billy the squid wrote...
Lazengan wrote...
I've finally realized something
Skyrim is a bad game
It's a fun engine, dress up game, and Waifu simulator, but overall it is a terrible game. The only reason I still play it now is because every week someone releases a new quest mod or clothing and I play it for an hour and then get bored until next week
Melee Combat is repetitive, and pop potions with 0 cooldowns. With magic, it's pick the most damaging spell in your menu and spam it. All the other spells are worthless.
I had to download 10000x mods, in order to make the game feel like a playable RPG, but making your community do your work for you is a sign of a bad developper. They are good mods though: Skill decay to prevent you from becoming the master of everything, hunger and fatigue, cooldowns on potions, balanced spells and new spells so they all have a purpose.
New Vegas is a far superior game than Skyrim ever was.
Yeeeaah. You're actually framing you're dislike of something as an emphatic assertion. So you've already undermined your position, before anyone has even said a word.
How is melee combat repetative? You can use 3 different styles, containing variations of each, as well as the different types of weapons, blunt to bladed. There are stealth options. I'm currently using a heavily armoured warrior with dual weapons, but I also use archery. So I don't see how Bethesda could have made melee combat more interesting given the inherrent limitations of it, you're nit picking.
So you never used Healing, Alteration, Conjuration, Illusion? Hey let's all just spam fireball. Oh wait some enemies are immune. And Lightinging and Ice has different properties and each spell had alternative applications given range, projectile speed etc.
So releasing moding tools for PC players to go mad with, is a bad thing? I call this alternative reality, Bull sh*t mountain.
Sorry but hunger and fatigue is a horrific idea and simply screams micro management. You'll be making the assertion that RPGs require characters to eat a balanced diet ingame or be struck down with scurvey. Again nit picking. I'd rather not spend half my time in the game shopping for groceries and making sure I have a good night sleep, I have enough of that in my life thanks, Skyrim is something I can pick up and enjoy after work or on a weekend without getting bogged down having to restock the larder. The same with skill decay, I'm going to be a master of speech craft and stealth, despite having absolutely no skill points invested in it due to the finite nature of those points?
Is the game perfect? No, it has it's issues like every other game New Vegas included. The destruction Magic doesn't scale well, time periods pass rather quickly, the skill system can be somewhat unbalanced and open to abuse. But, by and large they succeeded in triming out the complicated mechanics for the sake of complication and kept most of what we liked about the Elder scrolls games.
Your points might find more favour on the Bethesda forums, where any innovation and change in the hope of improving the series is defined as sacrelige and the posters spend their time rending their garments and clutching their hair. Have a nice day.
It never had anything to do with being complicated
and if you call mechanics like attributes and other old school RPG characterization "complex" then this genre has really gone downhill. To begin with, nothing in a video game is complex for the sake of insulting people who don't understand details and specifics. Complexity and choice has always been a trademark in video games where you are allowed ultimate freedom such as fallout and the elder scrolls. Dumbing customization and attributes down to "health, mana, stamina" is really restrictive.
Melee combat in skyrim. is hitting the left mouse button until things die, and using potions with no cooldowns. I mean look at what dishonored did, the combat is simple but enemies block,dodge, and react to different parts of the body hit. That adds a level of mechanical depth that is far more entertaining than Skyrim's linearity
Magic is selecting the highest DPS spell and using it until a target dies. There is no point in using healing as you can easily pop a potion, and no point in any alteration spells because the frustration and mana cost of using those buggy things can easily be overried by throwing a simple fireball.
I have to download mods to make combat remotely interesting- but they do an excellent job.
And not exactly calling mods a bad thing, it's just that if players need to do the developpers job for them, that reflects off poor performance from the developpers.
The game itself is boring and repetitive after 3 hours. People like it because its a fun "do what you want" simulator with waifu and dress mods released every week (which I personally download and enjoy myself hehe), but it's not a video game.
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