Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game?

• Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve got ~500 hours in Enshrouded, versus well over 5k into Valheim and gazillions in the Elder Scrolls series. Kind of close is a generous assessment.

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  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Admittedly I’m in the middle of a playthrough and currently deeply enamored with the game, but I’ve enjoyed Enshrouded much more than Valheim (which I also loved, to be clear). I’ll probably start noticing all the flaws I’ve been ignoring soon, but right now it feels like Valheim, but more. More recipes, more enemies, more options for farming and better animal tames, much better combat, a building system that doesn’t drive me crazy, and a hand-built world that is vastly superior to the samey procgen of Valheim.

    The comparison to the Elder Scrolls is much less flattering, admittedly. It’s only in the world design and exploration that I’d put Enshrouded ahead, and even then I bet many players would be annoyed by just how much Enshrouded uses verticality in its map (which I love, but I’ll admit it makes overland travel a pain).

    The entire world being one map so a hole in the internal walls of a dungeon could lead directly outside is a massive step up from Bethesda’s engine where dungeons are basically their own separate universe. I just completed the Blackmire tower the other day, a dungeon that had the branches of a giant tree punching through its sides and forcing you to take alternate routes. I fell all the way to ground level several times but still had a blast exploring the place.

    I’m not super far in. I have three characters* that are all around the same point, at or just after the boss fight at the end of Pike’s Reach. It’s possible the rest of the game lacks the same polish the early areas have.

    * One created when the game first entered Early Access, one for co-op, one newly created to see all they changed in the opening hours.

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