NOT THE CHICKEN

Obligatory VLDL video

The more I play Bethesda games the more I realize they're not actually good. Fun sometimes, but also kind of bad.
- It’s Gmod as an RPG
  
  oh my God that fits SO WELL
- The beauty about an RPG is the RP part: you craft your own story and do whatever you like. With every Elder Scrolls iteration, that freedom became less and less.
- Morrowind was amazing.
  
  I think so too! One of my favorite games, especially with Tamriel Rebuilt, which I still have to play. But I also agree with the other commentator - it is kind of dated nowadays, to the point of being too old for me. Gothic had immersive day/night cycles, while in MW all just stand around and stare at walls. At some point this just becomes not good enough, with all the graphical clunkiness.
  
  You know, I replayed it recently (with OpenMW) and for 2002 yes, but by more modern standards not really, not for me. The leveling system is really bad. The combat system is an awful mix of dice rolls and action, where neither is satisfying. Movement is glacial and it takes a long time to either level speed or get mark/recall. NPC interaction is minimal.
  It certainly has a lot of cool stuff in it. Spellcrafting is cool (if janky). Enchanting was like spellcrafting, but better. Alchemy can get bonkers. The world is huge, and because it was less level-scaling and procedural-generation you sometimes could find really interesting things. Like breaking into a room in the fighter's guild and finding a full set of glass armor. Super cool. Of course, the illusion of a believable world immediately shatters when you walk right out wearing the stolen armor and no one reacts.
  So, yes and no. Amazing, for 2002. But also kind of limited, and sometimes kind of bad, and they haven't really reached new heights in the past 23+ years. All of their games handle stealth badly. They all handle damage badly. There's just not two decades of improvement by them.
- They're fucking terrible. Money grubbing pig of a studio releases broken games for the users to fix for free, and they gobble it up because omg open world! With bland, generic combat, mundane repeatable quests, and the illusion of choice and creativity.
  Honestly the Elder Scrolls world really just deserved better. Better teams, better design, better releases, a world actually fleshed out. But instead we get this garbage.
- Skyrim slander will not be tolerated.

I shot a man in Kvatch. There was no recourse for this action.

I only think it's lame because instead of being attacked by hundreds of chickens, like Legend of Zelda style, it's just hundreds of regular ol' people. 😔
- Better not be geese, though

Yeah that’s how I learned about the level of realism of the game, in Riverwood. See chicken: “huh, wonder if they actually do anything, maybe like the chickens in LoZ:LTTP”
(hit chicken) (this kills the chicken) (o dam didn’t know they die rip lil guy i’m sorry :’( )
GREAT BOILING STARFUCK THE ENTIRE TOWN IS MY ENEMY WTF JUST HAPPENED
(run, obv)
- In fairness, if you saw a stranger enter your town and the first thing they do is murder a random chicken in cold blood, you'd be raising the alarm too.

Cucco wants to know your location

Poultricidal bastard!!!

I felt this
Before I had legacy of the dragon born I used open cities (couldn’t find a patch) and Vampires attacked solitude and im using reliquary of myth dawn breaker, which has a chance to violently explode undead
Well because I’m using open cities Sybil (or how ever you spell the vampires name in the solitude court) gets hit in the blast and I get a huge bounty and could not plead oopsie poopsie
- That's kind of your fault. Don't use explodey weapons near civilians
  
  It really is.
  However normally the undead explosion from dawn breaker doesn’t do anything to anyone because they’re not undead
  Well most of them…

The dragon born has chosen death.

Oh, it's a game meme. I thought this explained people voting for the stein operative.