Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Sauteed]

yep
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[ItMe]

yep
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Sounds like reaper has a pretty intense origin story : D

[Caurcas]

So in the wait for EW, I decided to revisit Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Boy, does that boomer shooter hold up. Makes me miss the golden age of the fps on PC.

[Kolsykol]

Is there something else you're supposed to do with what you gather in Diadem?
I got lots of Fish in my inventory that I can't handin to the guy on the left, and it's still market prohibited so can't sell ( Approved Grade 4 etc... ).

Do I just throw it away?

[Knot_D]

Is there something else you're supposed to do with what you gather in Diadem?
I got lots of Fish in my inventory that I can't handin to the guy on the left, and it's still market prohibited so can't sell ( Approved Grade 4 etc... ).

Do I just throw it away?

Mostly the diadem fish is pretty good to level your CUL desynth.

... Although there's no good fish to desynth anymore since ARR

[Vyrerus]

Not really sure, because I never bothered with the new Diadem. Can you use it in applicable restoration synths, or at the very least, can you desynth it into anything?

[Kolsykol]

Thanks, Desynth seem'd to do the job.
Better than nothing I guess :P.

[SturmChurro]

Couldn't help myself, I've been playing Morrowind during the wait. Probably not going to be good when I need to spam something for the moogle event in a couple days... I kind of wish I had a laptop on hand, so I could just spam Praetorium on the other screen. I mean, I suppose I could run two games at once though.. just a lot easier on another PC. Either way, most of that is just cutscenes. I really need to get it done though, otherwise I'll be kicking myself for not getting that jacket for glamour.

I do find it funny when people try to criticize Skyrim and put Morrowind up on a pedestal, when you can literally just spam (unlimited) training, get +5 in attributes every level, and max your luck attribute (!), without even cheesing. You can be any "class" you want, and become extremely overpowered even without minmaxing in that game, for that matter. Still, I think Morrowind probably has the best story concept and lore in the series, and a very interesting locale. I'm really hoping the next entry - which is supposedly Hammerfell - brings us a bit back to that. Redguards have pretty interesting lore, and it could make for a pretty great RPG concept.

I have to say though, I kind of wish more games handled main storyline pacing like Morrowind; having breaks in the main questline that give you a proper excuse and reason to actually go out and explore the world, and pretty much do whatever you want. Sure, it's to make sure your character has progressed properly enough to actually do the questline(s), but it really bothers me in a lot of games, because many main stories tend to have a very false sense of urgency. It can make it very difficult to actually find actual in-world reasoning to do side content.

[Kolsykol]

Imo the Elder Scrolls games haven't aged well, they get carried pretty hard by nostalgia and '' first bias '' for a lack of a better term.
They were the first big open world games a lot of people myself included played.*
I think Skyrim especially was the first for a lot of people, gaming had become more mainstream.

Imo I'd say that Skyrim is more fun to play, but I'd describe it how Totalbiscuit described it.
It's an ocean with the depth of a swimming pool.
And imo I also think that the RP elements were simplified too much the dialogue in particular felt really dumb and unnatural and the voice acting isn't very good.
Morrowinds writing was way better imo and you had far more options and the world also felt a lot more interesting and varied it got me more excited to explore.

I never rly liked the whole '' you can be/ do anything '' in ES games that they pushed either, I prefer to have more defined and focused classes.
It kinda feels like the games wants you to be everything at once like a plate wearing spellcasting dual wielding alchemist priest archer werewolf lol.

I rly feel like it hurt the classes a lot in ESO, it feels like all of them play almost identical.
Sometimes literally the same.

The setting is also a tad too generic for my taste but I do get the appeal of it too.
But it's sorta like DnD to me it's a bit meh and uninteresting feels kinda bland and too safe.
But I also still like some DnD games and I actually do want to replay Morrowind at some point too.

Edit: Altho in fairness I actually find most Western fantasy to be pretty bland at this point.
I guess I am just overexposed to it.
Like I really couldn't understand why dragons in Game of Thrones were so incredible to people, I actually felt like they detracted heavily from the show and books.

[Caurcas]

The fun in Morrowind is how you are encouraged to break it. Also it's world and the Dunmer culture is so unique. It would considered problematic by many today sadly.