Do I need to say anything else? This time the developers put extra effort into completely destroying the game world by selling it as this "super dangerous dragon infested land that is technically inches away from an apocalypse". Doesn't last though and the rest of the game is still the developer pampering you and telling you how awesome you are despite you having done nothing that a toddler couldn't.Īnd now onto Skyrim. If you somehow manage to find an enemy that -isn't- scaled to your level and is actually 2 or 3 levels higher than you, you might actually find a bit of a challenge.
No point in managing your stamina or anything, not even any point in being concerned about your character's stats. In Oblivion all it is is just swinging your weapon until you hit something.
Yes, during the actual combat all you had to do was swing which admittedly doesn't look too great and gives graphics wh*res seizures, however it makes sense. You had to know which skills to invest in for the best performance. Get this, before the combat consisted of you building your character in a way that would allow them to fight properly. Yes, when the developers are too lazy to add things that would be interesting to a high level character they just make low level stuff scale with them. Enemy level scaling is, in a nutshell, being level 100 yourself and all of a sudden seeing -bandits- with the best armor and weapons in the game and at the same level as you. I feel like the level scaling and combat need some elaboration. Watered and dumbed down gameplay, several features like custom spells and enchantments -gone-, boring and uninteresting world with pretty much nothing but grass and bushes to find (gotta give them credit for the atmosphere though), enemy level scaling, a pretty braindead combat system that people really only like because it isn't the dice roll combat of the previous games (because I guess following the formula of classic RPGs is pretty bad for a game that aims to be an -RPG-). Oblivion is what I like to call "The beginning of the end". The lore is a lot more established here so if you move past this game you -might- miss some important names. It still has some great features like making your own spells and enchantments (yes, you are reading that correctly) and overall being able to just go about everything as you see fit. It has significantly less content in it but spends more time to refine what it has. It's really a question of how well prepared you are for a fight rather than how you swing your sword in it. Still, you could argue that the real challenge in the game is not how you perform in combat but rather how you approach it. All this freedom comes at the cost of some lacking combat which hinders the overall challenge of the game. Make your own spells and enchantments, travel aimlessly and see what you'll find, do small jobs for random citizens or do big jobs for random citizens if you want the extra danger, buy one of the many houses in the game, buy a ship (yes), join a knightly order and so on. Also let's just get one thing out of the way - Daggerfall is pretty much what Skyrim -should- have been (rendering Skyrim obsolete), a large open fantasy world that you can explore and do whatever you want in.
The gameplay and control scheme is overall much smoother. The stories of TES games are usually pretty containted so you probably won't miss out on any important characters that you won't learn about in the later games.ĭaggerfall is pretty much Arena but more refined. Perhaps more so than other classic dungeon crawlers. Arena is a valuable piece of RPG history so I think you'd have a bit to learn if you read about it.
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