Just finished the game. Skyrim?

[maligned]

Fun little game, especially the first 2/3rds of it.

Unfortunately for me, I thought this was gonna be the next big Fallout game that I could play for months...now I'm gameless again and i'm not going back to Borderlands 3 until its out of BETA.

I'm assuming most folks here like rpg's, so I'd like to ask...Have you played Skyrim?

I'm looking for a game with the constant decisions like this one, except I'd like it to last several times longer. It doesn't matter if its sci-fi or fantasy, I play either.

How much time compared to this game were you able to put into Skyrim? (not counting mods)

Feel free to be detailed about Skyrim from your own personal views.

Thanks! I hope to download something tonight.

[Revolucas]

I couldn't get into Skyrim for some reason. After Oblivion and Fallout 3/New Vegas I felt like I was just playing the same game again. So I would probably say I played Skyrim for a similar amount of time. The gameplay in Outer Worlds is kind of bland. In first area you pretty much see all the weapons, enemies and gear the game has to offer. Consumables seem useless and a chore to use without hotkey support. Nothing really special about combat. Nothing special about character progression and perk unlocks. I'm fine with the smaller locations, I didn't really like the openworld-ness of Skyrim/Fallout 4 because every location is just the same enemies and junk crap to pick up. I prefer when open worlds have unique reasons to explore, not just the same items you can find every where else or a weapon you are already familiar with but with better stats. That's boring. I wish it was like Seven, where exploring granted you new abilities and traits. The exploration was the character progression, not combat exp.

[Rob'sEvilTwin]

I loved Skyrim, but it was a flawed beast :D Launch bugs that still haven't been fixed after a decade, some of them game breaking. OMG the crashfest!

I finished my first play through of this game in ~30 hours, had no bugs and didn't crash once. I am looking forward to my next playthrough with completely different choices and Supernova difficulty. Obsidian have really lifted their game.

[psychotron666]

Skyrim has literally 0 choices and 0 dialogue options that mean anything. Well there is one choice of faction in the civil war, which happens to be the worst quest line Bethesda has ever done, but other than that, no choices.

But Iike borderlands, it simulates content with an empty space open world with unlimited bad guys to kill. So if you want that, then Skyrim is good for you

Outer worlds wasn't supposed to be anything like those games, it was always sold as a small scale story based RPG that gets its replay value in different quest choices and builds, much like vampire the masquerade bloodlines.

Even then, I put about 1000 hours into Skyrim when it came out. I can't play it now more than 20 minutes, but back then when it came out I liked those kinds of Games

[Rez Elwin]

As said Skyrim has no choices, you could try Fallout New Vegas, also developed by Obsidian, It has a somewhat short main quest but there is a ton to do outside that like this game, and your stats play a large role with many skill checks in dialogue and it does have choices that affect the story. The first major choice you make comes pretty early which involves saving a small town or destroying it. Gunplay isn’t a good as this one but it does have a nice variety of weapons.

[ChelseaBlues1905]

Not sure if you tried it but Witcher 3 is amazing.

Obviously no character creation but plenty of meaningful quests and side characters, plenty of choices (not so much in combat but definitely in world building and quest outcomes), solid combat, solid romance options, detailed lore, great writing.

I personally loved Oblivion more then Skyrim but Skyrim is solid enough considering it’s age. The world can feel a bit lifeless though.

[maligned]

Originally posted by ChelseaBlues90:

Not sure if you tried it but Witcher 3 is amazing.

Obviously no character creation but plenty of meaningful quests and side characters, plenty of choices (not so much in combat but definitely in world building and quest outcomes), solid combat, solid romance options, detailed lore, great writing.

I personally loved Oblivion more then Skyrim but Skyrim is solid enough considering it’s age. The world can feel a bit lifeless though.

Thank you for the Witcher 3 advice...but thats just too much action combat for me. I also read (correct me if I'm wrong) that once your done, your done.


When I watched a Skyrim video it looked like the combat was simple (aka relaxing) but the world was huge and complex.

[ChelseaBlues1905]

I would say “done” is a relative term. Took me over 120+ hours to finish a complete play through in Witcher 3 and I’ve gone through it again numerous times for the different endings and quest choices. Also, unless your playing on death march (and even then the right build and gear can make that difficulty easy) combat isn’t difficult in Witcher 3.

