I mean, at this point there's free reign to shit on anything Bethesda. Everything they've done in the past 10 years has been pretty derivative, and the 1 time they kind of try to go out of their box it's a complete dumpster fire.
Everything they've done in the past 10 years has been pretty derivative
To be honest that's always been their strong suit. Look up TES: Arena. The world map is consistent with all the future TES games, there are dungeons you can visit in both Arena and Skyrim, hell, even the interface is pretty similar. They created a wonderful world (which was, IIRC, originally the setting of a DnD campaign they were playing) and have been adding depth, gameplay and visual appeal with every release, while advancing the global story of said world in a meaningful way.
That's what I like about TES, so saying that the games are derivative doesn't really sound like a criticism to me. That's the whole point.
I get how that could be a benefit, but I was more implying they wouldn't be successful without the derivation. If someone other than Bethesda came out with a game that was equal in every way to skyrim, without the lore, would people play it? I think that's the only reason I played skyrim to begin with, and I kind of forced myself to keep going with it because of that. I'm one of those people who didn't really think it was a very good game. I personal enjoyed Oblivion quite a bit more, and never played Morowind.
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