therapeutic to "finish" something. And that's where the Elder Scroll games help scratch that itch.

[-GD-X★ 7,728]

5 minutes ago, jehurey said:

No way. The Thieves Guild missions were pretty cool.

The final quest was sneaking into the main capital building, and getting into an underground lair to steal an actual Elder Scroll.  And all of the items from previous quests were necessary items needed to accomplish the final mission.

 

I will admit that going into an Oblivion gate straight up sucked, not only because it was bland and super repetitive, but it just kept throwing hard enemies at you and you would barely escape out of there with your life. Therefore, the main quest (which I never finished) probably just sucked.

 

Sometimes you just want to play a game where you just "do things". And the Elder Scroll games fill that urge.

 

One time, in a giant bombcast, they had guests over during E3. And this one drunken guy was trying to be all thoughtful and deep. And he did hit upon a great point. In life, we can't fix our problem that quickly. They're always "Open" items on your to do list.

 

But in video games, you can "fix" and "complete" things. And its kind of therapeutic to "finish" something. And that's where the Elder Scroll games help scratch that itch.

eh, i hated it. it just wasn't interesting. 

[kaz 2,439]

i found one side quest in skyrim that was actually pretty cool. 

 

Spoiler

some shitty demon inside a haunted house in some city (in the west). you enter the house with some dude, then you hear daedric whisper shit, you go into the basement, look up an altar - demon talks to you blabla

 

other guy dies blabla

 

you end up freeing a priest in a cave and bring him to the haunted house, right before the demon

 

he ends up being an offering, he dies, you get some demon mace.

 

 

I bet there are other quests that are good. but overall skyrim is trash, never played moronfart

 

also elder scrolls online quests are very well written, never seen such quality in a mmo. but it's basically the only reason to play that game, ironically. 

Edited July 2, 2020 by kaz BLackMage

[Substatic 420]

And fallout4 was even worse than all this.

 

Is there any hope for Starfield and TESVI?

[SegaGod 33]

The music in both is some of the best music in any video games though, oblivion especially.

[SheepKilla 473]

8 minutes ago, SegaGod said:

The music in both is some of the best music in any video games though, oblivion especially.

you are out of your mind. 

 

it is completely generic and forgettable. 

[Ike★ 2,906]

Bethesda has always been shit and repurposing the same game since Morrowind. Boring ass walking sims.

[MalaXmaS 646]

3 hours ago, SheepKilla said:

 However, they are failures with a catch. 

 

The catch is that you want to like them, and feel there is no reason you shouldn't like them. After all, the games are huge and do let you do what you want. There is even fantastic atmosphere at times. The games seem to deliver on their promises sometimes. However, this is a complete illusion. 

 

   The quests are completely mundane and NPCs are boring. The leveling system is awful and there are balance issues with items. Repetitive and glitch-filled world. It's way too shallow.  

 

Oblivion deserved a 6.5/10 and Skyrim a 7.5/10

 

Stfu, Skyrim was amazing.