Morrowind and Oblivion
Both. The combat needs improvement. It's basically attack, block, attack, block, magic, block, attack, etc. And it takes forever to kill things. How is it possible that stabbing someone with my sword doesn't instantly kill them? The quests were alright (not counting the main one), but there was only like 20. I liked the Dark Brotherhood quest chain, but why exactly is the end so lame? I thought being a leader of a guild of Assassins was supposed to be, oh I don't know... badass? Exciting? Not boring?
There are countless quests. Not to mention all the user-created ones that were added via mods. You could walk into any city and find something to do. There are about 216 quests counting the expansions, not counting the mods.
You can turn down the difficulty making it possible to basically kill people with one hit, but that argument still holds no value. I shoot enemies in the back multiple times and yet they turn around and shoot me back. Almost every game is like that.
The fact that it's a game based on a movie based on a book helps.
Love.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex said:
Let's count them together. You have the Main Quest. It's pretty long, fine, but isn't spectacular. You have the Fighter's Guild, Mages Guild, Thieves Guild, Arena, and Dark Brotherhood. The faction quests were pretty unique, specifically the Dark Brotherhood. Now let's see how many sidequests there are... Approx. 45 side quests, not counting the Faction questlines and Main Quest-related quests. I'll admit, some of them are pretty interesting, but some are rather predicable and boring. They definitely should've added more. For the record, I'm only talking about regular Oblivion, not the Shivering Isles or whatever.
Excuse me if I don't want to go through a quest that involves me sleeping with somebody.
All I could really do in a town is buy/sell items and equipment or rent a room to sleep. Occasionally I'd find that some specific NPC's had the whereabouts on something interesting, but mostly that wasn't the case.
That's not what I wanted out of Oblivion's combat. I wanted it to be a little more realistic. I wanted it to make combat as fatal for me as it is for my enemy. I also wanted to be able to do the things possible in the Deadly Reflex mod- that is, to cut my enemies in half. EDIT: Except to a more lethal degree.
Excuse me if I didn't know clicking on a few links was so hard to find some decent quest mods. Epic Oblivion Quests
Look harder is all I can say. I never seemed to have a problem finding stuff to do. But I guess everyone has their own experiences.
Yes, the combat could have used some...visceral improvements.
Most of those "quests" are part of bigger quest chains, which are, as stated, the Main Quest and the Factions.
I didn't mean "epic" adventures, all though those are nice to have. I meant regular quests. Don't mind me saying, but World of Warcraft has hundreds upon hundreds of quests, a lot of which are unique in some regard.
Right when you start the game, what can you do in the Imperial City other than buy/sell or join the Arena?
Dark Messiah's combat looks a bit more... intense than Oblivion's.
Meh, I played it. It seemed pretty awesome at first. But as I got deeper into it got very lackluster. You were basically doing the same thing throughout.
The Unfriendly competition one, the one about the vampires, the guy who wants you to collect all of the artifacts, which is actually three separate quests, the one where you get robbed at the inn and have to track down the thieves, the one to get rid of the corrupted imperial officer, the vampire cure one, the quest you get after doing the arena for so long, and other ones I'm sure.
But they still count as quests. WoW did the same thing. Just in a smaller manner. Just because they are but part of a larger set, doesn't make them any less of what they are. Somebody tells you to do something, you do it, you get a reward. That's a quest.
Deadly Reflex is fine and dandy, but not exactly what I wanted. Sure, you can impale people and decapitate them, but you can't cut individual body parts off.You can find your "visceral improvements" by playing with the Deadly Reflex mode (if you can get it working), it adds all sorts of awesome stuff
Sort of. But Oblivion doesn't have that type of hit detection. I'm talking about fancier combat moves such as what you'd find in Dark Messiah M&M, except with a lot more blood and gore.
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No doubt. I feel like playing that game now.
The Legend of Dragoon.
HAH! Ah... I remember the last time I reloaded my computer, just as if it was yesterday. A real pain in the ass it was.
It's not that quick, actually. It takes a while to actually install the OS, and even longer to redownload and reinstall all lost drivers.
