No changes because of Skyrim for me.

A game in itself can neither improve or detract from your life. It will inspire you to be (more) creative or it might highlight some of your weaknesses. Play the game and enjoy it for what it is. Don't let it consume your life. That is very much unhealthy.

This one time: I was real pissed off so I played Skyrim and bludgered a kid until my rage ran out or the kid died.
Damn kids beat me everytime

140 and counting

I don't feel bad now when I pull the wings off butterflies in real life.

An absolute joy to play after working a long graveyard shift, helps me relax and unwind which is all a quality video game is ever gonna do for me

Video games improve your life? This sentence just doesn't work, unless you are talking about the kinect sports games....Yeah they are fun, but honestly, how can they improve your life...?

Skyrim has improved my life. It can if you just live like you play skyrim. I decided to go on some quests the other day and explore what I could on the way. Got smoked up on a blunt upon completion. And noticed way more cool [censored] on my way too. The skyrim world is all fantasy oooh wow look check it out and if you apply it to real life which is more familiar it can give you a renewed appreciation for its depth which is like a million skyrims and oblivions and morrowinds put together

n dont start i work full time and haven't gotten past lvl 12 anything can improve your life in any way you want that is under your control those saying other wise are insecure maybe they worry about how much skyrim/video games mean to them

So you are going to break into peoples houses, tresspass in buildings you shouldnt be in, and murder random people on the road?! God help your town!

This exactly!



Same. With Skyrim, I find myself constantly stopping and looking at this game thinking how far gaming (even technology in general) has come. Such a huge game with so much to do and such an open and detailed land. You can get so lost in another world and all it really is is a bunch of 1s and 0s from a disc.

Lolz. Skyrim hasn't really improved my life other than I play it in my free time instead of Oblivion.

lol. dear oh dear.

My business travels are less tedious now. The IT department did wonder why i suddenly decided to switch my ultra light notebook with a mid-sized multimedia notebook.

Question... don't you use your imagination from the very begining of the game? To make up your own char? or do you just say click on the first thing that pops up?

Insperation... if some of the beautiful scenery that Skyrim has, hasn't kicked in inspiration to draw, paint or write then your in an artistic slump or don't have much of an artistic side.

Motivation... I don't know what would motivate "you" but I made a comment to my husband about bows and battleaxes... "I probably would drag a real battle axe around and I am very good with a bow"....exact opposite of any of my char's.... he said prove it... and I did, though my arms were killing me the next day... Motivation to get out and practice with my bow.

Relaxation... If after playing any video game you aren't more relaxed, you might be doing something wrong. Yes blood pumping excitment can lead to relaxation when you are done. so even "shooters" count.

It's all in the way you look at things. An improvement does not have to be huge, just makeing your life that little bit better. My Husbands a Diabetic, an Improvement in his diet is eating wheat bread instead of white. ( bread is still bad ...baby steps)

Have you never learned something new from a game that had historical references? It didn't make you pause and think? you didn't want to know more?

I guess each to their own, I read a trashy historical romance and I just gotta find out if the historical facts are true. I play a game based (very loosely) on the nordic culture and I wanna know how much may be true and more of the history of said culture.

But that's just me, I can't draw, I can't paint, Writing well, can't really do that either.

Improvement... weather it's a tiny or life altering... as long as it's for the better.

The thing is, many of these improvements are not improvements due to Skyrim. They`re simply improvements due to general gaming.

It`s a total misconception to say `skyrim has improved my life`, because it really hasn`t.

Before you bought the game you were the same and after you bought the game you`ll still be the same, save you might have a slight interesting in some theme to do with that game, but chances are you were heading towards that interest regardless.

Can improve your gaming life,no?

