I still play Morrowind from time to time. Oblivion had teething troubles, but from the press releases it feels like they heard the complaints are addressed the ones I personally disliked most.
So we will either get
a) Morrowind's engagement level, with graphical improvements and all the increased playability of Oblivian minus the few bad ideas they had plus some interesting new games play abilities about establishing your presence in the game (house, family, stock piles of goodies)
And this will be a true game of the year / game of the decade candidate.
b) they'll remove a the few mistakes from oblivion they identified (good buy conversation pie) but they'll add a whole bunch of anoying poorly thought out systesm, (Hello conversation Pyramid). The added presence establishment will be unfulling. (you can have a family but it doesn't effect game play in any was (Hello fable 3)), building things is a huge grind fest, etc.
In which case it will still be a pretty good game, but bethesda will have not done the IP credit.
I'm guessing it will win game of the year either way from a number of different sites and such, and it is very likely to win RPG of the year from almost everywhere that has that catagory (The fan base is large and even in the worse case it is like to be a very solid RPG)
*EDIT* oh and in the case of A, I think people may still be playing several decades later. But what do I know I still be Hitchhikers Guid to the Galexy from time to time and that is a text based game from back in the really early days of interplay.
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zdgrafyd said:
What is with these Skyrim hype threads? Are all these people secretly working for Bethesda and this is all part of the marketing for the game? And people saying that it will be a great game? Its not even out yet!
I'm sick of all the hype. I think it will be relatively about as good as Oblivion, no revolutionizing the genre no legendary game of the generation. For that reason I think it will be a disappointment for most players, because it will not live up to the superhype its getting.
I won't get it right away, I'll give it several months and see how people who actually play it feel about it and then make my decision.
To answer the question in the title: NO, and there is no way you can possibly make that claim right now when the game is not even out yet and all you know about the game is what you have been told by the marketers (ie. the people whos job it is to make you like the game no matter what)
Yes, everyone works for bethesda.
Or TES is a very popular series that has lots of fansites and wiki and even people who have explored every inch of it including finding the scripts that were partially written but didn't make it in to final cut and either speculated or even tried to recreate the missing missions. And this sequel is 5 years in the making so some of these people who really like the series are a bit excited about the fact that it somes out in 4 days and since they can't play it, they are talking about it.
I think it is the first one.
But as I bought my copy of Skyrim from steam a few weeks back and am just, I could easily be wrong.
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Cowabungaa said:
No.
Ocarina of Time completely revolutionized the Legend of Zelda series. Skyrim will do no such thing. It will however be AWESOME!!!
true, but will you agree that mirrowind did revolutionize the RPG genre?
