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Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1043 [Skyrim > Zelda] [Skyrim best ever]
Just
throwing this out there. Morrowind is completely unplayable now and
back when it came out. Dice based combat is great for table top RPGs,
but are absolutely terrible for video games. --- Calling Pokemon RBY a top 10 game was the most insane contest jibba-jabba ever Woe unto he who sig bets with the near-invincible Lord High creativename |
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The
dice based combat isn't bad at all and barely noticeable with a high
weapon skill. You can easily have a high weapon skill even at low levels
if you put your weapon choice as a major skill with one of the races
that gets a bonus to it. --- Starcraft is my life, so without it I wouldn't exist. - Artosis Congratulations to SuperNiceDog for winning the 2011 Guru contest. |
Again, dice based attacks are terrible and should be found in no video games whatsoever. --- Calling Pokemon RBY a top 10 game was the most insane contest jibba-jabba ever Woe unto he who sig bets with the near-invincible Lord High creativename |
KotOR
uses dice-based combat and it's still a GOAT-caliber game. In fact, I
didn't even realize it was dice-based until I began reading up on the
game after playing it. You know what you're doing, man? Just making broad, generalized, VIDEO GAME TOUGH GUY statements to repair your rep after you pegged Luigi to beat the Pokemon Trainers. --- Yoblazer: http://i44.tinypic.com/5nw45i.jpg Watch and you'll see... SuperNiceDog own me... in the Guru! |
All
jrpgs, older wrpgs (as in not this generation both KotoRs have dice
based combat), and tons of other games have some form of a dice based
combat system. Even something like Fallout 3 had a bit of a dice based
combat system with the VATs system. --- Starcraft is my life, so without it I wouldn't exist. - Artosis Congratulations to SuperNiceDog for winning the 2011 Guru contest. |
played Morrowind for the first time after beating Oblivion I don't know if it's just how badly it has aged, or because I played Oblivion first, but Morrowind felt seriously old --- http://www.freewebs.com/guessmyusername/CD1_joohee0924.gif |
All
combat in TES games suck balls. TES has never been about its combat.
TES games are about its world and the scale of its world, along with the
seemingly endless amount of things to do, that turn the game into a
huge timesink. A lot of people seem to like that though. I really can't get into them for that sole reason, the story really isn't engrossing, combat is subpar to plain terrible(compared to others in its genre or a familiar genre). TES has always been been world first, sidequest second, story 3rd, combat 4th, which is why I imagine a lot of people still prefer Morrowind over it. --- - |
complaining about a game that got an excellent reception pretty much across the board being popular is silly So majority rules? Should interracial marriages still be illegal, then? --- `·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.~*ST*~.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.· It's a Jersey thing. |
You
know what you're doing, man? Just making broad, generalized, VIDEO GAME
TOUGH GUY statements to repair your rep after you pegged Luigi to beat
the Pokemon Trainers. Nah, I just legitimately hate Morrowind. Most overrated game in the TES franchise (Oblivion and Skyrim are leagues better). And that Luigi pick made me survive in the guru for a while! How did you end up again? :P --- Calling Pokemon RBY a top 10 game was the most insane contest jibba-jabba ever Woe unto he who sig bets with the near-invincible Lord High creativename |
How long did you play Morrowind? --- Starcraft is my life, so without it I wouldn't exist. - Artosis Congratulations to SuperNiceDog for winning the 2011 Guru contest. |
I'll be seriously disappointed if the next match is Pokemon/Zelda/Skyrim. I want fair conditions for Skyrim to rip Zelda apart. --- xyzzy |
I hear total hate or total love for Morrowind. It's never ANYTHING in between. --- `·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.~*ST*~.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.,¸¸,.· http://images.memegenerator.net/instances/500x/9575948.jpg |
I
played it for a bit years ago. I don't exactly remember where I
stopped, but I did play it for a few days. Could not get by the combat. --- Calling Pokemon RBY a top 10 game was the most insane contest jibba-jabba ever Woe unto he who sig bets with the near-invincible Lord High creativename |
