Graphics: Right where they should be, in my personal opinion. They are perfect. Just high enough in resolution to cause the game to be beautiful, but low enough that you can tell that it was NOT THEIR FIRST FUCKING PRIORITY.
Storyline: OHMYASFDGASG... Dragons DRAGONS! DRRRAAAAGGGGOOOONNNNNSSSSS!!!!!!! RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHH! I love Dragons with all my being. I've got Dragon statues, and wall-hangings, and friggin Dragon Legos in the garage! I mean dear gods, even just playing as a dude with a friggin SOUL OF A DRAGON gives my imagination a boner!
Gameplay: So many monsterous improvements over how this game functions over Oblivion. It is truly sad to see that it is nothing more than a Console game ported to the Computer. If the menus were different for the two, no one would EVER be able to tell. Especially with the default keys.
Which brings me to my next point! Controls! WASD movement, Q for Favorites Menu, and everything else no one cares to find the keys for everywhere else XD. Everything is right there at your damn hand TBH. The controls seemed pretty much mapped for the Computer seamlessly. I don't honestly care if thats how Oblivion had it [which i never played enough of it on my comp to figure it out, only have it on 360 and lost my disc].
Voice-Acting and Voice-Overs: Phenomenal. Simply put, the best voice acting and facial movements I've seen in a game yet. They even have the simple small nuances of the lips. From what I've seen [maybe my insanity is taking hold] If a person with a lip scar tries to talk, its actively like a dead area on their face and it hardly moves! Thats pretty damn spot-on!
Leveling: I don't get what everyone is saying about leveling up to fast, or powering through this game. I've been pouring every open hour i got into this game, and I'm still not even past Diplomatic Immunity [its a quest, when you get there, you'll know it. Its fuckin corny.] I'm only just now level 10. I've not specialized in an area, though, so thats probably where I've been failing a bit. I've just been dropping points in the masteries I've been using the most.
Depth:............................................................... Don't even need to comment on this. It should be apparent by now that this is one of the single most massive open-ended games ever. I've wondered around in a straight line and actually passed through like.... 15 random encounters, and still not gone from Dragonsreach to .... that place directly west of it at the far end of the map.
Scope: The scope of the game is simply amazing. There is nothing I've yet to see it dance upon. I've seen the maltreatment of the Lower Class within a specific area. I've seen horrible living conditions within slums, and how people react to those from the outside with seemingly more amounts of money. I've seen simple things like a Smith finding a way to set aside his tasks so that he may go see his wife whom is in mourning, and then disappearing for untold amounts of time. Jeeze, I've even seen the Faux-Tough Guys in a fight, get nearly killed them drop their weapons and run like the little bitches they are! [which is DEFINITELY funny to watch, especially when they come running at you from the front with a worthless little dagger.
Designs: By the Divine, this game's designs are beautiful. The weapons are so varied too! I've seen weapons made of sticks and sharpened bones [used by the Forsaken. Do the Companion Questline if you haven't and you'll know what I'm talkin 'bout!] to extremely beautiful, very well-crafted staves, glimmering and shining with the light reflecting off of the metalwork. The armor looks REALISTIC! Its not massive suits of pure steel, connected together with more steel and buckles. Its Leather bottom-lining, covered with mail, a small lining of cloth, and then the actual plates are on top. Jesus, I've collected 3 separate types of Fur Armor, each looking different, but all of them being the same in value, defense and weight otherwise.
Environment: The environments are WAY WAY WAY updated. There is trees, and hotsprings, variations within variations. Random gravesites near what looks like a battlefield. Towns so cramped and crammed full of things that you turn a corner that you thought was the graveyard and you find a general store. Dungeons out the Wahzoo, i think literally too! I've seen 4 or 5 at this time, and I've not even explored a 100th of the map. THERE ARE RANDOM THINGS EVERYWHERE! I found a friggin shrine to Zenithar in the middle of the wilderness in what was obviously a broken down tower! Just sitting there!
NPC Design: .... they pick up stuff you dropped on the ground that you ignore, and bring it back to you... I'm fucking serious. Go to a guard, stand in front of him and drop some stuff, then run a couple of feet away. He will bring it BACK TO YOU! and THEN kindly tell you to becareful where you leave your stuff!
Overall: By all that is holy, unholy, and otherwise, This game is a MUST CHECK OUT. In all circumstances, Whether you hate TES and love Futuristic, or you hate high-graphic games [they exist, i know a few], Or you just hate the thought of playing as a character running around in realisticly padded armor in the snow, during a blizzard that literally obscures anymore than 5 feet of your friggin sight in front of you. There is even a massively polished stealth-feature [as shown by the fact that NPCs now TRULY have a line of sight.] As well as the fact there is now Witnesses, who must RUN to the Guards to talk to them about your crime, upon which time they run after you. YOU CAN KILL THE WITNESSES! i mean jesus, how much more indepth do you want?!
Only Complaint: When your horse is a mother fucking Clydesdale HE DOESNT GO SLOW! these monstrosities of horses thunder and crush anything in their way, they speed through existence like its nothing more than a fern standing in the way of their head-sized hoof. [though the scale is right, and the fact your horses now hunt down nearby enemies and attack them like a true Warhorse should.]
Overall Overall: I simply love this game. It has blasted my opinions out of the water. Destroyed all pretense of 'amazing' that i thought i had before hand, and replaced with with purified amazing that oozes out of every pore and vessel of this game....
P.S.: Bethesda, I love you more
now if only my dam TV would get fixed so i can play it on an HD screen instead of this dinky ass portovision.......
