I have, thus far, bashed the Skyrim game. Now I would like to point out it's good side.....For one, I would like to thank the highly educated, and talented Skyrim team for their endevores on this project. Your hard work shows, even with a premature deadline, and a "not so up to speed" engine.
This is my history in gaming: As a disabled war vet, one of my phisical therepists suggested gameing to help maintain my hand-eye coordination. I laughed my ass off!!! That is, until I noticed it helping.....Those were the Cube/ Zelda years. The Cube phased-out, thus entered my 360/ PC years.....to date. You see, I'm pretty much bed stuck, so when I buy a game, I usually buy one console, and one PC. I buy the two to compare them to one another, also for when I stop being a lazy SOB, and start learning to MOD!!!! ( NOTE: I have the highest regards for MODDER disipline, skill, and imagination!!!! ). I generally play and critic the console version as a rule, reason being is that when I hear and see all the hype that the marketing departments dish out, well, this is where the rubber meets the road. Does the hype stand up to what can actually fit in a finite space??? As we have all learned, in one form or another....it doesn't. In the Elder Scroll tales, Oblivion got damn close to perfection, but, it to needed tweeking too. When Skyrim released, I could tell, as an Engineer, this was a whole new monster.( I was hoping for a tweeked Oblivion version). My obsevation is thus: the " up graded" engine and release date should have been scrapped for a totally new system and release date. It was extremely obvious Bethesda was squeezing the last bit of blood from an old stone, and now they are all rich. If Skyrim was titled as any other game, other then a Elder Scrolls game, I think I could enjoy it a little better, or at least yell at it as a different game. Game play just isn't smooth, people all come from waffle irons, clothes are water color pastels, and all the children are inbred ( just look at their faces. ). As the sum of it's parts, this just doesn't feel like the Elder Scroll sereies that I loved over the years. Sorry.

True. It could very well be Two Worlds 3

Edit your post so it is not a wall of text.

No, I don't think it is a TES game anymore.

Oblivion... close to perfection? Stopped reading there.

Skyrim achieves things that Oblivion could only dream of.

No, it's a Mario game.

It is a TES game... can't you people read the cover?

Yes, it says so on the box.

Ninja'd

Edit the wall of text lol.

As for it being true to its TES roots. Nope.

Obviously it's an undercover Call of duty game. There's no lore or rpg elements in it...

Duuur, never mind me.

It is a TES game indeed. People said the same about BF3, deal with it.

stop crying u dont like the game go buy another one

IMO, TES is just a generic name regarding a bunch of totally unrelated games. Its Lore is unappealing and races have changed SO MUCH that I barely feel any connection to TES as a series. given the dumbed down system (that goes beyond the simple removal of attributes), I feel less and less drawn towards this franchise. And given my correct suspicions that Beths would AGAIN ship something completely bugged (as it usually does since Daggerfall), this is an ominous sign of things to come.

This is where I stopped reading.

Of coures it's a TES game. Gameplay alone doesn't make it a TES game. Obviously there's the rich history, all of the lore, the books.. I mean, duh.

So I guess you'll be preordering 6, 7 and 8 then?


That what I think.



I was largely a blank slate till CC where I take the form of one of the 10 ES playable races. I'm a prisoner, I'm in Skyrim, homeland of the Nords (who I know all about from the previous ES games).

I get free, it turns out I have a destiny, I set out in on my quest to explore Skyrim and save the world. In the process I grow as a character, I experience iconic ES trappings - guilds, quests, the Legion, Argonians and Khajits. Dunmer - I remember them. What's this, little bits and pieces shown through the lore and the world that referance previous games, places, characters? And Altmer, oh Altmer, never change. Oh hey Bosmer, looking a lot better these days. I can trap souls in gems, get a house, do more quests, become the head of the guilds, read books filled with ES lore, fight mudcrabs, gain levels, develop as a character...

Gee, for a game that isn't an ES game it sure sounds like an ES game!

I thought the clue was in the title of the game?

Then you yourself admit there are factors influencing your enjoyment of the game beyond the game itself. This in itself shows you are not rating the game for what it is but on what you had hoped it could be, and are penalising it for not reaching your lofty ideals.

No game will meet the hype companies and fans produce. The reality is expectations will always rise beyond what reality can and will provide that isn't the games fault but more the individuals for not realising what was advertising and what was reality or reading into press statements far more than was ever intended.

Opinions we all have them. I think Marmite is horrific, Dr.Pepper in my eyes is sickening, yet I know I could find people who enjoy them (well maybe the Marmite, have no idea how Dr.Pepper is still selling!).

Skyrim isn't completely bugged for the majority of people, sorry.. try again

With enough time you get to realise that people love complaining, even for opposite matters. Funny thing, the internet.

Every TES game has been different from its predecessor. You're not paying attention if you think that every TES game is supposed to follow a cookie-cutter approach to bring a homogenous thread to the series, or else you don't have a lot of experience with TES titles

I respect your achievements and your history (even though I know and work with doctored engineers that can't tell time- or worse, refuse to tell time- without help from their co-ops). I'm sad to learn you're disabled. But I'm not tracking with you, because you expected Oblivion Part II.

Seriously!? I am bringing my copy back! This is ridiculous I thought it was an Elder Scrolls game.














But seriously, Did you really say Skyrim is clearly Bethesda's last attempt to squeeze something out of something that is dead? That is just foolish, I mean we are all on this forum ALL THE TIME, right? Skyrim may have a few flaws but it is a gaming experience like no other and well worth the money. Obviously it is less of an RPG as Daggerfall, but there are aspects of it that are deeper than any of the other TES games. Is it not Obvious to people that Beth focusedon creating the world and making that perfect this time?

OP loses all credibility having said "Oblivion achieved near perfection" -LOL
What an absurd statement.

My only expectations of the game, were the things promised and presented by Bethesda from production to release. It has met those expectations. Not every game is perfect on release...well lately not every game is perfect...

Except that no, it didn't meet those expectations
-Radiant AI is not as "radiant" ss bragged about
-Was said that we could sabatage economies. We cannot.
-Was said we could interact with mills etc, we cannot
-Was said there was an economy. LOL.
-Dark Elves were shown with dark, raspy voices. This was again cut.