unconvincing of what? I was just pointing out that the other poster was described in the #1 point.

That's true...but all the 'cute' girls in the city with two slightly different shaded pixels comprising what I'm suppose to imaginatively render in my imagination as a 'nose' ruins the immersion for me.

If you're focusing on the girls' noses, you're missing the point. You should be in Dibella's temple

Daggerfall is pretty cool, but I'm done with it for now.

This

As am I... which I why I want an updated, more well-funded, better-realized, prettier sequel to Daggerfall to be TES VI.

Skyrim is a good game. Witcher 2 is a great game.

Witcher 2 has:

1. better graphics (not that Skyrim is bad).

2. vastly hugely utterly better animation (Skyrim is fairly lousy in that respect)

3. much better voice acting (although Skyrim is...ok... in that respect... for the most part, with a few glaring exceptions).

4. better and more visceral combat (this admittedly is more a matter of taste... I do not think combat in Skyrim is bad, I just think Witcher 2 is better... it certainly has a very different feel)

5. Witcher 2 is much more 'advlt' (that is a plus for me, but obviously opinions vary)

6. You can climb, so no preposterous backwards bunny hopping to get up a slope or ledge: in Witcher 2 either you can climb it or you cannot not... and this makes the game much more immersion-friendly.

However Witcher 2 does not have the epic sweeping vistas and go-anywhere style of Skyrim, making it less re-playable, so Skyrim clearly wins in that respect. Also 'stealth' play is WItcher 2 is not very good (I quite like the eye-based stealth in Skyrim), if that is your preferred approach.

Agreed about The Witcher 2, it's just much better quality than Skyrim. I like Skyrim for the locations and exploring and I really do like the architecture in Skyrim's locations.

Skyrim is a great game, just not the PS3 version. You should get Dark Souls and The Witcher 2, both are great games but Dark Souls is much more difficult and you are expected to die a lot in the game.

Indeed. Also, after a couple of patches, Witcher 2 is now a rock solid stable piece of software, where as Skyrim... well... it is a Bethesda game after all and much as I love 'em (and I really do), their creative content is always a whole lot better than their coding

I liked STALKER but it was hardly an open world. It also had a TON of bugs.

Divinity 1&2 were good games..... but also much, much simpler graphic-wise which always allows more time/investment in other aspects.

Fallout 1 - great game but also short in many ways

Fallout 2 - tons of bugs on release, great game in some respects but often goofy with its immersion breaking jokes and references that many fans now gloss over with nostalgia

Fallout 3 - very good game but also anemic in terms of joinable groups and quests - many of the 17 quests even included were rather pathetic. And, again, had bugs on release.

Fallout: NV - excellent game, buggy, but fantastic world in my opinion and one of the best

Skyrim - One of the best. Buggy. But fantastic world and quests overall and no less/more linear than STALKER.

Baldur's Gate 2 - great game but actually pretty linear in many ways - most dungeons were linear, many plot-points were linear and depth of a lot of the NPCs (other than party member NPCs) were non-existent after their brief speeches to give quests. A good game, but also in 'chapters' which were easily boundaried and defined - far different than Skyrim's open world.


My personal favorite games of all time (since 1970): Fallout 1, Divine Divinity, Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, Skyrim, The Witcher 1, Deus Ex, Arcanum (! best game ever in my opinion - although definitely buggy)...... and others but I'm tired of typing.

Arcanum for the win, but Skyrim is a damn good game and among my top tier favorites.

That is all I ask. Is that too much? An epic (in every sense of the word) first-person medieval/fantasy RPG?

And I wouldn't mind the being no voice acting. If anything, make an option to let the computer talk. It CAN'T be any worse than listening to the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So1LF6AbYbc

Daggerfall was repetitive and boring as hell in many ways. Generic generated mazes, generic generated kill/fetch quests, generic generated landscapes, towns..... ugh. No thanks, although I liked it for its day.

If you mean what you say Kageseigi, then go to Spiderweb Software and start buying their games. You will find: quests, epic huge world, no voice acting, NPCs and many storylines with multiple choices. Few actually really want that though... they want eye candy and everything else that svcks resources away from what they say they really want.....

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Haha, reminds me of Skyrim, just replace "generic generated" with "pretty hand-crafted, but extremely downsized." That is except for the mazes. I haven't found them in Skyrim yet

It is amazing what 15 years of improvements could do to improve repetition and boredom, though... if they had wanted to.



Thank you. I'll have to check them out.

But I still don't understand why "eye candy" takes away from ability to create actual content. Yes, it does take money to hire a animation and visual teams, but that is all... it doesn't take any time away from anything else. What happened to all of the other money? Did they forget to hire the actual program and level design teams? Or did they just get interns to do it? They could have at least hired a few modders to help out.

Baldurs Gate 2...although I hated the interface the story, cinematic quality and atmosphere still hasn't been rivaled. Only Morrowind's story was just as good to me.

They kinda people scare me and it seems to be populated by the cod crew a big open world blows my mind with things I want to do why would you want to cower away from that ?

A game that is better than skyrim. Eh? They call it 3

Fallout 3 bored me. So I would have to say no.

Mass Effect 1, 2 and soon to be 3

ehh, don't let anyone get you down about the game. The internet is full of fat nerds who have nothing better to do than complain about how "terrible" the graphics are and that the American accents are ruining their immersion (lol). Personally I love Skyrim, I loved Oblivion, and I wish I had played Morrowind. I'm not a hard core gamer or whatever, so maybe I'm easier to please than those people. Fact is, I like to play Skyrim because it's fun. It's something to do for a while after I get off work and before I go to bed. I don't give two ***** about the graphics as long as they aren't a bunch of blocks and glitches are funny to me. I like the quests and being able to choose what I want to do, and I'm not going to write angry posts because after 70 HOURS of playing I'm bored. Most people I know personally think Skyrim is a great game and I think so too. A few posts on an internet forum isn't going to change my mind.

OMG this...so much this.. ahh memories...

It is simple Op, don't listen to anyone but yourself. Go out and get the game and try it. If you like it or not, its based on how you play not anyone else.

Do play Morrowind. You will find that many of us who have are complaining about the exact opposite of graphics and voice-overs. Though, I must confess, I do ADORE the female woodelf voices in Morrowind! <3

Skyrim is a great game

But if you are looking for another great game, then play

The Witcher 1 and 2

the only bad thing about skyrim are guild quests and main quest that feels more like an sidequest.. derp

go play morrowind, oblivion and new vegas then you'll see