Why did it get so popular

casual """""RPG""""

same as oblivion: sex mods

>>378367831
Normies liked the base game, and pc gamers liked the mods

>>378367831
because it is loads of fun and simple to play. you can just have fun playing it without having to open excel to calculate the best stats options.

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>>378368096
>best stay options

>>378367831
Because Morrowind and Oblivion were very popular and successful... and the game is good.

>>378368881
>the game is good

How

>>378367969
>low polygon sex mods with terrible framerate, buggy, robotic animations and canned moans.

No

>>378368910
I played the game for ~150h. It was very fun and relaxing for me.

No other series offers an immersive rpg experience where you make your own character and explore a world at will.

>>378369121
>playing vidya on 2008 alienware
kek

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>>378367831
It's fun

I bought it twice
once for 360 and once for Steam

Is there a good leveling mod for Oblivion? Its kind of bullshit how I have to make a custom class so that all my main skills will be minor just so that I'm effective as I level up.

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>>378369296
I'm guilty of this too

>>378367831
it's just fun, what other game can i make my own character and go do whatever I want?

Because it chaneled mascuiline energy into the beta gamers with its all male chorus and big muscled white warriors

>>378369484
But then all the betas play as big titted sluts.

>>378369210

How is it fun? Also, 150 is not a lot of play time for an RPG

>>378368910
Level scaling is less prevalent than in Oblivion. Thank Christ.

>>378369296

How is it fun

I just played Oblivion first time in 10 years or something today.
Holy shit that game is so much more fun than Skyrim, I didn't even use many mods

>>378367969
Tell that to the millions who played it on console.

>>378369450
go to bravil and buy an invisibility spell. voila, all of your problems solved. you should also restart and make a new character because if you're not using major skills to level up you're missing out on a lot of enemy variety.

>>378369450
Instead of changing the leveling system, just get a mod that removes enemy scaling (OOO for example). Blam, no more downsides for leveling up.

>>378369626
It sounds like you didn't like skyrim which is fine. If you can't find the game fun, it's just not for you man.

Vikings fighting dragons and nice looking cloud mountains and shit. Also a lot of replayability.

>>378369713
Enjoy getting the lesser versions of armor and weapons because you didn't autistically plan out your playthrough.

>>378367831
Same as smoking
1. It's addictive
2. It stinks

>>378369635
Less prevalent, but still visible enough to get really annoying when you reach higher levels. Nothing screams anti-fun more than a tomb full of Draugr Deathlords who will all shout your weapon out of your hands and take ridiculous amounts of punishment before dying.

>>378369789
>>378369796
Thanks mates I will do just that

>>378369801


The only response I'm getting is "the gsmrnis good because its fun"

What makes it fun

>>378369953
>it stinks
Looks like we have a dumb non-vaper over here, boys.

>>378369859
Replayability? There's zero replayability. Every playthrough is pretty much the same thing.

>>378369796
Don't do this
OOO is fucking shit
With it you're railroaded into a linear progression through the game world, and the starting out phase is incredibly retarded because the modder for some reason thought that populating the villages and areas around the imperial city with enemies 7 levels above you would be a good idea

I still remember going to kvatch and being attacked by a level sixteenth fucking bear who murdered the entire place before I ran the fuck away

>>378370081
I don't know man, if you played the game, you will know the answer. I find it fun because of the quests, landscape, soundtrack, characters, combat etc.

>>378369995
Yeah, searching the ground for your weapon is fucking awful.

>>378370120
Vapers are all massive faggots

>>378370163
You ever tried http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/42780/? ?

>>378370261
We're not, you're just a cylindrical cunt.

>>378370154
That's why I'm excited for Shadow of War, although I really like Skyrim.

>>378367831
its what people wanted: a fantasy rpg with no learning curve that kids could play and feel like they were going on an adventure. also a big sandbox world to fuck around in.

fus ro dah and arrow in the knee memes

>>378370371
>We
How does it feel to know that everyone laughs at your habit? Sure, it's not as annoying as "brb smoke break," but it still resembles sucking a robo-dong.

Oblivion got a lot of awards and normies eat up "rave reviews"

>>378370468
Its an open world but its not a sandbox. A sandbox has various tools/options for the player(s) to create their own content with. Skyrim just has exploration and hitting things

>>378370483
delet this post it's triggering my ptsd
but you're absolutely correct

>>378370556
you can customise your home and with dlc build your own

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>>378370120
>t.

Its pretty bad

Once again the progression system is completely fucked, without a level cap everyone is a master if all trades, there is no variety to make repeated playthroughs fun

The writing is complete shit, most of the quests are boring with exception of sanguine, it let's you join every guild without consequences

At least the visuals and gameplay were improved

>>378370483
no, that stuff is a side effect of already established popularity. most of you were born in 2000 so you're too young to remember that skyrim was a pretty big fucking deal even before it came out.

