Shit, how is it possible, that while technology is improving, and Bethsoft has Radiant AI and shit, but still manage to make each game even more lifeless than the previous one? In Daggerfall their only trick is to have thousands of 2d sprites walking around aimlessly, and in Morrowind even none of the NPC move at all! But they feel so immersive! And once again, what's the fucking point of preserving Winterhold? It's even worse than a Stalker camp! Whiterun make Flotsam of Twitcher2 look like modern New York city. I think Morrowind has at least double the buildings and NPC number in each city compared to Skyrim. It seems the cities in Skyrim are even worse than Oblivion (gasp!). This is probably the most boring faction I've even seen in all TES. And to make things even worse, all the indoor areas of the college have no music. The Hall of Element and the big library, which are supposed to be the main studying places, and they indeed have pretty impressing area designs, are often empty. The students spend most of their time sitting in their room doing nothing. The spells they can teach are no better than a random court mage. The teachers do nothing but sit in their room to eat and drink.
The town is even more pathetic than most villages!
He should probably abandon the town and get over with it. I actually feel sorry for the Jarl there, sitting in his longhouse taking care of his "town" which has one small shop, one inn, and two houses. But damn, if you're expecting the college to be a mage faction with many fun quests to do to improve your rank slowly, you will be sorely disappointed.Īlso, Winterhold (along with the college) is just so fucking boring and pathetic as a town. And the whole quest, even after the conclusion, smells heavily of DLC potential. On a whole look the quest line is actually pretty interesting. The quests are fun, a specific dungeon is very well designed, and the beginning of the quest line really shows promise. So short that all the quests can be made into one big quest with several steps to finish. So short it's feeling like watching a single episode of Harry Porter movie. How short? So short it makes Oblivion's mage guild quest line look EPIC. The whole quest line is just ridiculously short. Shit fucking shit, I've just finished the college of Winterhold quest line, which is supposed to be the mage's guild quest line of Skyrim. It seems so far most of the topics are praising Skyrim.