Out of Pod Experience

So, I haven't finished Skyrim yet, probably never will, but I do disagree with some of your points:


The thieves guild quest chain was awesome, while I agree that Companions and Mage Guild were kind of lame. I haven't finished Dark Brotherhood yet, but so far it looks promising.
The shortcuts at the end of the Dungeons are awesome and I had tears of joy in my eyes when I realized that every dungeon had one. I mean, have you ever played Daggerfall? Murdering yourself for an hour through a ridiculously large Dungeon with a completely dysfunctional mini-map, and then spending about the same time trying to find your way out again through empty corridors?



Actually, I like how it was implemented in Skyrim. OK, no longer ridiculously overpowered 3-damage-types-poisons, but many handy potions that were quite helpful, like Invisibility or frost/fire resist. Fortify Smithing/enchanting were also awesome for crafting.


There's quite a bunch of NPCs that I found quite interesting, for example Cicero and Astrid from the DB.
And I completely love the voice of that Russian chick who voices all the Khajiit and Argonians (is it the same voice actress they had in Oblivion?)



Agreed . Even more ridiculous when just per chance the new archmage also happens to be the leader of the assassin's guild, the thieves guild, the blades and the fighter's guild...yeahh, riiight...

I enjoyed Morrowind over Oblivion btw, there are some shaders for it that make it look better even than Oblivion!

If they revamp Morrowind for the 360/xbox 1 I may never leave the apartment again.
Bethesda has a history of doing good work. The Elder Scrolls series has a tremendous amount of replayability to it, making any of the titles worth the money involved IMO. I loved Morrowind, never finished it, but loved it. I almost always chucked the plot out the window and just played the game as soon as I was free to do so.

Oblivion failed to hook me. Not exactly sure why, but it just didn't do the trick.

Skyrim I still play frequently, with hundreds of hours sunk into it and hundreds more to go before I toss it's limp and used carcass on the rubbish heap in a few more years. The alchemy system in it always gave me the giggles for some strange reason. Here you are playing this epic swords and sorcery game, hellbent on saving the world, and you spend an unusual amount of time picking flowers and chasing butterflies. For certain character archetypes this is actually pretty important for survival, so not griping, just find it humorous.

Looking forward to the next Fallout release eagerly, would not mind another Elder Scrolls game though at all.

http://www.kdramastars.com/articles/35927/20140905/elder-scrolls-6-confirmed.htm

TES VI: Argonia.

OOOH.


I keep going back to Skyrim (PC) because for all its faults, mods fix them all. NPC's? Immersive Characters Mod. Guilds and Factions? There's a mod for that.

I spend more time modding the game than playing. At last count, I had around 200 mods installed, running stable. At least half are graphics improvements, or gameplay improvements, half are armour (I like to play dress up more than saving the world apparently) and the rest are tiny little things like more road signs.

I sincerely hope they make TES VI compatible to the occulus rift. would be awesome.

Only play teh Skyrim on the Xbox 360 here. I know you can mod the shizzle out of it like you could the prior releases, but Skyrim in particular was designed to be more console friendly than the others and as such that is the platform I use for it. I know it's limiting, but still many hundreds of hours of fun with it and many more to come.

Okay, that is a special kind of awesome. Laziness factors in, as when it came out I had a gimpy machine that could handle little more than EVE. Over the decades I got tired of continually upgrading just so I could play the next game that came out, so I went for the console for the more graphically intense titles as I didn't need to keep slapping new hardware in.
I did use to run modded Morrowind in the wayback, but mostly for the magical arrows and the medium armor fix.

If you have problems with the executioner scene, the Live Another Life mod if perfect for you. Cuts out helgen entirely, with a small new quest to start the main story.

Waking up on a shipwreck in the middle of the sea, then realising with Frostfall on you're going to be half dead by the time you swim to shore really makes the game start awesome.


There are other mod sites as well out there, but nexus tends to be the best IMO, plus they are easy to install with the mod manager. There is another half decent site as well, but it tends towards the more adult and sexual mods.

Love Skyrim to death.
If I can make my character look like an awesome flaming horse riding Valkyrie in a game, I'm sold.