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i completed 69+3 games in 2025, so here’s 81 reviews Man. 2025, huh? I had some pretty big, bad things happen, which earned me a lot of burnout. My health is deteriorating, and I can’t afford…

HOORAY!!! IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!

Every year, I look forward to looking back on the games I played and looking forward to the games I will play.

That's right, 81 reviews of 69+3 games!!!

Come check it out!

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Otherwise, it's all good. The combat doesn't bother me — it makes sense for what it is, and the weapons cease whiffing quickly with a bit of training.
(Then again I'm a peculiar client, since I'm very okay with Daggerfall's systems and since I think that Oblivion has the best combat of the series 😅)

... the character speed and the slowness of magicka and stamina regen. I'm fine with it all in theory, but they're always the biggest hurdle upon starting a new save.
However, I feel that it could be quite easy to adjust.
The journal and mouse-only interface would also benefit from a lifting!

Morrowind in particular? I love how it respects the players' intelligence, curiosity, and how it gets better the more you engage with its world — the lore, the systems, the factions, the geography.
The two gameplay elements that caused me the most friction were...

Gosh, there's a few interesting tidbits in that interview, but that part is NOT it 🫤

I started with Oblivion in 2010, then Skyrim when it released.
I played Morrowind and Daggerfall later. Honestly? They're all great. They all hold up. They're all different, and I love them all for what they are.

Great thread about how to navigate the AI invasion in online stock picture libraries. Thanks!

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Un bon fil (en anglais) pour se dépatouiller de l'IA qui envahit les banques d'images en ligne. Merci !

... — that's something you can do, but it's no obligation — ...hence my curiosity.

Oh, I see. So where does the problem lie, for you? Is it more about the menu or the pause, the food effects, the fact that it's easy to cheese combat (ha!), the fact that combat has few consequences or isn't very interesting?
It's not like the game *relies* on buying or cooking food to heal...

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Je suis allé souvent en Pologne (c'est mon bled à moi), et je suis passé plusieurs fois devant certains camps célèbres, mais je n'ai jamais visité Auschwitz. Pourtant j'ai de la famille qui y a péri aussi.

C'est surtout qu'on ne l'a jamais prévu dans nos voyages. Mais j'irai un jour, c'est certain.

I'm interested in the broader conversation about the UI in general — I do think the menus aren't great. Sorry for focusing too hard on a specific example.
(That said, a fair number of my suggestions were much less menu-intensive, I feel)

Je confirme tout ce qui est dit dans cet article. Ça pue.

Dessin d'un personnage renard en mode UwU

Alors...

Je ne pensais pas ouvrir un ko-fi cette année mais le fait est que je suis dans le rouge.
Je fais de mon mieux pour aider autour de moi mais les frais (entre autres mécaniques) se sont accumulés et je galère à terminer les fins de mois

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You have favorites, you know.
And passive health regen enchants and standing stones.

So, lots of ways, even if you don't want to play a healer.

8. decrease the difficulty (sometimes I feel like everyone plays in Legendary all the time...)
9. swing your weapons in third person (likewise, sometimes I feel like everyone plays in first-person view all the time...)
10. use summons and/or followers
11. healing scrolls can be bought too!

3. buy / find / enchant stuff with health, magic resist, health regen, whatever
4. take up relevant standing stones, like the Lady or the Lord
5. bind your cheese wheels to your favs!
6. craft yourself better armor
7. invest in damage perks & better weapons, attack is the best defense after all

OK. Here are 11 ways to survive better that *do not* involve investing in restoration, nor eating cheese wheels in menus, nor changing your play style to stealth archer:
1. buy / find standard potions, bind them to your fav keys
2. invest in armor perks that dramatically increase your survivability

"Reality is best modeled as a pointcrawl, not a hexcrawl" is a post that's been sitting in my blog drafts for months now.

By "reality", I mean: how actual people get used to a new space, sketch routes and visualise geography in their heads, and think of their travels.

That's why we have *roads* !

I'm having trouble agreeing with that. Yeah, Skyrim's menus aren't great, and neither are Oblivion's. But at least, Skyrim's are navigable with the keyboard only — in this regard, Morrowind's click-only interface is a carpal tunnel syndrome nightmare that I don't regret at all :/

- the rest gets determined by a combination of culture, background and class, with Daggerfall levels of freedom, and lots of impact on the abilities and gameplay options. But without being artificially limiting like some Skyrim or Starfield's perks that just act as boring gates.

I think the best way to do things (in my dream game...) would be this:
- character "race" determines appearance, impacts the social status in some ways, and maybe adds a single trait (cool but not too impactful, perhaps several choices)
- character gender is much more free and is just cosmetic

So yeah, awful headline 😑
I'd argue that stats are sometimes limiting or boring or awful (stuff like gendered stats, or when they constrain builds too much), but they can be great. I loved Skyrim's freedom, but I loved attributes in Oblivion and I loved the class system in Daggerfall.
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- many of these still feel like they don't have enough impact (lack of quest choices / endings / consequences, lack of interaction between factions, lack of gear and skill diversity, lack of environmental interaction...)
- stats add an important layer that can be very meaningful if done well.
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Gosh.
I mean, are there many other ways to actually play the role of your character than just stats?
Yeah: race, fashion, which quests and factions you do and why, skill and perk choices, where you live or hang out and with which NPCs, etc.
But:
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Nah. If you don't invest in restoration, good defense or don't put potions in favorites, that's on you.
The cheese wheel is just a meme that needs to die already — it's not even effective healing regarding relative weight or HP gain.

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