How... I- I don't actually have anything to say. I'm just going to comment that it is almost certainly true that Bethesda wants to go bankrupt, bought out, and the corporate execs become homeless because this is something no one should fuck up. How do you not check your product before shipping simple shit like this?!
Most of those games exposed the rolls to the player, though. I played a ton of those CRPGs without a problem, but my first Morrowind playthrough felt broken because there was no indication at all as to why I was missing.
It jut leads to a different problem in later TES combat because now your damage rolls are shit because your skill is low so it's like you're hitting a guy with a nerf bat. Either go full ARPG or full character builder CRPG. In-between sucks.
Was it really so hard to read the manual and figure out you were missing because your skill and/or fatigue were low?
I meant things like different weapon types, different attacks doing different amounts of damage(Thrust, slash, chop, etc..), spellmaking, different enchantment values on items, Permanent Effect enchantments being rare and desirable. Shit like that. Take the best aspects of every ES game and roll it into one masterful remake of their best game.
Funny thing, your mention of the manual tickled some old sore spot in my memory, so I went back to check it out. Sure enough, the manual makes no reference to dice rolls, instead using the wording of 'successfully performing' actions, and here's the thing I had forgotten - There's no visual indicators at ALL that an attack has 'failed', instead, all the indicators are on successful hits. Successful hits that are fantastically rare in the early game. I don't know what failing to perform an attack should look like, exactly, but probably not the exact same swing as a successful hit. The only difference is after-the-fact sound effects and (sometimes) a blood splat on the screen.
fftopic:, but it seems purely contrarian to say there's 'nothing wrong' with Morrowind's combat. It's better than dragging your mouse across the screen, and that's about the best thing I can say about it.
I said there's nothing wrong with dice rolls in an RPG of this type. Not that there's nothing wrong with Morrowind's combat. None of the TES games have had very good combat.Anyway, this is pretty
At the very least, playing Morrowind and getting chased by 3 cliff racers with no stamina at level 2 is a highly memorable experience.
Little do they know, they're not missing out at all.
True galaxy brain over here.
I haven't been closely following all the hardcore analysis and breakdown of the F76 production flaws, so it seems to me that Andrew Anglin does bring up a couple of novel points regarding how F76 might have originally been a full fledged Fallout title with online co-op, but got turned into the empty multiplayer monstrosity by rushed production schedule forced on them from the Zenimax financiers.
