This is going to sound really fucking dumb but I need help choosing between Elder Scrolls games.
There's Daggerfall, which is a RPG and is by far the best in terms of quality but is also undesirable among the average gamer I've talked to, basically making it a "game of last resort".
There's Morrowind, which is also RPG but is pretty shit and hasn't been improved yet and is due to be remastered in the year 2020.
However from what I could gather, the game's failed to garner much attention and I would be shocked if there were more than 200 people playing it on release day. One reason I don't want to play some other game right now is because I don't want to risk burning myself out in the event that its launch somehow goes well and other people do end up making mods.
and finally there's the Skyrim server that's being worked on by Todd Howard over in Bethesda
My problem with Skyrim is that while other gamers are playing and modding it and it's fun fucking around and doing stuff with them, I feel like it's an exercise in futility. Even if the testing finishes quickly and the game is made pristine, how will we convince large amounts of people to actually play it? Games modded by gamers rarely pick up major interest from people outside of the modding community, and why would they play on it when other gaming alternatives already either exist or are also being worked on at the moment? Without marketing, you don't get things like quality or content which are some of the bread and butter of video games.
That said, I can't bring myself to say that directly to the others (if one of you guys from the TES thread are reading this, then that's alright too, because at least someone will know how I feel about the game and why) because it seems like they genuinely want to make it work and are having fun doing it, and I haven't been around them as much as the others have, so who the fuck am I to say what they should and shouldn't be playing, right?
If Morrowind is expected to not be remastered and Skyrim is a waste of time, then logically I should be playing Daggerfall so I don't fall behind. Should I just play Daggerfall expecting Skyrim and Morrowind to crash and burn? That makes me feel like a bastard for not helping out buying and playing with the people I actually want to play the fucking game with. And since the other gamers would ditch Morrowind the moment a better game comes along, then why bother investing the time when the others would rather not even be in it?
Maybe I should be playing Fallout 4 instead.