My opinion?

Skyrim is an extremely fun game at times but can sometimes even be boring or repetitive.

For this realistic variety it gives me, I am pleased by it. However I do find the many flaws of the game gives it a stale,
almost awful stench. Bugs plague it and the constant draining of what made Morrowind so great makes myself,
being similar to other such old fans, miserable. But nevertheless, all of this doesn't stop me from enjoying what I paid for.

This is spot on for me, It's as if the poster read my mind(not all of it, minus the part where Halle Berry washed my car naked) & summed up exactly what battle i have been fighting with Skyrim, A long & bloody battle with moments of joy & heartache.

Oblivion absorbed me as did Fallout 3, New vegas to a lesser extent(atmosphere) but i was still swept up & feeling it's vibe, Happened with ME1 & ME2(Not as much as ME1) & i remember being at one with these games & the worlds they created.
I'm just not getting on with Skyrim, I'm doing all the legwork & trying all kinds of builds & characters but after 600 hours i just find it completely & utterly souless, Breaks my heart to admit defeat & to admit it to myself.

It's a great game & takes it's place up there in my top 6, However me & Skyrim just don't see eye to eye.

After 180 hrs. I hardly login now. I had fun with the game but you will find alot of flaws after you play for awhile. For me doing all the faction quest and civil war, daedric and main quest only to find that after all that and saving the world, No one knows or cares that i did any of it. This bothers me. And after you get over the awe of how the world looks, you realize that it just a grey looking bleak place of tundra,snow and mountains. Did it deserve the praise it got? Yes and no i would say. Bethesda needs to go back to its roots. I just don't get after making a masterpiece like Morrowind that this is all they have left. One of the biggest RPG killers of these games today is all the dumbing down with the level scaling crap. RPG's used to have this sense of danger to them. You couldn't go into certain areas until you were strong enough too. That to me is what i really miss from Morrowind. Going into a Daedric ruin and getting your butt handed to you by a steel armored girl with a silver two handed sword in two or three hits. and using something like that when you leveled to see how tough you were getting and when you finally beat her you jump from your chair screaming yeah.

If it wasn't for the graphics, combat and customisation of your character this game wouldn't even be a 5 out of ten. Face it this game is really lacking in story and character interaction, so much so i'm not playing it anymore i'm playing KOA, and when Mass Effect 3 comes out Skyrims problems will be even more glaring.

Even if Mass Effect 3 hits it out of the park, Shepard is still dull as a rock, not my character, and the game is still just a long action movie.

And yet, Shepard is 1000x as interesting as my Skyrim character, because he has more than one response to everything...

No it really comes down to what type of game you like, i'd take BioWares type of game over Beth's ,and when ME3 comes out in a few weeks i have no doubt i will prefer it to Skyrim.

It's an average game, if it didn't have Elder Scrolls on it or Bethesda's name on it no one would care and it would fade into obscurity.

5/10

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I have had a real great time with this game, 335 hours and so much more to do. I was a confirmed Morrowind addict but I am changing my mind now.