Thank God for Skyrim

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[–]Mazurro 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How in the fuck did you spend 10K hours on LOL? My condolences brocel. You deserved better.

My shitiest time of gaming - I wanted to climb up ranking but hated the game.

I find it funny how normies think that game’s an RPG btw. It’s a very solid action adventure game with couple of choices being thrown at you here and there and with some basic role playing elements, but it’s overall not a proper RPG.

Well if Witcher isn't an RPG, then Skyrim isn't RPG even more - it has good gear getting and build mechanics, great world and lore, but it's the shitiest game at plot and building character. The most classic RPG games would only fit criteria. It's like, I can agree Mass Effect isn't RPG at all, but Witcher definitely is.

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My shitiest time of gaming - I wanted to climb up ranking but hated the game.

I’m so sorry brocel. I know that feeling. Reminds me of my Apex Legends phase in 2019.

Well if Witcher isn't an RPG, then Skyrim isn't RPG even more

Witcher lacks everything that defines The Elder Scrolls as an RPG lol. You can pickpocket, steal, kill NPCs, fully decorate a house, get a wife and children, you can be good, bad, in between, whatever, you get to PLAY as a ROLE. In the Witcher 3, you can’t even escape being Geralt. You have to play as what the game wants you to play. There’s almost zero freedom in gameplay. The game won’t even allow you to attack any of the NPCs, let alone killing them.

For me, an RPG is being able to live in a world where there are consequences. In The Witcher 3, you can go to everyone’s house, steal their shit and yet no one would give a fuck lol. Even if you manage to somehow upset the guards, you can just fast travel, come back, and they’ve completely forgotten about you. In Elder Scrolls, you have to pay a fee or go to jail.

Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2, Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2. All great examples of actual RPGs where the world you live in genuinely feels alive and you can’t just do whatever you want in them without suffering the consequences.

Google “The Witcher 3 is not an RPG” and you’ll have hundreds of people agreeing with the statement but whatever my man, if you believe it’s a proper RPG go ahead, don’t let me stop you. Saying The Witcher 3 is an RPG feels like saying Horizon: Zero Dawn and Assassin’s Creed: Origins were also RPGs. It sounds like I’m really hating the game, but I’m not. Like I said, great game. Just not a (good) RPG in my opinion.

Highly, HIGHLY recommend you to give this a watch:

https://youtu.be/YhbY8hAWVmA