The AI could be so much better. :sadvaultboy:

Everything about the game is vastly improved, except probably the AI and UI. The AI is as dumb as it was in Oblivion and the UI yet again took another step backwards since the days of Morrowind.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

IA? did you take an arrow to your spelling?

AI is just as bad as Oblivion for sure. I cant see where one thing has been improved. Maybe they stopped the Pychic Guards and added combat fleeing. But that is about it. People kneel down asking for mercy but just get back up and go Kamikaze. Radiant AI is still abhorrent. The townspeople will do work outside in the raid, and they seem just as computerized and unlifelike as before.

Am I to take this to mean that since I don't know squat about how graphics/AI/etc are programmed that I can't give an opinion on the end result? That although the vast majority of end-users also do not know squat about same, they they can't have an opinion either?

If you hadn't noticed, every question in the poll is SUBJECTIVE - i.e. the individual's perception of changes from OB. Just because I don't know a texture from a whatchamacallit - oh, a mesh! that's it! - doesn't mean there's something wrong with my eyes.

Back to the OP: I voted graphics 'could be better' simply because I get hard lag from light sources/mist. I'd've put amazing if it wasn't for that because Skyrim is running about 15-30fps higher than OB ever did for me (and I re-played OB just before Skyrim came out on this very same computer). As far as some things looking a bit scroggy - well, I don't spend my time staring at tables or walls or windows. TBPH, I haven't seen much of a difference in Skyrim mods and the original game, although that may be because I'm on a 15" screen. You might say, "Well, I don't care how many fps you have, how does Skyrim LOOK?" To which I reply, "It's a hell of a lot easier to judge that with the vastly improved framerate, now isn't it?" (Suppose that's not strictly graphics, but then, I'm talking out my tail, right?)

Animations - I personally think the finishing animations are a bit cheesy, and break immersion for me by switching me out of first-person view and preventing me from controlling my character for those couple of seconds. When you have other enemies besides the one you so flamboyantly finished off, the finishing moves are VERY distracting. And I agree with the OP about the physics issue, the only thing that seems to have changed is that dead bodies are lighter (tumble/fly farther) and objects can gain enormous velocity with just a tickle. Skyrim's flying objects are much more outrageous and deadly than OB, and that's pretty sad that they actually went backwards in this.

The water doesn't look as good to me, but I got used to a water mod for OB that clarified the underwater view, and another which beautified the surface view. I have a problem with not being able to see more than a few inches into the water - is Skyrim massively polluted or something? I know waterways get cloudy for other reasons IRL (algae, debris, mud, etc), but still pools should be clear unless something just went through it.

AI is much better, but mostly on the PC's side (more 'realistic' responses or non-responses to PC action, particulary thievery). (And THANK YOU Beth for finally fixing the "I accidentally clicked on something and stole it!" problem!) Still, it's incomplete. Baddies still have the just-shoot-me habit of only staring at you, standing nicely in place for a ranged attack, if they can't get to you. Jumping needs to be universal, everything with legs should be able to jump (well, except mammoths). Would make AI alot more responsive with just that - the baddies might actually get you then, and followers would be able to follow alot easier.

Don't know why you didn't poll the UI, I guess cause everyone pretty much agrees it's much worse than OB or previous TES games (or just that the subject has been rehashed so many times).

I can add only one more question and I would need to add one question for pc and console so I can't.

I don't get what's wrong with people, they say the graphics are great for pc but could be better for a console? I think it should be the other way around :huh:

Playing on the PC, I think the graphics are great, but let down by some awful textures such as snow. So I chose "Good, but could be better for graphics".

The AI seems okay with some random dumbness mixed in, so again I chose "Good, but could be better".

PC graphics - See above

Console Graphics - Haven't seen it on the console, but if it looks like the PC before .ini tweaks thats pretty sweet for a console, + the great art direction also makes up for some of the bad things, so I put Great.

personally I am disappointed with the PC graphics. Things always look decent from a distance but up close you can tell it's a console port which makes me sad. I shouldn't have to download mods from the nexus to improve the visuals IMO.

How can anyone say these graphics are close to Oblivion?


Either way, AI is average. Could be better.
Graphics are amazing.

http://ps3.ign.com/dor/objects/93394/elder-scrolls-v/images/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-20111014041717572.html
http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/screen/55251/The-Elder-Scrolls-IV-Oblivion/

graphics are not much better than oblivion, but they don't matter.
ai is still completely horrible

I haven't played my PC version yet, but it's still making me vote on that section. They're probably great, so I put that.

Personally, I love the graphics. Huge improvement over Oblivion. I feel that the AI could still use some tweaking, though.

graphics are okay, but the AI was a major downgrade from oblivion. at least NPCs would run in oblivion, or actually go out to find their food, or steal things they wanted (which could be funny as hell sometimes!)