"Skyrim is unfinished and doesn't deserve the $60 I spent on it" is a bit ridiculous.

Who's bashing the game and bethesda?

This is such a staggering and beautiful game with so much to admire. I said in another post that imo Bethesda have raised the bar so high with this game that they simply don't have any peers among the developer world anymore, the already extremely high expectations I had for this game have not only been met, but far exceeded. This game is a massive achievement & a work of art.



some people are just petty though & there are individuals in the world who never seem happy unless they are moaning about something. Their voices will be drowned out by the swell of overwhelming praise that this game generates. Praise which is very well deserved, because this....is....the....greatest....game....ever....made!!!!!!!

But SR is unfinished and is not worth the $60 I spent on it...

Most of the criticisms were made months ago. The major design flaws have been meticulously laid out by multiple forum members over months. Nothing was fixed/improved.

The 75+ pages of PC bugs you see in the bugs forums are just icing on the cake.

Skyrim is the best game I've played to date, and I've been playing lots of RPG's over the years. I'm nearly 27 y/o and I've seen lots of games, and I've witnessed lots of beautiful moments in gaming.
As far as I'm concerned, this game holds the best fantasy atmosphere to date - and it shows.
I too have a frame rate issue (drops in cities, etc) but I do not bash Bethesda for it, neither do I bash the game. They are doing their best - they have been working for years to give us the best possible game they can, and there are plenty of people that are giving them an extremely hard time over the boards. Why do you do that? Please bare in mind that the PC (and I'm a pure PC gamer) has lots of issues nowadays, because of:
Different rig setups: Multiple GPU's, GPU models, CPU models, RAM amounts, 3rd party applications, different GPU rendering capacilities, technology, and probably the most troubling thing of all - which is NOT under the control of the developers - DRIVERS.

Do you have any idea how frustrating it must be for developers to develop a game in this scale, just to witness bugs remaining after months of QA process? Do you honestly think you should bash the game about 3-4 days after it has been released, and lower their spirits like this? Please - think again. Drivers, especially - are not in their responsibility! They are gathering issues, they have been asking for our DXdiags, they are not Console-Only developers, and we should thank them for not choosing the easy path and developing only for consoles - there are numerous titles out there that has gone this path, and it is our loss.

So, when there's such a brilliant developer that's doing its very best giving us an amazing experience, without selling themselves to be console exclusive - we should be thanking them, and ask they will note our issues. Not demanding them anything, and especially - not bashing them altogether.

Bethesda, I would like to thank you a lot for this game. I'm sure like me is the silent majority, that are having an extremely good time with the game. Thank you for developing this for PC as well- Hopefully you will go on doing this for years to come.

That is one of the main problems, of course - you cannot create the character you want with Skyrim, as with other TES games (and FO3 too). This is a problem with most Western games, though, despite their marketing claims to the contrary. Specifically, they claim you can make whatever character you want and then fail to allow artistic options to do so, thus undermining any sense of empathy and immersion for players who do not share their very specific (and limited) tastes in art. The whole problem boils down to a focus on "realistic" which is really silly considering (1) reality is subjective and (2) the game is a fictional world and finally (3) their marketing claims state exactly the opposite (i.e., they claim you can make any character you want, not only "realistic" characters according to their artistic tastes).

Let me quote their own marketing bullet point:



Well, I cannot do so, as usual with Beth's games despite their many other excellent qualities. The only reason I have invested thousands of hours in their games is due to East Asian modders, particularly artists. Also, some Western modders, of course, but the character aesthetic fixes are almost entirely due to East Asian modders like Ren. Let's also keep in mind that Beth has known this since Morrowind, but still refuses to do anything about it. They even see forum members with East Asian art avatars, so they don't even need to consider downloads from TESNexus or elsewhere.

There is no game where you can play anyone you want, the amount of possibilities are nearly infinite and video games are always finite. I think it's good that Bethesda kept an aesthetic that is consistent with the Norse influence. You just disagree with the aesthetic and that's fine, but no need to attack them for it.

Do you know how frustrating it is to point out problems months in advance only to see nothing fixed? (re the terrible UI design)

Do you know how frustrating it is to shell out $60 in an economy like this to get a game that is not even finished?

Do you know how frustrating it is to play in a game world and not be able to do basic things that exist in that game world because the poor developers did not bother putting them in?

I think it’s one of the best TES games to date, might even be better than Morrowind

I do have one issue though, the PC interface. Hotkeys are much better to use for a PC gamer than the fav list where I have to pause every 5 seconds during a fight to do things. Plus the fact that even if you changed your keyboard layout, the menu screen does not update and you get confused about which buttons to click in order to drop an item, use an item etc....

I think many are angry because this would be an easy fix for Bethesda, if they just put in a bit more work to make the PC interface better. Instead they have left it unfinished and broken. I do love this game..... but if they don’t fix these issues in a patch for PC users (who have been some of the biggest fans of the TES series) then I will be disappointed.

I will still play the game because I love it..... but I will be disappointed.