From: UltimaterializerX | #258 You did not just compare liking video games to racism. I shouldn't bite but it's simple. One is harmful. One isn't. Also Oblivion at least is certainly worse than Morrowind. Of course that's what happens when an entry in a series that puts all its money on having an immersive world has a dull and boring one. Combat's a lot better though. But it's still not exactly great. But I'll definitely agree with Sorozone about not being able to get into TES (comparatively speaking, I do still like them well enough) because of the priorities on the world. But even still, it is possible to have a massive world with tons to do while keeping the core experience strong. Give me Xenoblade over Skyrim any day. You can't do everything like in Skyrim, and the world isn't quite as open, at least at first, but there's more of what you can do (twice as many sidequests for instance) and the world is bigger. But most importantly, on top of that massive immersive world with buckets of optional content, there's an extremely strong main quest, a great combat system, and excellent story and characters. I don't see why those aspects couldn't be of the same quality in Skyrim, regardless of what the "focus" is. --- Something something something ^Poorly disguised anti-caps sig |
From: XxSoulxX | #063 I guess that's fair though the dice based combat really becomes a non-issue. Eventually you pretty much never miss. --- Starcraft is my life, so without it I wouldn't exist. - Artosis Congratulations to SuperNiceDog for winning the 2011 Guru contest. |
If
it's Skyrim/Zelda/Pokemon and Skyrim doesn't break 50%, I figure we'll
probably get a final final GOTY poll with just Skyrim and SS 1v1. --- Congratulations to SuperNiceDog, Guru Winner, who was smart enough to pick your 7 time champion, Link. |
All I did was prove how playing "majority rules" is moronic. 5% of the population of the original colonies won the Revolutionary War against England. 95% of people wanted nothing to do with the situation. The majority is actually almost always wrong. --- Anagram doesn't know what "too much" looks like. -Palmer Whereas Ulti knows every time he looks down. -Alec |
Personal
taste cannot be wrong. And complaining about people's taste is rather
pointless. It's like, I hate tomatoes. But I know a ton of people who
love tomatoes. I'm not going to say they're wrong for liking tomatoes,
or complain about how popular tomatoes are, am I? --- Something something something ^Poorly disguised anti-caps sig |
I
played Morrowind back when it came out for Xbox, and I didn't like it
at all. I couldn't get more than a couple hours into it, because of the
horrible gameplay, lack of direction, bad graphics.. it just wasn't a
fun experience. And now, I've loved every major Bethesda game since. I will never understand the Morrowind fans. --- http://raptr.com/badge/cf898f37d9c30ef120ada6c35e636ad3/fs.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
A
friend of mine thought Morrowind was the best game he'd ever played, so
I sat down to see what it was about, and he spent like 5-10 minutes
trying to unlock a door... and then he told me he had this really cool
sword but it killed him if he tried to wield it... I mean how is that even fun? --- Every Supernicedog has its day. RR: Guru 5th Oracle 9th |
From: jacko_vdz | #070 Being able to get that sword is actually one of the reasons Morrowind is so damn amazing. The sword he was referring to was Sunder which is required to beat the main quest. If you go through the main quest properly following the main path and doing all the quests and what not you will be able to get that sword and equip it without killing yourself. If you decide that you don't want to follow these random peoples orders though you can just kill them unlike 99% of other games including Skyrim and Oblivion and then you can still kill the main boss. If you don't go through the main quest properly sunder takes away I think a bit over 200 health on equip so obviously beating the final boss will be really damn hard but at least you can do it. It's one of the only games I can think of where you can legitimately kill the main boss while ignoring everyone else. As for him taking 5-10 minutes to unlock a door idk his lockpick skill sucks but even then it shouldn't take that long he should be able to open it or he shouldn't there's no way he actually spent 5 minutes in front of a door trying to unlock it. --- Starcraft is my life, so without it I wouldn't exist. - Artosis Congratulations to SuperNiceDog for winning the 2011 Guru contest. |
