Though its first installment Arena was originally planned to be a gladiatorial combat game, the developers kept adding on side quests and lore until it became more similar to Dungeons and Dragons than anything, eventually scrapping the fighting game idea for an open-world RPG series, and the rest is gaming history. The Elder Scrolls series takes place in many different provinces across the continent of Tamriel with wildly different environments, characters, towns and storylines, but they all have a few things in common: swords, magic, and a sense of awe and wonder. You can tell that it's a really old game, but there's a lot of charm in it, and you can overlook the more frustrating aspects due to the great questlines.Bethesda's beloved Elder Scrolls series has been around for over 20 years now, rising above its humble epic fantasy origins in Arena and becoming an open-world universe of its own with the release of epic adventures like the beloved Morrowind, the successful and influential Oblivion, and of course the exploding popularity of Skyrim. The weird persuasion minigame was also pretty annoying.Ĭharacter models are shit, so if you want better looking NPCs, be ready to install some mods. Apart from this, your weapons and armor degrade as well, and you have to go to an armorer to repair them, or buy hammers and repair them yourself. Lockpicking may be the most frustrating game element it is way, waaaaay harder than that in Skyrim. Gameplay did not age well, but combat is almost exactly like Skyrim. Graphics if we're talking about the environment, has aged pretty well.ĪI is pretty bad.but really hilarious a lot of times. For me, they had better storytelling and had the feeling of grandeur.įor the gameplay, some aspects are better and more flexible, such as the magic system. I love all the main and guild quests in Oblivion, even more than those in Skyrim (this is from someone who's played Skyrim first before Oblivion). The old /r/patientgamers Essential Games List Please use flair to display what games you’re currently playing, not a punch line, username, tag, URL, or signature. New, mobile-friendly spoilers can be posted using the following formatting: Want to play online in a dead gaming community? We expect you to know these rules before making a post. Please click here to see our current rules. We no longer maintain our posting rules in Old Reddit. Join our Discord Join our Steam Group Follow us on Twitter Posting Rules Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases. A gaming sub free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game.
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