I love the games bethesda make, they are the best games these days bar none.

Skyrim is incredible. The best things are:

-Awesome story told in the civil war, as seen in the forums, which side is the best? Hard to say.

-The main story. Dragon are back, dragonborn etc. Great stuff. Epic, new, heroic.

-The freedom and the world. Unmatched.


Sadly there are some big issues with Skyrim

- The balance. The game simply gives you way to many tools without any gamebalance which makes the game kind of boring endgame. Ie the enchanting is way to powerful (im talking about non exploit). Dragons are not dangerous enough and the level scaling with so many levels is off (ie when you are level 50 no bandits are a challenge, to many levels to balance properly)

- The quests. They lack choice and alternate solutions.

- To many evil quests that arent optional. I cannot as a paladin wipe out the dark brotherhood without commiting murder? That is a very odd rp choice from bethesda. These examples are abundant and makes no sense and greatly disturbs my rp.

- No way to clean riften up from thieves guild? Makes no sense. And if you rp a thief then you are forced to make a pact with a demon for your soul to guard her chamber for all eternity for her help. Since when does the thief path lead to a dark temple? Makes no sense whatsoever and brings the thieves guild very close to the dark brotherhood.

- Companions, in order to help them you must become a werewolf. Again makes no sense.

I really hope bethesda takes this to heart.

You might want to hide your last 2 points, since they contain spoilers.

a Bit of spoilers in this topic...I just have 1 thing to say Complainers are going to Complain....

About the TG and companions I think it makes pefect sense that an organization have their own methods of doing things and you can't change this. If you work for a company and you don't agree with their methods, you just quit or adapt to it. You can't change their ways.

If the TG requires you do make a pact with a daedra and you don't want to then you don't join them. Same goes for the companions. That's part of the roleplaying.

Might want to remove the spoilers so this doesn't get moved.

Anyway -

Best:
Game world

Worst:
UI/controls and Combat

Quests are somewhere in the middle for me. There are some hits and misses. Generally they seem to have a focus on quantity > quantity, but some of the larger ones were still genuinely interesting.
Factions sadly were more miss than hit, mage guilds are my archetypal guild of choice in TES games and this one just didn't do anything for me at all. It was so small, with so few members - granted Skyrim isn't a mage friendly place but still... I used to always use a mages guild room as my home in Morrowind and Oblivion, but it just doesn't feel like home in Skyrim and I ended up just using the house in Whiterun.

I really appreciated the bit where you confessed as being a complainer.
Touching.

I think one thing that everyone needs to remember here is that we are still playing Vanilla Skyrim. The is no DLC yet. More quests are coming. The devs have ample opportunity to make this fantastic game even more fantastic. On a semi-related note...this is my first experience with Steam. Does the game being connected to Steam mean that the devs can create and impliment upgrades, patches, and new content much the way Blizzard does with WoW?

Not sure how WoW works now (haven't played for years) but Steam delivers updates automatically if that's what you're asking.

When Blizzard wants to add new content to WoW, they issue a patch that automatically downloads when you launch the game.

Yep that's how Steam works.

Fixe'd.
Edit: People complain's with fixes that are just impossible to fix now.Serilious no game is perfect(and i think that skyrim is good as Morrowind and Obvilion).The only thing that still disturbs me in this game is the quest bugs.That is the true thing that should be fixe'd in all RPG games.

That's insightful.

One piece of advice:
People have been known to get posting bans for tampering with someone else's quote.

WHile it may be true that there's only one thing that disturbs you in the game,
it obviously isn't true about many many other people, people who have the right to voice their concerns.
Like it or not, your opinions are not universal.

I wish you a great 2012!
Cheers!

Thanks for the adivice and thanks for wish me a good year.I say the same to you.
"Have a happy 2012" =D
I will try changing my "terrible opnion".

If I recall correctly, there is no way to refuse making the pact once you've reached the relevant quest. And first time players would not know that you would eventually have to make such a pact with a daedra, so how would they know to avoid the TG?