Did anyone play this for the first time this year? How was it without the potent nostalgia wienertail?
Did anyone play this for the first time this year? How was it without the potent nostalgia cocktail?
Did anyone play this for the first time this year? How was it without the potent nostalgia wienertail?
I've been starting and stopping this game all year. Been doing magic and attempting to break the game. I keep remaking my character and each time I do, I feel myself learning more. The world is also pretty involved. If you like bethesdaslop this game is the galactic brain version of it. Do with such info as you may.
How can you have nostalgia for something you never played. Zoomers need to be stabbed.
not this year but in 2021, it took me a few tries to get into it with the hypertext wiki dialogue being the biggest filter
I enjoyed it a great deal once I got into it
my rating goes 3 > 5 > 4, even as a terminal skyrim mod enjoyer
Not this year, but I did play it properly for the first time like 2 years ago I think. Not the first time I played it, but when I first tried playing it I was in a phase where I was way too focused on minmaxing. I'd look up guides on the game, and they'd tell you to b-line it for the boots of blinding speed and then powerlevel endurance using the free training exploit and it turned the whole experience into a miserable mess and I stopped without having experienced almost anything in the game.
Second time around I just decided to wing it and it was a lot of fun. The thing that I was expecting the least was that the characters actually had more personality to them than I thought. It's not like everyone's a larger than life figure, but the reputation the game has for every character just being a wikipedia dispenser is unwarranted. Some random npcs in the street can be like that, but those are basically just there to fill space so the cities don't seem empty. Ironically the most wikipedia-esque characters are the ones people jerk off the most, Vivec, Yagrum and even Dagoth Ur (outside of his monologues).
Starfield had more engaging NPCs. Starfield had no engaging NPCs.
They gave it away free on the 20th anniversary.
It was slow. Learn the exploits and go in with lowered expectations.
I played OpenMW for the first time in 2022 so I had no nostalgic ties, its fun and cozy. Like sitting down and reading a book or something
Like? It is exactly like reading a book. An Encyclopedia.
yeah it's ideal
If you had an Xbox, you had Halo 2, San Andreas, Ninja Gaiden and either Fable or Morrowind. Morrowind was the Skyrim of its time.
I'd choose fable because I wouldn't want to play morrowind on the xbox
it ran like shit on xbox too, until they released they released the game of the year edition.
it runs fine, I played it for many many years, and then I played GOTY for many many years. I must have played Morrowind on Xbox for like 8 years before moving onto PC.
Fun fact: When it sometimes took ages to load a new area the xbox was rebooting in the background, because Bethesda was always shit at optimizing and they couldn't figure out how to purge the memory
Also KOTOR and Splinter Cell. All together, that was the Xbox kit. Everything else was just extra icing.
Blinx, Timesplitters 2, Jedi Outcast, Spider-man 2, Riddick, Gauntlet Dark Legacy,
>Riddick
>Timesplitter 2
Damn. So this is what nostalgia feels like.
Doom 3, Psychonauts, Vexx, Fusion Frenzy, Sims, Onimusha,
Played it for the first time a few years back, turns out TES games have been getting worse and worse with each new iteration.
One thing Starfield brought back from Morrowind I did enjoy. The player being the center of everyone's universe from the get go is damn convenient. Shop keepers are open 24/7. They won't budge an inch in case you are dropping by. No need for arrows as they never move.
It took me a while to get into the game because im more or less a oblivion child and skybaby. For my first somewhat actual playthrough i have been playing as a jumpy argonian monk with a fist that could shatter asses. The game is somewhat fun at times but a bit shallow in other areas,it feels more like something to activate and deactivate your brain when needed and a nice experimental sandbox. i guess playing daggerfall before it helped me be more aquainted with the awful combat.
>how was it
*Cliff Racer screeches in the distance*
I liked the start and most of the mid-game quests, but once you have to go to Vivec City, I just got tired of it all and blitzed through. The city is confusing as frick, wholly unnecessary and you have to go back like 4 or 5 times. I liked going around the Ashlands killing Ash Vampires, though.
God Vivec is such a clusterfrick. I get that they had to make it indoors to split up all the people and items because computers, and especially the xbox, would melt otherwise, but jesus they could have made a better laid out interior than the one they used.
I keep trying to get into it and I just can't. Have tired multi times over the last few years. Any advice?
Look up the Soul Trap exploit and just blitz through it.
Played it last year for the first time and I thought it was better than both Oblivion and Skyrim. It's massively superior to Oblivion and it's got got better and more interesting gameplay systems than Skyrim. I went in not expecting much, but it feels very immersive and I like how as an RPG, your character basically becomes a god if you decide to just be good at one specific thing. It's simple, but it's fun and feels rewarding to get stronger thanks to no level scaling you see in the two games that came afterwards.
I also think a lot of the quest text and lore within Morrowind makes it interesting. there's not really too many complicated side quests in the game, but the entire main quest is handled well and certainly feels like a proper adventure. Morrowind in general is just really fricking weird and that adds to the fantasy of the world. It's outlandish and the dark elves are a really weird, ritualistic group of people which makes them stand out among the Elder Scrolls races. The entire game feels unique in this regard, especially with how strange areas in Morrowind look. The Dunmer are weird, the architecture is fricking weird, the weather is (sometimes) weird like the ash storms but it adds a lot to the atmosphere of the game.
I didn't like cliff racers, but that's the pain of playing Morrowind and discovering ways to deal with them is part of the experience. Like making a spell that fricks them over. And as others have stated already, Vivec City is a confusing place that takes a while to figure out.
But honestly, as a video game experience, I enjoyed it a lot. If you can take the time to get immersed into it and get invested, I think it's great as well as being the only truly good Bethesda game in their entire library.
Which mods can make it feel like an offline MMO so I can grind the same character forever?
>Did anyone play this for the first time this year?
Yes.
>How was it without the potent nostalgia wienertail?
Having played the other ES games before it, I feel like this image is very true.