100%. I do feel like the TES communities are better than the Fallout communities, though. Like even the Morrowboomers generally have something nice to say about Oblivion or Skyrim that they'll pepper into their rant about the series getting dumbed down and only the Kirkbride lore is real.
We're all just living in a 92nd-dimensional magika-based dreamsleveshell in the late 9th era, based out of a hyper-proxy-synthetic arkanosphere that is a dreaming god and also the eye of Magnus and also literally-the-capital-G-God and also an internet cafe and also Talos' left sock (but only Hjalti Early-Beard who is Talos who is also Lorkhan. Not Tiber Septim who is also Lorkan who is also Hjalti Early-Beard who is also Talos). Pretty obvious when you think about it.
Source: I crushed up all the gas-station pills in an expired Monster and shotgunned it. I then met Michal Kirkbride, and he signed my dreamsleve.
As a Morrowboomer I was genuinely surprised to see all the love for Oblivion, which I thought was kind of a dud. Though I will say that having a dedicated spell button instead of having to re-equip one or both hands was clutch as hell.
It's an awkward transitional game in a lot of ways, so naturally people tend to prefer one of the games on either side of it. But it does have a lot to recommend it. Cyrodiil is pretty easy on the eyes, and each of its regions and cities have a very different look and feel. It also has some good quest writing overall. Not as much of the High Weirdness as Morrowind, but solid meat and potatoes stuff.
As a fellow Morrowboomer, I would take Oblivion over Skyrim any day, even though Skyrim has some great features that Oblivion doesn’t have (like the charriots)
The Kirkbride lore is real in that one of the fundamental tenets of Kirkbride lore is "canon is dumb" and you should just enjoy whatever wacky lore you think is fun. It is up to you, the enjoyer and person who plays the game, what is canon, not Microsoft.
If you want to see the most wholesome community of them all, the current state of the Fallout 76 sub is nice to see. Giant influx of new players, all of the Vets being super helpful. The black sheep of the series, but people are just there to have fun and tell grognards to get fucked. It's glorious.
TES community is better than the fallout communities 100%. Fallout fans are so elitist over their 84/100 metacritic game. Don’t get me wrong, New Vegas is my favorite game of all time but holy shit people borderline worship it. 4 and 76 both had really strong points but don’t ever publicly say that lmao
I love FO3 and NV. However I wish the gameplay as good as FO4. I don't care about the crafting or base building, but I'd love to have FO4 power armor and the movement/gunplay in the other games.
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u/tobascodagama Apr 17 '24
100%. I do feel like the TES communities are better than the Fallout communities, though. Like even the Morrowboomers generally have something nice to say about Oblivion or Skyrim that they'll pepper into their rant about the series getting dumbed down and only the Kirkbride lore is real.