TES V: Skyrim

Morrowind is the same way. Meganuke townkiller spells and flying around with levitation indefinitely, come to mind. I don't mind this kind of thing at all though.

 

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the no quest compass bit, I want something better than morrowinds "what you seek is that way somewhere"

 

@Frank: Speculating from your wishlist: Risen 2 will be more your cup of tea (if PB get their act together)

 

boots of blinding speed
Corpus disease

By the time I was finished with Corpus disease I had like 1000 strength and so forth.

 

Same - actually I'd be a bit annoyed if they went out of their way to prevent it. The game should reward you if you are creative enough. In the same vein of other games (particularly JRPGs like the Disgaea series) where often the system is designed to be balanced, but if you look hard enough they leave in loopholes that can give you ridiculous advantages.

As for Oblivion, AoE frenzy in a town was the best.

 

I kind of agree with the idea, but that doesn't mean take away fast travel. I played gothic 3 and I don't really agree. I got kind of bored. I made a huge effort to explore going up way over the falls and managing to get to places the game thought a player could not really go (same in morrowind) and there really wasn't much point. Maybe it was just the time gone by since I played morrowind that makes the same thing seem not as exciting.

 

I remember in Morrowind. I was screwing around outside of Vivec. There was a series of small islands that I was checking out since I was slightly bored. Eventually I got pretty far out into the ocean. Looking under the water between two of the islands I found a door.

I entered the door and found an enture submerged dwarven city. After battling the centurions and other dwarven machines I found one of the most powerful cuirasses in the game. 100% fire resistant.

Nothing like that ever happened in Oblivion. Not even close.

 

I remember a similar event in Morrowind, though not quite as epic as that! I just found a submerged ship in the ocean. Had to go get some water breathing potions as it was fairly deep down and found some nice glass armor down there which I had on me for eons before I could find someone to sell it to.

 

One of my replays of Morrowind was done with the benefit of online resources, so I was scouring the land looking for the best of everything and followed directions to find that door.

Daedric shrines are back in Skyrim, so hopefully good stuff to find inside.

 

The problem of leveled loot in Oblivion did make it less fun to explore, but there was a pretty fancy helm off the coast.

Still in Morrowind it was more fun to try and explore things over your head to get good loot. I did the island hopping thing right away and was getting killed by mudcrabs and stuff. Those fish were the worst I had to swim to the next island and sit there healing with the weak ring until I could go to the next one. If there was a crab when I dragged myself out of the water away from the slaughter fish then I would be killed

 

The great thing was that I never used a single outside resource when I played Morrowind. I found that thing totally on my own. That was back when I still knew how to properly play a videogame

 

Prediction: the dragons in Skyrim become the new cliff racer.

 

One would hope they wouldn't be that stupid a second time... but they were stupid enough to do it the first time and didn't realise how much of a pain in the ass they actually were. Of course I think it says more about Bethesda and game testing than crappy game design... no wait it does both.

 

They look more like Oblivion gate replacements. Wonder if you can run away after initiating a fight.

 

What was the problem with cliff racers anyway?

 

How is that a problem? I found that very fun personally. RUN AWAY!!! Quick to a city

 

Oh, I hope we can install Skyrim mods without having to download upteen dependencies, without having to follow a precise order and without taking a whole afternoon. After so many games one would think Bethesda would find a better system that doesn't trip on file dates or subsequent DLC.

 

KILL THEM ALL!!

Lol I learned archery solely for the purpose of sniping cliff racers before they decided to make it their one purpose in life to follow me to the ends of the earth and squawk at me.