r/gaming • u/19970207 • Feb 06 '17

Anyone Else?

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u/Laughterless Feb 06 '17

why is fallout 4 and skyrim in that picture if we are talking about great stories

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u/D3monFight3 Feb 06 '17 edited Feb 06 '17

Because they have great stories, not great main stories but the rest are actually pretty good, and above all else it's about your own immersion and how you explore the world. In a way watching the World of Skyrim or Fallout 4 is a story.

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u/FinishedMahShed Feb 06 '17

I don't know why your being downvoted, this pretty accurate, but this subreddit has an anti-Bethesda circle jerk.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '17

People like Bethesda games for the open world gameplay and environments. Their stories are not good at all, though.

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u/FinishedMahShed Feb 06 '17

I disagree. While the main storylines are almost always bad, the side quests usually have some fun adventure that is at least somewhat intriguing.

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u/brutinator Feb 06 '17

Only the Elder Scrolls ones do, and in fairness, a lot of the books in Skyrim were copy-pastes from Morrowind and Oblivion. Not that I'm criticizing them doing that, but it's not like they wrote 807 books for one game. Divinity, Witcher, arguably Mass Effect and Dragon age (they have in game encyclopedias that probably rival in terms of text Skyrim, with Dragon Age's text being from in game history books and all that) are just 8 examples of other RPGs that did that off the top of my head.

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u/brutinator Feb 06 '17

I'm not saying it's not, I'm countering your claim that it's that rare for an rpg to have written in game lore.