#i promise this isn't me being an elitist about old games either btw

[blacktailedfawn]

it's nuts when people say that morrowind has a good story but the mechanics are too dated to enjoy. i think it betrays the lack of willingness to engage with a game's mechanics that pervades the general gaming sphere.

whether this came from or was the cause of the dumbing down of mechanical complexity in big budget games i can't really say, but it DOES suck that modern games are so. simple

#text #morrowind #the elder scrolls is a great case study for this trend #where morrowind has all of these rich and rewarding mechanics #oblivion cuts a bunch of them out #and skyrim is pared down to having virtually no strategy at all #i promise this isn't me being an elitist about old games either btw #i just think that sometimes a good game requires 15 minutes of learning before you can get into it and THAT'S OKAY