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  • My issue with it is that it really doesn’t feel like morrowind in space to me. Morrowind had some interesting environments, and most places you found had some environmental storytelling going on. I loved morrowind because exploring felt interesting (but combat was bad)

    Here I’m finding the environments uninteresting, with a few exceptions there seems to be little in the way of environmental storytelling and exploration doesn’t seem that compelling. I’m enjoying the combat more than the exploration, which is unexpected for a Bethesda game. It feels like they’ve gone for quantity over quality with environments, and things are so far apart in fairly uninteresting planets that I feel like it’s just a bit of a chore.

    Maybe I’ve just been unlucky with the world’s I’ve explored, and I’m enjoying it enough to keep playing a bit more in the hope it improves, but so far, it’s not what I was hoping for.


  • This might not be exactly what you’re looking for (as it can be a little rogue-like), but it’s a game that when I looked for similar things, led me to Dredge: Sunless Sea

    You’re a ship captain trying to survive in Victorian era London, after London was stolen by bats and taken to the shores of the Unterzee, an underground sea filled with some very strange creatures, people and locations. This means exploring and finding new trade routes or ways to survive while uncovering the stories of the islands you find, those of your crew, and the larger world.

    There’s a sequel, Sunless Skies, where you command a space going train exploring the heavens. It’s a bit easier and has some good quality of life improvements, but I prefer the setting of Seas.



  • If you read the article (or even the text in the post), it’s mostly about letting app developers test that the update doesn’t break their apps, and giving them time to fix things before the full release. Sure, some people will want to try out the new features ahead of time (and potentially report bugs to Google), but that’s only part of why they release betas.






  • In the UK, yes (mostly). In our system, we’ve got further education (sixth form or college) which sits between high school and higher education (university). As well as providing A-level courses, colleges often provide more vocational courses that don’t necessarily lead into higher education. For example, my local college has hairdressing and bricklaying courses.

    Confusingly, some universities are also made up of colleges. I think this is a minority of universities, though, and anecdotally, seems to be the older ones (Oxford, Cambridge, etc)