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.
Actually this is also something I’m only seeing in recent years, like RPG Codex dorks complained back in the day, but I’m only seeing this complaint filter down recently. I never had a problem in my 300 odd hours, it’s very fucky but not a dealbreaker?
I’m particularly biased against it because my first character back in 2006 had multiple non-combat-related major skills and got totally screwed over as a result. Not a universal experience. But it’s a very busted system so when I get the itch to replay it every few years I mod in something better.
Sorry Todd wants you to bonk stuff with big sword, speech and mercantile are cancelled everybody go home