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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Skyrim had the worst story of any of the Elder Scrolls

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Oblivion and Skyrim aren't games you play for the story silly, they're engines to build your own video game via modding.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It worked for that one guy who made that mod about the secret time loop city

He went ahead and made it into a standalone game

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the total conversion mods for Oblivion and Skyrim are great from what I gather, I've yet to try them.

[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This mod in particular was just a custom area in the game. If you like punishing yourself and don't mind save scumming until you get a feel for it the Requiem Overhaul for Skyrim is a lot of fun. Brings it more in line with earlier games like Morrowind where undead like draugr will be virtually immune to damage outside of fire attacks / silver weapons, trolls will regenerate their health rapidly unless you set them on fire. Archetypes are more clearly defined where it takes a lot of skill points to use magic to any real degree while wearing full plate and everything does a lot more damage so combat feels more impactful, getting hit in the face by a 2h axe will kill you so you best be dodging those swings. It does start out pretty slow though because you can basically only kill bandits and wolves for the first 20 levels.

Skyblivion is being released sometime in 2025 though and I'm pretty hype for that.

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The time loop city was pretty cool

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Much better than just about anything else outside of Blackreach

And even then, Blackreach was woefully underused

[–] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

You play it for the vibes

[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Terry Pratchett was involved with a mod for oblivion apparently. It's a really cute story

[–] Candidate@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know, I don't think Oblivion's is much better.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Oblivion's story is terrible

Everyone just remembers it fondly because of nostalgia now

But it's so bad

Finding Patrick Stewart's bastard son Sean Bean so he can do all the actual work of defeating Mehrunes Dagon

I remember literally putting the controller down and saying "Wow, that was awful"

Even the lauded Dark Brotherhood plot is bad because it's so heavily telegraphed that you can see it coming and yet, you are powerless to stop it despite the game pretending like your choices matter

[–] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Everyone hyped up the Dark Brotherhood questline so much only for it to turn out dog shit.

Everyone acts like Lucian Lachance is so cool, but he just dies like a chump.
He should have been doing a power play or something instead of the awful plot we got where some mama’s boy kills everyone and there is nothing you can do because everyone in the Dark Brotherhood is incompetent.

Edit: some of the individual quests are good tho I guess, but the overarching story was so blah

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

The quest where you go into the painting is pretty nifty, but it's like 10 minutes and has no real bearing on anything

Which is a shame because, holy shit, painted worlds ala Super Mario 64 could be utilized for so much cool shit

[–] ManFreakBeast@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I played Oblivion a lot but I never finished the main quest. I was too busy doing shit with the thieves and dark brotherhood.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Better off really

[–] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Idk if I can say I like the story, but I like the ending

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I liked the storyline in dragonborn and all the lovecraftian shit

[–] LeylaLove@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, Bethesda seems to really do better on DLC. Shivering Isles is easily one of the best parts of Oblivion, and I quite enjoyed Dragonborne. Dawnguard had cool setpieces but the overall story wasn't my cup of tea

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They re-used the ending in fallout 3 but named the giant demon Liberty Prime and put it on your team instead.

[–] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago
[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I thought it was a good game.

I never finished the main story though, and I got it on release in 2011.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Best way to play it is to ignore the main quest TBH, just like Fallout 3

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Another game I never finished. Haha

Yeah, you're probably right!