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spend an hour walking across a brown desert bumping into a shed every now and then with no quest

OR

set off to do a mission in a lush environment and because i have bumped into another 8 missions on my way...end up forgetting the original mission for a good 10-30 hours.

fallout3 was an amazing game but skyrim had me hooked for longer playing times and was far more fleshed out.

also you complained about the breathe meter. i take it you never played long enough to find a mask that could give you unlimited breathe or simply just took the first (minor) piece of health to let you know to get out.

In my opinion, the world didn't feel as unique and endearing as Fallout; but that is just MY opinion. I didn't have an issue findings quests or things to do - they're plentiful - but they didn't strike a chord with me. The game is ambitious, perhaps overly so. It seems to buckle under the weight of what it's trying to convey.

And it's nice they have a mask that helps with breathing underwater; but I've never seen a game that doesn't have an indicator for when you're about to take drowning damage. It's an odd oversight. Not gamebreaking; but it made me raise a brow.

"And it's nice they have a mask that helps with breathing underwater; but I've never seen a game that doesn't have an indicator for when you're about to take drowning damage. It's an odd oversight. Not gamebreaking; but it made me raise a brow"

How people in that site take you serious? i mean you are doing a review about a game and because you don't like it you are pointing out irrelevant things? use your ears, hear when hes drowning, those little things.... i don't know how it raises a brow. I personally love all Bethesdas games including Vegas which is Obsidian and i don't see how you can like Fallout 3 and not Skyrim, maybe the settings of the game? you said Fallout 3 world is more unique well that's false... both games suffer from bugs the only logical reason for me is horror? i read about you and your favorite game is Silent Hill 2 which is awesome btw, maybe you are stuck in that style of genre?, Fallout 3 isn't that much of an horror game but it's darker than Skyrim, get something more dark-ish maybe Dark Souls? Stop pointing out useless thing about Skyrim.

I spent a good 300 hours on oblivion doing exactly what youve just mentioned, all the little things and it was brilliant. Even racked up another hundred or so on another character.

My point was more that in many less hours i found that I just lost interest in the game. I tried to revive some of that interest by playing as different characters but it didnt happen. I dont know what it is but the game just didnt have the same wow factor that i got with their other games.

I'll definitely give it another go with that dlc and see if its any different, but i hope that next time their characters are just as interesting as those on fallout. Faction campaigns like the Dark Brotherhood and the Theives Guild just felt weak compared to oblivion.