Skyrim will go down as the greatest example of "visual dopamine over substance" compared to any other game released. There is no good worldbuilding foundation, people know the narrative is vapid, any good lore was created back in Morrowind, and the only thing that saved it from a fate of irrelevance was its modability. The modding community is a mirror of the games shallow nature, dressing up their dolls and world to hide from the utter revulsion and disappointment that there is absolutely nothing else to latch onto. After all, porn is by its nature a quick dopamine hit, a self gratifying experience that can blind you to reality, in this case, the reality that Skyrim fucking sucks.
>>3927682lol you can fix skyrim with like 10 modsits only flaws are being buggybad game balance and bad performancei would cry if i could play skyrim with likeactual AAA game level polish
>>3927682not your personal blog
Number of porn mods I’ve ever put on Skyrim: 0
>>3927682Less than 10% of Skyrim's total players have ever played with mods you freak. Also >>3927720. Suck it.
>>3927682literal non-issue, get a job
15 years later and autists are still seething about Skyrim. It's an amazing game and nothing anybody says will change that.
>>3927682*tips*
Skyrim will go down as a classic game while you will go down like a bag of rocks hung on a ceiling fan
>>3927682OP gooned to skyrim on valentines day and made a thread
Skyrim has been popular and overall well received for like 15 years, but one day soon suddenly the dopamine hit will wear off and everyone will hate it
>>3928089if people can consider trash like bioware games as great games I don't see how skyrim is getting dethroned unless TES6 gets released
>He didn't read KINMUNE and World-Eating 101 during the leadup to Skyrim
>>3927682It was a great game when it came out. People forget this game came out in the 360/ps3 era. It was revolutionary. Mind shattering even. Yea there's been better stuff since, but for its time it was an epic game with a world that was easy to latch on to.
>>3928583>It was revolutionary. Mind shattering evenYou confuse your lack of experience with the media back then with the game's actual quality.
>>3928089You can go tell that to all the homeless zombies that die the fucking streets moron.
>>3928685Sounds like exactly the same situation
>>3928583Did you play Oblivion before Skyrim came out because bethesda dumbed down Skyrim from Oblivion witch was a dumbed down Morrowwind. Honestly Skyrim is a ok starter rpg but if you liked and played rpgs before skyrim it wasn't mind shattering at all just disappointing. Fuck Bethesda it self doesn't even make rpgs any more just action adventure games.
>>3928687Oblivion was simplified to make it console friendly, but it wasn't actually that dumbed-down compared to Morrowind.It was actually the perfect balance of gameplay and story once you realized how you were supposed to play.
>>3927682What no female contact on Valentine's does to a mf
>>3928678>mediaStopped reading here
>>3927682>Skyrim will go down as the greatest example of "visual dopamine over substance" compared to any other game released>After all, porn is by its nature a quick dopamine hit, a self gratifying experienceThe amount of pretentious faggotry on this board always bemuses me.Video games are inherently a self-gratifying experience. People play video games because they want to have fun. I'm not saying that Skyrim is particularly fun, but you are convincing no one if you tell them that you play video games to appreciate "high art" or anything like that.If Skyrim is a terrible game because people play it for dopamine hits then nearly all video games are bad because the primary reason people play video games is for dopamine. Now that statement isn't necessarily logically flawed on its own but since you're obviously comparing Skyrim to other games, you have to admit your favorite games are shit for the same reason Skyrim is if this is the argument you're standing on, unless you earnestly mean to tell me you don't actually enjoying playing your favorite games.
>>3928583Most people don't finish games, especially not rpgs.The only revolutionary part of skyrim is how front loaded it is.
Skyrim is fun as fuck. I recently revisited it and had a blast. I first played through it on ps3 2013/2014 and had a blast. its leveling system in some ways is worse than oblivion but it definitely has an interesting world and tons of fun shit to get into. it has the normal level of Bethesda shit slop but is still among their best products. its an overall really great game, definitely one of the best from the 2010s decade and to pretend it isn't is just contrarian.
>>3928944>if you tell them that you play video games to appreciate "high art" or anything like thatNTA. Most of asspain towards Skyrim is focused on it being "dumbed down" (which doesn't always make sense when comparing it to Oblivion), so expect being called low iq.what's up with anime posters always having the sanest opinions?
>>3927682It's zoomers' Ocarina of Time, it'll go down as one of the greatest games ever made because of nostalgia.
>>3929508>>3927682>>3928583>single player game that has maintained its status in the top 20 most played games for 15 years straight>peaked at over 40,000 players TODAY, February 17th 2026>has over 3 billion downloads across 200,000 mods>Yeah it's just nostalgia lol, people don't even really like this game
>>3928944Personally, I play games not so much for fun, but for the experience, so 'high art' games are also on the radar (though there's not a lot of them). Generally, if it has nice ambience/atmosphere, I'll rate the game higher.
>>3929518How anybody can be nostalgic about a game released in 2011?
>>3930569What is the minimum amount of time that must pass before something is illegible for nostalgia?The answer is that there is none, I feel nostalgic for shit that happened 5 years ago.
>>3930569Your experiences aren't universal, a zoomer who played it as a kid will have more nostalgia for it than someone who played as an adult.
>>3927682>visual dopamine>SkyrimAre you blind? Or, maybe, you are one of modern designers? Skyrim is as gray and bland as it gets except for underground mushrooms and dlc Hermaeus' location.And the only relatively unusual thing of potential if applied properly - uniqueness of a sharp grey rock of Skyrim's visual design - Todd had removed by catering to "fans" by adding Oblivion color scheme on completely differently planned Skyrim in Legendary (or whatever the name is) edition ruining whichever atmosphere there was at all.Skyrim consists of about 5% of unique gray rock aestetics locations like that vertical city, about 5% separate things, that nevertheless fit the aestetic like that necromancer's stone, 1% of cool locations i had mentioned above and 89% of boring thundra, boring caves, boring cities and boring mountains. Cut those 89% - and you'll receive almost eye-candy of stony mountains coolness.But Skyrim as it is is a watered down bland thing on the average and a watered down bland thing with atmosphere removed even from good places post-Oblivionification of colors.
>>3927682incorrect, bosmer scum
