Hate Tamriel? Want to pull the tail off an Argonian? Feel like taking a big, smelly shit in the High Hrothgar donation basket? Good, come post in here why.
This shitty series fucking lied to me my whole life about fantasy RPGs and the entire RPG structure of gameplay, and now I wanna go throw a molotov cocktail at the Bethesda office window to express how pissed I am.
Here's my Elder Scrolls story, but this doesn't have to be a blogpost thread, just share what you hate about and why you hate The Elder Scrolls series.
My first introduction to Fantasy RPGs was my friend's copy of Oblivion. He was a diehard fan that had 100%ed every possible playthrough of every main Elder Scrolls game. At the time, watching him explore a fantasy world was really cool, so I eventually got a copy of it too.
And it fucking bored the shit out of me, so I dropped it in about 10 hours. I would later go on to play Action RPG-lites like Deus Ex, KotOR, Fallout 3, NV, Mass Effect, WoW, SWTOR, Dark Souls and the like. These held my interest, but were fairly casual by RPG standards.
But any time I tried to play an Elder Scrolls game - and I tried all of them - I just could not give a shit less about them. Not their exhaustive lore, not their worlds, the only thing of any vague interest were its creatures.
So for years, the whole fantasy RPG setting was a bad taste in my mouth. Even when I tried Two Worlds, I just stopped within 20 minutes because it reminded me of everything I hated in The Elder Scrolls. The very idea of playing a fantasy RPG or any kind of RPG with intensive RPG elements was about as appealing as huffing farts while reading public law records. I felt like I'd have more fun meticulously cleaning my keyboard with a toothpick than play any kind of actual RPG, especially one in a medieval fantasy setting.
But three days ago, I tried Baldur's Gate for the first time. And holy fucking shit, I never knew what I was missing. I fucking love RPGs, and fantasy RPGs now, now that I'm actually playing a good one for once.
What the fuck is it about The Elder Scrolls that makes it so incredibly boring and uninteresting, Holla Forums? It tries so hard to hold your attention, and yet massive world after massive world filled with steampunk dwarven ruins, bone dragons, talking cat people and portals to hell, even with a shitton of mods quickly becomes a series of endless chores rather than an adventure.
Anyways, there's my rant, for now at least. Can't believe I let one shitty series cheat me out of an entire genre.