jeez... this game
Beat now the "final boss", and practically no one cares and essentially nothing changes.
Beat several sidequest storylines but beside some cool loot, nothing changes.
It is insanely void of consequences and impact. Some guards talking about some events the player did but that's it.
The city Markarth is bugged out. I don't have a bounty there according to the stats page, nevertheless every fucking guard stops me because that one quest ended with killing some corrupt guards, but I can just say "nope wasn't me, don't bother me" only to be stopped by the next guard. While doing one of the assassin missions it was funny there though. I shot an arrow at my target, him uncheathing enraged the guards and they fought him for me (almost killed him, just had to do the final shot) and then still no bounty, but fleeing was extremely cumbersome because a couple of guards were then near the action and me, and that stupid evasive dialog had to be done dozens of times. Probably should just pay the jail bribe. lol
The bounty system in other quests is just weird. How would they know were the shot came from when my stealth mode says "hidden" and no one is around except the dead victim? Almost as random as the sneaking in original Hitman. Sneaking itself is a joke. Only with muffling boots the character does not make noise that alerts everyone I guess. I hear absolutely nothing but even walking naked seems to be "loud", any regular armor makes stealth impossible.
This game is the defintion of meh and feels like I imagine TES Online is. They could have made a couple of interesting games if they focused on the Dragonborne story line, or the Werewolf storyline, or the Assassin storyline, but nope, we put everything in a blender, offer hours of busy work but not a single proper story arc, gameplay that is janky af, buggy quest triggers, pointless simulation systems and npc cycles, no noticeable progression beyond numbers increasing, a difficulty that scales and therefore negates everything but still is unbalanced with huge dragons being easier to defeat than some random enemy in some dungeon, while other enemies are done with just one hit, dungeons that all feel samey with the same traps and same building blocks over and over.
It is great if you want to waste your time 100+ hours with mindless busy work but it is a terrible game in any objective perspective. Critics and gamers alike have mind boggling taste sometimes.
Bethesda games are very close to how the first AI games will be.
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