Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[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.