6th October 2004, 1:17 PM
http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/sept...dex6.shtml
Gamespy certainly has its problems, but based on playing Arena and Daggerfall I'd say that here they are right on the money.
So it has less randomness and a more directly designed world. It still turns into more of the same people with almost nothing to say or talk to about (and what they do say is just about the same everywhere -- they say it there and it's also true in Arena and Daggerfall) and more very similar quests.
Five hours? Five hours in you won't see those flaws. As they say it takes time, and travel, to see the flaws in the TES games... at first it's amazing, but then you see the cracks behind the facade.
I'm not saying it's a bad series. It's good. Very ambitious. It's just got some sizable problems that aren't really fixable in a game of that scope -- which is why more focused games exist and why a lot of the time it is more fun overall to play those games.
Gamespy certainly has its problems, but based on playing Arena and Daggerfall I'd say that here they are right on the money.
So it has less randomness and a more directly designed world. It still turns into more of the same people with almost nothing to say or talk to about (and what they do say is just about the same everywhere -- they say it there and it's also true in Arena and Daggerfall) and more very similar quests.
Five hours? Five hours in you won't see those flaws. As they say it takes time, and travel, to see the flaws in the TES games... at first it's amazing, but then you see the cracks behind the facade.
I'm not saying it's a bad series. It's good. Very ambitious. It's just got some sizable problems that aren't really fixable in a game of that scope -- which is why more focused games exist and why a lot of the time it is more fun overall to play those games.