Poll: So... did Skyrim meet your personal expectations?

[gim73]

This game blows my mind. It's great. I loved Morrowind, was kinda bummed by Oblivion, and Skyrim makes it all better. Here are some examples of greatness:

I really enjoy the finishing move flourishes you do, such as chopping out enemy legs and smacking them down with your axe, roundhouse slashes with 2 one handed swords or wicked stabs all the way through and throwing them off your weapon. I thought it was cool until I got too close to the dragon I was fighting with my mage and got below a quarter health... It grabbed me in it's mouth, shook it's head back and forth, and then THREW ME off the mountain. I was laughing the whole time. Then I reloaded and killed that sucker with FIRE!!!

Don't mess with Giants in packs. They have an annoying habit of bouncing you off the dirt. I got one pissed at me and chasing me across the plains when a mudcrab started a fight with the giant. Giant turns around and punts the mudcrab. Mudcrab goes into orbit. Seriously! I would say it's a glitch, one time only, but I reloaded and THE SAME THING HAPPENED!!! Mudcrabs in space. They are out there!

Experience varies by race and play style. Playing as an orc character I was invited into an orc stronghold just before a dragon attacked that stronghold. Later as my Dark Elf mage I went to the same stronghold and needed to do a quest to get in, and no dragon (because most dragon city attacks are random). Conversations are different depending on race and play style. I disenchanted my robes once and walked around until somebody said 'oh my gosh, you are naked!'. Every day is a new experience.

Horses have 4 wheel drive. Grab a horse and climb a mountain. It might be a glitch, but you can seriously walk up almost any slope without a problem. The maximum slope that a horse can climb is several degrees greater than what you can climb up. It's probably a glitch that will be fixed soon, but exploit it while you can. Lots of words are hanging out at the top of skyrims mountains, but beware for most are guarded by dragons and worse.

 

[RedDeadFred]

This is the greatest RPG I've ever played. Seriously.

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Yup.
Fully agree.
Battles with dragons are the most epic thing I have ever done in a video game.
Just to hear them shouting at you and knowing that you can get those abilities too is so awesome.

 

[distortedreality]

I knew it was going to be a good game, i'm a fan of the series, but I struggle to turn it off.

I'm in the same boat. In the past week I've got a number of new toys to play with (including MW3, a new guitar, Reason 6 and a few other things) and I haven't touched them since I started Skyrim. I think I'm going to put off getting SR3 and LA Noire, because I know I probably wouldn't touch them for a month or so.

 

[Dorano]

I've only been able to put about 8 hours or so into it because I've been working but it plays amazing and I'm always looking forward to travelling to my next destination. There's so much to do and explore that I'm rarely quick-travelling just because I want to see what'll happen while I hoof it. This game met my expectations in every way.

 

[Zeh Don]

This is basically the greatest game ever made.

 

[Tyrant T100]

Much better than I expected, I expected Oblivion that played better and was slightly more interesting. Instead we got an Elder Scrolls that feels like a true sequel to Morrowind.

 

[AlternatePFG]

I expected an Oblivion that was actually fun to play. It did not disappoint.

Past that? Meh.

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

Too consoleish (with the controls - menus specifically), and you can't kill kids.

I refuse to play it until at least the latter of these issues are fixed - either by removing all children, or allowing them killed. Ruins the entire gaming immersion imo, what if you choose to be part of the black hand? You're still to squeamish to kiww the poow widdwe kiddies? pfft Please.

 

[CobraX]

It's a top notch RPG, nuff' said.

 

[Crazycat690]

I had low expectations, then I saw the shitty graphics and they lowered them even more... Then I got to actually playing and was blown away, I was a non-believer, now I'm a believer! Halleluja

 

[Anthan]

I don't really know what my expectations were before so it's difficult to answer.
I thought it looked like the top end of the RPG section but never really bothered with it until everyone I was subbed to on YouTube uploaded it.

Right now I do think it is an amazing piece of work and that's from someone who thinks all single player games are a waste.

