@bongsyas_23 Or you could be original and develop a spine...

@t3hninj4 @nathanmaxtro @Falru I wish people pay attention to other fantasy creators also, see Jules Verne for example. Plenty of Inspiration from there.

@t3hninj4 Couldn't have said it better myself. Forgettable characters - that's what Skyrim offers to players, not to mention fake, consequences devoid choices. Even KOTOR 1 had real choices, real consequences and different endings. And it was made 8 years ago!!! The world doesn't evolve it seems, quite the contrary.

@Thanatos2k Bioware aren't perfect, of course, especially when it comes to game combat. But overall they are still better than all the other game devs when it comes to character interaction, dialogues, romances, moral choices.

Please, enlighten those of us who don't yet realize it: why did Dragon Age 2 suck?? Examples sustained with arguments, please.

@master_zidane @Thanatos2k @jhcho2 "What he probably was trying to imply was that you can't really make a WRPG without being influenced by The Elder Scrolls series."

If he really believed that, he'd better retire from game making, there's plenty of manure in the countryside just waiting to be shoveled. Case the poor guy doesn't know, nor Lord of The Ring, nor The Elder Scrolls did invent or even mastered fantasy worlds... There are plenty of much older sources: Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, Mahabharata, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights etc.

@Thanatos2k @jhcho2 Skyrim is very far from being the perfect game. Want real fights with dragons? Check Gothic 2, made almost a decade ago. Or even Drakan, about same era, whose protagonist had a personality, meaning much more spine than Skyrim's knee trembling, pantomime&language challenged 'dragonborn'...

@baxwam The main aspect that ruined Origins wasn't limited maps. It was the combat: old system, difficult, clunky, horrible animated.

@don_saulari You speak of DA2 or its previous, Origins? DA 2 was decent. As for Origins, other than some lotr-esque cinematics and some 'not bad, could 've been better' campfire romances, Origins lacked in every other aspect when compared to plenty of past its time other games...

@tgwolf A decade ago, Gothic 1&2 were definitely better games than Skyrim, and, arguably, better in terms of story and combat than DA Origins. The only real area where Origins is better is romance options.

@Evilnator For some, Origins was much more painful than DA2. Origins' combat difficulty with its laughable-cursable animations were the arrow in the knee...