That would be me again! [censored] love Fallout NV!

Bugs and glitches seem to be the main complaint, but we have those on WoW where it's seen almost as a side issue.

You know what most complaint in the wow forums are about? The actual game itself! Complaints about the the actual content within the game being boring or broken, and the bad direction the game itself is going.

Someone mentioned playing WoW in 2007? Man, that game don't exist no more in 2012.

Who doesn't?

That was me, yes. I actually played for a week about a month or so ago, when Blizz offered a free week to people with inactive accounts. And you're right: it didn't feel like the same game. I love to play Hunters (I'm co-creator of the website Petopia) and what they did to the Hunter class makes me want to cry.

You should have put Morrowind last. Save the best for last .

Definitely gonna check this out.

Interesting to see it's made by Bethesda too.

I saw a thread where people said the company actually cares about the quality of their video games?

That's a new concept for me coming from the blizzard universe of the RMAH.

Your choice of race does not matter all that much. If you like Orcs, you will do just fine playing an Orc. In Skyrim race is mostly a matter of aesthetics. There are small differences between the races, but pretty much any race can be just as good at anything as any other race.

I adore Skyrim - I've put 1000 hours into the game, and I'm still as amazed by it as I was when I first bought it. Like you, it was my first Elder Scrolls game, and the start of a big obsession. The games contain huge worlds, many NPCs, countless quests and enough lore to fill a set of encyclopaedias. From the basics of geography and origins of the different races to the more complex areas of CHIM, Amaranth, the Tower and the Wheel, you'll have enough reading to last a lifetime!

Skyrim was my first Bethesda game. I really love this game. I can't believe I'm still playing it a year later.

Destruction magic is fine in this game, I love playing magic characters in this game.

Fallout: New Vegas was my second Bethesda game. I like Skyrim much better than F:NV

So, as you expect, for every opinion, you will find an opposite opinion.

There are some people who play Skyrim like they do MMO: lots of grinding and farming. And they come here and complain how boring this game is. You don't have to do any grinding in this game. If you notice you are doing something in this game you don't like, don't do it any more and look for other ways of achieving the same goal.

Thanks, that sounds like very good advice.

Why go backwards? I'd have thought starting older and going newer would be better in terms of lore, mechanics and graphics. I found it difficult to get back into Oblivion after playing Skyrim. I don't think i'd have played Oblivion at all had I started with Skyrim.


Yeah, I suppose you get it everywhere. My best friends dad plays it almost all the time. He kept saying I should join up. I kept saying "One day...", but that day never came. Maybe one day eh?


I haven't played it yet!

Welcome to the forum,I started with Oblivion and Skyrim has been the only game in my console for almost a year now,I have gone through several character builds and each one has been a lot of fun!Just do what you want and don't worry about advancing the main quest until you want to,there aren't any rules as to doing things in any order....just have fun!

I'm curious about being able to play for 1000 of hours.

Does the game feel like a new adventure each time you play it?

I have 14 characters, and no two playthoughs feel the same. I switch betweem them often which keeps the game fresh. I"m sure I have racked up at least 1000 hours as well.

I'd have to say yes

I too came from an MMO (perhaps a lot cheesier than WoW, but still an addictive game) to the Elder Scrolls, maybe not seeking to quit it but I eventually did.

Just like you did, my first character in Elder Scrolls (Oblivion was the first one I played) was based on my character from the MMO, I'd say its a good way to start it, then as you progress, you start getting more interested into having characters purely based on your Idea's from the game itself, and start forgetting about your old addiction

I went from Ordun, a Paladin based character (was an Imperial when I made him), to K'helt, a Khajiit who uses Two-handed swords and Ice

maybe you'll see yourself going from your High elf to an Argonian or something

Thanks Everyone!

I'm excited - off to begin my adventure!!!!

Definitely gonna check out Fallout: NV in the near future too

recovering everquest addict here (although i still play occasionally on an emulated server, the deets of which might get me in trouble for talking about here) yes, skyrim is very fun, has tons of good lore, and is way less demanding on time than MMO's. you can and will get hooked on skyrim tho, its just a different kind of monster

I don't mind getting "hooked", like a great book you can't put down.

Coming from an MMO yourself, you can probably relate to the sentiment that it feels more like "I hate this chapter I'm reading, but if I don't read it, I won't be able to get the part of the book I actually enjoy"

Of course, it's even worse than that. It's more like read the same chapter 100 times to finally get to read the next one . . . anyway

That's why I'm glad to hear it feels like a different experience each time (i.e., high replay value).

ya ive felt all the pain of being an MMO player, everything from seeing someone else get that piece of loot you have been camping for weeks to having another guild come in and KS your raid boss after your own guild spent hours of its own time clearing the way to get to said boss. MMO's are evil, and the most unfortunate part is people PAY for such pain, well that is until your find the glorious world of emulated MMO's not sure if there is one out there for WoW but there are quite a few for EQ, the pain is still there, but its not as bad since you dont have to pay for it /wink

i have more than 2000 hours already in Skyrim alone and each time i play the game has a new adventure, a new secret, a new amazing and interesting thing to show me, the secret to all TES games is to role-play your character like in the old P&P games, play the way you find it better and take your time, also just a personal advice, don't give a **** about game guides for TES games, these are the kind of games that a guide will ruin, it's all about lore, exploration, discovery, fights, imersion and fun

good advice, i bought the guide with the game but only use sparingly and try not to spoil quest's with it. i only use it when stuck or when building characters, some of the stuff on crafting can be useful too

I have put several thousand hours into Morrowind, several thousand hours into Oblivion and (so far) several hundred hours into Skyrim. And my opinion is this: more than most games, an Elder Scrolls game is what you put into it. If you don't put much into it you aren't likely to get much out of it.

Most of us who put this many hours in Elder Scrolls games are, I think, the kind of people who like to make up our own stories. Or, as I always say, we use these games as blank canvases on which we paint our own pictures.

I think the more of a self-directed person you are the more you're liable to love the Elder Scrolls games. But if you're the type of person who needs a lot of direction, who needs a lot of feedback and who needs to be rewarded from a game in order to stay interested, you're liable to get bored with an Elder Scrolls game long before you reach even 300 hours.

I spent 3 years on WoW. I'll never go back.

Reasons to give up WoW for Skyrim:

1) You don't spend and hour looking for a group to run though a dungeon where you won't even get what you hoped would drop.

2) You don't meet girls but you won't meet girls who get jealous when you help another girl with a couple epic quests.

3) You don't have people trying to talk you into calling into work sick because they need a healer.

4) You don't find yourself playing the game with some snot nosed little kid who can't play they game and annoys the crap out of you.

5) Skyrim has free fast travel. On WoW, you pay to sit and stare at the screen.

I'm sure I can make the list longer.

Oh, I forgot the most important one.

The women on Skyrim really are women. Not some 30+ balding guy jerking his gherkin while he plays as a half naked night elf woman who stands by the mail box. You know you've seen him-her!