Assuming you haven't already, you should give Morrowind a shot. If you can get past the dated graphics and mechanics, the story is by far Bethesda's best work imho.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have played Morrowind(well actually TES3MP) and in terms of flexibility and story Morrowind is definitely great, my issue is that my least favorite aspect of Bethesda games are the tedious winding dungeons(why NV and Starfield are my favorite because they have the least of that) and Morrowind unfortunately has a lot. One aspect of Morrowind that I really enjoyed actually though, was the opportunity to be given information to actually take notes on(I wrote down directions quest givers gave for example) and Starfield was the only other Bethesda game I've played with a taste of that. Although unfortunately much less.

[–] SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man, feels like we played totally different games regarding Morrowind. Most of Morrowind's dungeons are the smallest of any Bethesda game, and honestly it had the least amount of quests that even sent you to dungeons. Still, if you found them tedious you found them tedious. (anychance you installed other mods besides MP?)

All the same, I think the story is by far Bethesda's magnum opus. (I mean Bethesda proper, since New Vegas was Obsidian and all)

And while I find exploration in Starfield to be extremely tedious, I will say they employed a "Skyrim/FO4" style sensibility where each dungeon should roughly take 10-20 minutes, making for nice bite sized chunks of gameplay.

I completely agree that NV had stellar use of dungeons that almost never overstayed their welcome.

Though if you want real tedium, in both winding dungeons and exploration, give Daggerfall unity a try. Great game, but my god does it go on and on and on.