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Jonas wrote:I quite enjoyed being a super stealthy thief/assassin archer in Skyrim. The game plays extremely slowly that way, but almost every encounter is a one-hit kill, which is quite satisfying, and beats the game's IMO rather flaily melee combat. Skyrim's stealth system is very simple of course, but it holds up surprisingly well.
Yeah, I can lose myself in the Skyrim world but the melee combat isn't it's best feature. I struggle some-what until Smithing advances then there's a chance you can become overpowered. I tried stealth a bit in my last playthrough when I was with the Thieves Guild and, I believe, that's when the idea for a sneaking assassin germinated.
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Cybernetic pig wrote:
Jaedar wrote:
Cybernetic pig wrote:Been playing modded Morrowind and have just given up, boots of blinding speed pushed me too far, so overpowered. The game is a huge grind so I cannot be bothered with it any more. Still the best ES game though, before the massive decline of Oblivion and then further in Skyrim.
Objection! Skyrim is better than oblivion. Still not a good game though, imo.
This is going to be a half-assed argument because I remember neither games too well because there is only so many game worlds one can store in the memory bank and it's been some time. Well, I do remember them well enough.
Oblivion has that Pie-rim does not:
Weapon degradation.
Acrobatics Skill.
Non-linear dungeons that DON'T feature puzzles designed for pre-preschoolers.
Some quests that are not absolute mind-numbing shit
Attributes.
A not so shitty UI/inventory.

Pedantry: Arrows had weight, didn't cut to third person so often blah blah.

Now, Oblivion is still a piece of garbage but Skyrim they pacified too far.

Linear dungeons was the worst part. :evil:
Yeah, linear dungeons are terribly bad. It's a shame both games do only that. Attributes were ok, but the perks are sorta the same. I really can't compare the vanilla ui's, because I never really used either.

But the thing that truly matters, and the thing you forgot to put on your list, is that oblivion has absolutely retarded level scaling whereas skyrim only has a mostly dumb level scaling system. Oblivion also has the feature that all the dungeons look the same.

This is kind of a dumb argument though, arguing which game is worse. We should be discussing what games exist that do it better.
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Jaedar wrote:
We should be discussing what games exist that do it better.
Divinity II? Only coz after a bit of levelling waterfowl, chickens, and rabbits spontaneously combust when you walk by them. :lol:

I grew tired of my battlemage-werewolf in Skyrim and rolled the stealthy assassin. I'm up to level 25 and think I have died more in this playthrough than my last two runs combined, I'm closing in on backstab in the skill tree so it's 15X damage will hopefully increase my survivability rate. I have been investing skill points to get Archery, Sneak, and One-handed weapons as high as possible before joining the Thieves Guild then The Dark Brotherhood.
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I play The Sims occasionally, and so I made Trestkon in TS3. Don't ask why, I have no idea. :-k

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Hahah! Close enough :mrgreen:
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So Deus Ex: The Fall sucks.

The story has intrigued me enough to keep trying to play it but the bugged gameplay/combat/animations/controls/graphics do hinder progress...
And even then, the story feels a little tacked on. It's based around the events of the Deus Ex:HR spin off novel which I quite enjoyed.
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Yeah The Fall was an unfortunate little money-grab, which turned into a complete farce when they released it on PC. I'm still playing Quake (in its various iterations), and CS:GO casually. There are a number of arena shooters in development, which I'm very excited about: http://www.esreality.com/post/2634035/list-of-upcoming-arena-fps-games/
Hopefully that sort of thing will see a rise in popularity.
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You guys all quit gaming while I was taking my online break... sjeesh.

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Probably going to play a bit more with it (although I finished the campaign, many harder difficulty maps I have yet to conquer) and then pick my next game. Or continue the many I left hanging.

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Finished Wasteland 2 yesterday, promptly started The Banner Saga.

Tomorrow, Styx: Master of Shadows comes out. It's published by Kalypso, which usually means it'll look great but play like shit, but I have high hopes for it, so we'll see.
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Hassat Hunter wrote:You guys all quit gaming while I was taking my online break... sjeesh.
Actually I'm still playing, unfortunately offline until I get a place of my own. I'm playing Skyrim when time permits.
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I'm currently playing Xcom: enemy within: long war mod when time permits. It's pretty much to Xcom what brave new world was to Civ5. It makes it a decent game to play, that is still unfortunately plagued by a lot of the poor design decisions of the base.
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nerdenstein wrote:So Deus Ex: The Fall sucks.

The story has intrigued me enough to keep trying to play it but the bugged gameplay/combat/animations/controls/graphics do hinder progress...
And even then, the story feels a little tacked on. It's based around the events of the Deus Ex:HR spin off novel which I quite enjoyed.
Yeah the gameplay is pretty bad... laughable bad! Which is why on my todo list is to create a playthrough of it.. drawing yet MORE attention to how bad the bad parts are!

Still peaves me off that it I don't know the bloody ending!
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bobby 55 wrote:
Hassat Hunter wrote:You guys all quit gaming while I was taking my online break... sjeesh.
Actually I'm still playing, unfortunately offline until I get a place of my own. I'm playing Skyrim when time permits.
Yes my online self misses my coop buddy...
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Thought I'd bump this thread, if that's alright. Been playing:

Reflex (indie arena FPS, search on Steam)
The Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna (excellent expansion for this game, I was expecting to be disappointed).
Thief: Gold with graphics mods. Obviously quite dated visually and substantially, but it still surprises me with some of its design choices - the level design in particular.
I also played the Stanley Parable for about 20 minutes before I became utterly sick of its pretentiousness. It tries so damn hard to be edgy, unconventional and intelligent while the game itself is about as banal and conventional as it gets. One of the most contrived games I've played - good thing I got it as a gift.
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kdawg88 wrote: The Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna (excellent expansion for this game, I was expecting to be disappointed).
I was meaning to buy this, but it felt pretty expensive for DLC.

How long would you say it is, and does it have new puzzle mechanics? I got pretty sated with the ones in the main game.
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