Skyrim: Cabbage Rocket

[The Rogue Wolf]

Man, there is nothing quite like a list to provoke people into presenting their opinions as fact.

 

[garjian]

Sure, they don't have the mechanics and lore of Dark Souls, but they're still pretty genius in their own right. You just have to look at the games as an anthology of short stories, instead of as an epic.

This is how I would describe Oblivion (and I'm sure there are many who would disagree and say the same of Morrowind, but I didn't play that in it's time), but Skyrim doesn't do this well. It's short stories are all, as I'm sure you might've read above, Go to the Draugr Ruin!, then Go to the Draugr Ruin! again to get me something else please and thank you.

 

[rasputin0009]

Well, to be fair, you can rice the shit out of a Civic and you'll end up with a respectable car. It's not like trying to rice out a Pontiac Sunfire (Sunflower) and expecting people to think you're something other than a douche. No, middle-aged grocery store supervisor, a cherry blaster exhaust does not make your car cool.

 

[michael87cn]

My first experience with God Hand was when my roommate in college picked it up one evening on a random whim. He started playing it around 11pm and the beginning seemed sort of bland and clunky so I ignored it and went back to playing WoW (*shudders*). The morning I had to get up at 9am for class and as I was leaving the apartment I saw that he was still playing in the living room, even though he had class soon too. Later, when I got back in the evening, he was still in the living room playing God Hand.

I asked him, "Dude, didn't you have class today? Did you stay home ALL DAY playing this?" He turned around to look at me, seemingly unaware that I was ever there until I spoke up. His eyes were bloodshot and his mouth slightly agape, and he stared right through me into the unending void. Without speaking, he bid me to take a seat by his side. Curious, I took a seat, and he returned his gaze to the screen and continued where he had left off. Since there is no way to possibly describe what I experienced using words, just watch this:

http://youtu.be/6s544sFja5k?t=7m15s

Quicktime events? Really? Looks lame. No offense, but I don't get it. Seems like one of those "the internet thinks this is cool! This is cool! (but it's actually not. You just like it 'cause its popular and you think that makes you smart/good/part of the crowd)."

 

[michael87cn]

What do I use top 10 lists for? For finding new games. Unfortunately, none of the games I've tried from top 10 lists were interesting to me. Probably because few games are interesting to me. I've gotten very picky in my middle age.

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

I believe you have a superfluous comma in the text underneath the comic.

My analogy for Skyrim is that it's like painting a Van Gogh onto a balloon before you give it to someone to blow up. There's so much detail put into the world, but as soon as the Bethesda levelling machine kicks in it distorts the entire experience.

 

[Jacked Assassin]

Even though it didn't live up to my own standards I would've still loved Skyrim on my PS3 even if Skryrim ended up being a cult classic.

But here's what I got out of the web comic (and the character of these comics).

Sarcasm
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The PC Master Race knows Skyrim sucks without mods!
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Mods should never ever count!
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All The Real Gamers like even older Cult Classisics from Japan that are too hard for most to beat!
wwWWAAHHhh!!!!
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You Filthy Casuals ruined gaming!
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Skyrim isn't Kawaii enough because it prefers Kemono over Kemonomimi!
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That means a lot less sexy cosplay!
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Furries ruin everything!
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Skyrim doesn't have Fancy Rats unless you mod them in!
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/Sarcasm

Oh well don't take my Sarcasm rant seriously unless you're easily offended.

 

[Fox12]

Sure, they don't have the mechanics and lore of Dark Souls, but they're still pretty genius in their own right. You just have to look at the games as an anthology of short stories, instead of as an epic.

This is how I would describe Oblivion (and I'm sure there are many who would disagree and say the same of Morrowind, but I didn't play that in it's time), but Skyrim doesn't do this well. It's short stories are all, as I'm sure you might've read above, Go to the Draugr Ruin!, then Go to the Draugr Ruin! again to get me something else please and thank you.

I would agree, since I consider Skyrim the weakest of the Bethesda games, mechanics not included. I was actually thinking more of Fallout 3 in that post, though. Running into a secret community of inbred cannibals, and finding bodies in their basement. Saving kidnap victims from Super Mutants in Germantown at night. Running into the cult of Dave. Destroying the Necronomicon in the Dunwich building. Finding a community of "vampires" in the sewers. Helping ghouls takeover Tenpenny tower. Returning to Vault 101 just before the final battle. I know the game generates some hate from old guard fans, but I love Fallout 3 for it's approach to story telling. I even love the ending, since it fit the theme of the narrative.

