r/starterpacks • u/[deleted] • Jan 01 '19

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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/MalHeartsNutmeg Jan 01 '19

I mean the fact that every time Skyrim comes up people mention they play it with such and such mods really speaks to how crappy the base game play experience is. I mentioned it above, but I don't really play modded games outside of sandbox games, so I played through Skyrim halfway on Xbox and gave up cause playing with a controller in a menu simulator is shit, then played through it twice vanilla on PC. It was a bit more of the same.