Texted based dialoge will always be superior to Voiced based dialoge except in one instance, emotion. Other then Emotion you have a lot more options with texted based recording due to being able to add more choices in dialoge instead of being restricted due to memory size or the amount of VA's for all the characters.

Because Less is more?

(just jokin')

Hey, it is less. There is no doubt here. I 'm right now putting a spreadsheet together of missing things.....and I just am ashamed to even mention any here.

It's just.........(maybe I'm afraid to)....hehe

Your right skyrim only has a few small flaws like game breaking lag and broken main quests. The people who complain about these things are so ignorant

again that is completely untrue. i don't have a single character in the older games with even half of the attributes at 100 at max level. you have to intentionally game the system to get this result(or be the luckiest person who was ever born)

Actually, you can kill everything at level one on master difficulty with just 4 things.

1. Bow.

2. Arrows.

3. Ethereal Shout.

4. A tall rock to stand on.

Not exactly true. Emotion is possible, else novels would not be very engaging. Put a good writer at the helm, and unvoiced dialogue can be miles better than spoken dialogue.

This thread is a who's who of Skyrim haters. We should have a Posters' Choice Awards for best overall hater, most constructive hater, and most obnoxious hater.

But the attributes for your main skills were close yes?? I never had much problem getting my DEX up on a sneaky character or my STR up on a warrior.

And, you know what? I have seen your posts.......your pissed off all the time.

If I was in a meeting and we were at a conference table, and it was a meeting of TES fans....you wouldn't stand a chance saying this game svcks.

You've already stated in other posts in other threads your feelings. Why jumping on my case?

See the problem? I'm on your side......but actually saying the game svcks, says you don't like anything at all about the game, period.

I'm not going to read anything else you type out after the word "svcky"......

I mean come on. Sorry for barkin' up your tree, I apologize.

Skyrim .. Generic? Are you kidding me? Name another game that is like it then with the freedom to go 'anywhere and do anything', it is still in no way generic! Yeah being able to jump half way across the map is a real game making deal right? Lol you have gotta be kidding me, I suppose your one of those ' omg they got rid of levitation' fools that concentrates on not being able to do stupid and unrealistic things anymore, and jumping around like a fool to get your athletic skills up, theres another immersion breaker right? I mean when I get up in the morning I jump around like an idiot then leap half way across my town hahahahaha !!

Give me a break, bet you haven't even played Skyrim your one of those people who were put off by what they removed or changed EVEN before the game was released, so there is no way you were going to enjoy it no matter how good the game was!

Guy's it's not always about spreadsheeting really when people say Skyrim has cut a lot of content. It's about options being removed to a point where you no longer have as much choice, not to a point where it simply isn't viable anymore or is overpowered, but to a point where it does not exist.

Spells for example had so much cut from them that they are a hollow shell of what they once were. When you can't re-create a character from a former game because of content being cut that's a clear example of choice being removed.

That is actually quite a funny remark to make
I wonder what category Ill be nominated for.. prolly most ascerbic.

So you start the game with Ethereal Shout then?

We must've played a different game.

So don't use a bow and stand on a tall rock? Dragons don't care if you are on rocks btw, I am level 43 and still get owned by Frost Dragons on Master even with my UBER Glass gear, Heavily Enchanted Ebony Bow etc.

Umm there is no Etheral Shout at the start of the game btw, unless your playing a different Skyrim that is.

Yes and no.

There's complaints that Skyrim isn't Morrowind or Oblivion...and the answer to those is to tell those folk to go back to playing Pong or Zork. Times change, and so do expectations.

