My Experience: Breaking the Skyrim Curse -- Spaghetti Mage

For years I held off on buying a PS4.  I was busy working, and comfortably fine playing Skyrim forever.   Until I was laid off from my job in late 2017.  

I said screw it, and bought a PS4 (thanks Discover), and immediately fell into my stupid trap I had been in for awhile with RPGs.  I was completely unaware how bad Skyrim and twisted and distorted my mind! I never beat the game.  But I did make (probably) 100s of characters, and usually played them till about level 25 where I would get bored and start a different character, this time a Khajit mage, or a High Elf thief, or any number of different permutations to the different races out there.  I must have visited the face shaper in Riften 1000 times when I wanted my character to have a different look.

 And with the new PS4 version, you could add all sorts of different mods, new items and new quests.  I became more fascinated with the different possible types of players to make instead of the actual quests (I'll get to this later).  It was insane madness, and an endless cycle of doing the same quests over and over and over...till I reached level 25 and got bored.

Until one day, I played another game, and it broke the Skyrim curse.  That game was Dark Souls 3.  DS3 was brutal.  It was unexpected, bizarre, and an entirely different landscape from Skyrim.  I became enthralled with Dark Souls 3, and played it for a full year, beating the Red Knight, and trying different types of builds.  

And from there, I never looked back at Solitude, Windhelm, or Markarth.  I didn't care about the grey beards, or the stupid stormcloak civil war.  It was on.  It, my new direction and reawakening to good Role Playing Games.

After Dark Souls 3, I played DS2, Bloodborne, and Sekiro, and explored the Souls universe.

I bought this game I'd never heard of, but had seen good reviews about: Persona 5.  It was incredible.

I moved on to playing the Dragon Age games I'd never gotten around to playing, starting with Dragon Age: Inquisition.  

I realized one very important thing.  Skyrim sucks.  The world itself is huge, and amazing and absolutely beautiful.  The rest of the game is awful.  The quests are dull and boring, and often predictable.

Anyways, that's my quick story of the last 10 years of Role Playing Games.

--Spaghetti Mage