Morrowind: Great game, one of my favorites, but can feel dull at times, needed a tad more life

Oblivion: Removed the dullness to a degree, adding a bit of life to characters but added level scaling and fast travel via teleportation on the map, and the MQ was thrust in your face from the get-go, lockpicking was a chore. However, lore was kept in, plenty of things to do and explore.

Fallout 3: An improvement over Oblivion in the flaws mentioned above, but you have to like a post nuclear setting, I'm strictly a Conan-esque fantasy type of guy. Also, I felt that the dialogue options weren't all that great, and made me feel either like an idiot good guy or some potty mouthed homicidal punk with little in between.

Skyrim: Straight into Conan-esque nordic type of fantasy :rock: , all the flaws fixed in Fallout 3 from Oblivion tweaked better, killer perk system, and complementary dialogue in terms of services and information purposes. Will most likely be the most enjoyable out of the four straight out of the box.

It's going to be fine .

Nothing. gamesas is a publisher, not a developer.


Indeed, correlation is not causation, however it is a good indicator of of the outcome of the future. 3 games with many awards, to honestly think their 4th game wont do well, to HONESTLY think that, is kinda silly. Sure, it could bomb, but then again, Steam could fail.

Major gaming critics aren't always exactly trustworthy all the time (gamespot and Kane and Lynch, PCGamer gave DA 2 a 94% ) and can be compromised. Write a glowing review of our game or you'll not get any more exclusive interviews.

We do not know enough to say if Skyrim will be good or bad, which is why I am waiting until christmas. I am just beginning to be worried due to the cutting of animalistic hands for beast races due to time constraints, which makes me worry that perhaps even more features will be cut to make the stupid 11/11/11 timeline (radiant story...again, werewolves, bug squashing etc).

That's exactly what I thought. I've never played DA2, but from what I've heard they made it more action oriented over RPG oriented.

That's completely the opposite of most JRPGs. They tend to follow a turn based/ATB system usually.

Final Fantasy XII, for example, has such a similar combat system and overall gameplay design to KotOR or Dragon Age: Origins. Then the action-oriented Japanese RPGs, such as Demon's Souls and Dark Souls, do their real-time action with class. There is nothing over-the-top about Demon's Souls' combat. It's very down-to-Earth, so to speak, in its limitations and requirements of restraint/strategy. The game as a whole makes one feel so weak and insignificant that their brain, patience, and caution are completely essential tools in surviving.

Can't sit on the game for ever. BGS has a timeframe and a budget to adhere to given to them by Zenimax/Bethesda Softworks. Things get cut in games all the time due to time and budget allocations given by publishers.

c'mon, You don't hear a lot of Bethesda because they don't make the same game everyyear, like the other publishers do ( "Activision" - Call of Duty, Ubisoft - "Assassin's creed"), They take the time and make really good clasics that most of the time end as a GOTY. The people of BGS, They are great developers, and i pretty sure Skyrim will be another jewel.

Bioware started svcking once they got off the d20 ruleset and that was well before EA bought them. It has been a progressive downslide since then as everything after KOTOR isn't an RPG. It's an upjumped action game similar to Skyrims direction but extremely smaller in scale.

Oh, okay... what are your expectations then?

I can't tell if you're agreeing with me here, or if you're not. :/



I was just agreeing that it's really odd that somebody could say DA2 was "Japanified"

You have to agree that the "typical" JRPG (Think Final Fantasy) normally follows the turn based, purely stat based form, even if it's sort of masked under real time turns (DA:O0. That's where I kind of get that you agree with me.

Sorry if I'm not getting the message. It's getting late.

That echoes my thoughts but I'd replace the words 'we all' with 'some'.

My standard advice for unknown games or games by unknown developers is to wait for critic/player reviews.

Indeed.

I'm assuming the OP confused Bethesda Game Studios (Which MADE games like Morrowind, Oblivion, and Fallout 3) and gamesas (Which PUBLISHED games like Fallout: New Vegas, Wet, Brink and will be publishing Rage) which is a commonly mistake that many here have made.

If not, well I guess not everyone likes Bethesda Game Studios style of games.

You havn't heard of bethesda as a great developer....

Oh no wait THEY ONLY WON GAME OF THE YEAR WITH THEIR LAST 3 GAMES (not including brink or hunted, not their usual territory)

nope! They publish those titles, they didnt make or develop any of those!
But yeah they did make MW, Oblivion and Fallout 3 and won many GOTY awards with these 3 titles and yes Bethesda is a great developer

Multiple GotY awards for multiple games speaks for itself I'd say.

:hubbahubba: Indeed.

He said people assume Bethesda made those. He didn't say they did.

oblivion was over featured,many feature been strip down and yet most ppl like the game and it won goty:)