» Thu May 31, 2012 9:41 pm I've turned this game inside out.
Been in every possible location and even found some quests that didn't have a journal entry.
I liked every hour of the game even the frustrating moments of coping with bugs and non working quests.
The quests were awsome and made sense. However I didn't take too kindly of some quests needing "faction" reputation.
Like "Lost legends" where you just had to sign up with those damned mages of Winterhold. That was never my intention.
What I didn't understand was the purpouse of being Guild leader of the "Thieves Guild" and "Listener" of "The Dark Brotherhood" as you had to run the errands anyways.
The Dark Brotherhood had some initiates whom I couldn't tell to do our "mothers" bidding...
Neither will I understand why those damned dragons spawned in my face all the time!
I collected about 40 or so dragon souls, and could equip an whole army with Dragon Scale armor, to what reason?
I killed Alduin, I upset the Greybeards by killing Pathornax, still those damned dragons spawned.
What I'd like to see if i'm to play this game again is as follows:
1: The inventory.
Just basically svcked that one did. In previous games containers had category which you could sort weapons from armor in say a chest.
In Skyrim there were no such thing, not even were the items sorted in alphabetical order...
If the game itself wouldn't have been this good I would have stopped about 4 hrs in due to this poorly implemented inventory system.
It makes no sense having this poor UI, even if the game was developed for those feeble Consoles...
2: Multiplayer.
When I play a singel player game I play one char, through the whole content and I feel it to be less interesting to play another class when I know all the places since I've been everywhere.
Adding the possibility to play the game with a friend (one as the Dragonborn and the other as a follower) would extend the time spent with this game.
As for now I wont touch it again I think.
3: Followers.
They don't level with the player.
I met Faendal in Riverwood and he's been my follower ever since. No matter how long I play he couldn't reach more than lvl 30.
And he(or the game rather) didn't calculate weapon skills or anything.
So some sort of enhanced follower system would be in order.
For example you as a player could chose the followers role, what perks to add and so on.
And please, let the followers use the equipment you give to them.
Faendal had full Dragon Scale armor and a Daedric Bow, still if I told him to carry a hide helm he would replace the Dragon Scale hat and draw his "long bow"...
4: Clean up the mess
Need I say, the home in Windhelm?
Whats up with the game not cleaning up the mess left from the necromancer who "lived" there previously?
Speaking of homes. Solitude... I kind of expected the House-Carl to have her own room(guest room) in there as well like in all the other homes, but no. I only spent some 20K and some more on decorations.
Quests which aren't working or gets stuck in the journal. For example "Visit the college of Winterhold" "Investigate the Bards College" to name a few.
A more outlined quest flow so the player will know or figure out what to do next in a quest.
And as I mentioned, I still haven't got the slightest idea why those damned dragons kept spawning after all I done to save Skyrim from them...
5: Professions
Neither of the crafting professions make any sense to me.
When you get 100 in enchanting you are already too "powerful" to need the items you craft.
And the enchants you put on weapons are depleted so you need to have "Absorb soul" as one of them in order to fill the enchants up rendering enchants on weapons quite reduntant.
Alchemy is a good way to earn gold, but you'd be swiming in potions of various type and quality when you get too 100 in Alchemy.
So why bother leveling any of the three professions except for the "free" levels you get from doing so.
6 Economy
Spent days (ingame time) spent on selling off the junk I keep collecting, in the end I only picked up enchanted weapons and potions but still the vendors didn't have enough gold to buy the stuff off of me.
Needless to say, when you spent some time leveling alchemy you better throw the potions you just crafted out of the window as you'd be mad trying to sell them.
I tried spending gold on buying arrows, but none of the vendors had Daedric or Ebony arrows, an option to make an order for said items would be a nice addition to the game.
Or an option in blacksmithing to craft arrows.
To burn my gold I bought all the homes and decorated them accordingly, invested in every vendor I could find but still had some 1.4 M Septims...
I don't see the reason to why you shouldn't repair your items ever now and then, that would be a "money sink"
7: Marrige
By the time I figured out how to get myself a wife I'd helped every living soul in Skyrim, but only Faendal, Lydia and my wife attended the wedding.
It was kind of dissapointing really.
And is it possible to divorse someone?
8: NPC's in general
Continuing with the dear wife.
"Back from some adventure I bet?"
"-Yes dear, I've been in the basemant for 32 seconds since we last met as I forgot why I would run down there to begin with.
All NPC's except for the guards seem to know whats going on in the world around them.
Take a random Court mage for example. "If you have the appitude you should join the mages college in Winterhold"
"-I'm the ARCH-MAGE you know!?"
Lets see what the creation kit yields in terms of addons and possibilities to mod the game.
Part from these things. Thanks for a really great game!!
