I Kind of Feel as though I'm weird...My Favourite Bethesda (developed) Games are.... Options

[ArtemisNoir]

Morrowind and Fallout 4.
I mean, many, if not most, people would consider these two games to be entirely antithetical to another. The thing is, I'm not fully sure why I respond in this way. Maybe because they're perhaps the most focused on narrative, which tends to be my strong preference. Granted, FO4, has its issues, and parts of its story most definitely aren't as well implemented as they could be, but, at the same time, the NPCs, and especially the companions, are the most fully realised of any Bethesda game. So... maybe that's it ??? Plus, given I couldn't make a mod, even if my soul depended on it, I enjoy the building elements of FO4 when I'm feeling creative, and the world is fun to explore.
Don't get me wrong, I genuinely enjoy: Oblivion, Skyrim and FO3, but none have ever grabbed me like Morrowind and FO4.

Any thoughts on the whole subject? I'm always at a loss in figuring out what makes me truly love a game. There's just something indefinable and elusive that simply clicks.

This post has been edited by ArtemisNoir: Feb 19 2023, 10:51 PM

[macole]

I knew if I waited long enough others would eventually mention everything I was thinking.

First I will mention that Daggerfall was my first TES game. It is the only one that I haven’t completed and positively the only one where I’ve played more than one character after the initial test character. I so loved the char-gen that hundreds of Agents were born. And the entombment cut scene when I died was all the encouragement I needed to roll a new character. Besides, there were no field hippies around to perform the ritual.

For Daggerfall you need the right atmosphere; a dark secluded room, dank soot covered stone walls that smell of age old dust, and a loud drippy laundry faucet (plip… plip… plip). My basement had a coal bin room that fit the bill perfectly. I’ve since washed the walls and turned it into a photo darkroom (I still do film now and then).

Morrowind came next. Love the flora and fauna, hated the segmented bodies and the constant running from back and forth between Balmora and Vivec City or at least it seemed like it. A few months of that and I quit. Ran off to play Rome, Total War. For years I was lost fighting amazons in the hills of Galatia.

Along came Oblivion and from the moment my Agent first stepped out of sewers to see the light of day it was pure Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

My character had developed into a non-cannon elf character with a history. Well he is a connon race but you have to dig into the lore books to understand where he comes from. Plus by now I had discovered the Nexus and became a mod junkie. This was the first TES game that I ran through the main quest.

Finally Beth released Skyrim which I put off playing for a couple years. When I did pick it up, it was a Morrowind experience. Dingy washed out colors, weak pathetic magic, near instant guild promotion, and so many other things that it just wasn’t fun. After six months I had completed the MQ and was wondering what to do now. After learning that TES VI is running years lat I knew what I was to do.

I resurrected my Oblivion character's story and started him from the beginning in Arena. I’ve watched him grow through Arena, Daggerfall (best magic in the series, feel the power), a 3-year stint in Morrowind, (which I now see in a new light. Make a mod or two, put a bounty on Vivec’s head, and take the backdoor to the MQ. Oh and don’t forget to find your Kaleah), and Oblivion (where the Field Hippies come to play). Who knows I may even have time to step into Skyrim again, this time with a purpose.

Fallout series, I’m a child of the 60’s and 70’s. We knew what the interstate highways were for. Get the hell out of Dodge when the sirens go off. I played FO4 for a bit but never was hooked.
One last thing, there was a time when I played Daggerfall on Wednesday, Morrowind on Friday, and Oblivion on Saturday.

Nothing weird here. Bizarre maybe but not weird.