1993

taught us all a valuable lesson about running into walls

I fell off relatively early on due to life but this is the closest I've gotten to scratching that itch from Morrowind since I was young. Extremely good for a free total conversion.

My favorite walking simulator that unfortunately wasn't brave enough to not include action sections.

Great game but also incredibly 90s.

it's experimental jazz Hotline Miami, what do you want from me

It's well done but it's ultimately just the logical extension of BotW.

the best bethesda rpg in the past 10 years and it's not even by bethesda. too much baggage from the genre's orientalist past and an awful loot system drags it down.

an unfortunately unlikely to be repeated triumph of the medium. it's planescape torment without the baggage and thac0.

2022

Had to stop playing due to cat danger related anxiety.

we could be real Fortnite gamers

Better than people gave it credit for but the open world design is very shallow in a way that is anti-dopamine. Best storytelling since the Black/White generation.

This is the only part of Fallout 4 that is a roleplaying game in spirit rather than in strict definition. Got spoiled on the story which probably degraded my experience. It's still Fallout 4 though.

It's just a set of themed dungeons. Bethesda wrote themselves into a corner by making this also have to be an evil expansion for settlement reasons so any story feels more pointless than usual. Porter Gage is cool.

Tried to make Fallout more like Mass Effect but instead just made it a mid looter shooter.

Any game where you can check if your handgun has a round in the chamber by pointing it at your face is one I support wholeheartedly.