BigBoss
Your Local Scrub
I seem to recall that in Morrowind, many if not most of the houses were the same handful of copy-pasted layouts with absolutely nothing of interest in them whatsoever... not to mention most of those houses were quite small, so you could fit a larger number in the same relative space. There's also the subjective factors like ever-present fog and slower movement speed making cities feel larger than they really were, etc.I am so glad I managed to cure my addiction of skyrim. Seirously. Only when you stop playing it, do you realize that it is like heroin. It feels great at first, but when it starts to wear off ...
The strange thing about it is, and that is what I really hate, it shows potential. You know when ever I played Skyrim I always thought, I want more, but sadly the game never delivers more. It only "talks" about more, its teasing you. The towns, the locations, the NPCs, the "civil war" quest line, it could be all fun, but it is so underwhelming. Solitude, Windhelm, they look interesting, but they are not interesting as every village is bigger then Solitude, yet it is somehow the capital of Skyrim? This is why Witcher always felt a lot more immersive in my opinion. Same for TW2 of course.
There's a LOT of "clever" architectural "filler" also, to create an illusion of an urban centre. Compare with the sincerity of Balmora, where you have the little town in front of you, and you nod to yourself. Windhelm has those HUGE pointless walls, criss-crossing the city for no other reason than to obscure that there are too damn few interactive buildings. Same in Markarth and Solitude. First impression is always "whoa, big city" then you try to begin locating doors and homes, and there are just a couple
I don't necessarily fancy getting lost in the identical bonemold tunnels under Ald'ruhn for hours again, searching for a single NPC out of dozens that actually has something relevant or interesting to say.
(I love Morrowind but just saying, size isn't everything...)
But I kinda like that, several lil houses that aren't really interesting and kindov blending into each others. It IS filler, but it's good filler. Compare Khuul to Rorikstead, or some of those small villages of Skyrim. Khuul actually IS a village, it has several shacks, all of them inhabited. The shacks are similar, and mostly uninteresting, but a typical Skyrim village has... 1 home? At best 1 home, 1 tavern, and 1 saw-mill. Easyer to navigate, sure, but it's not really convincing as a village.
Fuck you Zegh. Fuck you. You're making me want to install Morrowind and play it. Fuck you.
But yeah, I miss the good old days before everything was DRM or had to go through Steam. They've basically kicked anyone who can't afford the net or has shitty net out of the PC gaming world. Fuck you Steam (even though I still use it).
They days where you could just pop a CD in your PC, click through a few prompts (in those old Windows boxes which still pop up when I reinstall my old games and give me huge nostalgia. Remember the games that you'd install, it would have the blue screen in the background with the percentage rate in the middle?) on the now basically useless install wizard and be happy.