Skyrim is shit btw. Oblivion forever (oblivion is worse than Morrowind, but Oblivion was my entrance to the games so I love it)
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the best scrolls game is the one you played in your teens because it was fresh enough and you were young enough that your imagination and the novelty filled in all the gaps for you
for me and my peeps it was morrowind because we are all in our 40s but most of us arent online as much anymore and the next generation of young people's voices are more prominent online so now its oblivion and one day you'll be beat down with life and half the people you know will have died or be super busy and people will be saying skyrim is best
mark my words
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Skyrim would have been a great game, if it was built on the principles of socialism, which is sort of was with the mod community, unfortunately it was built on the principles of liberalism using the wealth and experience acquired from the previous projects.
Once you get to this point in life you only have two choices, no matter what you're doing, are you willing to invest the money back into human beings? They tried to do something with mods irrc so why not invest capital into establishing a school for devs? Literally could have ended up having the most interesting looking, polished, well run, videogame ever made.
Instead we get this lovable half-assed broken mess carried by both money thrown at advertising campaigns and the mod scene. Yet another example of how short sighted libs are, all the awesome stuff people manage to build is an exception that proves it. All that effort displayed by wondering adventurers would get multiplied if they worked together. I mean what was that Baldurs Gate sort of shows it. Now imagine if a Game company had 1.000-10.000 workers in-house, guaranteed employment, 8 hours of sleep a night, lunch breaks, shared goal, instead of what they have had.
Although gamers don't deserve it, so scratch that. The developers do tho'
Once you get to this point in life you only have two choices, no matter what you’re doing, are you willing to invest the money back into human beings? They tried to do something with mods irrc so why not invest capital into establishing a school for devs? Literally could have ended up having the most interesting looking, polished, well run, videogame ever made.
Wouldve been the biggest PR move ever too but the capitalist worldview made them see the modding community as their enemies lol
Ever since Blizzard allowed their game's mod to spawn League of Legends every developer seems to have gone to war with modding to different extents.
in fairness to blizzard there, mobas are horrible
I always wonder what happened to Kirkbride. All the stuff he did for Morrowind was so far out there and then he just sort of fell off the face of the earth. He's just been doing managerial positions in game dev ever since. My favourite is the Knights of Pelinal stuff for oblivion. The image of a time travelling cyborg medieval knight stepping out the dense jungle with his Minotaur nephew before a bunch of tribal Cyrodillians is probably the only thing that has stuck with me from Oblivion.
He works as an external consultant for Bethesda every now and then. He's been involved in pretty much every game although with less degree.
Much less degree. C0DA and its various related writings are the sort of things that should have been included in the game (ESO doesn't count, death to MMOs). Bethesdas race to the most marketable game possible isnt suprising its just that Kirkbride hasn't established himself like say Chris Avellone (an extremely overrated writer IMO) as a recognisable RPG writer. Instead he's spent most of his time working at TellTale, which I always kind of thought was a waste.
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Im old enough to remember having the same opinion but of oblivion comparing it to morrowind. Somehow Bethesda keeps falling forward.
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Shitrim
But Oblivious was way worse. Got my Dark Elves looking like Jolly Green Giant like wtf.
The only thing TES5 is good for is pornography mods, and it is getting replaced by newer games like F4 and Cyberpunk.
Skyrim is good (with mods), but Morrowind is what made me fall in love with the setting.
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