Absolutely. It’s not bad by any stretch of the imagination, but it also feels like their series haven’t evolved enough in 20 years to hold my attention. It’s the scale of things that I love about their games. Exploring random caves and tombs in oblivion and skyrim and finding factions battling it out, or a new trap i hadn’t run into was hundreds of hours of entertainment (probably 1500 total?). I’m sure this will have all of that.
Even compared to skyrim and oblivion though, each dungeon, cave, tomb felt unique. But this seems to be a lot of copy-paste to service the procedural generation.
They still have a lot of hand crafted content, though. There are definitely some things that don’t have the intense attention to detail, but it’s not No Man’s Sky where it’s overwhelmingly procedural and randomly generated with very little that stands out.
Some stuff should feel slightly repetitive. There are military and other heavily planned facilities, and those types of organizations would genuinely be standardizing a lot of things for cost and other reasons. They really would reuse base designs for small to medium buildings in worlds where the parameters were similar and they didn’t have space constraints. Earth feels organic because of how much less advanced we were when all of those areas filled in, and how many cities were already crowded with people before they decided to build modern stuff.
Absolutely. It’s not bad by any stretch of the imagination, but it also feels like their series haven’t evolved enough in 20 years to hold my attention. It’s the scale of things that I love about their games. Exploring random caves and tombs in oblivion and skyrim and finding factions battling it out, or a new trap i hadn’t run into was hundreds of hours of entertainment (probably 1500 total?). I’m sure this will have all of that.
Even compared to skyrim and oblivion though, each dungeon, cave, tomb felt unique. But this seems to be a lot of copy-paste to service the procedural generation.
It’s fine if it’s not for you.
They still have a lot of hand crafted content, though. There are definitely some things that don’t have the intense attention to detail, but it’s not No Man’s Sky where it’s overwhelmingly procedural and randomly generated with very little that stands out.
Some stuff should feel slightly repetitive. There are military and other heavily planned facilities, and those types of organizations would genuinely be standardizing a lot of things for cost and other reasons. They really would reuse base designs for small to medium buildings in worlds where the parameters were similar and they didn’t have space constraints. Earth feels organic because of how much less advanced we were when all of those areas filled in, and how many cities were already crowded with people before they decided to build modern stuff.