You need to learn how to read, my point is stated very clearly.
Not really. Skyrim lacks some of the appeal that Morrowind had, such as a fully original and exotic setting, complex and layered main story, fun spell effects, etc.
What exactly is broken about Skyrim's lockpicking? I should remind you that Morrowind's lockpicking consisted of "equip lockpick instead of weapon, click lock, have it break, repeat clickfest ad nauseum until the stars align and the lock opens".
There's a red flashing DANGER when a creature is headed right for you.
To be honest, that is one argument I don't get. I'm quite choosey when it comes to food, but that doesn't mean I have to dine in a classy restaurant every time I go out to enjoy myself. Skyrim with Requiem is the gaming equivalent of fast food; its made of questionable ingredients and not good for your health, but it's fun.
Okay, I'm not going to read too much into that but I guess that next, you will be saying that DA:I is "fun to play and having a lot of good stuff in it" and "incline compared to DA2".
lol what?
both Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild are pure shit in Skyrim
If Skyrim wasn't a Bethesta game, your point might be somewhat valid. However that is not the case because it was made by the same guys that brought us Daggerfall and Morrowind. So you have to face the fact that they deliberately dumbed their games down regarding various gameplay elements which I and many other people valued very high. In my understanding, this is very much the opposite of decline.
I won't bother adressing every single point. Some are highly subjective (I preferred the informative wiki style dialogue over the fully voiced-over dialogue remnants), some improvements are to be expected to happen with 8 years of technology advancement and a budget thats multiple times larger, some are some are justified indeed. Morrowind was far from a perfect game (actually I still think the biggest flaw is that you move like a cripple for the first few hours), but complaining about broken alchemy system in MW while praising the crafting system in Skyrim... Oh, whatever.
I will agree with these two. I didn't say SKYRIM HAS EVERY SINGLE THING WE LIKED IN MORROWIND, did I?
I've addressed the levitation issue in the post you failed to read due to the vomit-spewing neckbeard shitlord instincts kicking in.
Rendered obsolete by fast travel system, which was the staple of every single TES game with the exception of Morrowind. I myself prefer Morrowind's in-universe transport system myself, but there's nothing wrong with fast travel.
You mean, like fast travel from Daggerfall?
No, not like that. In Skyrim you need to visit the location before being able to fast travel there.A gameplay abstraction that ultimately amounts to little more than hand-holding. Roleplaying a specific class involves using skills that pertain to this class - if you need the game to remind you "YOUR MAGE ISN'T SUPPOSED TO QUICKLY LEVEL SWORDS AND HEAVY ARMOR", then you're doing something wrong. I'm playing as a mage in Skyrim, and I only get regular skill growth in magic skills, Alchemy and Smithing, plus a skillpoint in Lockpicking every now and then, because these are the skills I actually find useful and consistent with my envisioned character class (there's no reason why a mage can't be an expert goldsmith who crafts his own amulets before enchanting them).
Oh yeah, like the way you totally can't become leader of both Telvanni and Mage's Guild, or both Imperial Cult and Almsivi Temple, right?
Morrowind had you choose one out of three Dunmer Houses, but in all honesty, the only real in-universe option was House Hlaalu. There's no possible way that Telvanni or Redoran would accept an outlander n'wa among their ranks, let alone become their leader. This includes outlander Dunmer, and especially all other races. Yeah, I'm sure there's nothing ridiculous about an Argonian or Khajiit becoming leader of House Telvanni. There's plenty useful unique loot in Skyrim, including Sheogorath's Wabbajack that has a random effect, up and including transforming your enemy into a mudcrab or a dremora lord.
Following the quest compass is unnecessary in Skyrim, you can pretty much disable it entirely. It's true that NPCs don't give you directions to the quest location, but once you look it up in the journal/map, you can freely explore the game world and find it on your own, provided you remember the general direction and what you're supposed to be looking for. That's how I do it, at any rate, no quest compass.
I wouldn't know, I'm playing as a mage, and since I don't need the game to slap my wrists every time I do something non-mage-related, I never tried to join thieving organizations due to not being a thief.both Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild are pure shit in Skyrim
Playing on minimal difficulty can do wonders, I'm sure.
Now try turning difficulty to max and tell me how quickly the dragon drained your health bar - 1 second or 2?You've never actually played Skyrim, have you? NPCs are not horribly-voiced, there's plenty with more than 2-3 dialogue options, and they give more than 2-3 sentences, and talk about more than just giving a quest. Dialogue in Skyrim is fine. Better than Morrowind, at any rate. Most NPCs in Morrowind didn't even have unique lines, beyond the wiki keywords - it was rare to see a fisherman say something about fish and poverty, or a duke say something about ruling. Which is odd, because Morrowind didn't have voice-overs, they could easily have personalized each NPCs lines to reflect their personality/status and chose not to do it. Remove generic wiki entries, and most Morrowind NPCs will have one character-specific keyword giving a briscue one-two sentence reply. If that.
It was very deep when the guildmaster of Mage's Guild joined House Telvanni and became their leader, after than became head of both Almisivi Temple and Imperial Cult.
Now you're comparing lore to NPC AI, which makes you an utter fucking retard.
A broken system that renders all other mechanics meaningless and the game effortless is indeed a big deal. There's a challenge in completing actions the way they are meant to be completed, and they are by no means easy or trivial in Skyrim, provided you don't play at minimum difficulty which you obvious do. There's no challenge in removing the enemy/lock/obstacle with one click because you've crafted a spell/enchantment/potion of over 9000 points with the grandmaster alchemy alembic you stole from an unguarded room in a random mage guild.
90% of dungeons in Morrowind were a couple of rooms with little to nothing in them beyond a couple generic enemies. Skyrim has vast, sprawling dungeons filled with traps, puzzles, dungeon-specific enemies, quest items, and a unique boss fight in the end. Again, no contest, Skyrim wins by default because Morrowind had next to nothing.
Your post is the dumbest thing I've seen in my life.
In other words, it's popular to hate Bethesda in our neckbeard clique, therefore we must mindlessly reject anything that draws it in a vaguely positive light.
This is not subjective nor is it a matter of taste. It's a matter of having taste and being able to recognize a half-assed fluke when you see one. Morrowind monologue system was the laziest, most pointless piece of shit seen in a video game - even Daggerfall and Arena had better NPC interaction than that. Any game that lets you interact with NPCs is supposed to provide the means, by which the player gradually discovers facts about the game world, its history, metaphysics, etc. Morrowind was the only one that info-dumped the entire exposition as a list of generic non-interactive character-non-specific wiki entries, instead of trying to actually create dialogue and incorporate the information into the characters' responses. It was shit, pure and simple. And the most damning factor was the lack of voice-over - which I actually prefer in CRPGs because it removes restrictions from developers, allowing them to create as much text as they need, without being restricted by how much they need to pay voice actors. Morrowind could have had the best dialogue system in the history of the series, and it ended up having the worst.
I have indeed, because I had neither the time nor patience to waste twenty lockpicks on each Master lock, trying to find the perfect angle that doesn't insta-break the lockpick. Since the angle randomly resets every time you access the lock, you can't even accuse the system of being susceptible to save-scumming. So, unless you enjoy when a game arbitrarily forbids you to even attempt to engage in lockpicking because "YOU NEED X POINTS IN LOCKPICK BEFORE WE EVEN LET YOU TRY", there's really nothing wrong with Skyrim's lockpicking. Some games have better, others have worse, but it's certainly superior to Morrowind's "let's clickfest the lock to death".
