>first thing you notice when starting the game is that the music is way too loud and you can barely hear anything else
>game looks like shit for 2002
>finally done with the personality questioning
>gave a random answer to the last one because it got boring and most answers suck anyway
>click "back"
>doesn't return to last question but wants you to redo ALL questions
Probably not giving it a 5th chance
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Bethesda has never been good compared to its contemporaries.
What are the best retro WRPGS? Bethesda games admittedly have some amazing music and atmosphere. I think people get blinded by that
Might and Magic 6-8, Gothic 1 and 2, Infinity engine games, Fallout 1 and 2,
Also Wizardry series.
>What are the best retro WRPGS
The classical variant of this genre (medieval fantasy, first person) sucked ass until Skyrim. Unpopular opinion but the truth
Is making signs harder in 16:9? Tried for 30 minutes and couldn't do it, then in 4:3 it works all the time
If so, why does the game even allow you to do 16:9 and without a warning?
Fricking moronic
Arkane Studios games are great but also extreme junk. People shouldn't recommend them without a disclaimer
>doesn't know how to go into the options before starting games
>cares more about graphic fidelity than personality and atmosphere
>answers the fricking questionnaire instead of building a custom class
How is this game still filtering Skyrimbabies after all these years?
Lol
>But he had to answer questions he admittedly didn't care about twice!
i think this game would be better if it was from top down
OpenMW had an April Fools release where they hacked the engine to play as a top down game. I think there's a Lua script for regular versions to replicate that mode.
It's unplayable for me because of the tiny text. The shit combat isn't helping but the text makes it unplayable
OpenMW lets you scale text and UI elements.
I'm sure there are mods for everything but if a game is bad vanilla, it's bad. Not modding my own game together
>Not modding my own game together
Then you don't understand the design theory behind Bethesda games.
Why didn't Todd make a HD remaster of Morrowind and Oblivion
No point when Skyrim sells so much that the older games wouldn't be worth the time and energy to even hobble together into a remaster.
I've heard that Oblivion HD is in the works, take that with a bottle of salt though.
can't wait for nasty 4k-textured female orc faces
it this doesn't come, there's also some dudes doing a fan remaster of Oblivion in Skyrim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1q1nXLDjB8
>I've heard that Oblivion HD is in the works
i've heard of a fallout 3 HD but either way if such remakes or remasters were in the works then they're probably going to be outsourced.
todd said in an interview that he's against the idea of remakes & remasters and would rather put that effort in getting the originals to work on newer hardware.
Have you considered glasses?
It's still small with glasses and you shouldn't strain your eyes and try getting used to something dumb because of Bethesda stupidity
Works on my machine.
You mean it works for your beautiful perfect eyeballs. My eyeballs are slightly deflated so it does not work on my machine.
Sorry to hear that anon. You really should try OpenMW tho.
I have the eyesight of a man more than twice my age and I do just fine. Again, UI scaling.
I dread navigating the city of Vivec again.
Still, Morrowind is a pretty good game. Finished it again just last month.
*Cliff Racer screeches*
You don't like medieval shopping malls with absurd stairs placement?
likewise, but thinking about it it's more because I had a crappy potato and walking around in Vivec means slideshow galore and long loading screens. I suppose it wouldn't be that bad now.
>first thing you notice when starting the game is that the music is way too loud and you can barely hear anything else
Couldnt hear the dialogue huh? Lmao.
I really enjoy exploring the barren, empty, boring landscapes with shitty graphics. Also I enjoy reading the long dialogue instead of hearing it. Looove Reading long texts like its a fricking book when Im in the mood for a videogame. Also I remember going into small villages and castles and there being literally zero quests to accept. How immersive.
>I really enjoy exploring the barren, empty, boring landscapes with shitty graphics.
This. Morrowind actually looks like poop everywhere. I always thought it's a 1995 game or something
>I always thought it's a 1995 game or something
thats because you never played games from 1995.
Yeah I love that as well. I hate it when a game feels like a well oiled optimized content providing machine where every location has optimal amount of side content and the time spent with characters is equally proportionate to how overdesigned they are. Unfortunately most games are like this. Give me a town with nothing in it once in a while, it won't hurt. Give me an overdesigned npc that has absolutely nothing to say. It's not hard is it, do it
Unrelated to /vr/ but it's one of the reasons I like FF15. The game makes no fricking sense, it gives you an elaborate town and destroys it 5 minutes later. Most people hate it for that, I want more of that. Surprise me for fricks sake, it's a game
>brain too atrophied to read a little bit ot text
Hot take: having "quests" is fricking gay. I don't want to be told what to do. Your world should be interesting enough that I can enjoy exploring it through my own volition with a few hints of what exists where, and the gameplay should be difficult and varied enough that I don't breeze over it. Games shouldn't try to be books.
