Comparing scope of Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind, there is very little difference. Really the only difference is an added feature here or there per iteration, and graphics. There is no reason a studio today couldn’t make something like Morrowind, as it was developed by like, 50 people. Unless the employees and management colossally screw up. No, modern game failures are not ONLY the fault of management.

It was “Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII.”

I tried it whenever it was like brand new. I think I tried the demo before the game even launched on Xbox 360, though I can’t be certain. I don’t really remember much about what I played except the main character had pink hair I think and there was a lot of blue or like, ice on the screen.

Also tried FF 7 (the original on PSX) and FF 4 on SNES. I haven’t tried Crisis Core, but I did have it on the list of games to try, even though its not a mainline game.

Ha, yes I heard X2 was pretty universally disliked.

I have really tried to like Final Fantasy. Over the years I have tried plyaing a few of them, like the FF 13 - 2 Lightning (?) demo, whichever game had “Lightning” in the title. I didn’t really like it. I suppose the only Final Fantasy I will ever like is FF Tactics.

IMO, if I am going to use that many cheats just for the story, I might as well just watch the game “movie” or whatever on YouTube.

I dont hate turn-based games as a whole. I do enjoy turn-based games like XCOM, Tuned Heart, Vagrant Story (its combat is somewhat turn-based), Galactic Civilization, and Mega Man Battle Network, for example.

I do not enjoy turn-based games where the only thing the player does is select an action from a list, with static party members and the same music/cutscene/background etc. For example: Wizardry, Octopath Traveler (I liked the art though), Pokemon, and XenoSaga. I also didn’t like Slay the Spire because of this. I didn’t like the autocombat in the XenoBlade games either.

Its hard for me to pinpoint exactly why I might like one game and dislike another even if they are similar in gameplay. Legend of Dragoon held my attention because at least I had the QTE during battles that gave me something that would directly impact my actions, but my save was corrupted and I haven’t got around to restarting the game.

The only time I actually enjoyed a game with this kind of gameplay was ironically the mobile game NieR Reincarnation (RIP). It wasn’t exactly turn-based, but it was similar in that all the player does in combat is select when to fire a character’s skill. Everything else is automatic. But I really like all of Yoko Taro’s works, and I liked the story and felt it was worth going through the combat for the story. Also, combat was over pretty fast, usually ending under 60-90 seconds.

Blitzball was interesting but I felt like it was an undercooked gamemode. It wasn’t explained super well and was frustrating occasionally. It didn’t really add to the story and just felt like filler, so except for the ones time I was forced to play it, I never touched it.

That was a joke. I don’t actually believe any human is below other humans. Well, except certain types of criminals like child molesters, and people who torture other living creatures, human or animal, and other similar horrendous acts. Then yes, I believe those creatures are subhuman.

Brits and Europeans make jokes at the expense of Americans all the time, its only fair if Americans can make jokes at the expense of Brits and Europeans too. It’s merely harmless banter.

City of Heroes though

Final Fantasy X.

Lots of people hype the game up, but boy is the gameplay boring to me. I love a good turn-based game, but not turn-based battles.

Especially didnt like Blitz ball. And the story wasn’t good enough for me to keep playing to find out. I played about 20 hours and got to the Seymour Wedding scene, after the desert area. That’s about where I dropped the game.

To be fair, I don’t really like JRPGs that require grinding, especially turn-based games with no tactical movement which require grinding, so I was already not going to like the game. But I had read that the story was one of the best among Final Fantasy. Also super hate random battles, especially when I am just trying to explore somewhere I already feel like I “cleared” out with battles. Also, gigachad Lulu was carrying like the entire time I played. L bozo Waka, your brother hated you bro. Ject would have been a better protagonist than Titus. Better design too.

Honorable Mention: XenoSaga.

My experience with XenoSaga can be summed up with: “When I am in a Designing Horrendous Boss Battles and my competition is The Developers of XenoSaga:”

You tried playing with mods though?

Imagine if this was real. If I was British, I’d probably be subhuman be thinking: “I’m sorry for the family, but the Royal Family was never going to mourn my family’s death, so let me play.”

Thats an insult to Bionicle.

I would be more concerned with difficulty of keeping them clean and how long it takes before they melt into goo.

Morrowind was exactly the perfect size for its content.

I would argue Daggerfalls map is unnecessarily large for the content it offers. At least Morrowinds NPCs have regional variation. In Daggerfall every innkeeper is exactly the same NPC. Its a technical marvel of its time, but by current standards is rather shallow.

Even then, the DS is pretty specific for its dual screen setup, and makes playing on anything that isnt a DS or similar form factor feel pretty unapproachable. Have you tried other consoles, like the PSP? Since it only has one screen, and does not have touch support, it can feel like it was designed for normal console style play.

Its only a suggestion, there may be other reasons he doesn’t play. Maybe the games just don’t interest him?

I really liked LotR Conquest. Its a shame they never made a new one.

Also, LotR Vol. 1 on the SNES was GOATED, and it saddens me immensely that Vol. 2 was never ported to the SNES.

To be fair, playing a DS game with touch screen buttons feels pretty bad compared to playing Fruit Ninja or whatever that was designed specifically for phone touch controls.

I’ll be honest, maybe it would be better if they didn’t have creative control anymore. They haven’t really been all that creative these past years.

Okay but Black Flag slapped. Maybe not as an AC game per se, but Black Flag was still a greater game.

Most self-aware Ubisoft employee quoted in post title

In CE Anniversary, they reused a lot of Halo Reach assets and generally destroyed the art style of the original game.

In what they have shown of Campaign Evolved (actually comically stupid name), they have added Sprint (which hilariously their own gameplay showcases that sprint causes the player to miss a music cue that Martin O’Donnell specifically placed), removed Health Packs in favor of recharging health, removed the tree that prevented the Warthog from being used to fight the two hunters completely trivializing the fight, and they reused a lot of assets from Halo Infinite as well, which I really hope are placeholders but I fear they are not. Also the forerunner tech is too clean and shiny.

From just 13 minutes of gameplay, I already see a lot of problems.