Exhuminator wrote:It's been a long time since I've played King's Field, so today I decided to go back and play King's Field: The Ancient City... again. I put an hour into it, and you know what? I'm just not feeling it anymore. The graphics are terrible. The movement is like swimming in molasses. It takes forever to turn around. I couldn't hit any enemy to save my life. Then I fell in lava and just died. I was having a miserable time! I have no idea how I ever enjoyed this trash. Stockholm syndrome I guess? I regret ever playing through this series, and I regret ever suggesting others play it even more. King's Field is terrible, worthless garbage.
Why do I even waste my limited lifespan on this old crap? Honestly I'm tired of yesteryear pixelated elderly games in general. I think I'm going to just stick to playing modern games for now on. Screw it. I'm selling all my old consoles and handhelds, and I'm buying a Switch, PS4, and building a new PC. It's time to go modern for now on. If a game's older than two weeks, forget that crusty junk. I want my pixels bleeding edge, period.
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Right now I am playing Skyrim for the Switch. I had tired to play it a bit on the PS3 when it first came out (plus with no mac version, that was out of my area for PC) but couldn't really get into it as I wasn't a big fan of open world RPGs yet plus when I heard the PS3 version was the worst version to the point of a game breaking bugs I sold it off. After playing Breath of the Wild I decided to play it again since I had some unexpected money come my way. While I have a PS4, since I'm on the move I decided to get the Switch version and OMG I am having a blast playing it. I've hardly done anything to the main story but I must have put over 100 hours into the game already with all the side quests. In fact, I think I spent more time building my house up and finding parts to the house than the side quests.
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I totally get why skyrim didn't click for you on ps3. The game was horribly broken at release. Also it helps to really be in the right mindset to help get a style of game you don't normally enjoy. I feel like a lot of people disregard a lot of games without ever considering their own personal perspective and moods. Sometimes it just isn't the time for them at that moment that moment.Konacha wrote:Right now I am playing Skyrim for the Switch. I had tired to play it a bit on the PS3 when it first came out (plus with no mac version, that was out of my area for PC) but couldn't really get into it as I wasn't a big fan of open world RPGs yet plus when I heard the PS3 version was the worst version to the point of a game breaking bugs I sold it off. After playing Breath of the Wild I decided to play it again since I had some unexpected money come my way. While I have a PS4, since I'm on the move I decided to get the Switch version and OMG I am having a blast playing it. I've hardly done anything to the main story but I must have put over 100 hours into the game already with all the side quests. In fact, I think I spent more time building my house up and finding parts to the house than the side quests.
I am super glad you are enjoying the game. It definitely has a ton of content. If you dig it, I highly recommend going back through the older elder scrolls games. Even though morrowind is the roughest mechanically, it definitely has the best world building, story and characters out of the the more recent entries. Definitely worth giving a try.
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Skyrim is the business. I say this in a totally non-provocative way: I really enjoyed Breath Of The Wild up until the point where it dawned on me that I'd rather just be playing Skyrim again.
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That's interesting, because I think I actually prefer Breath of the Wild. I think BotW is more honest in how it does the open-world stuff. It doesn't have as much of a social interaction side which means it manages to avoid a lot of the problems Skyrim had (like plot armor on NPCs who deliberately provoke you). Skyrim was tons of fun and I put a lot of time into it, but I think Breath of the Wild is actually a stronger experience by virtue of a more tightly focused vision.noiseredux wrote:Skyrim is the business. I say this in a totally non-provocative way: I really enjoyed Breath Of The Wild up until the point where it dawned on me that I'd rather just be playing Skyrim again.
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I think there's lots of little personal preference things there, too though. I prefer first person to third. I hate the consumable weapons in BOTW. I preferred the story quests in Skyrim to the Shrines in BOTW. Dragons are fucking awesome. Etc.
I'm not dismissing BOTW in any way. I think it's a great game from a technical and ambition standpoint. But personally, I grew tired of it fairly quickly whereas Skyrim is one of those games that I love revisiting.
I'm not dismissing BOTW in any way. I think it's a great game from a technical and ambition standpoint. But personally, I grew tired of it fairly quickly whereas Skyrim is one of those games that I love revisiting.
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Funny. I rented Skyrim on my Switch and am currently playing it. I do not like it so far. The combat is god awful. I had so much fun with BOTW and playing Skyrim just makes me want to go back and play it. Haha.
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There are two kinds of people in this world...ESauced wrote:Funny. I rented Skyrim on my Switch and am currently playing it. I do not like it so far. The combat is god awful. I had so much fun with BOTW and playing Skyrim just makes me want to go back and play it. Haha.