Can't wait to visit the Imperial City in TES3 in 2051.
What's the best Elder Scrolls alternative?
Gothic
Unplayable trash
Hopeless zoomer
There really isn't. As unrealistic as it sounds nothing out there actually properly replicates the formula.
You could try Kingdoms of Amalur or Dragon's Dogma. Maybe Dragon Age but I'm not as familiar with that one.
>nonretro shit
In this case Witcher 3 completely shits all over Skyrim
Witcher 3 is just as braindead as Skyrim frick off zoomer.
ultima, might & magic, gothic, arx fatalis, kingdom come, dragon's dogma & elden ring.
what's funny is that you probably have way more people playing those alternatives than you do the fallout alternatives which nobody plays.
>Bethesda games admittedly have some amazing music and atmosphere. I think people get blinded by that.
bethesda's big strength over other WRPGs is that their RPGs are open world games that could in theory be played forever as oppose to other WRPGs where they're designed to have an end point.
for example someone could play fallout 1, 2 or tatics from start to finish 100% and move on while someone could play fallout 3, 4 or any of the modern 3D fallouts from start to finish 100% and they'll still be playing them for over 500-1000 hours give or take if you have mods installed.
where they "fricked up" with starfield was that people went into it expecting elite dangerous or no man's sky and what they got was the 3D fallouts in space with a star trek wrapper over it.
>what they got was the 3D fallouts in space with a star trek wrapper over it
It's not as good as fallout 1/2/3 or new Vegas. Maybe better than tactics. og fallout is too raw, 3 still holds onto some of it but it's the beginning of good guy simulator.
>where they "fricked up" with starfield was that people went into it expecting elite dangerous or no man's sky and what they got was the 3D fallouts in space with a star trek wrapper over it.
this was exactly what happened to me, i saw the early starfield trailers and got hyped thinking "E:D if he good" but then it came out and it just looks like a skyrim TC. pass
>elden ring
Anon, this shit doesn't have a single village and characters literally don't move. It's a hack and slay with an overworld, or Dark Souls 3 with an overworld. You aren't on Reddit, you don't have to impress anyone with the 'cool' game
This is a successful bait thread.
>itt: people who played the xbox version or on a old toaster PC
More like people played Skyrim when they were 12 and said "wow this is the fifth game I wanna try the old ones!" and then got filtered by an RPG that isn't made for toddlers.
Skill issue. Git gud Fargoth.
Fricking N'wahs I swear
might try and get into it for a 3rd time. my issue is I just don't think Bethesda games are very good. I beat IV and V but they were so streamlined they played themselves. call me a pleb but I hate reading in games. it's not like the lore is even good.
I don't mind reading but the keyword hyperlink clicking in dialogue really turns me off. Let me click actual responses like every other rpg
yeah it's an odd design. you might as well be alt tabbing into a ESwiki. I very much DO mind reading though, I tried Planescape Torment and jesus just print a book. at least I don't have to deal with monitor blue light. too old for this shit
reading longer than the classic jrpg boxes doesn't belong in games. games are not art. every time i play some modern game, or a retro kojima game or a wrpg, i wish i would rather be watching a movie or reading anything else.
max payne 1 and 2 did "movie games" right. classic jrpgs for "reading games".
Doesn't help when they also have tiny and stylized text like Morroshit you need mods for to make it playable
Attention span is a skill, and like any other requires practice.
he's saying he'd rather read a book. it's not about attention span, it's about constantly stop starting gameplay for lore dumps and exposition. I don't like movie games for the exact same reason.
>games are not art.
Woah. Frick you, pal. Go enjoy your Call Of Duty 874 or whatever conveyored slop masses are playing these days.
This is an 18+ site lil sis.
>my issue is I just don't think Bethesda games are very good. I beat the games that were the exact moment Bethesda went to shit
lol
>call me a pleb but I hate reading in games.
Pleb.
>it's not like the lore is even good.
>guy who hates reading thinks he gets to say whether the lore is even good when the lore is all in books
LOL
>I hate reading!
>I also hate braindead games tailor-made for people like me who hate reading!
