As recently mentioned, I played a little bit of Wuchang and Mortal Shell 2 for a bit. I haven’t continued playing for around a week now, but I might this weekend - not sure yet. I’ll definitely be playing more Slay the Spire 2. There’s been a new update that adds an entirely new character to the game, the Fool, who is a lot of fun and adds new character-specific mechanics that are very unique.
The Fromsoft soulslikes are notorious for many a thing: the difficulty of the game (levels as well as bosses), the lore, the fandom. What stands out to many is the atmosphere, the feeling of being thrown into an (un-)inhabited world that existed prior to your playing and will likely do so after you have finished your playthrough (bar specific endings with world-ending implications).
Is there any piece of media that evokes a similar feeling in you? Maybe a book, or a movie, or even another game?
I am not sure if I can come up with any non-game examples, but even though I am yet to finish the game, Outer Wilds or Subnautica give me a similar feeling. These vast open worlds (even an entire galaxy) exist outside the meddling of third parties (mostly). They have existed before I have entered the world and will likely do so after I am gone. Not a lot is explaiend about these worlds - you just exist and try to figure things out on your own.
The Mass Effect series gives me a similar feeling. You’re all alone with your crew, visiting all kinds of planets and races and whatnot. A lot of things are explained, you have a codex entry for pretty much everything you could imagine, but a lot of the story predates Shepard’s existence - think the Reapers, for example. Pretty astounding stuff.
I’m very curious to hear your thoughts! Have a nice weekend, folks. :) ✨
I’m on a morrowind kick so that’ll be what I’m playing.
By far my favourite elder scrolls game, world feels super alien and the way it’s presented makes me want to explore it. The lore is odd a times, lots of mixing of myth and reality, kinda central to the story. It’s been around for a long time so it’s got quite the dedicated fanbase, playing with Tamriel Rebuilt for the first time, has built a ton of the mainland of morrowind, follows the established lore at time of release so there’s a lot to experience.
Ooh yea that’s a good one. As far as “modern” Elder Scrolls is concerned, Morrowind is definitely the most alien and hostile. Can’t speak for Arena and Daggerfall, and I don’t know much about TESO lore
I’m tempted to give daggerfall unity a go, I’ve tried arena once back when Bethesda made it free to anyone to play, didn’t click for me at all. Morrowind at least has modernish controls (and openMW is the way to play that).
TES lore is wild, can definitely get lost on the uesp.