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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

2036: The Elder Scrolls 6 comes out, it's just Skyrim again

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (4 children)

what is starfield if not Worse Skyrim

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mass Effect with even worse style and worldbuilding and with no stakes whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mass Effect: White People edition

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Mass Effect was already the story of how the galaxy was saved thanks to an unaccountable cop with unlimited jurisdiction and no limits on authority, succeeding despite his worst enemy: democratic bureaucracy trying to stop him from acting as he pleased.

Shit, the very first game has a Spectre go bad and almost doom the entire galaxy, and the problem is fixed not with addressing how Spectres probably shouldn't have a license to kill and no oversight, but by a good Spectre shooting the bad one.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Mass (Liberal) Effect: Maybe The Reapers Were Right?

Like literally every single species in the galaxy is hyper lib.

Reapers pls.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Sadly the best parts of Starfield are where it hews closest to Skyrim, and the worst parts are where it tries to do something new.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Even with the adjective added this still feels insulting to Skyrim.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Fallout 4 with guns?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

The menus and attract mode and everything look new, but when you start a new game you hear:

Hey, you. You're finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

godammit todd

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Most painful version of this meme format. rust-darkness

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

todd you will play as the dovahkiin, you will buy all the re releases

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

todd War never changes, it just gets more times the detail.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

The worst ES game

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As my first ES game, I have some nostalgia for the game, but it makes me really sad to see the lack of creativity in the game where it's apparent.

I'll always love traversing the landscape with Farkas, but I know that it's a lot of monotony. I can love this game while still criticizing it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Yeah, Skyrim was my first elder scrolls game, but I went back to Oblivion and saw just how much Skyrim was lacking in creativity compared to previous entries. My prime example is the guilds, specifically Dark Brotherhood and Thieve's Guild. The final heist for the TG is super fun, one of my favorite gaming moments ever. The plot twist of the Dark Brotherhood was a total surprise to me, and Whodunnit is an amazing quest. Mage's guild is kind of annoying but being able to make spells makes up for it. While in Skyrim, I wasn't really wowed by a single guild questline. College of Winterhold sucks, Companions were alright but becoming a werewolf is pretty underwhelming, Dark Brotherhood sees you assassinating an emperor but makes the mission way too basic to give it any real scale, and don't even get me started on the bullshit that is Thieve's Guild.

I still love Skyrim, I just wish they were more creative since it's all they've released the past 13 years.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Hope they turn Skyrim into its own franchise like SMT did with Persona, then abandon Elder Scrolls into an obscure franchise that’s only available on the Nintendo Blicky in 2054

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

No no they also made Starfield which even by their bottom-of-the-barrel standards is somehow by a large mile the worst thing they've ever made, just a completely directionless, deeply misguided and ideologically deluded (and borderline evil) mess of a barely functioning videogame. I could genuinely rant for hours about just how terrible it is in every possible way it could be. Nobody who works at that company should make any creative decisions about anything in the world.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I bought Skyrim VR for the PSVR on a sale and I'm ready to be given shit about it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I enjoyed it for about an hour, but it just felt soooo clunky

The only thing that sticks out in my memory is that if I just flipped my hand back and forth I could just blend the enemies because it counted every back and forth movement as an “attack” regardless of how much you swing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Have you tried bow and arrow in it? It shoots as fast as you can so you turn into a machine gun, it's so bad I love it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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