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HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT ONLY ONE GENDER AS PLAYABLE CHARACTERS
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Alichains
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Closeauthor=Pizzaauthor=AlichainsBetter story, worldbuilding, and mechanics help a lot as well.
Potato Faces>Fus Ruh Doh?
Eh, I'll take Morrowind for Worldbuilding and story. I'll take Skyrim for mechanics.
author=KylailaThere's a feminism-block implanted by media, friends, and previous discussion.
It's like math or physics for most people. Only mention the term, and they will shiver in disgust.
People think that there's gotta be a certain way such topics will be treated under "feminismn", and while they still contribute valid points, they often unnecessarily defend others they think would be attacked by "over-feminists".
Related is that you usually focus on either male or female stereotypes .. and automatically switch to one another, because people tend to think that you'd ignore what you aren't talking about right now.
This is bad discussion, because it's usually used to dismiss points, which it doesn't. It introduces a new side and new topics, but it doesn't dismiss a thing - which will then be made out by focusing on the gender you had in mind previously - which then inflames the same reaction.
If you wanted to bring in the other gender neutrally, all would be fine.
.. if it ends up as this "Because your concerns about representation of women in games are baseless trolling?" (sorry pal).. especially while claiming that representation of men is shitty and could need some more thought .. then that's quite agitating.
.. + the general mindset in discussions that you need to "win", that you actually need to change opinions to have done anything. Views and background-information can change without affecting your opinion and you won't change your outlook in 5 minutes even if you want and intend to do so.
Maybe I'm just dumb or my English is not good enough, but I honestly don't understand this. Not in the sense of "I disagree"; I literally don't get what you are trying to say here. I'm sorry. Could you maybe try to rephrase your thoughts, please? I really want to try and understand your opinion.
(P.S.: Just in case it came across that way, I never attempted to make reasonable feminism sound bad, and I never will. Just like I do not at all think of people's concerns about representation of women in games as "baseless trolling." I deeply despise all stereotyping and am always in favour of fair and respectful, but honest discussion.)
Me and my grandma would stay up until 3 or 4am playing either tetris or pacman on the ps1.
She loved it. When she wasn't playing those, she was rocking in Diablo, with her Lv. ~90 charactorzzzz 8D
She was so kewl <3
She loved it. When she wasn't playing those, she was rocking in Diablo, with her Lv. ~90 charactorzzzz 8D
She was so kewl <3
macblo
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I haven't played Skyrim either. It feels like I'm missing out on an entire world but I just haven't had the time(or money...) to play it yet.
macblo
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I've played oblivion for a pretty decent amount of time but I'm one of those people who wants to change my character completely every few hours so save files rarely last for long. I find it REALLY hard to believe that Origin says that I've played The Sims 3 for over 400 hours, but I don't have a single save file that goes past on generation.
I played Skyrim for well over 100 hours so it gripped me. The additional mods really help freshen it up after your first play through, too. I like the random start mod which works like the Oblivion beginning when assigning stats and the like, then gives you a choice of random beginnings. I once chose a random one and ended up as a Redguard Healer dumped outside of some nasty Dwemer ruins that I had to go through to get down the mountain. Apparently the snippet of story was that I'd woken to find the camp empty... and people dead. I had to try and get past a freakin' Frost Troll! I only had a knife! ;.;
I love looting forts and just storing all kinds of stuff in my house. My last character almost had all the books in the game (that you can keep). :D I play a very well-read Khajiit~
I enjoy it, though I gotta admit... I get creeped out by some of the caverns and caves. Like, legit scared. So much so that I will not go too deep into certain ones because I hate the depths. ;.; I am not easily scared but for some reason the deep caves really get me. :<
Dragons are a pushover, though.
I love looting forts and just storing all kinds of stuff in my house. My last character almost had all the books in the game (that you can keep). :D I play a very well-read Khajiit~
I enjoy it, though I gotta admit... I get creeped out by some of the caverns and caves. Like, legit scared. So much so that I will not go too deep into certain ones because I hate the depths. ;.; I am not easily scared but for some reason the deep caves really get me. :<
Dragons are a pushover, though.
macblo
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I remember that feeling in Oblivion. I thought it was just me since I'm easily frightened.
I think I played Skyrim for about 157 hours, so I'd like to think I'm qualified to say that I think it's average at best. The perk tree thing is terrible, since the order the perks are available in generally makes no sense and more than half of the perks are completely useless. There are basically only 3 or 4 shouts that are any good at all which was disappointing. As far as I'm concerned the only mechanic in vanilla Skyrim that beats vanilla Oblivion is the stealth system, since the guards in Oblivion are basically omnipotent orwellian surveillance drones.
The story in Skyrim is fucking awful, which was my biggest disappointment with it given all the great lore it had laying around to use. After all, why focus on this extremely interesting Thalmor takeover and involvement in the civil war when you can focus on "Dragons R bad" and some pathetic story about killing an 'evil' dragon that you barely ever see and know almost nothing about? The story is meatheaded as fuck. I'm confident that the reason dragons were the sole focus of the entire story was just so they could market the shit out of fighting them, and hell, they didn't even deliver on that- fighting dragons is a humongous waste of time and annoying as all fuck.
I mean Skyrim was really fun the first time through, as any Bethesda game is, but it doesn't really have anything that would draw me back to it. Compare that to Oblivion, which I've probably played for over 400 hours since it came out- I still haven't seen a lot of the quests and areas in that game. It's impressive how massive and detailed the world is.
As for Morrowind, I know I have a shitty reason, but I honestly can't play it because of how old it is. The combat is still that classic Elder Scrolls kind that they used in Arena and Daggerfall which infuriates me to no end, and fucks up the entire game for me.
The story in Skyrim is fucking awful, which was my biggest disappointment with it given all the great lore it had laying around to use. After all, why focus on this extremely interesting Thalmor takeover and involvement in the civil war when you can focus on "Dragons R bad" and some pathetic story about killing an 'evil' dragon that you barely ever see and know almost nothing about? The story is meatheaded as fuck. I'm confident that the reason dragons were the sole focus of the entire story was just so they could market the shit out of fighting them, and hell, they didn't even deliver on that- fighting dragons is a humongous waste of time and annoying as all fuck.
I mean Skyrim was really fun the first time through, as any Bethesda game is, but it doesn't really have anything that would draw me back to it. Compare that to Oblivion, which I've probably played for over 400 hours since it came out- I still haven't seen a lot of the quests and areas in that game. It's impressive how massive and detailed the world is.
As for Morrowind, I know I have a shitty reason, but I honestly can't play it because of how old it is. The combat is still that classic Elder Scrolls kind that they used in Arena and Daggerfall which infuriates me to no end, and fucks up the entire game for me.
SnowOwl
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I'm not sure I should be impressed or not that you still played something you think is "average at best" for 157 hours. Just how much free time do you have?
That was during my last free Summer, after I left my job in Alberta and before I came to Toronto to go to school. Like I said, it's really fun the first time through (which was probably about ~60 hours for me) just like all other Bethesda games. Also, it's the last game that I actually put any real amount of time into. I haven't played shit since I stopped Skyrim.
You'd be surprised at how little there is to do in Newfoundland.
You'd be surprised at how little there is to do in Newfoundland.