>>378370220
It's an OK idea on paper, giving enemies abilities that do other stuff than just direct damage usually makes combat more interesting. But in practice it fucking sucks, it's hard to find a fallen sword in all those dark corners of the caves and too often it just gets completely lost in scenery, possibly even clipping to some unreachable place.

I fucking loved Skyrim when it first came out. But after buying that scam Skyrim Special Edition bullshit I can't get back into it and I have slowly come to the realization that the game is shit.

>>378370163
Don't forget to mention the leveling slowed down by 200%

>>378370686
That doesn't make the game any more of a sandbox. "Creating content" is not just literally building things in the game. It should interact with the world somehow, like a dynamic war system. Skyrim doesn't have these things (without mods)

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>>378370371
You take that back right now

It's easy to pick up and play and offered a big world to run around in.

>>378370154
The countless people with hundreds and thousands of hours of game time disagree.

>>378370356
Nope, why should i?
What does it do?
Can't access the page atm for some reason

>>378370958
Hey buddy, you enjoying those hard edges? OH WAIT

Dragon's Dogma is superior in nearly every way. If it had elves (like originally planned), more than one city, and a weather system; it'd be the ultimate action rpg.

>>378371138
Just a different highest rated overhaul that has maintains level scaling instead. Wondered if you had tried it

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>>378369121
>low polygon
>terrible framerate
The others are partially true. Bugs can be avoided for the most part if you mod properly. OSex seems pretty good as far as animation quality goes but I haven't really used it.

>>378370371
literally everyone who does not vape thinks people who do are faggots

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>>378371243
Oh, who am I kidding....

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>>378370120
>blowing a cylinder shaped fluid container
>it makes weird noises
>it leaks sometimes
>it has resistance

>>378370081
No matter what anyone says you will respond like this. You do not like the game and that is fine.

>>378371869
I'm sorry ;_;

>>378369635
All they did was make it so that npcs always wear the same armor types instead of running around in glass and daedric. The health bloat and shit is still there, it's actually even worse than Oblivion because at least in that at high levels you would see new enemy types like minotaurs and dreugh. In Skyrim you just see the same types of enemies with the same equipment forever.

>>378367831
>21.4 million views
This undoubtedly helped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9eGtyqz4gY

>>378367831
It got more publicity than its predecessors did. Arena and Daggerfall were cult classics. Morrowind was the start of the series' transition to the mainstream, Oblivion continued that trend, and Skyrim completed it.

Come back, cylinder. I miss you.

>>378372480
With the trend of each TES getting more and more streamlined what more could they possibly do?

>>378373129
well it started with morrowind, dunno if it will stop

>>378370808
The power of marketing and hype.

>>378367831
because it's a better version of morrowind and oblivion. it's more engaging as a character driven experience than a screen full of menus can be. It has more variety in skills and makes playing a magic based class viable. It's a well executed trope story.

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>>378373097
R-really?

>>378373223
I have a little faith that they won't butcher it as bad as they did with Fallout 4 since they got a lot of shit for that.

They'll follow the money and make it play just like Skyrim. I'll take that over even further streamlining

>>378367831
Because ya'll get so fucking mad about it.

>>378373849
Yes. I'm sorry, I was projecting my own insecurities onto you. /v/ is nothing without cylinders.

>>378373754
Skyrim had the worst magic in the series though? It got boring as fuck because of the very, very little spell variety and lack of spell creation along with using a retarded book system.

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>>378373865
>he still has faith
so young and naive

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>>378367969
This.

>>378374295
to be fair Todd even admitted that at least the voice acted protag was a mistake.

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>tfw Skyrim feels small as fuck
Why must Falskaar be a piece of shit mod?

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>>378374005
Aw shucks. All is forgiven, anon!

What is TES's actual competition?

>>378371495
I want her to ASMR her tiddies in my earholes.

>>378374873
Yeah! Cylinders!
Brought back old memories:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs

>>378374657
>was a mistake but doesn't mean he gives a fuck about it or he will make something about it
Anyway, voiced protagonist or not, Fallout 4 was a shitty bland game, especially for an RPG even if it isn't one, but the voiced protagonist are related to the RPG side of the game, not the FPS side. Skyrim was also a shitty bland game, not as bad but you got a pretty good preview of a game without voiced protag.

>>378374657
Voiced protag doesn't excuse the shitty dialogue options and that wasn't entirely because of the voiced protag. Why have the character say the same thing three times but worded slightly differently?

>>378370808
It was free though?

>>378375510
>Because it's cheaper.
>It's less costly.
>Fewer things to write about which brings down the budget.

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>>378374998
What did they mean by this?

