Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-124.6.181.98-20140225101629/@comment-12277465-20140321050028

I'm with 75.86. Bleak Falls is terrible, as are most other ancient Nordic ruins. Draugr are annoying and the ruins are usually extremely repetitive, however profitable they might be. I agree that Forsworn and Falmer are both really annoying (hm, draugr, Forsworn, and Falmer...what do those three have in common in terms of combat?), but at least the level design in Dwarven ruins and Forsworn camps is interesting. Honestly, I still don't get the huge appeal of Blackreach. I mean, it's fun, to be sure. But I don't understand why everyone's so enamored with it. (Last time I said that, I hadn't explored it all. I have now. And admittedly, it was pretty fun.)

Best places? Apochrypha. Well, except the Seekers. I hate Seekers. Lurchers are fun to fight, though, provided you're high enough level that they don't completely curbstomp you. But Apochrypha is beautiful.

Yeah Skyrim has a bad case of overly-long-dungeon syndrome. I mean, take the Forgotten Vale in Dawnguard. That place is awesome! It's beautiful, it's relatively unusual...and it takes like an hour or so to navigate. And that's just going through the main path, not even exploring it all! Seriously, you spend like maybe thirty percent of the Dawnguard main quest in that dungeon series. It's insane.

Oh and you know what's worse than Bleak Falls Barrow? Skuldafn. "Hey, player! We know you've been fighting all these draugr in the repetitive Nordic ruins for half of the main quest, and we know you're really bored of it. So here, have a really long Nordic ruin, packed to the gills with deathlords, and also some dragons and priests just to guarantee that you'll die frequently and have to repeat some of it." :p