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Originally Posted by keg in kc
People play for different reasons. While I've played all the TES games (excluding Skyrim, which I recently purchased...) I've always preferred BioWare-style RPGs because, to me, they're like novels in video game form. Cinematic, great scores, moving character moments. It's less about combat mechanics and loot, although they are still a key part of things. It's like being part of something, part of a story. Whereas Bethesda games aren't like that at all. Generally for me it's "tedious time sink" where other folks see gameplay, and I never really feel like I'm a character, the hero, rather just more of a guy sitting at a chair at home trying to raise my avatar's stats by angling my character in a corner of the mage guild basement while I tape my spacebar down to raise an athletic skill while I sleep (I literally did this in Morrowind  ). It's a grind.
Different strokes for different folks. 
That's the world we live in. It's like 15 million people watching American Idol while 400 thousand watch The Wire. I happen to think The Wire is a far better thing to watch, but I'm in the minority. |
Well, yeah... BioWare is king. BioWare know how to write some truly gripping stuff. They make you play for the story and make everything else secondary. Bethesda make the story secondary and focus on creating an open world. I get it. It's awesome in its own right. If you're going to give me an open world, however, give me a reason to keep exploring it. Give me some unique, epic items in dangerous places, make me work for them. Don't make me peak half way through the experience and get bored with it.
