It's a very dumbbed down, casual, mainstream version of what I expected. I was utterly excited for the game to point of no return. So far my opinion is "meh".
Poll: So... did Skyrim meet your personal expectations?
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I'm only 2 hours in but it is probably the best game I have ever played. From good 3rd person gameplay to dual wielding to just the atmosphere, it is amazing.
Granted my expectations were not set too (if you don't consider Oblivion to be "high"). I tried not to see too much of the game/gameplay before I started but Oblivion WAS my favorite game until right now.
Skyrim blows me away. Oh my god
Granted my expectations were not set too (if you don't consider Oblivion to be "high"). I tried not to see too much of the game/gameplay before I started but Oblivion WAS my favorite game until right now.
Skyrim blows me away. Oh my god
My problems with the game is that the text is to small on menus. So I have to get up from my chair to look at them if I don't know what they are. (Mostly just for quests). My other one is some miscellaneous quests don't show up on the map where to go. Which has often just sent me back to doing the main quest.
Other than these problems though I've been pretty taken away. Not the feeling I got when I first played WoW, or Knights and Merchants. But close. Also I die alot. It's tough being a rogue.
Also for anyone going into Dwarven ruins, watch the **** out. Theres some crazy stuff in there.
For the Stormcloaks!
Other than these problems though I've been pretty taken away. Not the feeling I got when I first played WoW, or Knights and Merchants. But close. Also I die alot. It's tough being a rogue.
Also for anyone going into Dwarven ruins, watch the **** out. Theres some crazy stuff in there.
For the Stormcloaks!
No, it was a random dragon. So no spoilers =) I just ended up bringing it down and finishing it off in the main street, and all the villagers gathered around it and cheered and all. Was pretty great.lotr rocks 0 said:
As for the memory leak...its whenever i change areas...ie you see a loading screen, my frame-rate drops precipitously. A restart corrects it, but it is annoying. Its GPU related, i'd imagine. I'll keep checking nvidia for driver updates.
At the risk of sounding over dramatic, This is the best game I've ever played! Like anything it's not perfect, but nothing will ever be. I've been a fan since Arena. I really liked Oblivion, but Skyrim blew my shirt off. Not as big a step as Morrowind, though it's better realized. IMO. A lot of people are saying GOTY, and compared to the other really good games (Portal 2, Deus Ex:HR, et al.) I don't even see a competition. I'm saying GOAT!
I was expecting an upgraded oblivion, enhanced with features from fallout 3, but instead Bethesda greatly exceeded my expectations due to the improved combat, skills system, great visuals. It's a game of the year experience without a doubt, and the quantity of content is staggering.
Skyrim is like Oblivion, but with a main quest I actually care about seeing though.
I think the Dragons add something really special. The Elder Scrolls games (and Bethesda games in general) have always been entertaining, but the extra danger of random dragon encounters, and the powers that come with the title of Dragonborn, it has just all come together in a really special way for me. I've been enjoying it just as much as I enjoyed Fallout 3. And I'm one of the ones who really dug Fallout 3.
I'll be playing Skyrim for years most likely. Although its still going to lose some attention on Tuesday because of Saints Row, but this one I'll be coming back to over and over.
I think the Dragons add something really special. The Elder Scrolls games (and Bethesda games in general) have always been entertaining, but the extra danger of random dragon encounters, and the powers that come with the title of Dragonborn, it has just all come together in a really special way for me. I've been enjoying it just as much as I enjoyed Fallout 3. And I'm one of the ones who really dug Fallout 3.
I'll be playing Skyrim for years most likely. Although its still going to lose some attention on Tuesday because of Saints Row, but this one I'll be coming back to over and over.
Threads like these make me lol at all the "Oblivion 2.0" and "Skyrim looks ugly" troll threads from the past couple weeks.
I'm here at work, jonesing so bad to play, 7am can't get here fast enough.
I'm here at work, jonesing so bad to play, 7am can't get here fast enough.
