I'll try to keep this brief....
I recall playing Oblivion on my PC years ago, and while initially I liked it I seem to recall being turned off by the monsters leveling along with me. If I recall a rodent that I met when I was level 1 would be as challenging when I met another rodent at level 10. Am I recalling that correctly?

Anyway, I am a HUGE fan of the Dragon Age Games and am currently replaying DA2 right now.

How are those two games different? Should I just stick with my Dragon Age games or do you think this Skyrim will be worth it for me.

Thanks

dragons, 96 on metacritic "SOLD"

Read the reviews, it's what they're for! I haven't seen a single one below 90. I too loved DA:O, I'm a huge fan of the series, but I love TES mores. It gives you a level of freedom that DA can't match.

If you like dragon age 2....you should stick to dragon age. That game is so bland compared to the first it shouldn't even have the same name.

Now Skyrim is an open world RPG. It's primarily a RP experience, with story, characters, quests and a huge open world. The combat is decent and it looks pretty. It has a huge replay value, far better this time around than any other game and you simply get lost within it. If you just like a hack&slash game with no thinking, or a linear game, this isn't the game for you.

If you want a good game with amazing replayability this is a game for you. If you are really unsure wait around 6 months. During this time many mods will come out for the PC, enabling you to have the game the way you like it, as well as fixing some major and minor bugs and decrepencies.

I only sell if there is a commission.

There is an enormous amount of information on this game here and other places. I recommend researching it yourself and then making your own decision.

The Elder Scrolls is far more expansive than Dragon Age. The leveling system has been tweaked: Creatures will not level with you, rats will remain at the same level as you grow stronger and will remain as more powerful creatures appear. Some creatures/NPC's will kill you outright so you will have to level up in order to face them or use various strategies to escape or avoid them.

You could go look this up yourself. Trust me, Skyrim will be better than Dragon Age II.

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There isn't level scaling in Skyrim.

Dragon Age is about Plot, Elder Scrolls is about Exploration. In Dragon Age, you are given a place in the world, and told to make decisions. In Elder Scrolls, you create your place in the world, and allowed to follow the Plot, or go off and make your own Plot, or both.

Skyrim has a mixture of leveled and absolute-level monsters, so you shouldn't run into the same issues you mentioned with Oblivion. If you've ever looked at an item in Dragon Age and said, "That's enchanted wrong; I can do better." then you may want to try Skyrim. You're allowed the freedom to create in Skyrim, including spells, magic items, potions, and other equipment. This is something that is mostly missing in Dragon Age.

In the end, it boils down to choices. In Dragon Age, you are given a couple options and told to pick one. In Skyrim, you're given a Completely Open World, and your options are generally not either/or. It may not be a perfect match, but if you liked the length of DA, you'll like the length of Skyrim.

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Read/watch the reviews mate, even the CoD fan-boys IGN and Gamespot praised the hell out of it. That tells you everything.

It's SKYRIM.
Sold?

I don't know, I play both and enjoy them for different reasons. I enjoy the story and group dynamics of Dragon Age, but TES is where I go when I want to explore and truly experience a fantasy setting that feels real. There's no reason a gamer can't experience and love both.

I'm sorry, but
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Dragon Age (at least the original, haven't played II) has WAY more "thinking" involved than Skyrim does, in terms of combat. I've sunk about 3 hours into Skyrim thus far and it is very much a hack & slash - just with the added feature of being able to shoot fire and ice.

I have read some of the reviews but wanted some more personal insights. Level Scaling....is that what they called it? That was the sole reason I hung up Oblivion. If that's not in SkyRim then I think I will try it.
Thank You for the responses.

Read the reviews. That's what they're for, right?

It's here, but not in the same way.

Oblivion's leveling system was horrendous. From what I've read about Skyrim, the system is much, MUCH better.

Edit: Not bashing Oblivion. I love it and always will, even as I point out its flaws.

Reviews are [censored] because the numbers no longer mean anything. anything below 8 is considered "Bad" when there were games back in the day that literally got ratings of 0 through 3. They don't even go that low anymore.

Dragon Age 2 is an enjoyable but forgettable experience. For a heavily plot driven game it sure relies on tired and cliche-ridden story. That meant that I was going from one fight sequence to the next without any real sense of involvement in what was going on. I liked it, but didn't really care about it.

But that's just my experience.

That why I said read the reviews, not check out the numbers I totally agree with you on the numbering system, it's totally subjective and doesn't mean a lot anymore. That being said, it's still helpful to read about the reviewers experiences and see what they enjoyed and disliked about the game. That information will be far more helpful in determining whether or not you should buy a game than any numeric system.

It cost 60 bucks and has the content of 10 games of the same price?

If you need to have reasons spelled out to you about why this game is going to be ground breaking, then it's not even worth it for you. The same can be said about anyone wanting to compare Dragon Age 2 and Skyrim, there's no comparison.

All dungeons have ranges of levels, x-x. If you enter a level 20-30 dungeon at level 5, the dungeon will lock at 20. If you enter it at level 45, it will lock at 30. The outside areas have very little scaling. At higher levels, higher level creatures will spawn more frequently but not all the time, there will still be low level mobs spawning. Most zones have level ranges, so a lot of the zones you won't be able to travel through at low levels because the mobs will be much tougher than you.

Yeah, that made me laugh too to be fair. In reality the elder scrolls games aren't really any more intellectually challenging than the COD games that everyone on here lambastes so readily.

I don't even know what your first sentence means.