I was watching “…why Skyrim?” by Razbuten on sloptube this aft and it’s so weird that it finally took Starfield for people to realise. Like Fallout 76 wasn’t enough, only now are negative things people were first saying about Skyrim in 2012 finally bleeding into mainstream consciousness. It’s so wild, like wow they ruined the magic system? The game has worse writing than a PS1 era Mega Man X game??? Skyrim is just shitty Game of Thrones?? Welcome to thirteen years ago!!
Bethesda hasn’t made a really good game since 2002, but it’ll probably be years before that realisation sinks in.
there’s basically no other first person, open world, fantasy RPG out there. the closest i can think of at the moment is like, kingdom come: deliverance, which aside from not really being fantasy (other than its idealized racially pure christian ethnostate version of europe) has garbage inaccessible combat you have to grind hours of being a racist czech peasant to even access the tutorial of. also it has no playable cat bois. skyrim is mediocre at best but it fills that niche of first person, open world, fantasy RPG with accessible and simple combat mechanics, and has the khajiit on top of that.
Perhaps even more importantly, who else is out here releasing the SDK tools for their game alongside it and letting players just go nuts with radically altering the bland base experience? Nobody, not even Bethesda anymore.
I hope Avowed comes out someday and is cool because I like the Pillars of Eternity world but 100% chance that it’s not moddable and just fades out of relevance within a year.
Avowed is going to be terrible and it’s going to be a stain on the PoE world.
Yea… I posit we replace Skyrim with something else tbh.