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

[WellTemperedClavier]

Morrowind.

I actually came to Morrowind pretty late, playing it for the first time in the winter of '09/'10. Fell in love with the setting, and have been obsessed ever since, even to the point of joining a mod team. It's pretty rare these days to have a setting that resonates with me. As others have said, while Oblivion and Skyrim feel like other places, Morrowind feels like another planet.

I played Skyrim about five years later, and Oblivion (for the first time!) about five years after that. I've actually come to prefer Oblivion, since Skyrim's gameplay feels too much like an FPS to me. My only real complaints about Oblivion's gameplay are the leveling (which can be fixed with mods) and the sheer size of the dungeons.

My history with Fallout goes back a lot further than my history with TES. I played Fallout 1 back in the mid-'90s, and the second game in the early '00s. I had fun with 3 and 4, but I usually prefer the non-Bethesda Fallout games. I replayed 1 a few years ago, and it was astonishing how utterly desolate the game felt. Even if you win, humanity's future seems in doubt.

But then you see how things are picking up in F2, and by NV they're getting pretty close to pre-war status in some places. This is more interesting to me than just keeping everything in post-apocalyptic dust.

Though I will say, while I love 1 and NV, I'm not as big a fan of 2. It's ambitious, but some of the locales felt kind of half-baked (San Francisco suffers especially in this regard), and there are way too many jokey references. Think NV had the right idea in putting most of the wacky references under the "Wild Wasteland" trait, so only players who want it have to see it.