Good luck with that bud. Oblivion and Skyrim literally exist because Bethesda decided they'd rather sell games to morons who can't read.
I read the two paperback books, they were dogshit. tried reading most in-game books, they're dogshit too. fellas, I think your game series might just be shit.
Is OpenMW the best way to play? These seem like major issues
https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw/-/milestones/46#tab-issues
It depends. Most people will say yes. I just play vanilla and enjoy that the most.
I've played the vanilla version, and only had 2 crashes and a few quest bugs (none in the main quest).
Go back to your Roblox and Fortnite.
I actually really like the keyword system, I just wish it was designed better. There were several times I accidentally missed large parts of a conversation because I already had a keyword from another questline accidentally mentioning it.
always thought it was weird that it's pretty much ultima iv with longer sentences
Awful gameplay. Do people here actually defend Morrowind's gameplay?
Also awful map design like that moronic city
6/10 game
Tell me you've been to Vivec without telling me you've been to Vivec.
I'll give you Vivec being a bit annoying, since it's basically ghettos (original meaning) separated by bridges at either the first or second level.
But the rest of the map design is amazing, and there's always more to explore.
10/10 game.
>Awful gameplay. Do people here actually defend Morrowind's gameplay?
Stop trying to play it like a Skyrim ape and learn how to use magic.
Were you filtered by the fricking immigration station in Seyda Neen?
I just wish wildlife wasnt so aggressive
I tend to go into the editor to make cliffracers, rafs, and slaughterfish be neutral unless diseased or blighted.
The issue isn't with wildlife, it's with running. If you walk everywhere your encounters happen less often and feel more reasonable. Why would you run from town to town, that's not realistic. Walk
Because my Nerevarine is an athletic hyperchad.
The graphics, for the most part, really were pretty damn good for their time. Consider how any inhabited space you'd find would usually be cluttered and decorated with items, objects and furniture to create a lived in feeling, much which you could take if you wanted to.
The only major parts which I think 'aged poorly' is 1, the colored sheen on enchanted items, and 2, the character body models, and I've just used the same go-to mods for those two for maybe 18 years now.
Unpatched? You can't have played extensively. Morrowind's biggest flaw is that it's got some bugs which will reliably cause crashes, ranging from just general memory leaks as you play longer and longer, to stuff like the coders forgetting to clear the timer on NPCs using a shield spell so the .exe won't know what to do if you leave a cell before it has run its course.
By far the biggest frustration back in the day was the game just crashing more often as you had played more of it, and then occasional drops in framerate as well. If I played Morrowind throughout a week as a kid, I could expect like four crashes a week at minimum, so you had to be mindful to save often to protect your progress, which would build the size of your save file and thus eventually build towards those general problems.
When the Unofficial Code Patch came out in 2012, I couldn't fricking believe it, I could finally enjoy this wonderful fricker of a game without its greatest and most obnoxious flaws. Being able to play through this game extensively and without worry felt luxurious, everything was smoother and it helped me get even more immersed in its world and setting.
>game looks like shit for 2002
Meanwhile, from an actual 2002 review of the game:
>Morrowind is a game ahead of its time in many respects. The freedom you have to choose your path through the game is mind-boggling. The graphics are astounding in their detail and atmosphere, especially for an RPG. The sheer size of the game world is incredible. The storyline - if you choose to involve yourself in it - is immersive and complex.
>>game looks like shit for 2002
Install a mod, skyrimbab.
I like it when I mod Morrowind to look better like that pic and then it’s what I remember in my hazy memory from when it was new. It’s just a good game! I’ll try to find the pic of drunk Dagoth Ur on a bar counter in Balmora that someone made with the construction kit.
op you are a fisherman
you are troll
you are an idiot
your parents were related before they were married
please just go away
please have a nice day for making such a cringe post
I enjoyed Oblivion. I still do.
>everyone except zoomers:
>"Man, this game sucks. I'll never play or even think about this shit again."
>zoomers:
>"THIS GAME IS A FLYING BAG OF DONKEY DICKS! NOW I'M GOING TO GO WATCH A 2-HOUR YOUTUBE VIDEO ABOUT HOW THIS GAME SUCKS, THEN POST THREADS ALL OVER THE INTERNET ABOUT HOW MUCH I DON'T LIKE THIS GAME!"
And before some zoomie tries to claim this isn't true, then why is Ganker nothing but children screaming about games they claim to hate?