Skyrim

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I once played Morrowind but I didn't like it. It was back when FFX came out. I was used to beautiful and linear jrpgs back then. Morrowind was such a turn off for me, it was overwhelming with its size and I couldn't bare seeing the hilarious 3rd person animation.

Oblivion was the first ES game I actually liked.

 

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Kinda makes you wonder what the next elder scrolls is gonna be like, that is, if they continue this trend of dumbing it down every game.

I've said this before, but I think it's due to a generation shift in gamers. The old-timer gamers like me are not being marketed to anymore, so the games get easier and easier to cater to a younger audience who hasn't yet developed a firm grasp of reason and logic (no pun intended), or who simply don't have the long-term experience with RPG type elements in games.

One of the biggest marketing setbacks for RPG's is that not everyone can grasp the in's and out's and micromanage their character. It involves math, thinking ahead, and sticking with the path you set. I know MANY people who refuse to play any RPG because it's "too complicated".

So I suppose a smart businessman would make the games easier so that more casual people play them. What they don't seem to understand is that RPG's were never "casual" in the first place. They were designed for nerdy geeks like myself :)

 

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So I suppose a smart businessman would make the games easier so that more casual people play them. What they don't seem to understand is that RPG's were never "casual" in the first place. They were designed for nerdy geeks like myself :)

Kinda what's happening to Soulcalibur right now. It's getting easier with each new title, a nod to casual players. But at least they have added a lot of new system mechanics to make the game more fun, in Skyrim I think like they took more then they gave.

 

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I once played Morrowind but I didn't like it. It was back when FFX came out. I was used to beautiful and linear jrpgs back then. Morrowind was such a turn off for me, it was overwhelming with its size and I couldn't bare seeing the hilarious 3rd person animation.

Oblivion was the first ES game I actually liked.

I wasn't saying you had to like morrowind, I was saying you're now the fogey pining for the previous iteration instead of the hot new product. For that matter I never thought the 3rd person animations were hilarious, but I was lost in the fantastically original and vast world. I thought the country side and towns of that game were beautiful in their own right.

But it's a shame you didn't enjoy it because then you'd know that oblivion was really significantly dumbed down from Morrowind. Is it too much to ask for beauty and brains?

 

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And I guess Morrowind was dumbed down from Daggerfall? ;)

Maybe I will try Morrowind again sometime. Back when I first played it I was like 13 years old and my english wasn't any good. I remember that cities in Morrowind were a part of the world, not a different area that you had to enter and wait till it loads, like in Skyrim/Oblivion.