I wish the dialog and quests were as open as the world.

Jprime666 posted...

One thing I miss from New Vegas is how there were more dialog options, it made it easier to try and role play a character. It's hard to make my character my own when the vast majority of dialog choices are "I will mindlessly go along with you." At least let me going along mindlessly with everything with a few dialog choices.

Like when you first talk to the greybeards and you can respond in a few different ways. It ultimately doesn't affect anything, but it makes my character feel like my character.

For instance. Oh how I wish the dark brotherhood had a side with Cicero option. Because seriously, hail sithis, glory to the night mother, screw Astrid and her little band of thugs. But no no, we HAVE to follow Astrid the whole time because heaven forbid that dovahkiin actually have an opinion and anything and not just be a mindless pawn for everyone and their chicken.

I also partake in the circlejerk known as FO:NV, I would even say it's my favorite game of all time (with various FFs, LoZs, sonics, spyro, ratchet and clank, and super mario world for the SNES thrown in), but seriously this is pretty much a different game. FO:NV was story driven, it allowed choices in quests to alter the outcome of events (which I still argue that the only thing that happen to the gameworld aesthetically wise as a whole is that various legion camps would get wiped out/new ones come in, you get random BoS squads on the road, Goodsprings might get wiped out, Primm gets a new sheriff, and all this gets talked about on the radio. So you feel somewhat important). To add to that MANY characters get interesting backgrounds and even companion quests make you feel like you BONDED with the person/nightkin/ghoul/dog/eyebot whatever. Instead of skyrim's (for instance Erik the slayer), buy me a suit of armor and we can go on adventures together. Only for him to never have unique speeches again. I guess taking him places, you're supposed to have an "imagination" about what Erik would say in certain situations. Which is fine and all, but we're not five.

THAT BEING SAID, this game is not story driven, but EXPLORATION driven. This game is BEAUTIFUL, and no one can deny that. So much scenery and so many places to go. People really need to stop fast traveling and get on that horse and ride the country side. I promise its worth it. The fun in the game comes about when you stumble upon on random caves and dungeons and using various skills you learned to progress through them. Sure the reward at the end might not always be worth it, but sometimes it's more about the experience.

EDIT: another thing is that I hate the "wide as an ocean, deep as puddle" because while admittingly skyrim falls short on the story at times, the world itself has many exploration and landscape than FO:NV. I would say that Skyrim is that piece of eyecandy that you never got to bang, but FO:NV is that average looking girl that get to rail all night long on.
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