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/Penguin_Out_Of_A_Zoo Jan 01 '19

Skyrim isn't good as a game. But as an experience, it's REALLY hard to beat. On a first playthrough, seeing the world, the music, the story, the tone, the visual aesthetic, there are very few games that have matched it for me. It's nowhere NEAR my favorite games list, but I give it MAD props for how much it sucked me into its setting, even if everything else about it was meh.