Yes, I know I’m getting some raised eyebrows over the strategy bit, but bear with me as I’ll get to the whole tactics/strategy thing in a moment. To summarize the game is a sentence we can say the following: Skyrim is a light-strategy RPG where you create your own story within a living world. With that broad framework established, let’s look at the Elder Scrolls, specifically Skyrim. The level design often loops back in on itself, so as you explore a region, you unlock different paths and shortcuts. There is a lot of environmental storytelling, which contributes to the indirect nature of the story allowing the players to define the depth of their experience. The level design in particular is interesting. What exactly is a Dark Souls game to me? Of course I hope others share at least some of the same feelings, but I believe a broad summary of the franchise looks like this: Dark Souls is a tactical action game with intricate level design and indirect story telling. I’ll hit on the reasons for that later on. The mod will be fully contained within the Creation Kit. However, I will not be using any external assets. I want to make a mod for Skyrim SE that captures the spirit of Bethesda’s celebrated RPG that also evokes feelings of Dark Souls. To be clear, I’m not trying to explore how to create a game that is a mix of the two, despite my use of the ‘Elder Souls’ label. What is Dark Souls to me? What about Elder Scrolls? The goal of this essay is to explore this, and to identify how exactly one would go about creating an ‘Elder Souls’ level.īefore I dig into the meat of the theory, I do want to address some technical issues first.
Of course, to do that I need to be clear in my understanding of both games. This question came to me as I was contemplating making a mod for the recently released Skyrim SE, and I wondered if I could make a Dark Souls style level in it.
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