Sure bud.
halvo317
You named two games that are entirely different. Those two made their money on multiplayer. Skyrim is a single player RPG experience that encourages mods. Skyrim's success as a single player experience enabled games like Dragon Age Inquisition and Witcher 3 and Divinity OS2 to get the funding they needed to become fully realized.
In the form it is today? No. You don't get $100M to develop the game if you don't have previous titles selling 60M copies.
My point was that Skyrim didn't ruin RPGs because there still exists demand for RPGs and quality content. Without seminal games like Skyrim, you don't get proper investment in games like BG3.
Did RPG game developers play an RPG before developing an RPG? Yes. That's how influences work. I didn't play BG1 or BG2 because I was a child.
I can't think of many games that do that. I can't really think of anyone that tries to be like Bethesda games in the bad ways.
No. Dragon Age: Inquisition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Baldur's Gate 3 all draw influence from Skyrim. I think open world games are better because of Skyrim.
To say Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Starfield don't have a place in Video Gaming is pretty absurd. I don't love any of them, but they aren't harmful and predatory like some other titles.
Howso?
You're thinking that it's AMAB female-identifying lesbians. There's AFAB lesbians that prefer he/him pronouns, but prefer the butch/femme lesbian experience. Or a combination or other stuff too.