I Fuh Ro Dah'ed my teacher at school after she angry at me because i always open my skyrim wikia on my laptop at math class

What Skyrim tought me:

Fus Roh Dah does not work in real life.
Pushing someone off a mountain while shouting Fus Roh Dah is a very bad idea. You can't reload in real life.
It's a lot harder to catch butterflies in real life.
Running everywhere is a lot harder in real life.
No matter how hard you try, you can not shoot fire from you hands in real life. You can also not raise zombies or call minions from hell. In short, there is no magic in real life.
Girls won't want to marry you just because you're wearing your mother's jewellery. They still prefer the whole get me drunk first routine.
A baseball bat is not a good substitute for a mace
People have far less knee injuries in real life. Trying to correct this by shooting people in the knee is not a good idea. You don't get off with just a fine.
The local mortuary is not the equivalent of a draugr buriel chamber. It's a waste anyway since someone else already stripped all the corpses of their valuables. Bloody thieves.
Decapitating someone in real life is a lot harder than it is in Skyrim. It also seems to upset the local law for some reason even if you do this outside town. Again, you don't get off with a fine..
You do not get a lockpick when you go to jail. You do get a free phonecall though.

So yeah, as I'm sitting in my jail cell writing this I suppose Skyrim did improve my life. At least now I'll have the next 25 years to study, learn a trade and make new friends with no Skyrim to distract me since there's no computers in jail. They do seem to advocate same six relationships here although it will take some time for me to adapt to that. I must admit though, that young Breton two cells down does look handsome in a certain way...

it made my life less boring

Huh.. not to kick you in the head when you're down, but you should probably also know that there is no such thing of an elder scroll..

LMAO

damn u made me pee a little from laughing XD

it gave me 200+ hours of fun, theres not many other games that can do that

I think what I liked about this thread, just like the OP said, a more positive topic.

It's... interesting to see what some people post about. I don't actually use the internet a lot, I have it at work, but don't have it at home. This is probably the first time I've used a forum (apart from CodeProject, but that's not really the same) and I'm surprised at what some people talk about.

Like saw a thread recently about game returns. It's pretty obvious that you're going to get a reaction from what you posted, and that seems to apply to a lot of things that get posted - something gets posted just to set people off. The amount of negative waves is huge man! And was nice to see something positive. Yes the game has bugs. Yes it's got issues. Yes it's a black of hole of time. Do I enjoy playing? A huge tick. Did Steam tick me off at first - yes. But then I actually tried it and I found it's not that bad. I can play the game offline and that's all I wanted. Should I be able to play the game without it - yes. But piracy is huge and I can understand why the developers went this way.

It's something I purchased for less than $100NZ. On my budget that's rather steep, but I've gotten over 200 hours of gameplay out of it. Worth it to me.

At the end of the day:
It's a game. A pretty darn cool game, but just a game. If I spent 24/7 playing the game, I'd kick myself in the nuts and tell myself to do something else. If I started pickpocketing people in the street (purely as an example), I deserve whatever consequences I got. If you're unhappy with it, return it (if you can). Job done. If you can't, well you're a bit stuffed. I've misspent money in the past, I'd just learn from it and either wait until it's released in a stable (more) state or don't buy a game again. If the game is unplayable and keeps crashing, go into real life
and do something else until a fix is released (the fact fixes of this magnitude need to be done is another topic).

I was playing it last night and it didn't crash at all, that was for about 2 hours. I do admit, it's not good when you start up the game and expect it to crash.

All this complaining is a bit sad really (but that's just my opinion). It's just so easy to complain when you're behind a monitor and a keyboard. Maybe things would be more positive if it were like "Do not do to others what would anger you if done to you by others. - Isocrates" (see The Golden Rule on Wikipedia).

But hey, this is the Internet.

Reminds me of that Contact movie. There is a bit in it we Jodie Foster says something along the lines "The world is what me make it". Missing out a huge bit there, but for those that haven't seen it, don't want to spoil it.

Totally don't mean to come off as a good two shoe or anything and we should all be holding hands singing songs type thing, obviously the forums are great for expression, but sometimes, man, the topics are just weird. Again, my opinion. There's plenty of others and that's what is great about the internet.

(sorry, slightly went off topic)

+1

Good one.

Welcome to the internet I guess. A tip or two if I may? People stop reading about right where I cut it unless you are writing something extremely captivating. And don't apologise so much for having an opinion. You're entitled to one. And don't ever take anything you read on the internet serious. People will say anything when nobody knows or cares who they are. In this case most people who has no problems and like Skyrim are busy playing it. The ones with broken games and broken hearts are the ones you'll find here most days. They know that it's useless to complain but it makes them feel better to know they're not alone in their misery. Let them be.

And Contact was one of my favourite movies too but I'm old enough for it to be so. You're not. Get out more.