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Didn't realize that's what it was in reference to. Elder Scrolls is the Avenged Sevenfold of Western RPGs tbh. People with good taste reference Lands of Lore in their profile.
 
Are you basing your judgment of the series on Oblivion/Skyrim? Because Morrowind is the Summoning of Western RPGs.

This comparison will not help your case where HamburgerBoy is concerned.

Anyway I really like Skyrim. The combat is definitely shitty (it's just very superficial and lacking in depth. The attacks from weapons don't feel very visceral or like they connect half the time), but everything else about it is pretty great.

I definitely need to spend more time with Morrowind, though.
 
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I'm half-shitposting tbh. I've only played Arena, Daggerfall, and Skyrim to any extent, and didn't beat any of them. No way anything related to that series qualifies as in-crowd though, Morrowind was already a big breakthrough for them and they've expanded their normie audience with every successive game. The level-scaling bullshit is what really puts me off, but I'm not a fan of the open-world, a-hundred-identical-dungeons-to-explore style in general.
 
Morrowind was a success because it was a milestone in the open-world RPG genre, but it's extremely normie-unfriendly from a modern perspective. I don't think something being popular in the past disqualifies it from being an in-crowd darling in the present, but whatever, you're the one who insists on using this bullshit term anyway.
 
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I tried Elder Scrolls Online while it was in Beta, and yeah it was fucking awful.

For my video game in-crowd you have to consider Dark Souls to be pretty much the best game of the past 10 years.
 
I'm not going to make a claim that it's objectively the best video game of the past 10 years, although it's certainly my favourite. Since I'm apparently in-crowd as fuck, that means it should also be high on the in-crowd's video game list.

I don't really know what you were talking about with your Hideo Kojima comment.
 
I haven't played a minute of Dark Souls, but everything I've seen about it pisses me off. I almost want to play it just because I know I'll absolutely hate it and it will earn me out-crowd points, but I'd probably break something. Every other minute seems to be some mini-boss or boss with a slow, repetitive attack cycle and a big, fat HP bar. What sets it apart from any other hack and slash? idgi at all.

Alpha Centauri is the obvious true patrician's choice in computer game btw.

EDIT: Or STALKER for the last ten years.