Skyrim in one wordsentence : V - Skyrim

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:29 pm

What I mean is the the present of a strong plot/drama. For example in Dragon Age Origins, you learn about the danger of darkspawn and then you have to go and start seeking help. If you decide to go to Mages, there will be whole series of events happening in there. A conflict between Mages, a bad Mage decided to turn to dark magic and all that stuff. If you decide to go to elves, there are a series of events keeping you interested (the whole werewolf and elves conflict). There are also your companions and they have some really deep and serious characterization with interesting dialogs which keep the player interested in them also makes them human and relatable easily. Just compare it to followers of Skyrim. The level of character development is non-existent. They just follow their boring routine.

The Elder Scrolls series has never been about very deep character development. Thats Bioware's forte.
Elder Scrolls at least to me has its appeal because of the world itself. The world itself is the character, it is the storyteller.

The way i enjoy Skyrim, is just to let go. Not care about any objectives or missions, just go about doing
what i like, and how i feel. I don't powerplay also. (Eg: putting stats so i maximize my dps)

Its a game where you can just walk along the road, enjoy the scenery, see something cool and go explore.

Actually if you do like stories, alot of quests in Skyrim are quite interesting indeed and makes you think if what you did was
actually "Correct" in a certain sense. Its just that the game does not put it as direct as Bioware. Skyrim is alot more subtle.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:56 am

I will try out ME series if i get the time, although i am abit appalled at what Bioware did with ME3 (especially about that photoshopped Tali)

I disagree with you that Amalur is a good game.

I tried the demo. Touting it as an open world when there are invisible barriers preventing you to go everywhere has no place in 2012.
You can't even jump off from any ledges and from what i remember, only certain marked ledges allow you to jump off from.

Absolutely terrible game, and im glad that it failed.
And to think that Ken Rolston was part of the team. I wonder how much input he had when making it.

The only good thing i'd say is combat was fast and furious tho, but perhaps its TOO fast and furious.
I don't picture my mage as someone who leaps and jumps around like a ballet pro all along pew pew pew the enemy.

Yeah, the Tali thing was a bit sad. And I'm sorry that you didn't enjoy Amalur, but we're all entitled to our opinion. Sure, it has some restrictions, but I found the game enjoyable.

@Alexander J. Velicky - As I just stated, we're all entitled to our own opinions. We all have different tastes. If you didn't like Mass Effect, then it just wasn't your type of game. All my friends told me that Borderlands was an incredible game, but when I played it, I couldn't stand it. It's all a matter of personal preference.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:20 am

@Alexander J. Velicky - As I just stated, we're all entitled to our own opinions. We all have different tastes. If you didn't like Mass Effect, then it just wasn't your type of game. All my friends told me that Borderlands was an incredible game, but when I played it, I couldn't stand it. It's all a matter of personal preference.

Oh I know. I'm not saying they're bad or anything, just saying that I didn't enjoy them like everyone said I would before I played them. Though I'm with you on Borderlands. It's fun until the initial hype of 'a new fps' wears off. Then it's just a big pile of 'gather 20 of this', 'kill 40 of that' with a bunch of guns.

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:38 pm

Yeah, the Tali thing was a bit sad. And I'm sorry that you didn't enjoy Amalur, but we're all entitled to our opinion. Sure, it has some restrictions, but I found the game enjoyable.

@Alexander J. Velicky - As I just stated, we're all entitled to our own opinions. We all have different tastes. If you didn't like Mass Effect, then it just wasn't your type of game. All my friends told me that Borderlands was an incredible game, but when I played it, I couldn't stand it. It's all a matter of personal preference.

Ho ho ho, i LOVE Borderlands!! Im sorry ya'll didn't like it tho.
Open world FPS, go where you want, shoot what you like, loot what you want.

My first impression of it was not favourable TBH cause i thought the game looked like a joke and didn't take itself seriously. Art Style was also questionable.
After playing Co-op with a friend however, it feels like a FPS version of Diablo. It slowly grew on me.

I can't wait to get my hands on Borderlands 2 :biggrin:

» Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:39 am

This has gone off topic quickly - one of the reasons we don't allow forum games.