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    • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      for sure. a new engine definitely makes a difference, but idk that it actually fixes all the issues of what makes the whole format "not great" for transmitting all the really cool stuff in the lore.

      honestly kind of needs to switch from open-ended wish-fulfillment be-everything do-everything rpg to a more hyper-focused rogue-lite model of gameplay where they really boil whatever part of the lore, and you uncover more and more as you go through successive iterations of the player characters timeline

        • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          fair.

          the rpg format can work, but in poe the player character absolutely cannot do and be everything.

          its a fairly focused story even though the world itself is fairly open, because the focus isnt on "player character number go up" which is def the focus of tes games, but on the various choices that get made as you progress.

          in poe those choices often have immediate consequences as well as long reaching ones, whereas i cant honestly recall a choice in any bethesda game that ever mattered at all

          edit; i mean, i guess you can kill vivec and still beat morrowind which is cool. but thats about it