Skyrim is definitely huge but I wouldn’t call it complex. I feel most of the love that game gets comes from the massive modding community.

For me it’s Witcher 3 all week but I don’t think you can go wrong with either choice.

[Doom]

Originally posted by maligned:

Fun little game, especially the first 2/3rds of it.

Unfortunately for me, I thought this was gonna be the next big Fallout game that I could play for months...now I'm gameless again and i'm not going back to Borderlands 3 until its out of BETA.

I'm assuming most folks here like rpg's, so I'd like to ask...Have you played Skyrim?

If you talk about "Large" and mention Skyrim, your choice will be pretty much Witcher 3.

It takes Ridiculous amount to finish the content, to the point where you might get tired of it. Basiclaly, I knew people who spent several months completing every single thing.

There isn't anything else like that.
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Well, actually there is, you can start going through CRPGs old and new. As in Pillars of Eternity, Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment, Arcanum, and the like. And of course Fallout 2. After all Fallout New Vegas was pretty much Fallout 2 Lite. Except in 3d.

Those old games were all about choices.

However, they weren't 3d games like skyrim.

[maligned]

Thank you folks!

As I was searching for other game ideas, I came across Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

Its on sale till Nov. 1st....A bit cartoony, but at that price with DLC's, i'm gonna give it a try.

I'm also gonna look up more info on Witcher 3.

Thanks again.

[DarkFenix]

Install Fallout New Vegas again, mod the crap out of it, then enjoy what The Outer Worlds could have been.

Also, seconding the recommendation on Witcher 3, it's a huge game and stands as one of the high bars in the genre, absolutely worth it.

[[FF406F]ANIMAL MOTHER]

Yes install either 3 of the fallouts 3,NV and 4 and mod the hell outa them so much more things in the base games too to be honest. This game is meh.

[Revolucas]

Originally posted by maligned:

Thank you folks!

As I was searching for other game ideas, I came across Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

Its on sale till Nov. 1st....A bit cartoony, but at that price with DLC's, i'm gonna give it a try.

I'm also gonna look up more info on Witcher 3.

Thanks again.

It's basically a singleplayer mmo. The only issue with Amalur is it's way, way too easy. The first time you enter an area it is scaled to your level and never scales again. So if you go off exploring early, the rest of the game will be super easy.

Dragon's Dogma is an awesome game if you haven't played it.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Skyrim's wide and flexible, but the official content is shallow. That doesn't mean that modders haven't put together highly-praised content for it, however (and not just comedy mods, but e.g. "Enderal" is supposedly quite well done and with its own areas and quest lines etc).

A fair part of my time in Skyrim was playing as a murderous psychopath just abusing the population that I couldn't find worth caring about, and following habits such as doing all the 'evil' daedric quests and then murdering all the witnesses, and murdering most quest givers after they had no more quests, and murdering every guard that brought up rumors that I was leading the Dark Brotherhood, etc. Oh, and planting ludicrously dangerous weapons in children's bedrooms, dropping gold and weapons in front of crowds, and basically just seeing whether there were other ways to mock and torment and cause trouble.

[Drifter]

Witcher 3 was good up to the end of the Bloody Baron quest, which is kind of bent and a lot of fun. After that it is utter drivel, including 'write your own play' quest. D list MMO fare. I think people somehow get attached to it at the start and have some sort of love affair with it, it's a 'masterpiece', and after that spit the dummy if anyone points out it's 90% a janky Polish RPG with a terrible story.

All the great reviews were because of the baron, which was beautifully front loaded to be where any sensible reviewer would finish after ~15 hours. Then a bit of a cult bit around it, and here where are. Plus the soft core porn certainly helped it's audience become attached.

If there's anything to admire about TW3, is how naturally they front loaded the best content.

Skyrim was great, as a walking simulator. You just go interesting places, look at volumetric light shafts and kill most things on two legs.

The quests only serve to facilitate that, and they don't get in the way. There's a lot to say for this style of game, the main thing being you don't have to listen to overwritten tripe from idiots, they just move the plot along and take you to the next nicely put together locale.

[psychotron666]

Imo The Witcher is pretty terrible, especially the forced unlikable Mary Sue main character. And the Witcher 3 is only so big because of generic fetch quests all over.

But it sounds like that's what you're looking for, as it'll give you hundreds of hours of gameplay if that's your thing