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The Forgotten City (2021) revisited

Radiator Blog

A hostile NPC statue wakes up, which means you can lure it away from the door.) SHINY ART STYLE: The most obvious difference vs its Skyrim mod roots is the art style -- it went from 2011 pre-PBR Skyrim to 2020 UE4 Quixel 4k photoscans with subsurface scatter'd Character Creator NPCs. Interesting approachability / accessibility UX here.

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Open world RPG design notes from Enderal, a big long Skyrim mod

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Whenever an NPC is about to dump backstory and exposition on you, they'll ask you to take a seat. During big long quest chains, there are periodic quest stages where you have to wait 1-2 in-game days before checking in with the NPC again. Diegetically, the NPC has to prepare a machine or potion, or get supplies, or whatever.

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The Lost Ark Has Found its Way

Deconstructor of Fun

Gameplay: A satisfactory and standard production As a title made within the classical Korean MMORPG framework, the core UX is similar to that of other Korean MMORPG, including character design, storyline, career system, raids, etc. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX.