This is true. everytime i see todd talk about streamlining stuff for a game i inch closer to wanting to finally kill my self. thats a big thing for todd and post MW bethesda it seems. streamlining should be more usefull menu navigation stuff, not dumbing down game systems present in previous games.
what system from Morrowind > Oblivion > Skyrim was not improved? Apart from the unique lore Skyrim is a superior version of Morrowind and certainly Oblivion.
for me, i noticed there's a few things that skyrim culled from the game:
Alchemy and enchanting is still broken in Skyrim and can be abused to create OP items.
That's subjective. Oblivion DB and Skyrim TG dwarf any faction quest in Morrowind.
You have horse carts in Skyrim, and probably other means of transportation too that I can't recall now. You don't have to use fast travel if you don't like it, but it saves a lot of wasted time. Morrowind's Mark/Recall + Siltstrider/Boat run is just a more tedious version of Skyrim's fast travel. Achieves the same result but costs more clicks.
That declutters the inventory. Do you really need R/L gauntlet in your inventory?
That's true but Skyrim has better combat all around and dual wielding.
i'll give you oblivion DB quest but thats aboutt the only good thing that game had. TG for skyrim is an odd pick because i remember that quest being particularly shitty because you literally do eeverytthing except being a thief. hell atleast the DB in skyrim had Cicero which was a fun character. and the twist being a guy helbent on destroying the guild while taking syphoning money from the guild is just what ever. the main faction quest is just and adventure. and the side faction quests are ass.
a lot of effects are missing tho. its an overall downgrade.
might as well not paly the game if you're gonna fast travel everywhere. atleast morrowindd provides context via spells and transportation. you gotta worrk more to fast travel. didn't put down a mark spell? well good job retard either walk back to quest giver, or the nearest tranportation option, or use your MAGIC SPELLS that allow you to either gain temporary run speeed boost, make you gainn the ability to cover tremendous distances in one jump, or just fly with the use of the levetation spell. Fast travel is just lazy and unimaginative.
skyrim's inventory system is not that good either, i would say that its a downgrade from morrowind. also yeah i need R/L gauntlets in my inventory because it gives me the chance to customize the look of my ingamee character, so that you know i can ROLE PLAY in an RPG.
combat animations are good, i'll give you that. while the combat for morrowind is notorious for being "shitty", i still like it because it makes you feel like you as a player have gotten stronger and more adept at handling enemies. since skyrim scales eenemis tto your level, after a while they kinda become damage sponges. granted its not as bad as in oblivion but its still apparent. Funposter can elaborate more on this since i really don't know the inner workings of the game but from playing it you can definitely feel it.
not really, i literally just finished playing morrowind a week ago, and i've been playing skyrim for far longer than that. over the course of 35+ hours i have tos ay its my favorite tes game. creeper and mudcrab really does break the game but unless you havee prior knowledge of it you'd really have a hard time figuring out how to exploit it. and mudcrab vendor can be easily missed/killed. depending on what you mean mechanically (if by better combat feeddback, better animations) i'd say sure, but i feel they really dumbed ddown the quests, and how to complete the quests. morrowind simply offers more freedom. well at least i feel so.
it could've telegraphed misssed hits to the player better though. maybe by sound cues like how daggerfall does it. but i pretty much aggree with what you're saying.
Funny how that works mate. Yes, it doesn't have to - but it does. When Morrowind tries to execute increase in difficulty - as in its expansions primarily - then it does so by making enemies' health bars buffier. Goblins don't employ no nasty tactics or anything else, they just have more HP. So, while in principle you're right, in practice this potential was left untapped.
Yeah, the expansions are the worst part of Morrowind. You shouldn't play them. The base game doesn't pull that shit.
I would argue the same applies to the vanilla, its just that the expansions are much better example because of how they escalate this. You mean to say that the game tries to vary up harder difficulties in ways other than buffing HP bars? There is little substantial difference between low level bandits and Golden Saints aside from their HP and how hard they hit.
in the case of tribunal i think that has more to do with the fact that they designed the dlc as end game content., while it should have been designed ass though the game shipped with it. then even some of the most basic dlc enemies have bigger hp than draemora lords i think. the dlc rebalance mod fixes this issue.
You're moving the goalposts. We were talking about damage sponges, not whether enemy tactics change as a form of difficulty. Golden Saints aren't damage sponges, even though they have more health than regular bandits, because your damage increases by the time you fight them.
And Skyrim's isn't?! Like holy shit, combat is one of the worst aspects of Skyrim. Even with extensive combat overhauls modded in, that shit still manages to be only borderline tolerable.
Its probably the main reason why Bethesda stopped releasing "making of" documentaries. After Oblivion they made it clear that they are clowns with only superficial understanding of the genre they are living off of. Yes, living off of because if they were to go all in on action games or FPS they would be bankrupt after a game or two if FO76 and Skyrim are any indication of the level of skill in those areas.
Is that really applicable for the oldies like Arena, Daggerfall and, hell, even Morrowind?
