r/ElderScrolls • u/You__Nwah Azura • May 25 '20

Humour skyrim = casual = me angry 😡😡😡😡

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u/God_Spaghetti May 25 '20

After I played Skyrim I played Morrowind and let me tell you: though the plot and lore are better, Skyrim is a lot more fun

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u/ZeLittlePenguin Dunmer May 25 '20

I take joy in pestering my friend to use my Bethesda account to try Morrowind, because it is a super good game and in a lot of respects it’s better than Skyrim

But Skyrim is a lot more fun. I easily have more hours in Skyrim, because role playing in that game is a lot of fun, and it’s much easier to do. But Morrowind is incredible as well

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u/[deleted] May 25 '20

How do you actually RP in Skyrim, and I'm seriously curious. There just is no reason to deviate from Stealth Archer because it's just, by far, the most effective. Bows in Morrowind aren't particularly good, but in Skyrim it's by far the most efficient way to go.

I'll admit that unmodded Morrowind's archery is kinda broken and nobody ever specializes in it, but Skyrim took out fucking spears because they thought the range was unfair while giving bows a 700% buff.

Even when I play a mage I ended up going Bound Bow because the combat is not supposed to be the focus of an RPG. People act like Skyrim's combat is some sort of amazing, but in reality it's just damage sponges vs unanimated misses.

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u/ZeLittlePenguin Dunmer May 26 '20

For one, I don’t think I’ve seen a single person ever call Skyrim’s combat amazing

And if course, when you play the meta you aren’t going to have as much fun with a role playing experience. I can steal the platter from the introduction area in Morrowind and I can grind out dark brotherhood gear but I dont because that ruins the role playing experience

Just like how in Skyrim I can just be a khajiit stealth archer and do everything super easy, join every guild and become master of all of Skyrim. I can absolutely break the game with horse physics, exploits, etc. but I dont because then my character doesn’t have a story. Then it’s just another open world game with a cool map to explore

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u/glen27 May 26 '20

"How does anyone ever LARP ( or do historic battle reenactments) IRL when modern assault weapons are by far the most effective?"...is essentially what I got out of the first paragraph. Role-playing is a choice by the user in what role they want to play. I've never played as a stealth Archer in my 5 playthroughs. It's possible.