>>41020758>>41020586not him but i bought oblivion on a steam sale years ago and it was like, unplayably bad. the entire world is the same grim rocks & trees as far as i've seen in game or in screenshots, and the plots & characters are the most bog standard fantasy archetypes. the combat was also really boring, with nothing having any impact. like, there are things I like about oblivion's character building and worldbuilding, but nothing feels like it has any impact. haven't played skyrim
to be fair, i dont really play like, rpgs like that or dark souls or whatever, as compared to strategy games/mobas/mmos. the most rpg-ish games like that i've played very much of are mount & blade and i guess borderlands, and i think borderlands has at least a little bit of a different aesthetic and mount & blade has more fun combat, especially the mounted combat.
so anyway, the relevance to pokemon is that open worlds like skyrim & swsh that are "big" but pretty much the exact same type of landscape & environment throughout are really fucking boring. mount & blade, by comparison, doesn't have a true open world, as opposed to a strategy map zooming to a battle map system, but the battles feel really different when you're in mountains vs hills vs fields due to how it affects your maneuverability & the ability of cavalry to charge. in pokemon of course, it's just "snow zone -> hail weather, desert zone -> sandstorm" and you hate being in either of them because of the buffeted text every single turn. but the swampy areas in RSE had a very different feel in a good way, so there's options.
honestly the weirdest thing about SWSH is that it's just constantly SO bright and sunny. the UK is.... not like that. it's really, really not like that. like, famously not like that.