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Make a PF group in FF14

Enable "Recruit From Across Data Centers"

Comment = Oblivion > Skyrim

See pic

>>378367831
1. Major marketing push. Morrowind didn't have primetime commercials.
2. It was dumbed down enough for normies to play it without getting lost.
3. OMG Arrow to the knee HAHAHAHAHAHA
4. It's also fucking fun even though it's the worst in the series

>>378370808
I wasn't upset about it. They handed it out for free to anyone who had Skyrim + the 3 DLCs on PC.

See that mountain?

the Dark Brotherhood in Oblivion is so good. Then the Skyrim one is boring as fuck the entire time.

skyrim was amazing
if you think otherwise, youre just a shitter trying to be contrarian, with an opinion that holds no water

skyrim was the fundamental shift into all genres accepting open world gameplay
it also was probably the most important game last generation

>>378377368
Skyrim was an amazing game. But that doesn't mean the others aren't more amazing. Skyrim could have been a much much better game if they hadn't turbocharged the streamlining. But I get it they need the mass market appear and as game budgets soar they need more of them to buy it.

They fixed that shitty leveling system from morrowind and oblivion so you can level by raising any skill

>>378367831
Babbys first rpg and advertising

>>378378490
which leads to accidental overleveling. on my first playthrough in the early game i had 100 sneak and my weapon skills were hovering around 35.

>>378377810
Skyrim is at least much better than Oblivion.

>>378378634
It's bad for sneaky characters but a mage can get super powerful in a few hours and the more levels the better

Is a staff run viable in Skyrim?

>>378379012
i wasn't even that sneaky, i just reacted to situations in dungeons that called for being hidden for a moment or two. before i knew it, all those dungeons had draugr wights around every corner and i couldn't do a damn thing about them without companions.

>>378379386
If your enchanting skill is good and you make rings and an amulet with the destruction enchantment on them all you can use a staff forever without having to refill it with a soul gem

marketing and casualization, and good enough graphics that normalfags were able to latch on to it.

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>ctrl f 'advertising'
>1 of 1
>109 replies
>59 unique IPs

>>378367831
Game of Thrones made normies fantasize about many of things presented in Skyrim (cold enviornments, sword play, fur clothing, dragons). That and the past games. People who were already familiar with the series of course wanted to experience Skyrim, which was decent enough, and the normies were primed and ready for such a setting.

>>378367831

because of an agressive and effective cross-media ad campaign. everyone wanted to FUSROHDAAAH against le epic dragons.

In the end I also bought it - alas for 6$ for the legendary edition that yielded the special edition last year as well. Say what you will but the game is great for stealth archer plebs like me.

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>>378367831
Perfect timing in the "nerd" fade

It's very casual and its modding community is vast.

As the second game in the series it was a solid upgrade over the first.

We've had this thread before, so idgaf
What I want to know is, what are your predicitions for TES:VI?

I really think it'll be in Hammerfell, the game can't really go anywhere story wise without the Thalmor and trying to defeat them. Hammerfell is actively against the Thalmor. Hopefully they will include the Forebears and the Crowns. The "gimmick" should be sword-singing, the new shouts.

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>>378367831
cause it came out when you could still buy it using russian bux so it was like 12 dollarydonuts
then later i just bullied steam support into saying i moved country and couldnt play it anymore without a vpn bla bla and they changed my version to US and gave us legendary edition
bullying works folks, head to your local playground

>>378382081
who cares, there is no chance of a TES game ever being good again

>>378369870
i really hate this. the game is so good but level scaling and the leveling system is so shit.

>>378376160
That you're a literal autist who spends all day ctrlf-ing for skyrim threads so you can post your abomination of a character

>>378382081
Summerset Isles, nigga. We need some fucking originality back in the world, wherever it is. Oblivion and Skyrim were pretty but not nearly as imaginative as Morrowind.

>>378382417
if you say so my dude
>>378382870
That would be a cool setting. What would the story be? Destroying the Thalmor from inside? Collaborating with them?
Maybe something to do with the Psyjics?

>>378382785
brutal

>>378382870
>What would the story be?
Oh, no telling there. I mean the previous games are only very loosely connected, after all. For some reason every time the "where will TES6 take place?" conversation happens, it seems like people bring up every province possible EXCEPT Summerset, and my gut just thinks it's likely.

>>378383013
Do you think we'll ever go yiff in Elsweyr or Black Marsh?

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>>378367831
Because unlike what most of /v/ says the game is actually good and even better than Morrowind and Oblivion in some areas

>>378384508
Y'know, I don't think we give normies enough credit. Whenever I see obnoxious YT skyrim videos, their always playing Khajiit. I say its a decent chance, it would be really cool too to have a desert/Serengeti/jungle environment too

>>378385858
I've never liked playing the beast races myself, but I enjoy the NPC's of both races, and the way those provinces are described, I bet they'd make great environments.