gogogo NBA Jam --- Lost both testicles to Alec when my team couldn't come through in the clutch. I didn't realize that GameFAQs contests counted as playoffs. |
Damn it SBAllen --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/Rivalry%20BOP.xls Congrats to SuperNiceDog for winning the guru contest. |
Oh
god, Best Mobile Game. This is going to be sad to watch. It could
very well get under 20000 votes because site traffic is even worse
compared to a year ago. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
Aw yeah, time to get a record low in votes. --- http://raptr.com/badge/cf898f37d9c30ef120ada6c35e636ad3/fs.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
1 minute analysis NBA Jam is going to have the best performance ever by a sport game --- Lost both testicles to Alec when my team couldn't come through in the clutch. I didn't realize that GameFAQs contests counted as playoffs. |
Oh my...best Mobile game? Who plays them? This won't even reach 30,000 votes. --- Pokemon, Final Fantasy, God of War, Mario and Call of Duty games are AWESOME |
It might not even reach 20000 votes. This poll happened last year: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4205 Just barely under 26000 votes, so we might be looking at less than 20000 votes with our lower site traffic. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
259
votes at the freeze, which is a record low for any poll. That doesn't
count polls that glitched or started later than normal. There was once a
poll that started at 2:22 AM and only had 192 votes at the freeze. The "Best iPhone Game" poll from last year had 330 votes at the freeze. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
And
he was doing so well, too. To combine DS/3DS/PSP and Wii/360/PS3 only
to give mobile its own boring, useless day. SB, just in case you're
reading this, here's some honest, good natured advice for next year: Combine mobile games with downloadable games and put that poll up on January 1. This is easily the worst poll of the bunch, so get it out of the way early. Everyone wanted to see how Skyrim would do against Zelda, not this. What sucks even worse is that tomorrow's poll is now guaranteed to be another snoozer. --- Yoblazer: http://i32.tinypic.com/zlf1w7.gif Watch and you'll see... SuperNiceDog own me... in the Guru! |
I'm not voting in the hope that this doesn't clear 20k. --- Yoblazer: http://i44.tinypic.com/5nw45i.jpg Watch and you'll see... SuperNiceDog own me... in the Guru! |
Tomorrow's poll should be nice. Hoping to see a Bastion win. --- "When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it." |
Outside of Bastion, are there any other Downloadable titles that might make a run at winning? --- http://raptr.com/badge/cf898f37d9c30ef120ada6c35e636ad3/fs.png http://myanimelist.net/signature/RyanSaotome.png |
PartOfYourWorld | Posted 1/6/2012 12:11:35 AM | message detail | quote I'm not voting in the hope that this doesn't clear 20k. I guess you might vote near the end of the poll if you know it's not going to clear 20k? --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
Maybe. I'll probably end up forgetting. --- Yoblazer: http://oi52.tinypic.com/ad21i1.jpg Watch and you'll see... SuperNiceDog own me... in the Guru! |
Go go Where's my Water?!! --- Calling Pokemon RBY a top 10 game was the most insane contest jibba-jabba ever Woe unto he who sig bets with the near-invincible Lord High creativename |
Probably not. I don't think any other downloadable game has the same 500,000+ reach that Bastion has. Maybe Outland or ITSP. --- "When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it. I had time, but I did not know it." |
UltimaterializerX posted... Anyone who uses "very highly rated" to defend their argument is automatically wrong. Notice how I never bring up any of Skyrim's review scores, even though all of them are between 93 and 100? It's because the game wins on its own merit, something the Zelda series hasn't done since Majora's Mask. I've been living off of YouTube LPs for the past few months due to my playroom TV breaking down (therefore no console gaming) and me not feeling like playing games for the most part (although I finished StarCraft and Portal), but I'm watching an LP of The Wind Waker now and the whole time, I'm thinking "Death of Nintendo my left foot! This is definitely something I'd want