Spoony the Pussy One: Life is in the Render Queue

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

The only game he may have liked was Skyrim on easy mode, and he got tired of that too.

Can't blame him, honestly. It is Skyrim, after all. It'd rather watch paint dry that play this abomination.

[Complicity]

The only game he may have liked was Skyrim on easy mode, and he got tired of that too.

Can't blame him, honestly. It is Skyrim, after all. It'd rather watch paint dry that play this abomination.

The (((Anniversary Edition))) is not too bad, with the legendary difficulty, and the survival mode, and the enhanced graphics, and all the extra content Bugthesda stole from modders.
But it takes all of that at the same time to make the game decent.
The fact this midwit at some point loved and openly defended the basic version on Twatter tells all there is to know about him.

[rabidtictac]

A lot of that mod content that bugthesda stole is pretty fucking bad. Extra pointless weapons and armor or "pets" aka more followers to make the game even easier than it already is.

I never bothered with survival mode but I've heard it's very tedious. Skyrim in general has a fuck-stupid difficulty curve that no amount of modding can fix unless you just straight-up remove level scaling entirely. Followers are a good example of a mechanic that shouldn't be vestigial but very much still fucking is. Many of them don't level past 20 or maybe 40 if you are lucky... In a game where you can technically level forever (which is itself fucking garbage design.) So this narrows the pool of useful companions down to very few. On top of that, the frequency at which companions and npcs die is so common that you won't want to bring any companion with you unless they're flagged as essential or they're so strong they will almost never go down. So this limits you to pretty much mage class characters and Serana. Oh and mage companions are broken in every version of the game, because they aimbot with spells. They can make shots with spells like Ice Spike that no human player could make, and it becomes obvious when you watch that their attacks are actually seeking the enemies in a way your magic does not.

That, plus the fact they can cast armor and healing spells make mage followers so much better than every other kind of follower that there's no contest.

This and many other things are COMPLETELY UNFIXED in whatever the newest version of Skyrim is, because you can't fix it without changing the way the game is. And Todd won't do that. He won't remove the level scaling, he won't rebalance follower AI and he won't flag all followers as essential NPCs. Not that I particularly want him to do the last one, as it amounts to little more than a band-aid fix for the retarded amount of damage that aimbotting dragons with DoT breaths can do to followers and neutral NPCs.

The real fix for Skyrim would be removing level scaling entirely, adding a level cap and removing dragons from the game. Entirely. Fucking remove all the dragons except in story missions. The random dragons add nothing to the game and their AI is awful. They respawn way too frequently too so they're always threatening questgivers whenever the player is nearby.

Shouts suck too. Oblivion had magic on its own dedicated button. Shouts are just shitty magic that works on a cooldown, only now other magic spells have to be slotted in weapon spots/shortcuts instead of having a dedicated button for a healing spell. I know Shouts are iconic but they're shitty. Most are useless and a few are overpowered. Every player uses the same shouts.

TL;DR Skyrim sucks and it will never stop sucking because it's fucking Skyrim. Oblivion has many problems but is still easily 10x the game Skyrim is because it's funny and has stats.

[Complicity]

I never bothered with survival mode but I've heard it's very tedious.

You just have to eat cooked food regularly (there's also a fishing mod), sleep regularly and stay warm, for example by strategically setting up camp between the town and the dungeon.
Just stuff to do to not fall asleep irl while playing, that becomes (kinda) fun if coupled with legendary difficulty.

more followers to make the game even easier than it already is.

Followers are a handicap in legendary mode.
The reason i (kinda) like it is because it must be played like Morrowind on max difficulty:
Faggy stealth sniper with conjured Daedric weapons and occasional summoned tank, aka the Witchhunter class in Morrowind.
Basically it becomes a stealth rpg game rather than a shitty action rpg.

Extra pointless weapons and armor

Muh Morrowind robes for mages!
Muh Chitin armor!
Muh Bonemold armor!
Muh Netch leather armor!
Muh Tribunal masks!
Muh Ordinator sets (Tribunal and Her Hand)!
Muh reverse-Bloodmoon expansion (Morrowind-like island on Skyrim, as opposed to Skyrim-like island on Morrowind)!

Yeah the reason i (kinda) like the Todd Howard Edition is because the game has been turned into a Morrowind nostalgia fest, with fancier graphics and unfortunately shittier writing.

pets

I don't know anything about those, but the Dwemer horse and the Daedric horse look good.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Level scaling is fucking shit. It's amazing how an RPG series can fail so hard at a gameplay loop.

You just have to eat cooked food regularly (there's also a fishing mod), sleep regularly and stay warm

So you're getting debuffs if you forgot mummy's hobnobs and muffler. Amazing.

Faggy stealth sniper with conjured Daedric weapons and occasional summoned tank, aka the Witchhunter class in Morrowind.
Basically it becomes a stealth rpg game rather than a shitty action rpg.

There's a good chance you won't have to play the game differently, because stealth archers are already one of the most broken builds in this game.

[Old Black Man]

“Hey Skeever butt!”

Best shout ever. Also The Winking Skeever is the most suggestive name for an inn.

[Kugelfisch]

I found Skirim to be very boring. Finished the Dark Brotherhood quest line, started the thieves guild, though all of it was gay and shit and gay.
I have under 40 hours in Skyrim. Dropped it after a couple of weeks, never picked it up again.

For comparison, I have easily more hours on my Arduboy Tetris Microcard that I just very rarely play when I need to bridge a few minutes of waiting time.



Not an endorsement of that video, just so you know what the fuck that thing is. It plays Tetris. That's it.

[rabidtictac]

Tetris is always tetris. I prefer lumines but tetris is the classic.

[Kugelfisch]

Tetris is always tetris. I prefer lumines but tetris is the classic.

Both are great but in different ways. Lumines is theoretically easy to play forever and gets you into a flow state.

Tetris is this impossible to win game that somehow, a thousand hours in, will just have you set down a brick in a slightly different way you never thought about and it will feel like a revelation you can't explain to nobody because it appears to be so daft.

I actually didn't like Tetris back on the Gameboy. Then I spent an entire year playing just about only Tetris.
It's as deep and rewarding as Chess pretends to be. Sounds really dumb, because it kind of is. You don't play Tetris to win, you play it for that one series of three brilliant drops you made subconsciously, surprising yourself and for the general satisfaction of proper execution in between those thousands of decisions.

Tetris will also mess with you. I've dreamt of it. Couldn't fully awake because I had to finish that game or just stared at a traffic light and considered how to place that Z-piece in that random playfield that just appeared in my mind.
It feels like being a savant in something incredibly useless.

And then Tetris fever just disappears and you don't play it for years.

[pibbs]

OH no! What could it be?

Not all that surprised how less of a man he is.