Is Skyrim that bad? : V - Skyrim

» Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:13 pm

You folks who think Skyrim is getting a lot of anger reactions should have been around here when Morrowind was released. Anger against Skyrim is mild compared to the vicious, bitter attacks directed at Morrowind. Morrowind wasn't a real RPG, Morrowind was just an action game with flashy graphics designed to appeal to young gamers, it had no dialogue, it had no depth, no complexity, ect, ect, ect, ect. To this day I have a chip on my shoulder about Daggerfall because of the constant abuse Daggerfall fans heaped on Morrowind. It happened when Oblivion was released. It happened when Skyrim was released. And it will happen again when TES VI is released. You learn to tune it out. Anger directed at the latest game is white noise. It;s a bunch of sound and fury signifying nothing. It will happen as long as video games are being made. And I would say that Morrowind, not Skyrim or Oblivion, was when the series entered the mainstream. That is when the game appeared on the XBox. It drew me to the series, and I was a dedicated first-person shooter at the time. I know others besides myself played their first RPG when Morrowind came out too.

Holy hell, so before the Pious Acolytes of Most Holy Morrowind, you guys had to deal with the Pious Acolytes of Most Holy Daggerfall? :blink:

There really is never anything new under the sun.

» Fri Jun 29, 2012 12:10 am

I liked Max Payne 1. I like Rockstar, but that game just doesn't seem up my alley. There's cover shooting, which is probably the FPS of third person shooters. I'm a picky person when you say, "This game has a gun." I ask, "Can I go all Doom on everything?" If no, you might not want to hear more. I started FPSes with Doom and that type of FPS is what I prefer. That type of shooter is what I prefer. Give me 90's AI and taking cover in front of a demon with a gun for a hand over anything when it comes to shooters. Unless I'm playing System Shock. I may be young, but I love oldies.

Wait, when you say "Doom", do you mean Doom 3 that came out for the Xbox, or do you mean Doom and Doom2 that came out back in the day?

» Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:30 pm

Skyrim is an amazing game! Definitely in my top 3 I'd have to say! Don't listen to people that have bad things to say about Skyrim. I'm a huge RPG fan, and it's definitely my favorite RPG as far as I'm concerned. I'm not sure what to compare it to, if there even is another game to do so! But I thinks it's splendid and I couldn't think of another game I'd rather put 200 hours into(so far)! Lol:) I certainly reccoment Skyrim 100 percent! As long as you interested in RPG's and what you've read, the good, about it:)

» Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:27 pm

I agree that this game is not totally well designed in certain part and also have disappointment in lot of place, but Skyrim is still no where close to "Bad game", i have spent 220hours on it and I am still playing and having fun with it. I say if I need to rate Skyrim out of 10 (1 = trash 10 = perfect), i would say Skyrim deserve 7 (Good and decent game but a bit far from perfect)

My disappointment are:
* Siginificant less amount of variations for magic. One best thing of past TES game that cannot be match and replace by game such as Fallout is magic. No matter how much advance technology we can have in future, it cannot replace the fantasy of being mage and casting magic. Magic is a big contribution of the fantasy
* Certain guild quests seem to be having less deep and too simplified. In Oblivion mage quests give a lot of more time for joing the guild, this give you more involvement with the guild and make you feel a bit more like someone in guild (unlike Skyrim I suddently become guild master from being Apprentice). Also for Fighter guild having promtion of my rank up and down giving me more emotion change of my role play in the game. (yea i am the type that i have fun in role playing)
* Bugs... well, it seem Skyrim got a lot of bugs and hope that spend some time fix them properly
* Story line, overall is a bit dull. Main quest is like (oh there is a dragon causing problem, let's kill it).
* Side quests, lot of them feel like radiant quests. Not much story/lore involved. it is like "i give you a task, and just do it for me and come back for reward" Same applied for guild quest, like in Oblivion I need kill some lions from someone celler because her neighbour hate she keeping rat as pet. Those maybe like a tiny thing, but it gives some random factor and story into your life in the game that make it less boring (and some give you some laugh too)

» Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:30 pm

CROTCHETY OLD BASTARDS FTW!!!1 I've been playing since the Fred Flintstone days when the arcade games were powered by a little dinosaur running around a hamster wheel too...Sometimes I think nobody should complain about video games unless they can remember feeding five bucks of quarters into an arcade game, and having to blow on a console cartridge to get it to work. Nobody should complain about bugs unless they can remember having to deal with Master of Magic.

I've been playing since the days of Space Invaders, the Atari 2600, Adventure, Zork (both are text adventures) and four-color graphics - unless you had a monochrome monitor, like I did.

Holy [censored], I'm old.

I can agree with this, because I was an Atari 2600-head. I remeber playing games like E.T. and hating it... but strangely loving it at the same time. I think the young-ins who complain about video games are like the young-ins who sit in a car that has a handle to roll down the window for the first time. They don't know what the [censored] happened. So, they sit there and stare at the thing like it's from Mars. If they can't push a flashy button to roll the window down they'd rather [censored] about it until they suffocate from lack of oxygen. Us old folk actually appreciate the strides the gaming industry has made and rightly criticize the industry when it takes a step backwards. I definitely don't think Skyrim was a step backwards.