How did such a mundane game become one of the most influential games of all time?
>>742286370Modding
>>742286370Released at the right time
>>742286691This. Released during the rise of social media allowing memes to propel it to success far beyond what it deserved. I still love it even if it's kind of a piece of shit.
>>742286691>>742286841This, it also helps that they had relatively little competition. As much as people rightfully shit on Bethesda's latest Oblivion mods, they're also the only ones who made games like that.
>>742286691>>742286841>>742286995This.
>>742286370It isn't though? What games were influenced by Skyrim?
>>742286841What other games have been "released at the right time"? Like for example Genshin at the magic covid time window or uhhh Mario 64 and Zelda OOT at the dawn of 3d games I guess?
it feel pretty good to walk into a cave with a hammer and go WOP WOP WOP WOP
Canvas for the dreams and lust of talented modders and the people who download them. Also the only open world game that feels like a world and not just busy work for your gpu.
the next tes game is going to be garbage isn't it
>>742286370>become one of the most influential games of all time?>barely any games have any aspects of itWhats the influence again
>>742287150>>742287795People think of a (w)rpg, this one's likely the first one to come to their minds
>>742291257Actually these days I'm going to guess that'd be BG3. Regardless, you're mistaking popular for influential and those are not the same thing.
>>742287192Dark Souls 1>>742287726if they listen to the feedback about Starfield, then I dont think so? Or they just copy Elden Ring with Bethesdas usual jank and it sucks ass but sells billions
>>742287192World of Warcraft.
>>742286370By being a masterpiece.https://youtu.be/c6q2t2GSJb8>>74228658790% of Skyrim players do not mod.
>>742286370Most people are boring
>>742291835>Bethesda>listening to feedbacklollmao
>>742286370I've never played it nor any scrolls game
>>742291835>usual jank>can complete quests by plowing your own summonstypical Bugthesda move... no game breaking problems in hotm, really nice environments, kinda small and the side quests feel like fallout for some reason?
>>742286370Open world games are by far the most popular, they are pretty much video games reaching their full potential.
>>742286370No game outside of perhaps RDR2 has an open world as detailed in interactions as Skyrim's.
>>742292860Whats HOTM?>>742294182Elden Ring?
>>742294182KCD1, pleb
>>742287726hi revisionist. skyrim already did that
>>742286370Open world games were way less common and when they were done they were almost exclusively shallow. A "proper" open world game where you can enter almost every building and had lots of npc's with unique dialogue and branching story paths was at one point something that could only be properly done by the big dawg studios.
>>742294534What interactions does Elden Ring have outside of combatcombatcombatcombatcombat.
>>742294785You have quests in the game? Did you play ER? There's the quests, a few villages, merchants, portals to take you place to place, and objects like statues you can move to get access to other areas. There's also a few places with environmental dangers.What does Skyrim or RDR2 have that isn't just combat?
>>742294761>where you can enter almost every building and had lots of npc's with unique dialogue and branching story pathsMost RPGs don't do this still, which is what's funny. The whole "every NPC has a house assigned to them and you can enter it yourself and it's fully decorated with every item having physics and being able to be picked up in your inventory" shtick.
>>742295029>You have questsPic related quests.>Did you play ER?70 hours, yeah.>a few villagesEverything's fucking dead and zombified. Only place that I remember that isn't is the Jar Village.>portals to take you place to placePlaces where you do nothing but combatcombatcombat>What does Skyrim or RDR2 have that isn't just combat?Actual towns with actual NPCs and actual shops, a world that's alive and not full of not!hollows. Trains, factories, functional farms, functional guard outposts, functional mines, functional carriages, functional inns and taverns where you can eat, drink and bath, barber, clothes shops, factions to join, etc.
>>742286370> Why do people like things I don't?Schadenfreude. We know it causes you no end of misery that your favorite game is forgotten while Skyrim is beloved.
>>742286370If its so mundane then why hasn't anyone else been able to make an actual "scrolls-like"?Skyrim has tons of flaws, but the sad truth is that nobody else is able and willing to do it
>>742295652Skyrim was just combatcombatcombat too though, they got rid of everything that made elder scrolls interesting including decent writing and just kept funneling you into the same dungeons, which ironically elden ring did much better
>>742298775Wrong, on all accounts.
>>742299512It's okay to be retarded, you're in good company around here.
>>742299540>It's okay to be retardedIt really isn't, which is why I'm not stopping to your level.
>>742298775Morrowind is also nothing but combat and talking to npcs (selecting dialogue options)
Modding aside, there aren't a lot of games that even attempt to reach the level of immersive/interactive world elements that Skyrim and oblivion have. Anything that isn't nailed down, you can take. The number of pieces of the world you can interact with for no reason is high. That and the NPC's move and act in interesting ways. It was the next level of CRPG that hadn't been seen since Ultima VII, and hasn't really been seen since. Crimson desert comes close.
>>742287726Bethesda have never made a truly good game. TES6 won't be the exception.
