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Starfield has lost 97% of its Steam players in less than six months (archive.is)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Skyrim's true power is that it's excellent for single-player roleplay. The game is very immersive, the universe feels extremely vast, and the gameplay allows for extremely varied play styles.

The end result is that the game is very replayable if your thing is building a consistent and unique (head)cannon for your character. If you don't focus the main quest, you can put in hundreds of hours across multiple characters before things get stale. Even the quests that you follow multiple times, you might approach from very different angles.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's really not good for roleplaying, though. The game doesn't give the player much to work with when it comes to creating unique characters, it's more like a demigod simulator. Mods fix this, but New Vegas still stomps it because the game and the quest design facilitates roleplaying better.