There's complaints that Skyrim has mechanical faults, and there is no denying that. I personally know of more than a handfull of people who have abandoned the game because the focus of the repair jobs was on what looked bad for Beth on Youtube, rather than the actual mechanics issues in the game. These types of complainers have moved on, for the most part. Some of them, like me, have stuck around because we understand that Beth will probably not fix these problems, and will probably introduce more with the inevitable DLC's...it's just the nature of the beast, like rave reviews by industry and media commentators who only played the game for a few hours and didn't come across the major mechanical or immersion issues (Seriously, scoring 9 or even 10 out of 10 for a game, when 4 days later reports are surfacing that certain quests couldn't be finished etc is more an indication of how many boozy lunches the critics were shouted rather than a detailed critique of the game, but that's business).

Have all the criticisers moved on? No...and hopefully they won't. Because without some pressure from the gaming public, and without word of mouth among gamers, gaming companies will never be held to account, even for the small sway that we gamers do have.

Keep in mind that nearly all gaming PR is smoke and mirrors. The figures only tell of the number of games shipped, not the number of games sold (apart from server downloads), and that isn't dependant upon the reception, but how well the company marketting boffins can do their job...we the gamer are irrelevant so long as the middle man coughs up the dollar.

But people use that huge leap argument to go from simple choices all the way to way too complex. There is a huge difference, but people in favor of the current system like to go way beyond what those against them are saying.

"durrr, they have another opinion of something, haturzzz"
Stop using the term hater for everything, instead make an argument yourself and take part in the thread.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEd1D-KD5xc&feature=related

...oh no, no, you can't disguise...


Sorry did we insult your feelings towards the game?

Yes I am one of those 'fools'.
Because that is freedom, the freedom to play the game how I see fit.
Skyrim is incredibly generic. Take a look at the magic, magic used to be a hallmark of the franchise, in fact without spellmaking there never would have been a Daggerfall.
Now we have.. well, there really isnt a civil word that conveys the emotion. Its just awful.
Dragon Age 1 has a more utalitarian, more varied, better scaled and more interesting magic system.
Than a TES game! Now, that is beyond sad.

Linear? Only one way up any mountain. How many times am I circling a mountain looking for that one linear pre-set path up?
How often do I just go 'screw it' and glitch myself up a mountainside?
Not being able to reach my goal how I want, but being forced down a pre-made path (or resorting to glitching) is linear.
No quest branches is linear.

And generic?
Look at what they did to Alduin.
Made a u-turn on their own lore to turn a fascinating entity into just another dragon like any other game has.
Woo-hoo.

I hope you realize that a lot of people who critized the game did so because of bugs, some that were game-stoppers? I'm not talking about players that complain because XYZ in Skyrim is not the same as XYZ in OB or MW.

Myself included. Although my major problem was solved on the fourth day after release. Minor problems remaining, but nothing that stops me from playing the game and enjoying it immensely.

And most of us are still here. Some are waiting for patches, that will likely not come - Bethesda doesn't do a lot of patches. Modders do, though.

Most players that have problems post on the Hardware/Software forum, which is separated by platform, because they'll probably have a better shot at getting answers there.

I win most obnoxious and perhaps most constructive. Seriously, people loathed or loved the Xarneverine.

what makes you think i havent? i havent played on any difficulty but master.

You are so far off base and so clueless about what character creation is all about.
It's posts like this that make me go...wtf???

You might want to try to create a new character, with a different skill set, a different mind set, different goals....and start in a different direction.

Some players just seem to be stuck in the "but I can only play this way" mindset...and they are missing a great game.

I in no way disagree with Skyrim being linear feeling at times, but that mountain arguement just doesn't work. I hate walking around mountains to find a path up, so 90% of the time I climb them by jumping, and have made some impressive and fun climbs up the sides of tall mountains. ^.^

This time around Bethesda could have wrapped a brick labled Elder Scrolls 5 and it would have sold. Next time? I hope the critics numbers are substantial- not to harm Bethesda, but to protect one of the few entertainments I enjoyed in our popular culture.

If Bethesda keeps doing this a market niche will emerge, and someone has to fill it. Surely there is room for intelligent games?

I don't think Bethesda thought it would lose the Scrolls crowd;I think they thought they would capture even more fans.