ponderus said:
My entire point is that The Elder Scrolls series has been about letting people choose how to play. If I want to throw myself into reading all of the books in Tamriel, I can choose to. You don't have to, but lots of people will. By streamlining and catering to the masses, they'll spend less time on smaller subtleties like lore. I'm not saying you can't act like a throwable weapon for a quest giver. I'm just saying that I like my freedom to choose in games, especially games that encourage me to just wander around and do whatever I feel.
How does that relate to lack of skills in the game, unless there was a reading skill that I skipped over in favor more magic and combat skills?
WrongSprite said:
What? Elder scrolls has never been focussed around the story, it's about the open ended gameplay. Morrowind and Oblivion are my favourite games, but I couldn't give a rats arse about the story, it's all about the immense amounts of fun the games are.
I definitely agree with this. I threw Oblivion's story and Fallout 3's story out the window immediately after I ended the tutorial! I mean think about it: why in Satan's glorious name (Futurama reference) would you listen to the final orders of a dead king who until about 10 minutes ago had you imprisoned for what was going to be the rest of your life? For a quest of utmost importance I didn't even talk to Martin (that was his name right?) until after I was the Archmage, Arena Champion, the new Grey Fox and the leader of the Dark Brotherhood as well as doing enough quests that made me a level 20-something!
Then in Fallout 3 I just started running around doing random quests until I was like level 15 and had most of the unique weapons and did the first 2 DLCs before randomly stumbling into the next story line quest by accident while shambling through the science lab of Rivet City looking for that damned bobblehead.
Now in New Vegas I still haven't finished the main quest and I'm a level 30! I just go around slaughtering the Legion and looking for places with interesting loot! I mean, I thought the point of the game was to track down the guy that shot you in the face, which I already did. Now all of a sudden everyone is coming to me for help with their problems because I am apparently more competent than their entire fucking army. Shit, I marched through entire Legion camp and killed Caesar himself because he was such a pussy for letting me slaughter his people and then forgiving me because I was their only hope. Might as break Charlie Manson out of jail so he can lead us to a bottomless pit in the desert and save us from the great race war that we are apparently eagerly sprinting towards.
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