I finally looked this game up. So its Elder Scrolls 5? I never played the first ones. Are they anything like Dragon Age, because to be perfectly honest, that was one of the boringest, sandboxed games I had ever played in my life. I truly despise SP games with the progressive machine-style advancement system:
>Gain experience to get stronger.
>Monsters in new ares are stronger to compensate.
>Gain better weapons.
>Monsters gain new powers and are hard to defeat.
>Repeat.
In these games, you NEVER actually get any stronger - it is only an illusion - because the monsters keep getting stronger, thus you are stuck on that perpetual leveling-tredmill to nowhere, always "challenged", but is that fun? The monsters may change skins, but they are still the same old sandboxed things you've been fighting since level 1. Sandboxed AI does not change the fact that your fighting against the computer. It's hard to find a good game nowadays.
I'd say the only SP RPG I really enjoyed was Baulders Gate 1 and 2 - I really felt like I was exploring and on an adventure. Getting more powerful was merely a sub-sect of the overall experience of exploring the world around you, but nevertheless, the experience component of the game was also done very well and was not just some added on after-thought. Exploring game - the ones where you cannot level (i.e. just about everything on consoles) - tend to be just as bad as your standard SP RPG IMO, just walking around mindlessly bashing everything that crosses your path without anything to gain from it. I really tried hard to get into Prince of Persia: Sands of Time when it came out because most gaming sites gave it a 9.0 out of 10. I just couldn't understand why "everyone" felt it so grand when I was bored out of my mind. I quit after trying the game for several hours a day for one week. It felt like a huge let down and big waste of money and time. I'd say that this is the main reason I can't stand single-player games, and haven't really sat down to play one and found myself enjoying one since I was a teenager (with the exception of BG1 and 2). I don't know if it's the multiplayer component that makes game special, or the way the game is put together like BG1 and 2. I can't put my finger on it, but I do know that games most people would give 10-stars, I wouldn't even give a nod.
Having said that, do you think the Elder Scroll series is any good? Lol, and no, this is not a setup to some bashing. I'm asking because I'm curious as to what are the highlights people who want to play this game are looking forward to.
>Gain experience to get stronger.
>Monsters in new ares are stronger to compensate.
>Gain better weapons.
>Monsters gain new powers and are hard to defeat.
>Repeat.
In these games, you NEVER actually get any stronger - it is only an illusion - because the monsters keep getting stronger, thus you are stuck on that perpetual leveling-tredmill to nowhere, always "challenged", but is that fun? The monsters may change skins, but they are still the same old sandboxed things you've been fighting since level 1. Sandboxed AI does not change the fact that your fighting against the computer. It's hard to find a good game nowadays.
I'd say the only SP RPG I really enjoyed was Baulders Gate 1 and 2 - I really felt like I was exploring and on an adventure. Getting more powerful was merely a sub-sect of the overall experience of exploring the world around you, but nevertheless, the experience component of the game was also done very well and was not just some added on after-thought. Exploring game - the ones where you cannot level (i.e. just about everything on consoles) - tend to be just as bad as your standard SP RPG IMO, just walking around mindlessly bashing everything that crosses your path without anything to gain from it. I really tried hard to get into Prince of Persia: Sands of Time when it came out because most gaming sites gave it a 9.0 out of 10. I just couldn't understand why "everyone" felt it so grand when I was bored out of my mind. I quit after trying the game for several hours a day for one week. It felt like a huge let down and big waste of money and time. I'd say that this is the main reason I can't stand single-player games, and haven't really sat down to play one and found myself enjoying one since I was a teenager (with the exception of BG1 and 2). I don't know if it's the multiplayer component that makes game special, or the way the game is put together like BG1 and 2. I can't put my finger on it, but I do know that games most people would give 10-stars, I wouldn't even give a nod.
Having said that, do you think the Elder Scroll series is any good? Lol, and no, this is not a setup to some bashing. I'm asking because I'm curious as to what are the highlights people who want to play this game are looking forward to.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin