26th March 2010, 6:34 PM
Quote:I do like "move the mouse across the screen to attack", though. Daggerfall does it the same way, and it's more interesting than the consolized attack system of Morrowind and Oblivion.
It's cool if you like it, but that doesn't make it any less stupid. Especially in a game like Daggerfall where you really need the mouse to look around with. It would have been nothing but a headache in Oblivion and Morrowind since it really doesn't work at all with mouse look.
And the various attacks are still there in Morrowind and Oblivion, they're just tied to the movement of your character instead of the movement of the mouse, which is a much better alternative.
Quote:Arena and Daggerfall are all randomized, but the scale is so much more realistic and impressive that I don't think of them as worse for it.
Big, with realistic scale, and BARREN. There's nothing more unfun than wandering through square after square of the same-looking landscape, the same-looking buildings, and the talking to the same-looking characters. I'll take Morrowind and Oblivion's smaller but more unique worlds, thank you very much. They at least have something to look at and something to distinguish one location from the other.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.