to play!". That being said, the Zelda franchise's overbearing popularity on sites like G4 and GameFAQs is still a little sickening for me to think about, although when I instead think about the series on its own merits, I always conclude easily that the series deserves its high level of popularity, even today. That said, I watched GT's reviews of Skyrim and Skyward Sword, and I'm honestly not too excited for either. Skyrim looked too derivative (and I've never played a WRPG aside from a stint of Morrowind, but still), and Skyward Sword seemed more like the Zelda series' equivalent of Other M than its equivalent of Mario Galaxy to me. --- Currently Playing - StarCraft: Brood War |
this poll is so bad I have an iPhone and I haven't even played any of these games. --- For your SuperNiceDog. At least Kupo has class and doesn't MESSAGE the people -Dr Pizza |
From: LinkMarioSamus | #088 I hate myself for biting, but what does this even mean? --- Hey, its that SuperNiceDog! Congrats to the Guru 2011 winner |
Skyward
Sword looked like it was taking the series in a direction that I
wouldn't want it to go in, and also looked tailor-made for the people
who thought that the series has been the suck since Majora's Mask to
pour salt on the wounds. There's also a parallel where it wouldn't
really be pushing it at all to say that Metroid Prime and The Wind Waker
have better graphics than their 2010/2011 counterparts, although that's
more of a good thing for the GameCube duo than a bad thing for the Wii
duo. I'd say that I'm more excited for Skyrim, but I'm honestly not so much for either game. GT giving its Best RPG award to Dark Souls over Skyrim essentially confirmed my feeling that Skyrim seemed too derivative. --- Currently Playing - StarCraft: Brood War |
I'd
say that I'm more excited for Skyrim, but I'm honestly not so much for
either game. GT giving its Best RPG award to Dark Souls over Skyrim
essentially confirmed my feeling that Skyrim seemed too derivative. Shane Satterfield is a massive Demon's/Dark Souls fanboy. I would have been shocked if Dark Souls didn't win the award. --- you just can't live in that negative way...make way for the positive day |
1696
votes at the end of the first hour. Based on that, this poll does have
a chance to finish under 20000 votes, although it could still break
20000. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
TheOceIot posted... I'd say that I'm more excited for Skyrim, but I'm honestly not so much for either game. GT giving its Best RPG award to Dark Souls over Skyrim essentially confirmed my feeling that Skyrim seemed too derivative. Shane Satterfield is a massive Demon's/Dark Souls fanboy. I would have been shocked if Dark Souls didn't win the award. The GT guy narrating the video stated that the editors debated between Dark Souls and Skyrim for a full hour. But yeah, I didn't know that GT has a huge Souls series fanboy. On a side note, there's now a Souls series in addition to a Soul series. Argh, what has the industry become? --- Currently Playing - StarCraft: Brood War |
Unbelievable that Allen thinks that all these fodder games deserve to be in GotY polls over Sonic. --- Hey, its that SuperNiceDog! Congrats to the Guru 2011 winner |
And
now we just got our first update with less than 100 votes and we're
just barely out of the first hour. Pretty sure that "Best iPhone Game"
poll from last year didn't get getting updates with less than 100 votes
until after 2:00 AM. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
I think we just had a 31-vote update. --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO SUPERNICEDOG NO PEACE] |
Just barely above 5000 votes by 6:00 AM. Man, this is really bad. Some of our polls are able to get over 5000 votes in 1 hour. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as SuperNiceDog, Guru Champ! |
From: JJH777 | #050 Jesus Christ, you're still going on about this s***? It is f***ing debatable, and I'm f***ing tired of seeing your pathetic fanboy whining in every f***ing topic I go to. Shut the f*** up about your lust in f***ing your Morrowind disc and learn to accept that some people actually like things that you don't. --- Congrats to SuperNiceDog for winning the Guru for a Super Bad Contest! |
Anyway,
it'd be cool if Chester manages to pop up in the next poll, though I
guess it'd have a better shot of doing well if it ends up on next year's
poll after its Steam release. --- Congrats to SuperNiceDog for winning the Guru for a Super Bad Contest! |