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

True story: Gary Larson, the cartoonist responsible for The Far Side, once tried to draw a simple one-panel comic about a dog dreaming that it had murdered a car. Unfortunately, he had difficulty drawing the car, and people mistook it for a dog having sex with a car. This resulted in outrage, lost newspaper subscriptions, and him being kicked from some newspapers.

Seriously, screw drawing cars.

OT: Godhand: Best Non-Violent Adventure Game Of All Time?

Fellow owner of the Prehistory of the Far Side?

In case anyone was wondering about the offending strip:

Spoiler: NSFW

Spoiler: Seriously, it's pretty bad

Spoiler: Did you not see my warnings?!

Spoiler: Fine.

It's kind of amusing that this and his medieval torture cartoons used to be notable enough to cancel your subscription to a newspaper and write them seething letters of complaint over

 

[Voulan]

Well I play Skyrim on the PS3 without any mods and its still one of my favourite games, so THERE.

But seriously, it's all a matter of opinions and tastes. And whether you're used to playing with mods or not.

 

[Jacked Assassin]

Spoiler: NFSW

Spoiler: Seriously, it's pretty bad

Spoiler: Did you not see my warnings?!

Spoiler: Fine.

Spoiler: In Defense Of All Those Spoilers....

There was a lot of junk in that trunk.

 

[Maxtro]

Ah, but Skyrim is great because it can be modded.

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

written by a giant asshole

This should be one of the tags for the next Critical Miss strip.

Haha! Hopefully not, I rather like the comic most of the time.

Are you a journalist, sir?

That was some skillful out of context text selection

We are all fans and calling them "giant assholes" is probably the greatest compliment we can pay these gentlemen.

err... I mean these assholes.

 

[Czann]

Goodhand?

Skyrim all the way to the top. Not some emo, closed JRPG.

 

[DementedSheep]

I'm not a skyrim fangirl, I don't know if I would put it on my top ten BUT modding potential absolutely is a point in Skyrims favour. For a start most of it's free. There is no additional cost to mod.
It's not a coincidence that Bethesda games have such a large modding community. They intentionally make them easy to mod and provide tools and large open world as a platform for it. The fact that you can customise your game to your preferences and you can create and share content (while learning far far too much about peoples fetishes) is a large part of the draw. Most games are not made with community modding in mind (some even go to lengths to prevent it) and you can't mod them very easily. Dose this forgive all flaws? no, modders should not have to fix broken shit but it is a feature that adds a lot.
I also don't really care if the game is good because of the content the developers release or the community. I care what the end experience is for me. Bethesda themselves doesn't get praise for modded content but they do for enabling it.

Skyrim is also a pretty good game to mess around in without mods.

 

[PMAvers]

Goodhand?

Skyrim all the way to the top. Not some emo, closed JRPG.

Those words, I do not think they mean what you think they do.

 

[Dark Knifer]

Well fair enough I guess. Never enjoyed Skyrim myself just because it's story was too boring to be an interesting RPG and it didn't have enough things to do to be a fun sandbox. It could be fun with mods maybe but I never enjoyed it personally.

 

[Armadox]

I've just started playing Skyrim, and my opinion is this. It's a fantastic game until the dragons come. Once the random dragons start appearing on the map, my personal game became one of loss and regret. The problem I have is that they didn't program the npc's to flee from the dragons properly. I've stepped into town to find that Aldor and Faendal have died in the street. I've saved Shadr from owing money only for a dragon to kill him and three guards. Hell, bandits killed my horse in my stable at Lakeview Manor. I find I can't get invested in the game as random acts of violence have caused NPCs I liked to perish, leaving me little purpose to reenter towns.
Skyrim is an ok game, but one easily broken by having quest specific npcs able to be slayed.

 

[DementedSheep]

one easily broken by having quest specific npcs able to be slayed.

Hmm? Quest NPC's are essential so they can't die. Merchants aren't which is a pain. I never had much issue with the dragons, usually it was guards dying but the vamps from Dawngaurd were a bit of problem in that regard.

Also mod:
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23906/?

Though Bethesda loses points for that one since this is basically a fix.

 

[DirgeNovak]

I guess I'm a monster then.
And it's not because of the mods because I don't have any.