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Oh, I think Skyrim was at its best when doing good story beats, if we're being straight. And BotW doesn't have any of that. I probably will not put nearly as many hours into BotW as I did Skyrim by the time I am done, but I think I enjoyed those hours with BotW more. Skyrim is addictive, but its many flaws mean a lot of that time was spent fighting against the game. Breath of the Wild has a much stronger combat engine than Skyrim, for example. Though I will say, the Korok leaf is no substitute for Fus Roh Dah. And Skyrim's often janky ragdoll physics can make the results hilarious. Like the way a dead dragon's body ripples like parachute fabric over a reed frame when you blast it.
And while social interactions and story beats are Skyrim's high point, they're also one of its low points. Maven Black-Briar, for example. Even when you're the most powerful being in Skyrim she taunts and lords over you like she knows she has plot armor, and it's kind of ridiculous, because logically speaking you could down her in a single hit, but somehow she knows the game won't let her die. But you're punished for trying to kill her even though you cannot. I also love/hate the loot cycle in Bethesda games. I become this bizarre pack horse, constantly having to evaluate all the stuff I've collected to see what I can drop to pick up this new thing, constantly balancing an item's weight vs what I can get for it in the shop back in town. It was so addictive and yet I hated it. Why did I keep doing it? Basically, Skyrim exploits all my worst tendencies when playing games. It knows which buttons to push to keep me playing, even when I'm not having fun. So I enjoyed it greatly but I also hate it so much at the same time. Playing Skyrim for over 200 hours made me feel like an abused spouse. I love it so much, but I really wish it wouldn't hurt me so much.
To be fair, Breath of the Wild also pushes some of those buttons. I'm almost done upgrading all my armors to the max and I had to finish ALL the shrines. Fortunately I feel no need to hunt down every Korok nut. But the interactions are basic enough with NPCs that I don't feel aggravated that I can't murder them all, and shops and merchants have small enough inventories that the game's economy doesn't become a real issue. I can be an obsessive completionist without going overboard and without getting so far off the game's main path that I lose track of the plot and no longer care about beating the game.
As far as Bethesda game addiction goes, I still prefer Morrowind to Oblivion and Skyrim, because Morrowind provides a better and more open system of rewards and interactions to go with the obsessive lever-pulling. What I really hope is that Bethesda learns from Nintendo and either opens their games back up, ala Morrowind, or makes their mechanics more consistent with the limitations they impose to drive their stories forward.
I have my fingers crossed that Nintendo's next Metroid Prime is basically Samus, Breath of the Fallout 4.
And while social interactions and story beats are Skyrim's high point, they're also one of its low points. Maven Black-Briar, for example. Even when you're the most powerful being in Skyrim she taunts and lords over you like she knows she has plot armor, and it's kind of ridiculous, because logically speaking you could down her in a single hit, but somehow she knows the game won't let her die. But you're punished for trying to kill her even though you cannot. I also love/hate the loot cycle in Bethesda games. I become this bizarre pack horse, constantly having to evaluate all the stuff I've collected to see what I can drop to pick up this new thing, constantly balancing an item's weight vs what I can get for it in the shop back in town. It was so addictive and yet I hated it. Why did I keep doing it? Basically, Skyrim exploits all my worst tendencies when playing games. It knows which buttons to push to keep me playing, even when I'm not having fun. So I enjoyed it greatly but I also hate it so much at the same time. Playing Skyrim for over 200 hours made me feel like an abused spouse. I love it so much, but I really wish it wouldn't hurt me so much.
To be fair, Breath of the Wild also pushes some of those buttons. I'm almost done upgrading all my armors to the max and I had to finish ALL the shrines. Fortunately I feel no need to hunt down every Korok nut. But the interactions are basic enough with NPCs that I don't feel aggravated that I can't murder them all, and shops and merchants have small enough inventories that the game's economy doesn't become a real issue. I can be an obsessive completionist without going overboard and without getting so far off the game's main path that I lose track of the plot and no longer care about beating the game.
As far as Bethesda game addiction goes, I still prefer Morrowind to Oblivion and Skyrim, because Morrowind provides a better and more open system of rewards and interactions to go with the obsessive lever-pulling. What I really hope is that Bethesda learns from Nintendo and either opens their games back up, ala Morrowind, or makes their mechanics more consistent with the limitations they impose to drive their stories forward.
I have my fingers crossed that Nintendo's next Metroid Prime is basically Samus, Breath of the Fallout 4.