Y'arr. Me thinks the game be special.

Everything. You just have horrible taste in games. And if you hate the game so much, then why are you on the official forums?

99% of this are bug reports and the other percentage is you complaining about the general gameplay of an RPG.

*Sits down and starts passing the popcorn out!*

nom nom nom nom....

Honestly it sounds like you don't know what you're doing with your computer. How can your settings be on ultra high, yet the text is blurry? That makes no sense. Constant game crashes would indicate you don't have the game running at the right settings.

I'm not a really devoted fan and I'm not a troll, not even a basher.
I'm a boy who likes to play, and play many big titles, I spent my 50€ to buy the game
but I really can't understand what this game have to be a great game.

GTFO

Awwww how cute. The OP is raging over his first TES game. Me thinks RPG's in general may not be for you, since this is quite possibley the best out there.

Go play Crisis or some other FPS where you can brag about your frame rate on super max ultra setting?

I don't think you are right.

Although it runs good for me I have to agree that most of the quests are fairly simple and the storyline had nothing to surprise me yet. I played for over 50 hours now and must say that it sounds and looks good but nearly all quests can be simply completed with hack & slay, the riddles within the dungeons are rather simple and you don't have to use your brain very much.

Compared to Morrowind and also to Oblivion this game is a step backwards in both complexity and storytelling. I also see that the motivation to play this game a second or a third time is lower then in its predecessors.

There isn`t anything else on the market that can touch this game for the singleplayer rpg category. Closest thing is two worlds 2 which is an awsome game but not on the same scale as this. Allthough I think the grace engine runs circles around the creation engine performance wise.

- It sounds like your computer might... svck. What are your specs?
- Could you find me a game from 2007 that looks better than this? I can't think of any off the top of my head.
- How are you playing ultra high and still having blurry, low-detail textures? They could be better, but they're not that bad. Again, specs on your rig?
- Sound is subjective. Nothing to be said for that except I think that you're wrong.
- The UI has been discussed a lot here. I'm not one to disagree with you there.
- The Y-axis bizarreness is also well-known; there's bound to be some improvements in an INI file somewhere that you can do to fix it.
- If you've only played for an hour, the reason you don't know what you're doing is because you haven't made any effort to advance the main storyline. Do that, and a lot more will be made clear.

It sounds like Elder Scrolls games just aren't for you. They drop you in a world and let you do whatever you want. You might actually be better off with something like The Witcher 2.

I think you need an Xbox 360/PS3 or a better computer.

In any case if you have a powerful machine, once finished this game, buy the witcher 2 and finish it,
you will see a new RPG that raised the bars, once played The Witcher 2 this games will seem pacman returns.

I beg to differ.

Bad Troll is bad.

I love how this guy isnt getting the support he expected.

+1

There's no way you're serious.

They had to do this though to satisfy the greater audience, or whatever. In this time and age you're not gonna find games like Zelda etc. because the majority of people just aren't that tolerant anymore.

Please explain this statement.

This thread makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

I edited the first post my specs.

Sounds like you're not an RPG player. I personally feel that games like Gears and CoD are over-rated. Shoot, reload, shoot some more. How does that deserve an almost perfect score. Maybe find a different genre of game ro play. Just a thought.

From my initial impressions Skyrim is probably the most competent BGS work since the 90s which isn't saying much but there you go.

Graphics are competitive with high console level standards. And they seem to be your biggest complaint which makes me wonder if RPGs are even for you and what your doing here.

RPG elements match with the mainstreaming heavily "role" leaned vs mechanics of the past decade started with Morrowind which means no mark offs there even if I'm disappointed.

The rest BGS seems to of improved on or stayed the same.

Overall it's better than Oblivion and probably Morrowind so you can't say they "failed" otherwise you might aswell of stopped playing games after mid-2000.

He should be - this games storytelling is a step backwards. Script, Voice Acting and Scripting (the act of movement in the game) range in quality from rubbish to great; never amazing though.

Another disgruntled person with no clue. I do not agree with you, in fact your opinion about this game to many means about as much as a mouse farting in a field. Move on if you are dissatisfied; find another game to your liking. The game is about one of the best games I have seen come out in years. The environments are incredible to look at and being able to explore endlessly is awesome in itself. I find myself just staring at the mountains and their beauty. The world is alive and it’s pretty incredible. No issues here at all except with the lack of remapping of keys. I’m hoping that gets fixed. Plus the UI could stand a few changes like allowing hot keys for weapons and spell. The favorites does not work well it slows you down.

Three days after buying the game I have played it for 39 hours... It has never happened before... And I've been playing games since like 1989... So clearly just from that point of view there is something special in it for me...

There is a lot of issues that you point that I just don't understand...

- Yes it crashes, as every Bethesda games, 5-7 times in 40 hours. Acceptable.

-Graphics wise, I've never taken as many screenshots of a game as in this one... The witcher 2 might be technically superior but I just don't know it doesn't work as well as what I see in Skyrim... I don't see what you're talking about with shadows, there's plenty of them if anything you should complain about how blocky they are ... (Damn DX 9...)

Textures, however are GARBAGE. I'm quite angry at bethesda for just ignoring the pc like that... When Dragon Age 2 came out people made fun of bioware for forcing the players to download a high res pack... But at least we HAD high resolution textures... In this game if you look at ANYTHING even remotely close it will look incredibly pixelated... Disappointed. But is it enough to stop me from being mesmerized be the awesome scenery ? Absolutely not, this game gotta have the best night settings I have ever seen in a game. Regarding water, I admit I must have some sort of eye disorder because I believe that the best water I have ever seen is in Morrowind... O _ o Yes, even to this day... I must have a problem XD At least the small rivers and waterfalls look very good in Skyrim. Alright maybe Bioshock actually had better water then Morrowind XD

-The sound effects are simply amazing... The snow, wind... Music... You just feel as if you were totally there...

-The story... Alright stop right there... This is an Elder Scroll Game, it is NOTHING like any other RPG you could have played. You create your own story. I have played hundreds of hours from Daggerfall to Oblivion and have never finished the main story line. Just don't bother with it, it's not what TES games are for. (Although considering how strongly they reduced the ammount of quests in this game I will probably, for the first time, end up finishing the main story line in Skyrim.)

- The game starts very slowly indeed.

I think you're just not looking at this game from the right perspective. It is not a story driven action game like Uncharted 3, it is also not a story driven RPG like Dragon Age or a Final Fantasy. It's an open world that you are free to explore in any directions you want. Nothing is forcing you to do anything. If this freedom of exploration is something that does not appeal to you, then this game is not for you. But for the rest of us, what bethesda does it quite unique in the video game industry, and it does it extremely well.