Elder Scrolls 6 likely won't revert to "fiddly character sheets" after Baldur's Gate 3 success, explains Skyrim lead

I'm sad they might be doubling down on simplifying the system. Skyrim's system was extremely simple and sucked. The 3 things I'd want from the next game are better combat, game systems with more depth than a puddle in the road, and co-op multiplayer. But I have a feeling we'll get none of that.

Crystal project is basically the best 2d final fantasy ever made and it's made by one fricking guy in like a year.

when one passionate person can do a better job with a mod.

There are literally thousands of just waiting to be asked to do a skill tree properly

AI HAS SPOKEN

(Requested he overlay "the elder scrolls 6" after)

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Man oblivion sucked too. I didn't know about mods back then, so I had to game their stupid major/minor skill system to not make a gimped character

Yet this is somehow still superior to everything they made after it

There's a pretty good table on the uesp wiki about the general differences.

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/General:Differences_Between_Morrowind,_Oblivion,_and_Skyrim

just remove stats altogether. and all combat plays out through a series of quicktime events

Skyrim barely did relative to Oblivion which barely did relative to Morrowind

it's funny watching people b-word about this the same way i bitched about oblivion back in the day

I literally can't wait. I hope it's available in VR too.

Oblivion's leveling system sucked so hard, that Skyrim's was a huge improvement.

AH

Because people like big peepee number and sneak archer, or just archery in general is the quickest and easiest way to do it, both lower and higher level. Modern gaming after the slump of MMO seems to be more about efficiency instead of experimental.

I think people are drawn to it because it's the closest approximation to an fps at that point.

there's plenty of video essays talking about why the game design forces you to be a stealth archer

I just played an archer because archery is cool.

I tried to play a mage, but it did zero damage, and you ran out of mana intermediately, at least early on. So I reverted back to a bow.

I didn't even play any main quest. I did thieves guild and some mage stuff.

I'm a Morrowcel, it's the best.

I'm not a fan of having to grind so much if you want to get the 5x bonus for your three stat picks. That could have been refined, just give people the darn 15 points to distribute.

As for today's quality of life mechanics, add a compass and marker instead of terrible journal entries about which tree stump you need to turn by to retrieve guild dues.

I hated that so much of the spellmaking got nerfed in Oblivion.

True up to Starfield. Which even though I think is a bad game I still put in 90 hours.

Darnt Todd.

The problem with Skyrim style leveling is just that most of the perks are bad or generic, and the experience is pretty flat. It's rare for your character to really feel stronger or more differentiated from leveling up. Just add starting classes and design better perks. You don't need arbitrary complexity to make the game better, you just need actual choices.

By the way, level scaling was always a solution in search of a problem. Normal RPGs have lower level areas and higher level areas, and have points in the main story or major quest lines where stronger enemies start appearing in the world. No need to add a bunch of calculations on top of that that will inevitably fail and frick up the experience

2. retroactive application of endurance on HP (or not tying it to your level)

If you didn't do it earlier, then you don't get to reap the benefits.

>NOOOOO BUT I HAD TO MAX MY STR / MAGIC BECAUSE I JUST HAD TO OKAY

I feel the opposite. Combat in tabletop D&D is excruciatingly slow and sucks the pacing out of everything. It makes way more sense when you're doing a roll every second in a video game.

Ah well that's a shame I prefer single player experiences.