Has far exceeded my expectations somehow. The atmosphere in this game alone makes it worth it to me. I can't tell you how many times I have just stopped what I was doing to look at scenery on the game, listen to water rushing, or just take in the landscape and the music. The music on this game is brilliant. Fits it perfectly.

The world itself is unreal. So many people walking the roads, doing random things, minding their business. It's like a multiplayer game at times.

I know this game has its bugs at the moment but that can be expected with any game, especially one as big as this one. Bethesda has done it again.

I fully agree with you. I really cannot understand how so many people whine over this game. It's probably the most ambitious game I've ever seen and I think they fixed alot of things from previous installments. Sure there are bugs and balancing issues but what did people expect from a singleplayer-game of this magnitude three days after release....

Tis true, it's just annoying when they do the easy things badly.

The environments and the scenery are amazing though, I have myself stopped to just look from time to time

Ill add my agreement to this aswell. Im surprised at how many negative threads there have been so far aswell. Yes there are some glitches but with a game of this scale and complexity its to be expected.

The games atmosphere is incredible. I have never been so emotionally invested in a game before and i have played many since i started in the 80s. Once i choose to get indoors out of a particularly nasty blizzard to wait till the morning as odd as that sounds its true. All round then its an incredible game. The best yet from bethesda.

It has hugely exceeded my expectations also. I'm delighted with it.

I am just curious of your opinion. But for instance, have you played WItcher 2?

i tried playing the witcher 2, but i found at the beggining of the game a combat that was like this, you had to mimic the arrow movements on the screen with your keyboard and that moment i knew that game was not for me. my idea of what an rpg is does not match with that as it neither does with peter ( you are a bluff) molineoux games XD.

People is whining a lot about this game out of love. we want our loved tes games to be perfect.
that said this is the only real AAA rpg game i am gonna see in a long long time, so because of that i want it to be AAA+ perfect.

No other game stands a chance against Skyrim, and do not make me enumerate the list of epic fails in RPG this year because it still hurts.

Witcher 2 was a decent game.

Witcher 2 have better graphics, but the game is far too short and the history is weak.

Im very happy with Skyrim, best game I played this year. Portal 2 come in second place.

Seriously? There's no comparing. After 30 hours of Skyrim I haven't even touched the guilds or main quest and haven't been to all major cities yet. I have explored maybe 20% of the map. After 30 hours of TW2 I was done and done with the game forever.

The only thing TW2 has going for it is better micro graphics (but that's not too hard since it's not open world and PC only). And arguably melee combat, but I personally didn't care much for TW2 combat.

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Same here played most of the weekend and haven't been to Morthal yet.

You see, Witcher 2 got 30 hours of intense story play. Skyrim got about 3 hours of intense story play and then its all over with MQ. Sure you can go screw around the open world and keep you entertained. But the fact remains, 3 hours with optional sidetracking and about 30 hours.
When after 26 hours I finally got to Greaybeards because I had to learn "Shouts", they started feeding me some BS about dragons and the power of my vocal cords to rip people apart. All because some unknown goddess decided few selected individuals will have super powers. Damn racist goddess, she must be hardcoe DC comics fan.
So at this point I really missed Divinity 2 -Dragon Knight Saga.
Dont even get to me to compare narrative element in this games.

I agree with this. Take last night for example i found a inn in the mountains called nightingale inn or something like that its just got one nord visitor and a orc stayin there, with a little pond there.

Anyway i spent a bout a hour (real life time) chilling in the inn, reading books & goin down near the pond checking the views at night. Then i set off to windhelm it took me 2 hours again real life time just takeing everything in. Although i didnt do much or accomplish much i loved evry second of it.

You don't know the fiction very well.
1. She gave the ability to all of mankind, not just dragonborn
2. Its the words of creation that tear people apart, not your voice. (although I can see your confusion when the power is named The Voice)
3. Yes unlike those others this game doesn't put blinders on you and say HERE IS THE STORY, HERE IS WHY. It expects you to learn it yourself a bit.


I got all of this information from the Icons on the way up to the temple, that you caouldn't be bothered to read them proves that you may want to pick up a simpler game for the simpler minded

Some people like ZingFreelancer might have too little creativity and ability of putting things together in their brains.. they need somebody to tell them the story without gaps, and a narrator to tie the strings together otherwise they are lost and start missing the linearity of other games (I enjoyed witcher 2 too for a while but didn`t finish it, was a good game tough.)

I think Skyrim exceeded its hype (in my book at least) by many miles....it's so awesome, so ambitious, so HUGE and so much else. I don't honestly know if i will ever put it down

Knowing fiction should not be a prerequisite for a game. Or are you talking about that I have failed at learning Skyrim fiction from the game content? Learning the story for myself is by what means? Going through the MQ or reading 7 volumes of "Hostory of Ulric the third"? Because if I wish to read a book, I take up Stephen Kings Dark Tower. If I wish to see and feel an emotional story, I go watch a good movie. For me playing games equals having a fun time in places I could never visit in real life.

I read all the stone icons, but failed to be immersed into story, I did not understand it very well. For some reason, the whole explanation of Greybeards about dragons, humans and the power of voice, I just dont buy it. I am aware of the "Dragons famous roar" and how it can affect people, but I never imagined it causing magic fire to fall from the sky or making you run super fast. It is like taking a bunch of things related to magic in a magic related game and calling them "The Voice".
I feel that in Skyrim we have the basic principal of magic, the supernatural ability that allows humans to breathe fire, cast lightning bolts, walk and breathe under water, fear or taunt enemies. Then we have "The Voice", that pretty much have taken away many of basic magic aspects to fit their sloppy explanation.
I could go as far as saying that Divinity 2 is pretty good example of how Human and Dragons got merged together without breaking the basic principals many of us grew up with.
I guess my personal taste for games are different, for instance I really love and enjoy Deus Ex - Human Revolution. Nice combination of open world and scripted story telling with "News papers" and "Notepads" written by different NPCs to give extra insight into story. They are not mandatory, but they provide this little extra of immersion.
When I first began playing Skyrim I read every book I came across, but it got quickly boring. Besides I dont have time to put enough effort to go look for all 5 volumes of a single story when there is like dozen different stories, just to collect every ounce of Skyrims lore.

Anyway, this is beyond my point of view. I like the story and lore of Skyrim, it is colourful and interesting. Befitting to be called a game about Vikings, that is pretty high prise from a guy living in Norway. But I do consider some aspects of "The Voice" to be outright silly, especially when they try so hard to be serious.

I am only 26 hours into the game and have not scraqed much of the content yet, just wondering around and exploring caves, interacting with NPC's and Crafting things, that what I've done so far. My main problem with Skyrim, the one that prevents me from playing is user interface and levelling "perk" system. Everything else (save for outdated graphics) is up to very high standards and if UI and levelling system was well balanced I would place Skyrim right next to my most favourite games without a second thought. But the UI is driving me nuts and the levelling system is unrewarding and preventing me from playing the way I wish.