games @hexbear.net ashinadash [she/her] @hexbear.net 1 mo. ago

Watching G*mers slowly realise Skyrim is dogshit has been an experience

I was watching "...why Skyrim?" by Razbuten on sloptube this aft and it's so weird that it finally took Starfield for people to realise. Like Fallout 76 wasn't enough, only now are negative things people were first saying about Skyrim in 2012 finally bleeding into mainstream consciousness. It's so wild, like wow they ruined the magic system? The game has worse writing than a PS1 era Mega Man X game??? Skyrim is just shitty Game of Thrones?? Welcome to thirteen years ago!!

Bethesda hasn't made a really good game since 2002, but it'll probably be years before that realisation sinks in.

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I feel like the general consensus on Skyrim is that it’s kind of a waterdown game with a lot of faults, but it’s world design, vibes, and modding community is enough to make people keep coming back.
- I don't get the "world design" part, Oblivion already had a way more boring map and world than Morrowind, and Skyrim just drained all the colour out idk.
  
  Just a very pretty game with stuff in nooks and crannies.
  There is a series on YouTube, Curating Curiosities (or something), that serves as a good example I think.
  I don’t think Skyrim has the best map or anything, but especially compared to Starfield I don’t think they are in the same ballpark.
  
  It's so ugly wtf idgi
  
  you're just wrong, skyrim especially for 2011 is gorgeous. I can't believe you legitimately think any part of Oblivion is pretty.
  
  I think a lot of the shivering isles aesthetic holds up better. Lots of vibrant colors and weird shapes that made it a lot more interesting looking than Skyrim, which is just as outdated looking but also boring
  
  Mostly the rolling hills, man, the dense forests. The dynamic light sources, the long for the time land draw distance. The fact it has more colours than brown, grey and bland green. Also Skyrim's character models are still terrible imo.
  
  In retrospect, I didn't mean to misgender. I am sorry.
  
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  Skyrim is pretty in a 2013 sort of way
  
  It is two years older than that
  
  I thought it was uglier than Oblivion, character models aside
  
  hey I never said it was better than anything, it just has that early 2010's grunge
  
  The skung

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