User blog:Madman97/You know what really grinds my Wabbajack's? S2E6: No Good Loot.

Hello Kvatchies and Dragonborns, tis I, Madman97, here to bring you another episode of Wabbajack Grinding! Without wasting further time, let's jump right in.

Dungeons. They are an essential part of a role playing adventure fantasy game. They are the main thing your going to be going through in Oblivion and Skyrim. In Oblivion it had the style of ancient Aeylid ruins, in Skyrim, the ancient Nords, with Draugr to meet you. Now that's all well and good. The Skyrim dungeons dot the map so much, you can't walk twenty feet outside of a town without finding some ancient Nord ruin. This provides plenty of treasure hunting initiative. In Oblivion, you could find a few decent hauls as well. I must have picked up hundreds of Welkid something or other stones and Varla Stones. In Skyrim, wandering into a Dwemer Ruin is quite a dangerous feat for the inexperienced player, and a Falmer Cave even more so. I still wonder how I even survived...Oh yeah, the Sanguine Rose. Heh, good times.

Now this is fine. Simply surviving all of this is a treasure in its own right, and eventually, you can breeze through a dwemer ruin like nobodies business.You make it to the end, that little bell sound rings notifying you you have beat the dungeon, an you get your loot....Wait, more daedra armor? I have like a hundred of these things! Oh well.

See, you start to notice a pattern. The younger gamer, ranging from like ten to thirteen, will brag to his friends that he has a full set of dwemer armor, or even a pair of daedra boots or sword. Yeah, they are pretty nice, and when you find some for the first time, it's a pretty hefty haul for you. But when you get higher leveled, and you conquer dungeon after dungeon, you start to see something. This is the same loot as last time!

In Oblivion, half the reason I went into dungeons was because I wanted to find some welkid stones, and possibly a Varla stone or two. At least I have a set goal. But they're not in every dungeon, an if you weren't looking for the Welkid Stones, what would you find in Oblivion? Maybe if you were lucky, a gold nugget or a few Septims. Every time. At the end you might find a Dwemer shield or something, but that's it. Bethesda seems to havesomething with games prior to the most recent. In Fallout 3, it was hard to even get a few caps. In New Vegas, I was raking in the cash, busting out the casinos on the strip. In Oblivion, I have had maybe 15,000 Septims at one time and no more. In Skyrim, I have safes full of cash, over eighty thousand Septims along with all the treasure I have found. Why doesn't money serve a greater purpose in Skyrim? (Sigh) I wish you could do more than buy a few ingots so you can forge your own armor or get some daedric armor you like. Buying a home is an option, but as the Dragonborn, shouldn't we get a palace?

But in Skyrim, once you start getting your skills up, the loot is the same. Nothing new, nothing interesting. IT'S THE SAME GODD*** LOOT EVERY F***ING TIME!!! S***! F***! @$$! B****! PROFANITY!!!

Sigh. Sorry, I get really mad about some stuff. Especially when the list of uninteresting things in Skyrim is growing by the day. I wish we could have had some new kinds of loot with the DLC's but only on a few quests did we find something actually interesting. The loot is exciting at first, but always gets boring eventually. It suffers from Skyrim eventuality disease. It just gets boring. That's a thing where I think Fallout beats out the Elder Scrolls. Every place you go is at least unique in its own right, there is always something to be found, and you need it to if you are going to survive. I don't even need to wear pants anymore to survive Skyrim. And all who have tried to tell me to put my pants back on found themselves being hurtled off of the top of the Throat of the World down into the Rift. And when I looted their bodies, OH BIG SUPRISE, MORE GENERIC LOOT! THANKS FOR BEING SO CONSIDERATE TO ME AND MY TREASURE HUNTING NEEDS AFTER YOU HAVE DIED, @$$HOLE!

Well, I have already said it before, no game lasts forever. The loot couldn't get better. The problem really is is just I find so much stuff and no one can buy it for the right price because no one can afford it, and it gets annoying at some points.

Man, I need to play some Fallout, the cure for Elder Scrolls Boredom.

(Puts in Fallout New Vegas, blows some guys head of with a shotgun. Sighs with enjoyment.)