You know what made me dislike Skyrim?. My fps-shooter likey friend without any rpg experince EVER played Skyrim and he said "It is the best game of my life".
This, ladies and gentlemen, is haughty elitism.
Perhaps your friend enjoys the RPG playstyle, and never knew it until he tried one?
More importantly, why does that impact your opinion of the game at all?
We get it, you've never played the games, except Oblivion. Come back when you know what they had, and know you never needed to worry about x5s in Morrowind, or Oblivion. Definitely not the 'missing features', the vets care about.
Pretty sure x5s were in Morrowind AND Oblivion, bud.
And yes, you're whining about the picking apart of one of the worst class/levelling systems ever devised.
Nope, come back when you've played the games. Cutting options and choices is not an improvement.
It can be, and in this case, is.
You can like Skyrim, its just more linear and watered down than any other ES. A fact which cant be disputed.
That can easily be disputed. Arena, anyone? Redguard? And of the other spin-offs?
More importantly, Oblivion was, at best,
equally linear, except there wasn't even a conflict you could side in. In Morrowind, for example, you could choose between three of the Great Houses, and in Skyrim you could choose a side in the Civil War.
No such choice in Oblivion, which I repeat, is the worst of the last three ES games.
The ES are dead, Todd and Co. killed it.
Uh, who made it? Morrowind, the pinnacle of the series, was lead by Todd Howard. And, by the way, he also cut out alot of crap clutter skills that were in Daggerfall.
Todd understands that less can be better. This can especially be seen in terms of geographical size, Morrowind is
tiny.
their were a fair few armours in this game that had great Cuirasses but then screwed it up with annoying Greaves for example.
