The last month has seen a lot of progress across a wide variety of systems, so rather than waste time on an intro. It’s time for a fresh round of Live Builds for January 2019.

January Builds – Vampirism, Spell Icons, More Magic Stuff, New Quest Actions, and More! Their omission only hurts anyone who wants to go beyond the surface level. Spellcrafting, faction reputation, civil war, survival mechanics (they belong in Skyrim) and more fleshed out role playing mechanics in general don't detract from their experiences. Designing a world that can be navigated without the magical quest arrow bullshit doesn't take anything away from their idiot proof design. Not saying it's good and there's an argument to be made that the procedurally generated elements are more interesting than what they can do by hand. They don't iterate on what works, they cut too much and every major element they've introduced in their games has just been things we had 20 years ago, albeit in a sprite-based entirely procedurally generated world while now it's 3D, handcrafted and in a significantly higher fidelity. Mainland+Vvardenfell+the isles in a 250-500 sq mile world using a mixture of procedural and handcrafted elements? That sounds like an acceptable downsizing and I think that even the casuals would've been able to enjoy it, even on console hardware which is what popularized the series to the extent it did in the first place.įundamentally that's my frustration with Bethesda's output, all these concessions being made didn't need to be made. Everything I've ever heard about it sounded really nice but even with a hundred million dollar budget, I'd be wary of a Daggerfall successor the size of Daggerfall again. It's a damn shame we never got LeFay's Morrowind.

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