Bethesda say that Skyrim has taken many lessons regarding enemy encounters from Fallout 3, because Oblivion's approach was too harsh.
As The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered takes up 125GB, original designer Bruce Nesmith recalls fitting Skyrim into a tiny file size.
Skyrim is still my favorite ES game. I’m playing through it again right now since I never finished it.
Morrowind is by far my favorite. But I’m getting old and played Daggerfall Morrowind and Oblivion before Skyrim
That judicious lack of oversight permeated everything in Bethesda's RPGs, in a positive fashion.
I much prefer a left alone Obsidian and Larian Studios. Bethesda's formula has grown old for me.
Larian hit another level with DOS:2 and then took it even further with BG3. They do high quality work.
I agree, I found it an interesting game. But nowhere near worth the hype (unless you include mods)
Skyrim blew my mind when it released. That game took me to the gaming, promisedland. Going back to it when it was updated for the PS5, it felt slightly rough around the edges, but great for its time
We should leave Obsidian alone. Bethesda on the other hand should be kept under constant psychiatric observation.
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too harsh? Too fu**ing Harsh? It was piss easy once you knew what you were doing with leveling up, Fallout New vegas though, follow that for enemies, that was good for them imo. You had places you couldn't go from the start. Deathclaw valley haha, however that was also stupid because you could just cheat the game out of it. I beat them wiht a hunting rifle and well...annabelle actually, Ai was retarded
Howard continued, "We find that most players, even if they run into something hard and we think they should leave, will beat their head against that wall - because they are not a pussy. So we give the player a lot of devices to get through that - if they want to expend all their resources to get through that event, they can."
ahahaha, best quote ever
I didn't find it harsh...I thought it was quite fun, it was like "watch where your going" when you explored.
Besides if it's taking pages out of Fallout 3's book maybe they won't have random treasure now, I mean I got a water walking necklace from the first chest after coming out of the sewer. I want it to be like Fallout 3 with it's unqiue weapons, so for example a unqiue powerful staff which is in a tower/dungeon protected by high leveled skeletons and zombies...maybe the boss could be a high leveled mage, it would be a difficult task if you've just started the game but that's what I would like. In F3 I went (with stealth boys) to Deathclaw sancutary and I got the Vengence, it was tough but I like the challenge and getting that amazing unique weapon payed off in the end. Hopefully Skyrim will have those types of things.
This is good news. I'm still on my first playthrough of Oblivion after buying it a few weeks ago and the enemy levelling can be annoying.
It's not a case of it getting too difficult but rather not being able to have that 'check out my new toy' moment. it's annoying levelling yourself up so you can use a new cool looking spell then when you get it and want to go kicking ass with it, it turns out the enemies are stronger so the spell in practice is weaker than your old one.
Also, I hope one of the other things they've taken from Fallout is the emphasis on interesting random encounters and individual places rather than cookie cutter dungeons that are only good for finding random loot.
Still though I'm loving Oblivion and can not wait for Skyrim.