@mellotronrules: Playing The Witcher 3 recently, and then going back to Skyrim hasn't helped. It's a very shitty comparison, but I can literally get lost in Novigrad from its size. It's mind-boggling and I instantly fell in love with it because I was getting lost. A big city is defined on how well you can get lost in my opinion haha.
It kinda goes back to Jeff and Austin's debate about Bethesda games, but I wish they maybe scaled things back a bit. As cool as it is that you can talk to every character in the game, it sucks that when I go to Markarth, one of the largest cities in Skyrim, there's only 22 buildings. At this point, I'm hoping the next Elder Scrolls will lean more towards The Witcher 3 than past Elder Scrolls Games. I really love The Witcher 3, but making it more open-ended in terms of the characters role in the game (like an Elder Scrolls game) would make it go above and beyond.
@mellotronrules:I was just thinking about this earlier. My problem with Skyrim is how samey a lot of the towns feel. The inns all look the same, the jarls all have that same stupid pose, etc. I think the next game really needs to hammer down how different each town is.
@dr_monocle: I feel any Rockstar game applies to this thread heavily haha. But yeah, you're very much right about the little touches elevating it above and beyond. I think Austin's points about the last 1/3 of the game being very "peaceful" also help this. You get a sense of what it's actually like to actually live in this world as opposed to just shooting through it.
What games can you think of that really do a great job at establishing or conveying a culture, fictional or non-fictional? It'll probably be one mentioned a lot so I'll get it out of the way, but The Witcher (any of them) does a really great job at this through the writing, the art direction, etc.
A long time ago, Bombcast had a HEATED discussion on what meat you automatically associate with the word "meatball". It was incredible and I desperately want to find it. Does anyone recall which episode this might've been from?
ALSO a secondary request, anyone remember the bombcast ep where they talk about processed foods and where Jeff claims he would eat a burger "made out of diapers"
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