To iorca. You may be right. i have a thing about eyes. To Frisian_Nord...You haven't seen many dead things,have you?

Maybe you should try and contain your ramblings to one post per ramble.

Also, this is terrifying:
Seeing a lot of dead things is not something you want to brag about.

Indeed. I found that "gripe" a little creepy myself.

Experience varies. I had very few bugs with Oblivion also and appaerently had the deluxe edition which had content people swore was not in the game. My experience with Skyrim so far has been the same but with fewer bugs.

thanks.

To n 1138 It is not bragging. it is the world. But, let's not get the world mixed up with fantasy or role playing.

No one is forcing you to play Skyrim fella!

No Corrgarr,but i am playing it. i am going to [censored] about it because somebody has to.

No, no one has to. And yet people feel compelled to anyway.

Most of your dissapointments apply to things that annoy you. Your malcontent because the dead in this game have their eyes closed? Your seriously disgruntled because there is a thieves guild and they're a bunch of jerks? You don't have to do a guild quest if you don't want to. Or the main quests for that matter.

Your skimpy grumbling annoys me.

I can understand if your displeased with bugs and glitches. Have you downloaded the most recent patch?

To nerevarine1138. The line "bethesda games are always buggy" is a cop out. They are. They are always so filled with promise.that promise is unfulfilled. like most things
in life they fall short. They offer the closest thing i have ever played to a "role playing game" and always fail.this is not a fight.this is the way it is. they could do it if they could pull
their heads out of their ... i'm sure they will make a a lot of money with skyrim. it still is a bad RPG in my opinion.

Oblivion got close.

Bethesda games aren't exceedingly filled with promise that they then don't live up too. I think you overhyped Skyrim like you did Oblivion. I didn't overhype Skyrim like I did with Oblivion, and I was satisfied. Also, Skyrim is an action/adventure game with light RPG mechanics.

TES games have always been very large when it comes to the map and the inventory, so there are going to be more bugs than compared to a more linear game. I'm not saying that justifies all the bugs in the game. What I'm saying is that it's mighty difficult to release a videogame like Skyrim bug free.

The patches have addressed numerous bugs/glitches.

To nerevarine 1138. you have a right to your opinion, as i do to mine.

jblood: Many of your complaints don't seem to make any sense to me. Whether that is a result of not knowing much English I can't tell. Dead characters having their eyes closed is hardly a legitimate complaint about the video game. The Thieves guild committing crimes is also a senseless complaint.

If you are unhappy about the game, then you are absolutely entitled to speak your mind about it. Bethesda cannot ever hope to improve upon their games if people merely chant praise, and never share criticism. This is something that many people fail to understand. But, you need to express legitimate complaints, legitimate criticism. Not, "dead things have their eyes closed".

Skyrim isn't a perfect game by any means, and there's a lot about it that can be improved. As I've said before, Skyrim is a lot of mediocre features thrown together into a decent game. I enjoy it for what it is, and if I truly disliked it I wouldn't have put over a hundred hours into the game. However, that's because at its core, Skyrim is an action game, and the roleplaying elements are very lightly layered on. Sort of like chocolate frosting on a vanilla cake. It goes well together, but it doesn't serve to add any true depth to the game. It's a simple game. The combat is fun, but it isn't very strategic, beyond blocking and swinging your sword. Unlike a shooter, where you have to consider cover, aiming, when to use grenades, making sure you're safe before you reload, and so on, Skyrim is pretty straightforward. Bows and magic add a little bit to it, and arguably, those are the best aspects of the combat. But they're also overpowered, and again, shallow. Magic is terribly limited, and the spells are not interesting or creative.

And it isn't just the combat. The storylines - the main quest, the guilds, etc. - are very simple as well. Most characters in the game are, again, shallow, uninteresting, and without depth. Companions have about five lines, and hardly any history or personality attached to them. I, personally, find it hard to hate or love anyone in the game. There are several memorable characters, but for the most part, nobody sticks out. The greatest thing Skyrim has going for it, in terms of story, is its lore, which is consistently interesting and fun to delve into. But it just barely has an affect on the game. There are more interesting characters in the books you can read, than there are actual characters to interact with.

Once again, a lot of mediocre features, bundled together into a beautiful world, to make a good game. Not amazing, and not terrible, just good.

Honestly? I think Bethesda would do well to get back to the roleplaying side of The Elder Scrolls series. I don't mind if the world gets smaller, if the characters become more interesting, and the story a little more than "you're a good guy, fulfill prophecy, beat the bad guy". Argonians and Dunmer struggling to survive against racism and segregation in Windhelm are hardly convincing, when they only have a handful of lines tacked to them, and barely any personality to speak of.

Bethesda builds a strong foundation, they just need to expand themselves, and actually build upon that foundation, not make it prettier. That all said, it may be a simple game, but it does have good things going for it, and it is fun to play.

I know it does but with what I had with Oblivion to what I have with Skyrim I am disappointed, this game is a mess.

If you are disappointed by the earlier games in the series, why did you even buy Skyrim? Unless you are saying that you are disappointed you DIDN'T fall though the floor this time.

M'Aiq wonders why people rant about things that they cannot change. M'Aiq likes to change iron ore into gold ore.

what I had from oblivion to fallout 3 to skyrim is a mess also these games always get worse for me
oblivion- amazing not one freeze or framerate drop
fallout 3- alright forgivable (at the time) alot of freezes and framerate drops especially with dlc
skyrim- a total disaster freeze every 3-5 minutes the framerate was never stable in the first place but went from 20 to 0 at times. 1.4 patch fixed skyrim for me for now..... I'm not buying dlc by god I can't have freezing and framerate drops get even worse like fallout 3

Well, for me, Skyrim is super stable compared to your mentioned games. Roughly 5 CTDs in 650 hours of play. Of course having a better PC and experience in managing mods helps.

I'm on ps3 and I couldn't do anything about it so I'm stuck with bethesda gave me and before someone says "you get what you pay for" I payed for a game and it did not work for months till 1.4

Ok, Here we go again. i play skyrin,like i played oblivion, on an Xbox 360. don't have the luxury of mods. I payed the same amount of money for this game as computer gamers.
yet, i have to wait for scraps that might fall from updates. i don't like that. I know that people are thinking i'm obsessed with the "eyes" thing. Maybe i am. Riddle me this..
When the stormcloaks attacked whiterun they died...when they died their eyes were OPEN. The second my character touched a stormcloak, it's eyes CLOSED. so,what's going
on???
to mistaken..i appreciate your opinion,but i play these games to have a free form adventure,like the hype says i will. Yet, i am disappointed .the game is not what it could be.

i personally think oblivion is still a better game; to each his own. But skyrim is still a good game i wasn't disappointed because the game still offered its fair share of great content.

I am upset with it for different reasons, it dosnt appeal to me on the same level that oblivion did... there was something special about TES: IV Oblivion, that I cant put my finger on, but nothing will ever compare for me.

Oblivion is better. As is Morrowind. As is Daggerfall.