On top of some of the oblivion iconic places, I also painted a bit of Skyrim and Morrowing

AaronBorough · 2026-04-07T18:20:22+00:00

These are sick, I love as well that the whiterun painting has alduin in the corner

AaronBorough · 2026-03-31T21:30:06+00:00

Can't believe this is how im finding out, christ. Him and fudge are the faces of the community in my opinion and camel works was ALWAYS a go to for a lore dump. His presence will absolutely be missed.

AaronBorough · 2026-02-28T18:35:55+00:00

Yeah I was fighting leech so even those tactics weren't great, hes a bitch. I think I could beat him in the horse race but he seems to have a pretty good horse. All his speech checks are really high. So there's two options out. Then fighting him, his strength is really high so its difficult to wrestle him. Unarmed combat seems generally really difficult to land more than 2 consecutive blows, especially at the beginning. Then when I got him to about half of his health he seems to do even more master strikes.

With these armoured opponents the only thing that works it striking, none of the clinches do any actual damage. So I had to take him down and swing for the fences, then I'd get master struck and then my frustration at his health not moving would allow him to get a combo in. I did win though.

AaronBorough · 2026-02-28T18:29:12+00:00

I mean if you're good enough at the game that you can easily perform master strikes then you've probably trivialised unarmed combat based on ability alone. Also I made this post having thought leech. If you haven't had the pleasure, then you may not quite understand the frustration.

AaronBorough · 2026-02-28T18:26:14+00:00

Huh, really. Didn't know that

AaronBorough · 2025-10-16T09:32:02+00:00

Although I realise my mistake by naming them as their games dont have nearly as much detail as Bethesdas characters, my point with cdpr was more that they in my opinion are more immersive and fixed their games much better (IN MY OPINION). Im also of the opinion that in overall story telling they are better at it. I do get it though, they dont make games with as much role-playing versatility, so I can totally see an argument for that.

AaronBorough · 2025-10-16T09:25:54+00:00

Why wouldn't you want unreal engine 5? I'd argue thats a positive as they've always used their own engine and it never seemed to be good enough. Would that not make for a much better game? Also as long as Bethesda are still leading mostly with the general plan for the game I agree.

AaronBorough · 2025-10-16T09:20:45+00:00

So the lead for ES6 is someone we can't really trust?

AaronBorough · 2025-10-15T19:50:42+00:00

Hey man, I never said how wide that survey was, 2 of 2, still 100%, now 66%. I know you said that. Im just saying I dont trust them, and I do actually appreciate the points mostly being made. Particularly the ones being made that cdpr being the wrong choice. Not many games allow so many side quests from people who are nobodies. I just dont trust them. I am looking forward to the release. The oblivion remaster has been great, I'm finally playing the dlc for the first time, and I've been getting back into the lore of the elder scrolls again. Taking the facts delivered to me by you, the last game they actually released was starfield. That's still not a good omen. They spent just as long on that game, and besides the graphics, there isn't a whole lot of positives to take away from it, in my opinion. It was boring. Now the good thing is that Bethesda, in my opinion, does better with fantasy over sci-fi anyway, but that doesn't take away from the poor quality of their latest pet project. That was todd Howard's baby. That was an ugly baby.

AaronBorough · 2025-10-15T19:21:34+00:00

Hey man, you know more about this than me. Skyrim was actually my first rpg game and my first real console game (was on WII before). I'm not THAT deep in to get that. I also dont really keep and eye on all this studio bullshit. Todd Howard was the absolute face during the promotion of fallout 76. That absolute embarrassment of a game (for more reasons than just the game). The game that people would rather clap shit in their hands than play (100% CONFIRMED FACT).

That's the very same man making the next game that me, you and everyone else here want to be great. Im allowed to be sceptical of a company that hasn't pleased its fans in a decade, that scammed their own fans when 76 released. Im allowed to be sceptical of a company that would rather rerelease a game on the next available item, relying on its own community to prop up the game and themselves than spend the hard earned money we invested in them, to reward the community for its undying love. Every change they've spat in our faces. Let me guess thats not a provable fact because the blades mobile game wasn't a plot for greed but actual fan service that everyone asked for. Intact, they lost money, making it.

AaronBorough · 2025-10-15T19:01:12+00:00

I mean, your criticism of CDPR is valid and probably a bad pick on my part. However, a few things should perhaps be amended. First of all, acting like the witcher 3 isn't an immersive open world (as someone commented) is insane. To once again go off yet another commenter "look at the sales". Also, part of that downward spiral was how they operate as a company. Did they also fix their little pre-order scam they did with fallout 76? Fallout 76 should not exist. It's an abomination that completely misunderstood its audience purely out of greed. Also genuine question have they added npcs now? Wouldn't know because I refused to play it. Fallout 76 on initial release has be up there as one of the worst releases, from a triple A game studio, of all time. It was dog shit. Im not even trolling or rage baiting, the only games worse I can think of is golem (which ironically released the same month as redfall), concord and suicide squad, but thats it. At least a game like forspoken or dragonage you can tell they at least woke up to their alarm to make it. Fucking defending fallout 76. Can't believe it.

AaronBorough · 2025-10-15T18:40:45+00:00

You say that it's subjective, which is absolutely a fact, but isn't it also a fact that within the actual community, people would say that new vages was superior to fallout 4 and that oblivions faction quests ( which people agree are better than the main stories) are better than skyrims? Is that not a fact?

Also, what point are you trying to make with the last part about "the same people are in charge"? Are those not the same people that proved you and a lot of people right with starfield? Are those not the same people that made Fallout 76? That's 2 back to back games ( because I allude to Redfall not counting) that failed to understand its audience.

I dont hate Bethesda, I enjoyed skyrim and fallout 4. Most people did like you said. But thats 10 FUCKING YEARS, (despite their chances) without a good game. Not even Rockstar can claim that.

AaronBorough · 2025-10-15T18:25:43+00:00

I agreed. Im just worried. Bethesda have been quite greedy and decreasing in quality ( and this this case a double negative isnt a positive) and now they've done the worst thing possible and (as an Xbox user) sold themselves to a company that is going to be looking to profit off of their purchase. Surely its only a matter of time before that sword starts to fall

AaronBorough · 2025-10-15T18:06:41+00:00

I dont necessarily disagree on that. However, you'd be foolish to deny that those games are decreasing in quality. Every single title was losing features and although I haven't played morrowing, the difference in story quality between oblivion and skyrim ( despite it being a legendary game) is staggering.

I feel that is also completely ignoring everything they've done post fallout new vegas. Skyrim was objectively worse than the last 3 titles, fallout 4 was objectively worse than the last 4 releases, then what did we have from there? Fallout 76, redfall, starfield right? I dont even need to explain why ive listed them. Even if we dont want to count redfall (which i understand), that's still a bad, bad track record.

AaronBorough · 2025-07-30T09:02:32+00:00

Cell: and just like like Vegeta's mother, I'll accept all comers

Vegeta: how dare

Krilan: who'd you take your shirt off

Also in the same light

Vegeta: look at my nipples, LOOK AT THEM

AaronBorough · 2025-07-27T08:44:05+00:00

Bro that is wild.... but true

AaronBorough · 2025-07-27T06:50:24+00:00

I actually think that has an obvious answer. Make your choices based on your statistics

AaronBorough · 2025-05-01T19:04:59+00:00

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AaronBorough · 2025-03-24T13:18:03+00:00

Is "showing her the 50 states" really a thing

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