Stilt said:Dark souls 8 days a week, when I first played skyrim (first 12 hours) I thought "this is the best game ever made", and then the dragons got boring to kill, the enemy variety dropped off a cliff, and the sidequests became more of a chore than a joy. But hey, thats a bethesda game for yaJesse Willadson said:Which one do you prefer? I know its not entirely fare to compare them, as they aimed to do different things but they do share similar qualities: exploration, telling a story through the environment, and a living breathing world
Nonetheless, this thread is comparing oranges to boranges
There are mods that make all of these problems ([a href= " http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3829"] boring dragons[/a] , [a href= " http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9694"] lack of enemy variety[/a], [a href= " http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3863"] UI[/a], better sidequests [there's tons and tons of added mod quests]) a lot more manageable if you're on PC.ccdohl said:The weird thing is that Dark Souls ruined Skyrim for me. After playing the tight combat in DS, I just couldn't bear to play with the combat in Skyrim, which is incredibly clunky in comparison.
Also, I have Skyrim on PC and, what's up with the UI in it? I have to select a menu option before I can click on it? If the clunky combat hadn't been enough to ruin it for me, the PC UI would certainly have done it.
im genuinely curious, what is so varied about skyrim? not trying to crap on your corn flakes,but to me, its just hike, kill, hike, kill.Eddie the head said:Skyrim has a much better world if you ask me and better NPC interactions. As well as more varied game play. Dark souls is a game I play if I am bored of everything else I don't think I have finished it yet. Overall I would say Skyrim.
you can play as a stealthy thief and never touch any heavy armor or even kill anyone. You can play as a huge OP 2H sword wielding werewolf, or a mage vampire. There's so much variety in how you can approach your character and what you can do with your character.bullet_sandw1ch said:im genuinely curious, what is so varied about skyrim? not trying to crap on your corn flakes,but to me, its just hike, kill, hike, kill.Eddie the head said:Skyrim has a much better world if you ask me and better NPC interactions. As well as more varied game play. Dark souls is a game I play if I am bored of everything else I don't think I have finished it yet. Overall I would say Skyrim.
Use the steam workshop or the nexus mod manager with BOSS. They make managing mods actually pretty easy, and most good mods are compatible with one or the other.Stilt said:Yea i have every mod under the sun, first off, its such a chore going in and modifying my files, i know this sounds pedantic but I really hate having to follow a billion different instructions for each mod, often times its hit and miss on whether or not the thing even works. Then theres the problem of the mods being hit or miss in quality themselves. I mean, sure its amazing what amateurs can do but at the end of the day the mods only add marginal enjoyment for me with this iteration of ES. Who knows, maybe its just because I'm getting older, but the mods just dont hold my interest as much.lotr rocks 0 said:Stilt said:Dark souls 8 days a week, when I first played skyrim (first 12 hours) I thought "this is the best game ever made", and then the dragons got boring to kill, the enemy variety dropped off a cliff, and the sidequests became more of a chore than a joy. But hey, thats a bethesda game for yaJesse Willadson said:Which one do you prefer? I know its not entirely fare to compare them, as they aimed to do different things but they do share similar qualities: exploration, telling a story through the environment, and a living breathing world
Nonetheless, this thread is comparing oranges to borangesThere are mods that make all of these problems (boring dragons, lack of NPC variety, UI, better sidequests) a lot more manageable.ccdohl said:The weird thing is that Dark Souls ruined Skyrim for me. After playing the tight combat in DS, I just couldn't bear to play with the combat in Skyrim, which is incredibly clunky in comparison.
Also, I have Skyrim on PC and, what's up with the UI in it? I have to select a menu option before I can click on it? If the clunky combat hadn't been enough to ruin it for me, the PC UI would certainly have done it.
I have to say I was in the camp of "Skyrim is THE Elder scrolls game and all other are now obsolete" camp for the longest time, but after a couple months the game just lost its appeal entirely, to the point where even the thought of starting up a session of skyrim is draining. The 2012 mod for morrowind is pretty cool though, might want to check it out.
Also, the only real problem i have with the dragons are their flight patterns, and how clunky and animatronic they look in their various animations
I am not really trying to compare them (though the thread name doesn't help) but just wondering as to what the community prefers.Thoric485 said:I think 2011 was pretty balanced in terms of RPGs. You had:
Skyrim - exploration, mods
Dark Souls - dungeon crawl
DE:HR/TW2 - storydriven
Drakensang: RoT - PnP
Dungeon Siege 3, Two Worlds 2 and Venetica also deserve a mention, and all sorts of great indie endeavors like EYE, Magicka, Avadon, Bastion, Dungeons of Dredmor, Frayed Knights.
Point is, comparisons are useless. There's far too much variety in the genre.
lol,The7Sins said:Skyrim is currently on PC. That alone makes t the superior game.
the souls games aren't JRPGs, despite being from japan.Kahunaburger said:Depends on whether you prefer psychotically difficult action JRPGs or hiking sims with RPG elements.
Action JRPGs, man (or Japanese ARPGS?). The hardcore difficulty, emphasis on precise mastery of the mechanics, focus on learning enemy attack patterns, and even the outsize weapons are all things you see in this sort of Japanese game. Compare From Software's earlier Otogi, which nobody would call a WRPG - similar design philosophy (but little lighter on the difficulty haha).Joseph Alexander said:the souls games aren't JRPGs, despite being from japan.Kahunaburger said:Depends on whether you prefer psychotically difficult action JRPGs or hiking sims with RPG elements.