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Rich, detailed, yet dull? Those don't go together very well.

You can have the most accurately rendered rock in the world, but in the end it's still just a rock.

I for one never said the world wasn't meticulously crafted. It just wasn't very... interesting.

Content is not gameplay.

When I played Daggerfall I was so obsessed. I would play that game like crazy.

I bought Morrowind the very day it came out. But I really didn't play it that much. I got bored very fast.

I think that the reason is they fixed Daggerfall's problem of repeditive random quests with making scripted quests. This made things more interesting, but didn't fix the problem of a static uninteractive world.

That's what I was really looking for in the game. But it appears that Oblivion will fix that with their Radiant AI system. So I'm looking forward to it.


Wavinator, just a question:
What does the term "sandbox" mean?

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What does the term "sandbox" mean?

It's used in terms of a video game to mean that it's yours to do what you will with it.

Grand Theft Auto
Sim(Anything)

Games like that, where you can spend lots of time doing what you want to do, without a goal, or goals of your own.

You could decide that you are an insane wizard, and you are only pretending to help the empire(so you could get out of jail) and that really, all you want to do is travel the world, steal a spoon from every house, and kill anyone who's name starts with the letter 'j'. :)

Kinda like in SimCity, how you could build a town just to destroy it, or do whatever you wanted. It's like an electronic toy.

Vampyre, that's kinda what I thought it meant...just was making sure

thanks :)

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any RPG fan who regards the game as empty or dull just didn't play it long enough to prove themselves wrong.

I think that is the main problem most people had with it. The fact that the during the time they played they found very little. If I have to invest 10 hours into a game before I can start find substance in the game world then there is something wrong with the game. But I have to agree that the game was rather empty. Its been said that there is lots of things to discover, but the problem is that game world is so large that those things can be easily missed. The game would have been far better if it was the quarter of the size then there would have been a better content to space ratio.


My other problems with it where:

Travel time - it took forever to walk anywhere, making travel outside the fast travel points tedious.

The skill grind - Improving skills was extremly annoying, I got wrist pains from improving my speech skill. Some skills where also very difficult to improve through use, forcing you to spend your time and money on trainers.

Alchemy - I tried playing as a kind hearted, alchmeist, con artist thief. Only to discover that trying to perform alchemy was the most tedious activity in the game.

Unhelpful journal - I'd have liked a list of quests I've undertaken based on the person who assigned them, and whether they've been completed, failed, or in progress.