I still firmly believe that Morrowind was the best TES game ever made. Everything was perfect, from the ambiance, to the music, to the story, and even combat. Sure you can cheese it, but that was the fun part. I still remember the mourning sound of the silt strider after exiting the boat.
I agree on most of that, but certainly not
everything was perfect. :P Combat imo was very bad (they had this D&D-inspired system that worked terribly in a first person game) and the leveling system was atrocious. I didn't mod it out because I prefer to play vanilla, at least for the first playthrough, but the first 20 hours weren't fun gameplay-wise (a lesson for my Oblivion playthrough). But yes - in general, I agree that it's the best TES game. No nostalgia speaking, I played it for the first time about a year ago.
Oblivion was was still good imo, but potato faces, NPC conversations, and the standard medieval setting kind of diminished it.
The potato faces were so bad it made me mod them out, which is extremely rare for me, as I've mentioned. (And man is modding Oblivion hell.) I liked NPC conversations, as primitive and silly as they were, because I saw the improvement over Morrowind - NPCs spoke to each other, had daily routines and so on. But combat, same-y dungeons and level scaling were terrible in Oblivion. (Granted, combat was better than in Morrowind, mechanically... but the HP bloat made me just lower the difficulty.) And yes - the setting was as vanilla and bland as it goes. I wonder what it will be for TESVI. Certainly not High Rock or Hammerfell. Har har.
And if they expand the series past Geralt and let you make your own Witcher who is Geralt’s pupil I’d have more patience with it. I don’t know. I like Elric of Melnibone and I like Solid Snake, but colliding then together (which is especially what Geralt is) does not do it for me.
At least he's more bearable than in the books. CDPR imo did a great job at staying true to the source material and tweaking the bad aspects of it at the same time.
I'd love the next Witcher game to have a custom Witcher protagonist, I was thinking it would be cool if
Letho got to reestablish the School of the Viper and the protagonist was one of the first new witchers
, but I'm afraid they are going to go with Ciri... Iirc it was hinted at. I hope I'm wrong.
Regarding male and female protagonists - I choose semi-randomly, though there are some factors: if a game has bikini armors/boob bowls, a male protagonist it is. Those things are ridiculous, I'm not playing a warrior-themed exotic dancer.
