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10-22-2012, 02:28 PM
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(10-22-2012, 01:45 PM)Slick Rick Wrote: One mission on TW2 (which I've never played) = every dungeon/quest in the whole game? I kinda doubt it.
It's the fact that EVERY dungeon in Skyrim is pretty much a straight path, with a few extra hallways that lead to some loot, with an exit at the end.
The reason that's console friendly is because, majority of console-only players are casual players, meaning they'd prefer to jump into a game, find some epic loot, do some hackin' and slashin', rather than entering a dungeon with some depth, one you may get lost in, one that actually poses a challenge.
And it's not the fact that it's gamepad compatible, it's the fact it's BETTER with a gamepad (opinionated, maybe, but even as a PC guy I found it wayyy better with a controller, especially navigating the UI)
Edit: Skyrim also sold more on consoles than it did PC, which is WHY it was pandered to consoles and the console userbase, it only makes sense business-wise
You have yet to explain, why simplified dungeons are pandering to the consoles. It should quite frankly be an offensive thought and it's obvious you consider the console-gamers to be of lower intelligence or status. No, I think that what you consider the decline of The Elder Scrolls is not due to "pandering to the console crowd", but more or less because the money is NOT in consoles, but in streamlining games so that everyone understands and is able to play them.
An apt comparison would be the Mass Effect trilogy, has always been on both consoles and computers, yet has taken a "decline" towards action-orientation, again, not to pander to the console crowd, but to draw more people in.
Furthermore, use SkyUI. Anyone that has been playing Skyrim on PC without that has been doing it wrong.
Also just remembered that Bethesda has Steam Workshop for Skyrim, I'd consider that another win for PC Skyrim.
Furthermore you seem to be tangled up in nostalgia so bad, that you fail to recognize the LOADS of issues that Oblivion and Morrowind has & had. TES games have always been buggy, but with Skyrim, it's at least been somewhat playable (except for on PS3, ironic it wouldn't work there, as they should be "pandering" to that very crowd), Oblivion and Morrowind were, at times, just gigantic pieces of shit. Perhaps this more simplistic approach has been helping minimize the bugs?