Comment on Today, it has been 6 years since The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser
orangeboats@lemmy.world 6 months agoIndeed. I would love to have a “modernized Morrowind” experience – an RPG game that really nails the role-playing part of RPG, but without the cheesy parts of Morrowind like the unintuitive combat system – but all of us know that it’s just not gonna happen.
but all of us know that it’s just not gonna happen.
Certainly not by Bethesda, but in truly typical fashion, Bethesda games are are held together and made fun by modders (and sometimes, even fully built, as is the case with Enderal). Only trouble is that can take a wild and/or completely unknown amount of time.
Soggy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The combat in Morrowind is intuitive if your previous RPG experience used dice and paper.
Facebones@reddthat.com 6 months ago
You can 100% tell someone’s paper RPG experience level by their favorite elder scrolls game lmao
ICastFist@programming.dev 6 months ago
Not quite. It’s just harder to disconnect the 3D visual of a sword or mace swing very clearly hitting a creature and said hit missing entirely, especially as you’re in direct control of when and where the attack happens. For comparison, it’s much easier to accept misses in Neverwinter Nights because you’re not directly controlling the attacks. The fact that you can also look at the log of dice rolls helps a lot, too.
Hell, even in Arena and Daggerfall, where you’re also in direct control of your swings, it’s easier to accept when it doesn’t hit thanks to the slow animations and 2D graphics of your equipped weapon and the enemy sprite.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What is the most “paper RPG” version? Morrowind? Daggerfall? Morrowind is as far back as I’ve played, maybe I need to revisit older titles?