My Skyrim hot take is that if you enjoy it then play it and I'm happy that you are enjoying it.
I mean, I get what you're saying but, I feel like the logic of this line taken to it's maxim just calls into question the very purpose of media criticism. Shouldn't everyone just quietly consume what they like and never speak good or ill of anything publicly?
well, no. it being good someone is enjoying themselves does not mean criticizing the thing they're enjoying is invalid. in fact it kind of encourages it because it opens up avenues to stuff like That Game But Better. and overall criticisms aren't meant to be things that get people to just stop playing, watching, or consuming the media (unless it's to call for a boycott but that's usually due to outside factors and not just how shitty someone finds the media), but rather statements made simultaneously as warning signs for people considering getting into the media, as ideas to improve similar kinds of media for new developers/directors/writers, as ideas for the person currently working on the piece of media criticized to make changes, and as ways to commiserate with like minded people. people like whole hosts of different things so criticism can basically never work as a universal law. some people get immense joy from clinking rocks together and i can't really fault them for that unless i'm trying to be a dick, even though i know most people probably think pretty much anything else is more fun.
Elders Scrolls is only good because it’s the only franchise brave enough to include American accents in medieval settings. I’m tired of hearing posh britbong accents
Argonians have the best voices.
Skyrim is a shitposting game. Same energy.
i just modded the fuck out of it so it was a huge grind. you weren't special, you weren't the dragonborn, just some rando fresh off the boat in the northern city i forget the name of. freezing to death without firewood and doing odd jobs to get enough food to live another day.
then somehow i mashed some more mods into that so eventually you could grind you way up to establishing a mercenary company and take over an outpost for your HQ.
after that i got bored.
Damn, that sounds way more like the experience I wanted. Got a mod list?
god i wish it was so long ago. like before the special edition and x64. the list is probalbly on a hard drive that no longer exists
every so often i've thought of trying to recreate it but talk myself out of it.
only thing i remember vaguely is using alternate start mods, no dragonborn, a bunch of survival mods, one of the more popular difficulty enhancement mods, etc.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
skyrim is the metal gear rising of sandbox games (but far worse)
I only play on god mode with weird maxed out magic skills. That way it becomes dragon ball z.
