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As someone who did economics in college, comparing it to voodoo and crystal ball gazing is insulting to voodoo and crystal ball gazing.

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alot of what your saying looks like your just complaining honestly i hope this starts to be more age approiate in here but honestly i think you just need to play custom mode and not normal you can pretty much do all of that in custom...... im 34 so im gonna be honest im not sure why a 10 year old is in here

I've been playing Enderal, Skyrim mod that's, like, entirely its own separate game with production values that of a B game rather than a mod. Skyrim's gameplay got modified quite a bit, i.e. you get XP from quests and killing things to level up and then buy skill books, also they completely nerfed stealth archer and the crown of "Laughably unbalanced easy mode build" there belongs to mages, I don't even to imagine what a pain in the ass melee must be, the way AI behaves in the game. The story is that the low fantasy world has a bit of a Mass Effect reaper problem and you're discount Shepard, though in the end it diverts enough to not be a too blatant copycat. It's also very, very grimdark with absolute majority of quests having downer endings and main quest splitting into downers but with caveats, even I thought it's way too grimdark, and I like grimdark and downer endings. Writing's might be a wee too self-indulgent sometimes - too many moments with our character rooted in spot while a NPC delivers a speech at them, a couple of moments when you gotta walk into obvious trap like a dunce to progress the story, and the most inexcusable travesty of game design - unskippable, unkillable ending credits, but otherwise very positive experience.

Eh, there is room for both. I think part of the problem is that when the PC market started to dwindle in 2002ish and the console market stole that thunder, we lost developers like Black Isle, Troika, etc to closing down. We cRPG fans simultaneously lost Bethesda and Bioware to Consoles, and their games started getting streamlined. Sure, I liked Oblivion, but it wasn't Morrowind or Daggerfall. I'm not a fan of Skyrim, but I'm glad I own it because of the Enderal mod (which I love). I also love both Kotor games, and enjoy Jade Empire and the first 2 ME games, but not at the loss of games like BG 1 and 2, Fallout 1 and 2, or NWN 1 and 2. I think many RPG fans that lived through the dark 2002-2012 decade tend to overreact, but I understand why they do. It's easy to see developers moving on to make more mainstream games, and that is a fear for many. So, they freak out. I honestly think Bethesda is pretty good at building environments (not dungeons though). Their towns are too small as well. However, their writing, combat, and AI is abysmal. Which IMHO is why they make games as wide as the Pacific and as shallow as a teaspoon. They also have maintained (last I heard) a really small staff to work on FO and TES for a AAA game studio. It is between 30-60 people or it was just after Skyrim. I remember a Todd Howard interview where he said as much, but I couldn't find it if my life depended on it. Compare this to CDPR who employed somewhere around 120 or more. which is a much more common number in AAA game development. IMHO this is why they focus on things like Radiant AI, and what not. because they don't have the people to hand craft these things today, and they don't want a huge studio either. So, they try to make little immersive things to try make up for it. Darned if you do, and darned if you don't. However, their games sell. So, unless that changes they won't change anything. As long as I get Shadowrun type games, PoE games, DOS games, DIsco Elysium, Copper Dreams, etc etc... I coudn't care less what else comes out. In fact, FONV being the best 3D Fallout makes me think that IF Obsidian was making a AAA game similar to TES or FO3/4... I'd give it a go. At least I know they would put SOME focus on story and writing to make it somewhat worth my while.

I saw, I'm laughing my ass off. I guess we export a lot of mattresses and tires, but it's all from US companies... hahahahaha... The icing on the cake is that we conceded the ruins of our old army command building (which the US destroyed in the bombing) and the adjoining complex to Trumps son in law. The Trump hotel is supposed to built in it's place. To make it even more funny, the buildings are protected under our law as a cultural heritage. So now our cultural heritage is going to be the Trump hotel.