Hrungr wrote...
But as a hardcore DA fan, it's so shallow... I think if I'd never played DA it might have at least been less glaring. So I got as much out of it as I wanted (and at 180-odd hours made it well worth the money) but there's no real impetuous to revisit it.
Overall: 8/10.
When some 'hardcore' DA fans claim Skyrim is "so shallow", I can never understand what they mean. There are 5 different types of Butterflies in this game for gods sake. There are 8 different steps to upgrading a weapon. There are dozens of cities, towns and villages to visit. There are more than 150 of wildly diverse dungeons. There are dozens upon dozens of multi-page books you can read... page by page. There are 5 homes you can buy, then furnish. There are 10 races to choose from. Alchemy is at least twice as deep the entire spell-casting system in Dragon Age. And that's just alchemy.... a minor feature in Skyrim.
You can join and lead several different factions in this game and do quests for them that will eat up more than 100 hours of game time by themselves. You can walk up to a
shelf in this game and spend 20 minutes exploring it, gathering what's on it, reading the books it contains etc. You can jump in a river and spend hours exploring
under water. You can climb mountains, ride horses, leap off cliffs, cook a dinner then eat it.
Picking locks is something you actually have to manually do in this game (as opposed to just taking some skills and then clicking on a lock once to open it, like in DA. You looking for shallow? the DA lockpicking system is what shallow is.)
^ all of this does not fit the standard english definition of shallow... at all. Does it. In fact, it's the
opposite of shallow. It's deep. Detailed to mind blowing proportions.
Perhaps what these people are
trying to say is that
companions and
companion interaction in Skyrim is shallow compared to DA. And while this is true, it's a completely DIFFERENT claim.
Modifié par Yrkoon, 07 décembre 2011 - 03:27 .