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Wasted potential Anonymous 11/26/17 (Sun) 22:18:28 dd6c18 No.13868081

Skyrim is a shit game and the thing that makes me the most angry about it is the wasted potential. The game is obviously inspired by Norse mythos but it doesn't take any of the really cool stuff, for example the main villain being some generic wyvern I cant even remember the name of. Why? you could have had Nidhoggr, the giant Wyrm chewing on the roots of the world tree out of hatred for the gods. You could have had Fenrir, a wolf so big he could swallow the sun. They could have had Jörmungandr, the great serpent spanning the world in their game but they settled for a Generic wyvern.

It makes me angry thinking about it.

Some fucking dirt farmer in turkey subsisting on nothing but pig shit and the worst kebab you could imagine made better nordics in their game and they didn't even use the fantasy creatures.

Anonymous 11/26/17 (Sun) 22:21:18 27eb24 No.13868098

>>13868081

> The game is obviously inspired by Norse mythos but it doesn't take any of the really cool stuff

The TES lore started to be established since Daggerfall, it's hard to suddenly add such huge new portions. They already did that enough (dragon shouts) and got a lot of shit for it.

Anonymous 11/26/17 (Sun) 22:21:54 69e879 No.13868102

>>13868081

>The game is obviously inspired by Norse mythos

Stopped reading there, setting is not Earth and never has been, and none of the Norse mythology exists in it.

Anonymous 11/26/17 (Sun) 22:26:37 dd6c18 No.13868138

>>13868098

I mean you say that and yet cyrodiil was completely retconned form being a huge jungle and the city being a sort of fantasy venice to it being a generic fantasy setting. They clearly don't give a shit about continuity.

Anonymous 11/26/17 (Sun) 22:31:33 69e879 No.13868163

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>>13868138

So you're one of those fags that wish for them to just retcon everything to the point of it not even being the same setting anymore, just to sate your own desire for a completely different setting because you are a retard that must ruin what others like due to "muh real world mythology".

Anonymous 11/26/17 (Sun) 22:37:14 dd6c18 No.13868202

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>>13868163

No I am saying they could have added cool stuff in or kept it consistent. They didn't do either of these things. Someone at Bethesda decided to fuck up the continuity just to make it worse for some imbecilic reason.

Anonymous 11/26/17 (Sun) 23:21:51 e53db3 No.13868480

>>13868202

Wouldn't it be more likely that having to render jungle would be absolutely impossible due to console limitations at the time? Those games aren't exactly marvels of engineering to begin with, add in foliage and shrubbery everywhere to accurately represent a jungle and you'd end up with a forced FoV of 30 degrees and a render distance of about 10 feet to keep the game from dipping below 15fps on a fucking console.

That might not be the only reason behind it but I'm willing to bet it had a major impact on the decision to scrap the jungle climate altogether. There's a reason consoles are cancer, and it's not because of the users or the controls but rather the dev's who have to constantly gimp everything they do to ensure that a physical DRM box can run their game.