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Caddo Cobgang said:
No, ive had other runs but never really paid much attention to alchemy and enchanting until recently, it is my first time playing as a Bosmer, but ive played and beaten the MQ as a Nord and Imperial before
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Huh, I'd expect people to try Alchemy and Enchanting first when it comes to...for lack of a better term "universal skills."
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Alchemy in Skyrim: Useful
Alchemy in Morrowind: Nirn-Shattering
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Everything was Nirn shattering in that game, it was beautiful.
>Stands in corner casting spell with conflicting properties to become a true God
>Drinks 100 Flin and breaks the timeline by breaking an unbreakable barrier by breaking an unbreakable sword on it
>Brews intelligence potion and drinks it in order to brew increasingly stronger intelligence potions until you can make potions that can "permanently" add effects to you
>Skooma
Although that's not to say Skyrim's alchemy isn't Nirn shattering.
 
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Caddo Cobgang said:
I never truly realized how useful alchemy is in Skyrim until today, you can just keep producing Potions, sell the excess shit you make and max out your gold, im kinda just ignoring the Main Quest in my current run but I feel as if ill be well-equipped to buy whatever I need if I decide to start it
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If you thinks that's fun, wait until you get into poisons! Nicking a dragon with an arrow and watching its health disappear is so satisfying. I know what the posters between the quoted post and mine are going to say, but you have to admit fighting dragons gets really, really old after a while and it's more fun to just nuke them at that point.
 
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Can this man (pictured right) really create The Elder Scrolls 6?
 
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Morrowind was the Apex of TES's product identity.
It's why people still bang on about it's plot and worldbuilding today.
The latter games might have been more successful commercially (understatement) but the delayed effect of letting Michael Kirkbride go ham on the lore, was that it's plot had a unique "texture" that might be likened more to a book of mythology than a derivative-of-a-derivative modern fantasy.
This is not a trait that either Oblivion or Skyrim possess, I feel.
It's a shame Kirkbride seems to have dialled up the "Wacky" in his personal writing; I feel like he was at approximately the right level when he was writing Morrowind, or else his peculiarities were tempered well by other influences on the project.
 
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Obstacle said:
Morrowind was the Apex of TES's product identity.
It's why people still bang on about it's plot and worldbuilding today.
The latter games might have been more successful commercially (understatement) but the delayed effect of letting Michael Kirkbride go ham on the lore, was that it's plot had a unique "texture" that might be likened more to a book of mythology than a derivative-of-a-derivative modern fantasy.
This is not a trait that either Oblivion or Skyrim possess, I feel.
It's a shame Kirkbride seems to have dialled up the "Wacky" in his personal writing; I feel like he was at approximately the right level when he was writing Morrowind, or else his peculiarities were tempered well by other influences on the project.
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Oblivion blew up because it was effectively "Lord of the Rings: The Game" when LOTR was big and Skyrim blew up because it was effectively "Game of Thrones: The Game" when GoT was big. Morrowind was the last actual Elder Scrolls game.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Alchemy in Morrowind: Nirn-Shattering
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I only recommend using alchemy to increase your luck and intelligence to infinity. Doing it for strength, or health, can fuck up temple quests. Not doing it for speed is pretty obvious. The other stats are pretty meaningless with luck which has the added benefit of helping you make OP spells.
 
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brocktherock said:
Is it really anything like GoT other than by having dragons in the setting? Or are you just repeating the sentiment?
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For a lot of people, I'd imagine GoT was the only high profile piece of fantasy media they'd seen besides maybe LotR, which would have been the same relative normie demographic whose first and only exposure to vidya up to that point would have been the 360. Skyrim is nothing like GoT but people bandwagoning might've seen it that way.
 
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brocktherock said:
Is it really anything like GoT other than by having dragons in the setting? Or are you just repeating the sentiment?
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Yeah I don't know what I was thinking, a sword and sorcery story about a small group of people centered around a prophesied hero trying to convince a bunch of political entities to set aside their petty squabbles in a setting rife with geopolitical unrest in the wake of the death of a king in order to instead deal with the prophesied return of an ancient threat that stands to destroy them all leading up to a climactic battle with dragons and reanimated dead doesn't sound anything like Game of Thrones, I'm clearly talking out of my ass.

Fuck outta here, "are you just repeating the sentiment". I know media literacy is a meme but you might actually be retarded.
 
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I don't think GoT had anything to do with Skyrim being successful. It was more that games had just recently become popular with wider audiences and Skyrim was one of the first RPG's and especially the first open world RPG to be effectively marketed to them. Oblivion was also still really popular at the time so that helped a lot too.
 
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Metamorpho said:

>Oh this video looks interesting
>Obnoxious ass voice, probably a troon

I hate when this happens.
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I made the mistake of clicking the video before reading your post and now my ears are fucking flashbanged. Dear God that profile picture they have, I can confident they are a troon or will be soon.
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So many red flags it's like their bio is International Workers' Day.
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Won't be gone long that's for sure. Doesn't help that this faggot seems to send out tweets and the Bluesky(?) equivalent like a terminally online troon would to an audience of...his family I guess.
POWER IN MISERY said:
every single mindly interesting subject of a video is ruined by horrible, cocknosed narration. these people deserve ridicule lest we live like this.
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It's a gamble with a 30% win rate that the creator isn't a turbo sperg who sounds like he has a cock shoved up his ass and nose. Hell it's probably coming out from his nose. Though it seems like he was cursed with that voice since a decade ago. I'd have done my damnest to fix my voice to not make it sound like I breath snot but eh.
 
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Frederica Bernkastel said:
Also, Morrowind has a better modding community than Skyrim. Much of Skyrim's modding is just porn mods. Morrowind mods have former Morrowind game developers making quest mods for it 20 years later, and there's nothing as ambitious as Project Tamriel.
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Morrowind and New Vegas have been almost consistently good for years now, rarely were there any real issues. Meanwhile like I've said to death by now, Skyrim and especially Fallout 4 is like picking kernels of corn in a mountain of shit, you may find an especially good kernel but for the most part it's just shit sifting. I will say Skyrim is a bit better in that regard.
 
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