I’m gonna comment without watching because of the Orwellian conditions of the workplace
There was a time where I started NG+ on games only to immediately give up on it because it starts with a 2 hour slog of handholding and cutscenes, now just the idea of going through some of these games, even if I liked them, feels ridiculous. Big games somehow manage to be constrained for narrative purposes but are terribly paced because there’s 40 hours of unsatisfying fluff between the “real” part of the game.
Exactly. There’s a reason there’s like a dozen “alternate start” mods for Skyrim but most people just play New Vegas with mods that improve the graphics and keep the game stable, if any. Starting a new game in New Vegas takes like five minutes. In Skyrim it takes like 45.
I think since Skyrim is so open and the main quest is so optional, a new playthrough feels fresh enough to brave the long ass intro, as opposed to feeling like a checklist like some games (even though, annoyingly, it mostly is)
I’m gonna comment without watching because of the Orwellian conditions of the workplace
There was a time where I started NG+ on games only to immediately give up on it because it starts with a 2 hour slog of handholding and cutscenes, now just the idea of going through some of these games, even if I liked them, feels ridiculous. Big games somehow manage to be constrained for narrative purposes but are terribly paced because there’s 40 hours of unsatisfying fluff between the “real” part of the game.
Exactly. There’s a reason there’s like a dozen “alternate start” mods for Skyrim but most people just play New Vegas with mods that improve the graphics and keep the game stable, if any. Starting a new game in New Vegas takes like five minutes. In Skyrim it takes like 45.
I think since Skyrim is so open and the main quest is so optional, a new playthrough feels fresh enough to brave the long ass intro, as opposed to feeling like a checklist like some games (even though, annoyingly, it mostly is)