Not like Skyrim

Can't games be different without one being better than the other?

Originally Posted by DArtagnan
Can't games be different without one being better than the other?

Apparently not…

Originally Posted by DArtagnan
Can't games be different without one being better than the other?

Absolutely. I wasn't trying to compare the games qualitatively, I was just managing my expectations and exploring my confused thoughts on what the game really has to offer for me.

Originally Posted by Thaurin
Absolutely. I wasn't trying to compare the games qualitatively, I was just managing my expectations and exploring my confused thoughts on what the game really has to offer for me.

I wasn't specifically referring to you

It just seems that people always turn these things into competitions.

Personally, I think Skyrim and Witcher 3 are very different games - even if they share many similarities.

I'm not sure which I like the most, but I know I'm very happy they both exist and I count them among the best games of all time.

That's worth something

I like Skyrim more than Witcher 3, but I like Witcher 3 a lot. It's like anything else though, there is only one favorite. Skyrim is still my favorite game, but I don't want to play it exclusively. I can't do that and keep my "player" cred

Originally Posted by crpgnut
I like Skyrim more than Witcher 3, but I like Witcher 3 a lot. It's like anything else though, there is only one favorite. Skyrim is still my favorite game, but I don't want to play it exclusively. I can't do that and keep my "player" cred

As long as you don't admit it you'll be fine.

pibbur who admits to (correct English?) having played Skyrim for more than 10 hours

Originally Posted by crpgnut
I like Skyrim more than Witcher 3, but I like Witcher 3 a lot. It's like anything else though, there is only one favorite. Skyrim is still my favorite game, but I don't want to play it exclusively. I can't do that and keep my "player" cred

I have to admit, Skyrim is the best game I know in which you can just wander around and immerse yourself. It being in first person sure helps. Installing many immersion-enhancing mods sure helps a lot more.

No offense to Skyrim lovers, but I'd rather play Russian roulette than go through it again.
I will never, for the love of god, understand the popularity of that game.

Originally Posted by DArtagnan
I don't really have a problem with the minimap - and there's no way to make detective mode do what I want it to do, anyway. I don't enjoy opening the map constantly - and I suck at finding my way around, especially since there's no compass. So, the minimap is really a must for me.

To make the mini-map more of a compass, turn off the option to have it rotate with you, that way north is always at the top. Makes it actually useful to find stuff or follow roads in the right direction.

Originally Posted by BoboTheMighty
No offense to Skyrim lovers, but I'd rather play Russian roulette than go through it again.
I will never, for the love of god, understand the popularity of that game.

That's okay. I can't understand how people like Gothic or Planescape Torment. Ugh! Different strokes for different folks. I finally liked a PB game with Risen 3 though.

I was just thinking you know what else isn't like Skyrim? Ham sandwiches.

Sometimes when I am having a ham sandwich I wonder why it isn't more like Skyrim.

It isn't full of bugs unless you are at the beach and bugs are around.
You can't modify it. Though could be on a bun or toasted. Maybe add a slice oftomato or cheese.

I mean it doesn't have a meaningless main quest unless you are trying to find a subway to make it for you. Though that would have to go under mods to because that is more of a sub than a sandwich.

So maybe I was wrong and everything is like Skyrim just not as good as Skyrim

Originally Posted by CelticFrost
I was just thinking you know what else isn't like Skyrim? Ham sandwiches.

Who needs 'em? There are ham sandwiches in Skyrim. Or if not there's most likely a mod for it.

Originally Posted by crpgnut
That's okay. I can't understand how people like Gothic or Planescape Torment. Ugh! Different strokes for different folks. I finally liked a PB game with Risen 3 though.

What about me? I like Skyrim. And Planescape Torment (my all time favourite). And the Gothics!!! And for the record, Avernum.

Pibbur who will spend the rest of the evening trying to find a game he doesn't like.

Originally Posted by pibbur who
Pibbur who will spend the rest of the evening trying to find a game he doesn't like.

Celtic could save Pibbur some time and give him his pass code to Legends of the Dawn.

CelticFrost could be arrested for inhuman cruelty for that suggestion.

Originally Posted by crpgnut
CelticFrost could be arrested for inhuman cruelty for that suggestion.

Well if he likes that game he won't find a game he doesn't like.

I should have been arrested for giving it a second chance not to long ago.

Why here too.

There are dozens of articles and steam crybaby threads that are trying to compare TW3 with Skyrim.
It's plain impossible!

Skyrim is openworld bug-o-rama sandbox with (almost) no story that evolves around endless trashmob respawns although it's The Elder Scrolls 5.

While elder scrolls mean nothing in Skyrim and you don't have to find any of those scrolls, The Witcher 3 is all about a certain witcher, witchers and story. It's not sandbox, and what's more important mobs don't scale with levels, only shops do (at least should, dunno if they fixed it).

There are even more differences, but basically, we're talking about two completely different RPG types here. IMO, if there is an openworld RPG TW3 could (and should) be compared with, it's Gothic 2 and 3.

Originally Posted by joxer
While elder scrolls mean nothing in Skyrim and you don't have to find any of those scrolls,

joxer, I'm going to start to suspect you never played Skyrim. You need to find an Elder Scroll in the main quest of the game and later reuse it in Dawnguard…

No you don't.
The main quest or what should be a main quest is bugged and Bethesda never patched it (unopenable door). You don't have to find anything nor you have to do the main story at all, it won't change the game in any way, you'll still see the annoying dragon respawned for the xth time mages guild.

I did play Skyrim and finished everything that's finishable, to pass through two bugged instances in the main quest I had to use the console commands from skyrim wiki.
Dawnguard introduced the second elder scroll written by a vampire (which is IMO a huge plot hole or I didn't get something right there) but it's a pathetic DLC.