 

[Sewer Rat]

While I still find the game awesome, it could have had a few more RPG elements. It is still a great game, just can't help but feel that they should have stuck to the Blunt - Bladed weapon groups rather than the one-handed - two handed groups, and I can't help but miss some of the old voice actors to be honest... I really hope they make cameos at some point, like a wood elf with weird hair walks over to check out a dead dragon and shouts "By Azura! By Azura! By Azura!" Still though, these are minor gripes at most, I still love the game.

 

[alimarin]

I love the game so far. I cheatz0r my ass off because I like to play how I want. I may play legit eventually.

Protected Riverwood from a frost dragon...brought it down on the street, crowd gathered around to look at the carcass and cheered for me. Best moment in a game ever...except for the final assault on the arch demon in DA:0 possibly.

Now if someone would just tell me how to fix this damned memory leak so that i don't have to restart the game every 30 minutes.

By the way, for those of you having huge issues with performance after playing for around 30-45 minutes, disable shadows completely, they bog down the CPU a ton. Bethesda decided to port shadows using the CPU instead of the GPU to the PC, since consoles had weak GPU's they assigned the shadow rendering to the CPU, so unless your processor godly, you are going to have a big performance hit on shadows if you play them on ultra, or your own configured settings.

Here is how you do that:
1)go to: C:\Users\(Name)\Documents\My Games\Skyrim (For Windows 7 / Vista users)
2)Open SkyrimPrefs.ini and change the following values to said number:
fShadowDistance=0.0000
fInteriorShadowDistance=0.0000
fShadowLODStartFade=0.0000
bDrawShadows=0

The game still looks great, I will upload a pic or two to show you:

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[Casual Shinji]

It took a while for me to really get invested in the world, and to find my character's place in it.

But I'm absolutely loving it now.

I just hope Bethesda brings out a patch that makes your companions catch up with you a bit better, because they really drag their ass on those long treks.

 

[DaJoW]

My expectations weren't that huge, but it was a lot better than that at least The crashes are really annoying though, just crashing to desktop every now and then for no apparant reason.

 

[Nazulu]

Haven't really achieved much in the game yet, but at the moment I like it. Give me about a week, then I can probably give you a proper answer.

 

[A.A.K]

I was hoping to be blown away...and I was...so yea?

 

[Neonit]

i love the gameplay, i think immersion has been improved, but im a tad bit disappointed by some .... well, lazy and stupid bugs that could be fixed by just taking enough time to test it. but yeah, its about what i expected, and im waiting for mod scene to really kick it in so we can see how much skyrim can become. i already have a few ideas for mods, which is why im angry that there is no cs yet.

also, dragons are awesome - that is all.

 

[Weslebear]

So should I get this game? I feel like starting another Skyrim thread will get me hung from a tree

Question: Did you like Oblivion? This game is very similar to Oblivion. Imagine a streamlined version of Oblivion with more polished combat, better graphics, better voice acting, and a new setting. Does that appeal to you?

Outsider quetion: I enjoyed Oblivion a lot, but the main thing I disliked about it was that most of the quests were bland and uninteresting. There were a few stand outs, sure, espescially in the guilds, but more than half felt like filler. Does Skyrim address this issue?

So far every single quest I have been on has either led to me finding something unrelated but amazing on my way there or has actually been an amazing quest, I mean I went out to find someone's lost dog and ended up on a quest to literally the complete other side of the map for a Daedric prince, with a talking dog. And that was the same fucking quest.

Or joining up with just a standard guild, and now I'm a werewolf. Everything has been just crazy.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

It took a while for me to really get invested in the world, and to find my character's place in it.

But I'm absolutely loving it now.

Exactly this with me. I felt I was wandering around kinda aimlessly, enjoying it but not all there. And then yesterday it clicked when I joined the Wizard College. It's mind-boggling how much there is to do, and how different it can be with a different character build!

I got it as a kind of impulse buy, because it was the most attractive of all the games coming out this November. And I'd already pre-ordered Skyward Sword.