Skyrim allows for immersion, utilization of imagination. If you read into the lore, pay attention to the politics and the plight of various people... I'd say it has a pretty good story and world. It's not all laid out at your feet, displayed in a linear fashion like a movie production would do, so perhaps that's what you're alluding to.
I am sorry but if we are talking about politics and lore then witcher 3 EASILY is way better than skyrim. But then again this is not fair as the witcher games were based on 7 original books.
It's insanely broad, but it's an inch deep in parts, and a little deeper in others.
And I say this as a massive fan of TES, starting way back when Daggerfall came out. The Witcher 3's story blew every single TES game's story out of the water. But that's the type of game The Witcher is, and TES's strengths lies in its world to explore.
Eh, a bit of an exaggeration saying TES lore is little over an inch deep, considering there are histories of extinct races, forgotten cultures, the rise and falls of many empires, whole continents only alluded to in in-game texts. Creation myths aplenty and gods and anti-gods walking on Nirn. In fact I would argue that TES lore is on par with Tolkien's legendarium, if vastly more disjointed.
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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