[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

I wont say its better than Skyrim. I logged HUNDREDS of hours on Skyrim over a plethora of different characters. Skyrim is as badass an RPG as they come.

This one for me is very very solid, but it doesnt compel me to keep playing exclusively like Skyrim did. I kinda stalled out at the 30 hour mark when looting became more like garbage digging because crafting the weapons/armor is the way to elite gear.

The story is fair, and the sidequest list is a mile long so theres always a ton of stuff to do. Its a game I can play and know that this thing is going to take me a long time to complete. Its one of those games that is great to play, but doesnt get me addicted to where I blaze through the game in constant 12-15 hour play sessions and quickly get sucked into replay mode like with Skyrim.

The first 20 hours or so were like that, but once the looting got a bit more dull, it sorta became "do the quest because its there" instead of actually getting a good reward out of it.


Normally with an RPG, I play that game until I just have to have a break from it. With Reckoning, Ive bounced around with several games since I hit the 30 hour mark. I recently spent about 3 days just playing Alan Wake's American Nightmare, downloaded the Marvel Vengeance and Virtue tables from Pinball FX2, put all that overpriced Avatar Gear to use in Full House Poker, and got strangely addicted to Fruit Ninja Kinect.

If I had to tell someone to pick between the two, for whatever reason they could only have one, Id tell them to go with Skyrim.

Hundreds of hours in Skyrim and I just never got tired of chopping heads and melting faces. 30 hours into Reckoning and im bouncing around to other games. It just doesnt have that "IT" factor that compels me to commit my gaming time to that game over any of the others.

FWIW....I never compared it to Skyrim. I just said that since I started playing this game.....I haven't gone back and played Skyrim.