Thread:LightningS9/@comment-31049256-20171225064204/@comment-28358106-20180113002447

I think New Vegas took what made 3 successful, trimmed the fat, and added a lot more with faction alliances and actual varied environments. Liked it a lot. Didn't like 4.

And I didn't like Skyrim much, either. Bethesda decided to milk that creaky game design for every penny, and if Failrim didn't have the modding community it does, it would have been dead long, long ago. Lazy design, boring color palette (Fallout: Medieval Edition) more bugs than a Tijuana jezabel, and characters, story, and lore I couldn't give two shits about.

This Dragon's Dogma meme sums it up nicely (and coincidentally is one of my top two action RPGs):