For a game of this scope, the improvements are almost by default spread more thinly on the ground, so to speak. There is so much territory to over and so many things to do that I think it takes time to appreciate what a significant improvement Skyrim is over Oblivion (obviously imo). Go back to Oblivion and you'll see how much better the visuals and animations are in Skyrim. The voice acting is (so far) uniformaly good, and in many cases perfect. I have found quests, exploration and characters to be far more interesting too. I feel like Bethesfa have successfully crammed in heaps of action without it feeling forced. And on 360 I have honestly not experienced any persistent or annoying glitches, let alone game breakers. I'm already mildly obsessed with this game, but by virtue of being married with young kids I am being forced to maintain a tenuous link with reality. Oh well...kaizen2468 said:
Can it ever? I'm overall pretty damn impressed by Skyrim but I still get a little bored of the lame A.I and exploitation of the game. Elder Scrolls always had this problem ever since Morrowind and that's partly why we love it but it can still wear a little thin.
I'm playing as a stealth guy and he is massively op already, I havnt even done much of the main questline. x30 damage with a knife attack and they can almost never see me even when I'm crouching right in front of them. I have much more sneak to level up as well. This kind of power makes me feel like I'm beating the game way too easily.
I'm playing as a stealth guy and he is massively op already, I havnt even done much of the main questline. x30 damage with a knife attack and they can almost never see me even when I'm crouching right in front of them. I have much more sneak to level up as well. This kind of power makes me feel like I'm beating the game way too easily.
I think the problem with the different opinions being thrown around regarding the graphics is that people have been talking about two different things - art direction and graphics on a technical level. Personally, I think the art direction is great, but technically the graphics are somewhat lacking. The world looks great from afar, but looking at anything close up shows muddy, low res textures, and the shadows aren't great either.King of the Sandbox said:
It took me back at first, especially when looking at a blocky horses arse in the opening sequence, but it doesn't really hinder the gameplay at all, so I'm just living with it (this includes running everywhere because I don't want to look at another horse lol).
This is all on ultra on PC, running incredibly smoothly, just not as great looking as I expected after watching the trailers, but as I said, the art direction is brilliant, and that helps to take the emphasis off of the low res textures.
Agreed. But honestly, like you said, the art direction is brilliant and the world design itself is amazing, and these let me gloss over textures that are lackluster. When there's so much to see, focusing on one aspect just isn't possible to me. With all this, and the amazing gameplay, anyone who hates the game based on a few muddy textures alone is, imo, the worst kind of graphics whore or a troll.distortedreality said:
Yeah, it stopped being an issue for me after an hour or two or gameplay, although I still cringe everytime I see a horse in the distance lol.King of the Sandbox said:
The only other thing that can get a little dicky is some of the animations, but on the whole they're good enough that it doesn't bother me too much.
The Elder Scrolls, Skyrim especially, have to be just about the only games where you can say, "I am "only" about 20-30 in, so I haven't started any of the main quests yet."
I've hauled out 26 hours so far. I love this game. It has some minor bugs, I'll admit, but nothing game breaking (though I have had one broken side quest). The amount of times I have just stopped to take in the view is hours in itself.
I've hauled out 26 hours so far. I love this game. It has some minor bugs, I'll admit, but nothing game breaking (though I have had one broken side quest). The amount of times I have just stopped to take in the view is hours in itself.
Well, having finished the Thieve's Guild and Companions, just starting the main quest, I can safely say this is one of the best games I have played. Just, the Thieve's Guild questline is the most fun I've had in a TES game.
The only animation bug I've seen really is some lady in the Drunken Huntsman standing up and sitting down over and over. Turns out, a tomato had rolled off the table and down by her feet, in front of the chair. I removed it and she sat down and stayed, finally.distortedreality said:
I still carry that tomato with me. I have named him Steve the Tomato; Destroyer of Comfort, Master of Restless Leg, Enemy of Settling Down.
