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[scarletmorning]

Ächem.

Hi.


I was absent for quite some time. And there is a good reason. ....

I've bought Skyrim.

;^; I'm never ever gonna get anything finished.

Farewell. Who knows when I will ever be able to stop.



PS: "The Dragonborn Comes" from Oblivion (or Morrowind?) and "Dragonborn" are such AWESOME and EPIC songs I don't even.

PPS: Raphi, I didn't forgot that I wanted to write you a longer review for your Mercenary fic, but Skyrim! (And a term paper *cough, cough* 8D )

Comments

[xenosynth]

If you haven't played Oblivion yet, I'd highly recommend it. And yeah, the Dragonborn theme is a modified version of Morrowind's theme song (but I cannot remember the name.)

Skyrim isn't bad but it removes a lot of fun features. Oblivion has a full on spellmaking system that feels much deeper and makes magic a lot more useful, and it's... much more colorful. Skyrim's muted setting really turned me off, and the people look... very messy. Oblivion also has more skills, and less of a perk system with it, which I personally prefer. But yeah, I know a lot of people who start with Skyrim so I always recommend Morrowind and Oblivion if not since the games are different enough to warrant playing them. Skyrim is also my least favorite of the modern 3 Elder Scrolls xD THough I still pent 1000+ hours with it >_>

Morrowind technically has the most features in terms of conversation and magic making but the combat definitely hasn't aged well IMO.

[scarletmorning]

I did try to play Morrowind. After an hour I had to give up because it was just. so. shitty. Seriously, I hit NOTHING and I tried every weapon. And it's butt ugly. I'm just not a fan of the -- as I call it -- N64-graphic level. And those menus! *rages* And Morrowind is also very dark. That said, I don't think Skyrim lacks colour. I love that there are so many diverse regions.

It is pretty sad, though, that you can't have two or more characters at the same time (with mods, yes, but not as a standard option). I have a Nord woman specialised in heavy weapons and I would like to try something else with another character. Oh well.

[xenosynth]

I dunno. I felt that Oblivion had much more diversity. ALso, the expansions I felt were lacking for Skyrim. Especially after the greatness of the morrowind ones, and the really amazing Shivering Isles for Oblivion. The DLC for Skyrim doesn't feel like a whole other world. Solstheim is just... more of the same snowy environments, and Dawnguard really didn't add much new in terms of locations and appearance either. I still have a slight grudge on Skyrim because I feel that in terms of gameplay it regressed. The spell system is more like Morrowind's system, but it also lacks spellmaking which both the previous games had. The Enchanting in Skyrim is also highly restricted, and the only good additions I felt to the game were the forge and cooking. Beyond that, the game doesn't offer/change much, and feels like a more dumbed down than the previous titles. I also don't like that they even further reduced the amount of armor you can equip (I miss Morrowind's armor system, left hand right hand left shoulder right shoulder pants torso boots helmet. Oblivion simplified it a bit, and then they again made it simpler in Skyrim. The lack of skills also just... generally turned me off of Skyrim. Again, played it for hundreds of hours but... After finishing it I just realized I didn't enjoy it as much.

Morrowind is a great game but... yeah. The hit system is really bad until you level up, where it becomes not-noticable. The graphics are more PS2 era than N64 era, I felt, and since I play the PC versions there are a ton of texture/model updates you can find for them.

[scarletmorning]

OMG YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE THE FORGE. BRB, BECOMING A MASTER SMITH.

Well, I actually don't like spellmaking system (nor am I ever a mage) and I found the armour system in Morrowind needlessly complicated. I felt it was more like a "Hey, look, you can find twice as much loot because you need everything for left and right!" than "Here, look, this makes sense". But I agree with the skills. Just slashing and every now and then a heavy slash is pretty repetetive.