It is strangely boring to be the chosen one, isn’t it? My favourite Skyrim playthroughs were with the mod where you can start life as just, a ranger in the woods, or a scholar of magic, or whatever. It feels much more interesting to be boring.
Yeah, that’s pretty much how I play these days as well. Mod the game to the brim, pick a setting appropriate role (preferably one with little to no intentional combat) and go with that. Being a mundane part of the world is just much more enjoyable to me, probably due to uniqueness that comes with it.
It’s a bit easier to roll with it in more linear titles but sandbox games? I’ll take the “boring” stuff over glazing just for being the main character any day. I just wish more games had a more systemic rather than curated approach to their features to allow for things like this without mods. That’s just my unreasonable wish though.
I remember playing original Skyrim and the horse carriage getting stuck at the gates. I restart. The carriage suddenly flips up into the sky like it hit a landmine. Restart. The whole I’m like why can’t I please just get off the carriage and run off into the wilderness lol. Like Fallout NV did it the best. Just yep thanks doc bye, I’mma go that’ta way
Praise be to all of the authors of alternative start mods! NV is definitely a great vanilla solution but I still like the ability to skip the main story premise completely.
It is strangely boring to be the chosen one, isn’t it? My favourite Skyrim playthroughs were with the mod where you can start life as just, a ranger in the woods, or a scholar of magic, or whatever. It feels much more interesting to be boring.
Yeah, that’s pretty much how I play these days as well. Mod the game to the brim, pick a setting appropriate role (preferably one with little to no intentional combat) and go with that. Being a mundane part of the world is just much more enjoyable to me, probably due to uniqueness that comes with it.
It’s a bit easier to roll with it in more linear titles but sandbox games? I’ll take the “boring” stuff over glazing just for being the main character any day. I just wish more games had a more systemic rather than curated approach to their features to allow for things like this without mods. That’s just my unreasonable wish though.
I remember playing original Skyrim and the horse carriage getting stuck at the gates. I restart. The carriage suddenly flips up into the sky like it hit a landmine. Restart. The whole I’m like why can’t I please just get off the carriage and run off into the wilderness lol. Like Fallout NV did it the best. Just yep thanks doc bye, I’mma go that’ta way
Praise be to all of the authors of alternative start mods! NV is definitely a great vanilla solution but I still like the ability to skip the main story premise completely.