The Elder Scrolls 6 Finally Gets a Name

[Leo Gura]

19 minutes ago, JoshB said:

The best bethesda game wasn't even made by bethesda. Fallout: New Vegas

Morrowind will forever be the best Bethesda game. But that Bethesda died long ago.

[integration journey]

20 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Morrowind will forever be the best Bethesda game. But that Bethesda died long ago.

Then why is Skyrim more popular?

[Something Funny]

15 minutes ago, integration journey said:

Then why is Skyrim more popular?

It's newer and looks better

[Basman]

1 hour ago, JoshB said:

Did you play it on legendary?

Legendary is just damage sponges. Not fun kind of challenging and unimmersive.

And it goes beyond just the difficulty of combat itself, but also how you navigate the world, how much the story handholds the player, the depth of the systems, etc. You rarely really make decisions in Skyrim, for better and for worse. If you want to, your illiterate nord caveman character can become president of the mages. That's the depth of the issue of how easy this game is. Its down to the bones of how the game is designed.

I think Morrowind is a worse game overall, but I like how it is broadly more challenging. For example how it implements fast travel. Instead of a simple menu interaction you have to utilize special services that "transport" you to set destinations (carriages, teleportation). That requires the player to interact and learn the game world as well as contextualizes the mechanic. You have that too in Skyrim with horse carts, but not to the same extent. Morrowind's fast travel system is not necesarilly better because of how no fast travel in the ordinary sense creates opportunity costs for exploring and boring back tracking, but it is an example of the player being challenged more just in how they navigate the world.

[Ash55]

50 minutes ago, integration journey said:

Then why is Skyrim more popular?

Becasue Leo is a boomer
as a zoomer I love skyrim more

[Basman]

*Morrowboomer

 

[JoshB]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

Morrowind will forever be the best Bethesda game. But that Bethesda died long ago.

Todd let all of the game of the year awards go to his head. 

 

Edited 23 minutes ago by JoshB

[Cubbage]

I'm 29 and Morrowind is the best by far. Played it when I was 15 and still love it to this day. I'm a big book reader, always have been. Morrowind's writing is leaps and bounds more engaging than anything they've made since.