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Originally Posted by Pants

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.

That was the irony back when DA2 was out and people were complaining about the caves being reused. People who in the same thread would talk about how awesome Oblivion was. And I'm thinking, "wait, what? every environment, every freaking thing, in that entire game is recycled..."

I hear it's better in Skyrim but randomly generated dungeons that all pretty much looked the same with the same level-based enemies popping up everywhere eventually got old for me. I don't think I ever even finished half the main storyline in Oblivion before I got bored and went on to something else (probably lord of the rings online at that point - nothing kills SP gaming like MMOs - i'm in SWTOR right now, with 27 other games on my harddrive at the moment...)