While I don't agree with this, I don't turn up the draw distance beyond roughly the extent of one city. Much like the GTA: Definitive Edition games, if you render the entire map without fog you end up with an off-putting scale model aesthetic that looks really dumb.
The thing about Morrowind is that if you don't stand on top of mountains or use OP levitation spells to zip across the island the geometry usually does a pretty good job hiding most of the map. But there are some spots were you can see a little too far I'll give you that. The performance also suffers a lot when you load in the entire island at once.
I wouldn't describe it as a flaw so much as a limitation and a reminder of how old the game is. It's all well and good to dunk on it now but when framed against the backdrop of 2002 it's fine.
I was about to post that I have been working my way through all of the Resident Evils (I never got to play them when they came out, and I like seeing how it has evolved/devolved over the years) and the worst of the OG games has to be Code Veronica. Tank controls, but also, lets have a TON of fast enemies and things that require quick reaction times, but oh no, you got stuck against the wall a bit due to the slow turning, guess you're dead. Along with bosses that were so frustrating I ended up having to cheese my way through a few of them (I normally try my best to retry bosses/beat them as you should, but these were just so awful). The voice acting is also so bad, it makes the voices in the first game look like award winning shakespeare lines.
This will probably be a hot take but if you want to play the best version of code Veronica play dark side chronicles on the WII. You get a distilled version of the story on there.
So far the weirdest for this that I've seen is Battlefield 1942, where removing the fog in some maps really messes up the illusion - like crossing the channel in the Battle of Britain map, where without fog it looks like two shores of a river.
Well the real reason is because its fog. Fog is a core element of the game's atmosphere remove it and you're not in vvardenfell anymore. Its humid and hazy. Even if this was the result of protecting the frame rate playing without it for your first playthrough will change how the game is "felt" by the player.
Tank controls aren't "dated" they were a deliberate way to make navigating fixed camera angles. Silent Hill's inclusion of strafing is probably the more ideal version of it but Resident Evil is deliberately designed with it in mind, if it had 2d movement it becomes comically easy which was proven with the RE-make-ster. Mobility is a tool just like any other and your ability to use it is the entire point of the game. 2d movement also already existed at the time so the idea that it was a concession of hardware is nonsense it was never a product of its time.
I don't give a shit what the excuse is, tank controls are utterly useless shit.
They are perfectly suited to their fixed camera angles and there is no better solution. It's not an excuse by any means it's the ideal scenario. These games aren't beloved in spite of their controls they're loved because of their controls if you don't like tank controls you don't like survival horror games because they're the defining trait of the genre. The RE2/3 remakes are third person shooters with resource management they're not survival horror games anymore. Sure not every survival horror game had tank controls, haunting ground and clock tower 3 and SH2-4 had 2D at least as an option but they tend to be worse for it because of the camera angles.
Silent hill and early resident evils was fine. I just responded with dark side chronicles being a replacement for resident evil 3 because they made the enemy’s too fast in that game. Also the voice acting although bad is less faggoty from Steve.
Yea steve's voice is too deliberately whiny but cv really doesn't have fast enemies? There's dogs but they die to 3-4 handgun shots and go down to any damage at all. What else? Hunters? They're avoidable. Bandersnatches are my only real complaint in that game because they share a bug with 0's leeches which is they can't die on certain frames so sometimes they complete attacks when they shouldn't but they're not really fast and you can often exploit their climbing tie them up in animations. So its really just dogs and the aim assist and guaranteed stagger make them pushovers.
Also I didn't say anything about this but they're totally different games... its not an alternative to anything because its an entirely different genre of game. I like the chronicles games but are you honestly telling me you play resident evil for the story? Even then you're missing many crucial details like the iconic ant scene and the pacing which makes anything in the setting even worthwhile since its horror atmosphere comes from the moments between the action.
Your agility and luck are unreasonably low then, at 70 blade you shouldn't be missing at all unless...
