aesthelete

aesthelete, 7 miesięcy temu

But you don’t have many options if you enjoy open world fps RPGs, and Bethesda games are sometimes the only passable option.

This is only true if it’s literally true that it has to be “first person”. There are, in my opinion, way too many 3rd person semi-RPGs with a vast, open world that are very similar to Bethesda games. It has gotten to the point with me where there are only so many games like this I’ll even play, because they’re huge time drains and they come across as basically the same game with a different skin or setting.

aesthelete, 7 miesięcy temu

I think that may be right for first person only, but many games that are largely played in third person fit the bill to me: Witcher 3, Elden Ring, Horizon, and even the latest Zelda games to an extent.

I know I’m leaving many other titles out here too, I’m just listing ones I’ve personally played.

No Man’s Sky is even close to being on the list IMO but it’s not quite RPG enough to fit in the same category.

Players are really kinda spoiled for choice when it comes to large, open world games with quasi RPG elements.

I’ve personally grown kinda sick of the genre.

There’s standouts of course (I actually think all the ones I listed are pretty excellent), but all of them require hundreds of hours to complete and I’m just sick of the same game type after a while.

aesthelete, 7 miesięcy temu

I haven’t played it but if that stuff is what you’re looking for I think baldurs gate 3 might be for you.

I’ve never really felt like the dialogue choices in any Bethesda game save maybe new vegas (which I don’t even think was technically a Bethesda game) had a lot of real impact on the game. In Skyrim I think there were maybe a handful of times that it mattered. Most times in those types of games I wind up exercising the entire dialogue tree because usually it lets you, and sometimes that’s the only way to get some side quest or whatever.

The combat in Bethesda games save some of the Fallout series is actually pretty bad IMO. In Skyrim, the combat doesn’t feel like combat at all and feels more like two characters swiping air near each other.

The thing that’s the most disappointing about most of these games to me is the squandered potential. At first there feels like there’s depth there, and if you try to get there it is shown to be a facade.

They have a lot of breadth to their games but IMO they’re as deep as a puddle.

aesthelete, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

who cares as long as the numbers go up for a bit

Especially when you’re mostly stock compensated. Just make the numbers go up long enough to see your share prices soar, browse around for a different job in the meantime. Sell your stocks at a high, exit the company as it implodes behind you. Rinse and repeat.

aesthelete, 9 miesięcy temu

I believe it used to be illegal to sell things at less than cost because the original monopolists did this too. Why did we make that legal again?

aesthelete, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

Oh no, not another big empty I can’t play.

I was looking forward to playing a game set in a gigantic, beautiful world where I have to spend hundreds of hours in identical dungeons killing draugr. /s

aesthelete, 9 miesięcy temu

Yet another wanton feudal lordship seeking its rent.