i also do not like dead space. my girlfriend loves it though, so i need to watch myself when it comes to hating it.
but as for me, morrowind. everyone says that it’s the “good” elder scrolls game, but i can not get into it at all. you walk around with all the urgency of a slug, there’s all this terrible combat where your weapons never hit anything, and there’s always a bunch of ugly people with stupid names played by the same two voice actors talking a bunch of bullshit to you like an asshole. “forsooth, traveler! the forests of uran’gytahth be yonder down the hills of yaghaha’augfhalh! now, let me explain to you the last 100 years of our nation’s geopolitical climate…” all while my pockets are full of forks and cups and a bunch of other items that have absolutely no use in the game other than “welp, here’s some shit.”
one day it will click and you will see the beauty of reading pseudo-erotic lizardperson novels in a virtual world and drinking brain potions to make stronger brain potions recursively
I don’t hate it, but I feel like I need to take every opportunity to remind people that Link’s Awakening was the first Zeld to have an extended fetch-quest with an extremely anticlimactic payoff and we need to shame it just a little bit for that
That fetch/exchange quest works because it goes on for so long and with such worthless items that it turns into a self-parody. Link’s Awakening invented the idea of Zelda having extended fetch quests according to the whims of NPCs and also took it to its logical extreme, the full circle of 1994-2016 Zelda design already present in the first one.
and I could never find uran’gytahth or yaghaha’augfhalh because I’m terrible at navigation and the game is terrible at directing you
The ridiculous location names were actually a running gag among my friends so it’s great to see that we weren’t the only ones who made fun of them. My entire Morrowind experience was basically missing hits in combat and abandoning it and running around for a few hours trying to find the place I was supposed to go and never finding it. So yeah, that’s Morrowind for me
they even let you get all the later patches by just loading your save with a GOTY edition disc which would’ve maybe felt like a ripoff if the game was expensive but I remember tons and tons of cheap copies of it everywhere
Oh man, I love the mouse UI! One of the best things about Morrowind compared to the later games. In fairness, I’ve never played the xbox version. I just assumed that its interface was similar to the later games.
I also wonder if using a gamepad leads to different expectations with regard to the kineticism of the combat. I’m personally used to mouse controls in old PC rpgs being at a higher level of abstraction.
