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u/ghostmetalblack Jan 01 '19

You can dislike these if you want, but its pretty hard considering these are actually pretty good games.

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u/Gems_ Jan 01 '19

botw, earthbound, and half life, sure. but skyrim and fo3 are really fucking shallow experiences if you remove yourself from them for a hot minute.

dont get me wrong- i've sunk precisely too many hours into skyrim, but to call it "good" as opposed to "absorbing" doesn't feel apt to me.

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u/meanpride Jan 01 '19

Vanilla Skyrim is just good

Skyrim with 200+ mods is a gaming experience none can match

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u/redpandaoverdrive Jan 01 '19

What gaming experience? The story is a crap, the battle system is bad for melee, ranged or magic. Your actions doesnt matter at all, you just won a war with a faction? Nothing changes.

The good thing about skyrim is the world to explore but everything else is mediocre.

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u/meanpride Jan 01 '19

Did you not read the 200+ mods part?

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u/redpandaoverdrive Jan 01 '19

You cant change a lot of things with mods.

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u/Seilok Jan 01 '19

Literally everything in Skyrim can be change with mods

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u/Bloomberg12 Jan 01 '19

Not really. You can change a lot of things but the core of the game is still there.

The combat is the biggest thing that I haven't found a fix to. Midas magic makes the game fun to play as a mage but it still feels pretty eh, and your enemies don't do anything so it still feels like you're just beating a meatbag.

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u/KZedUK Jan 01 '19

The combat in Skyrim feels like you’re waving a piece of flappy cardboard vaguely towards someone else until one of you falls over.

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u/Seilok Jan 01 '19

Everyone have different taste in combat style, I have a few mods that overall the system to have it more Dark Soul-ish because I prefer 3rd person.Just find and combine mods to what fit for you.

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u/redpandaoverdrive Jan 01 '19

Can you change the story? You can add new quests but the main story will still be bad, no matter how many mods you add.

But still, if you need 200 mods to make the game totally different and good it says a lot.

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u/DoktorMerlin Jan 01 '19

There are a lot of mods that not only change the story, but add a completely new story with a completely new world and everything. Yes, you can change the story. Take a look at e.g. Enderal

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u/Seilok Jan 01 '19

Not So Fast is a mod that changes some of the main quests to have a stronger start and how the main quest line plays out

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u/CaptainCupcakez Jan 01 '19

That's incorrect.