• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    If you’re gonna make an open world first person fantasy game, it’s gonna get compared to Skyrim no matter who you are

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    2 months ago

    Skyrim is one of the best games. Avowed looks similar but prettier and less janky. The comparison is giving it positive attention.

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      2 months ago

      I always felt like Skyrim was… fine. People lost their minds about it but I never thought it was actually that good.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah, vanilla was kinda meh. It was hilariously breakable and infinitely moddable though.

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        I played it at a lan party when it first came out. We all had a blast and after a day of playing we had wildly different stories and experiences.

        Its an awesome game, and with mods you could get another games worth of fun out of it IMHO, but I don’t think its the end game of games like they treat it. It can be better (mods show just some of that potential), and they’re are other games.

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      2 months ago

      I would say the same of Tainted Grail, honestly. That game’s combat honestly clicks pretty well imo. The two-handing in that game is fantastic.

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    Lmao is it built on an engine that was a decade old two decades ago and held together with duct tape and a rainbow coalition of unofficial patches? I think Avowed will do just fine.

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    If they made the same exact game as Skyrim, but in a modern engine that wasn’t built on a sandy foundation, it would already be a better game.

    It shouldn’t be hard to replicate the good while removing the bad. And yet I’ve yet to see it actually happen.

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    I’m pretty sure Microsoft invited the comparison by letting people believe this would be “their Elder Scrolls” before they just bought Elder Scrolls.

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    Skyrim is an awful game, I hope Avowed will become it’s own thing instead of being compared to that garbage game

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      “awful game” what is with this rhetoric that people no longer have an in between? A game is either a masterpiece or “awful” these days, why?? Why can’t a game just be fine or good but not great? Why must things be one extreme or another? Saying Skyrim is “awful” just makes you sound stupid honestly

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          its so terrible that every single game reviewer gave it near perfect or perfect scores. like the one japanese game reviewing magazine that gave skyrim the first ever perfect score for a western game

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            2 months ago

            I thought the combat, leveling, story, stability, and scaling were all kind of medicore to bad.

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          I mean I hated elder rings and I thought it was trash, but I know there’s no way that a game that popular is terrible, so I say “it’s not for me”. If you want to live in a stupid world without nuance, have at it.