Skyrim = Overhyped?

[ItsAChiaotzu]

First off, please don't adress me so ambiguously. I'm not a dude, I'm a girl. I am not mad at you for that, however. I'm merely stating it for future reference. And also, how exactly is my grammer not very good? No, I'm not a college graduate majoring in the English language, but my grammar is, as far as I know, perfect. Or at least close to perfect. I do tend to drag some sentences out a bit, but that's just the way I type. My brutallity stems from the fact that I would sell everything I own to get my hands on anything Elder Scrolls related. I could have been a lot meaner, but I used self-control. And to quote your response: "Chill out, dude, or your stay on this website won't last a lot longer..." Excuse me, but is that a threat? Am I expected to fear you and run away soiling myself and begging forgiveness? As Yahtzee said, HARDY HARDY HAR......

I'm bored so here's some stuff.

Only people who haven't been here for very long quote Yahtzee, after a while you're gonna realise you sound like an annoying fangirl.

Furthermore, you got probated for that post, so lets call it friendly advice more than a threat.

Also, you massively overreacted to what I can only assume was a trolling post to begin with, that is, one that is deliberately designed and structured to bring out barely coherent, frothing at the mouth, childish anger.

Finally, because you seem so pre-occupied with grammar and spelling, brutality*

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

Hype is the product of over-excitable fans, if you felt it was undeserved then you should maybe occasionally take a cynical view of things, and not come complaining to us that BethSoft "made" you too excited for a game.

 

[Jacob Haggarty]

Personally, it's delivered everything i was hoping for and more. I won't say it's PERFECT, i recently realised that they bragged on and on about how equiping something to each hand lends so much more creativity to how you play the game. Not so. This only seems to apply to spell casting. It in fact REDUCES from oblivion, where in which you could have THREE things equiped (sword/axe, shield AND a spell) which was very handy in a tight spot because you didnt have to pause, menu, unequip, equip... etc.

And hotkeys... i miss hotkeys. Although im not ENTIRELY sure if they aren't in skyrim and i just havn't realised.

It's also a bit easier than oblivion. Ive already made it to level 12, a feat that in oblivion would have taken at least an entire day of solid grinding. As well as this, the leveling seems very random; i have managed to get to about 34 (or something) in the lockpicking skill tree, and i can count the amount of locks ive opened in two hands... and a foot maybe. BUT, ive had heavy armour on from the word go, and THAT skill is only at 27 (or something).

Those are my only two (or three) gripes with it, but theyre dwemered (dwarfed, GET IT! i think i spelled it wrong) by the things that make it such a good game. I can now say ive found a game that is stunningly beautiful. The first time i saw the auroura borealis, i was still for about 2 minutes... before i got savaged by wolves. It was so unexpected and so good looking.

IN MY OPINION LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

 

[Keava]

Every single AAA title is overhyped. That's the reality. That's what hyping is about. That's what marketing is about. To make a product seem better than it is.

As for Skyrim itself - it suffers from plenty of technical issues but the gameplay seems solid enough to make it enjoyable after the modding community get's their toys eventually and fixes all those silly design decisions and shortcomings.

That's how Bethesda's RPGs work... they get better with time because smart, bored people, fix stuff at their homes and share it with the rest of us, lazy bastards.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

I've been enjoying it immensely. I was worried that it would be a little too generic like Oblivion (as compared to Morrowind, which, while mechanically inferior, had a much more compelling story and setting to my mind).

Thankfully, I was wrong. The hype was apparently deserved. It's a great step up from previous TES games in terms of mechanics and the setting, tone, and story are back up to the quality I was hoping for. I especially like the return of more mature explorations of imperialism and its implications. That was always one of my favorite parts of Morrowind.

Last night, I walked into the mage's college to find a dragon circling above - half of the college came out to help fight it, it died very quickly, then two of them encouraged me to drink it's soul. After the fight, they all gathered around the skeleton and discussed how they couldn't have believed the dragons were really back, but now they've seen one. Things like this have happened a few times in different places now and show what a great job they did with the NPC reactions this time around.

And then I got to the quest that takes you through Blackreach. Holy fuck.

Edit: They're right that you have to put some time into it though. The mechanics mean that you start out as something of a jack-of-all-trades, so it takes time to chisel out a character concept. Also, the idea of a slow, somewhat peaceful beginning period (sometimes following an actiony sort of cold open) is sort of par for the course in RPGs. And it's not at all a bad idea - it gives you something to compare yourself to after your meteoric rise to power.

 

[killer12480]

I've removed this comment.

 

[Klagermeister]

I'd say it took Morrowind and Oblivion, removed the crap from both, and that's how Skyrim was born.

It has a great storyline, engaging combat, beautiful scenery, and its skills are user friendly.

It deserved the hype.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

Personally, it's delivered everything i was hoping for and more. I won't say it's PERFECT, i recently realised that they bragged on and on about how equiping something to each hand lends so much more creativity to how you play the game. Not so. This only seems to apply to spell casting. It in fact REDUCES from oblivion, where in which you could have THREE things equiped (sword/axe, shield AND a spell) which was very handy in a tight spot because you didnt have to pause, menu, unequip, equip... etc.

And hotkeys... i miss hotkeys. Although im not ENTIRELY sure if they aren't in skyrim and i just havn't realised.

It's also a bit easier than oblivion. Ive already made it to level 12, a feat that in oblivion would have taken at least an entire day of solid grinding. As well as this, the leveling seems very random; i have managed to get to about 34 (or something) in the lockpicking skill tree, and i can count the amount of locks ive opened in two hands... and a foot maybe. BUT, ive had heavy armour on from the word go, and THAT skill is only at 27 (or something).

Those are my only two (or three) gripes with it, but theyre dwemered (dwarfed, GET IT! i think i spelled it wrong) by the things that make it such a good game. I can now say ive found a game that is stunningly beautiful. The first time i saw the auroura borealis, i was still for about 2 minutes... before i got savaged by wolves. It was so unexpected and so good looking.

IN MY OPINION LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

The hotkeys are very well hidden. You press F in the menu to set an item or spell as a favorite. Then you press Q to bring up favorites. While you're in the favorites menu, you can press any number while hovering over an item to set it as to that key. The only real problem I've seen is that there's no good way to use this system to equip two weapons unless they're they're stackable (you're dual-wielding the same type of weapon). With spells, you can just get whatever you want into your right hand by pressing the hotkey twice, and then pressing whatever you want in your left hand once.

 

[MetalMagpie]

I personally didn't think it was over-hyped. All the promotion I saw for it was the same cinematic trailer played ad-infinitum on gaming sites like this. No gameplay footage. No story teasers. Nothing to promote the game at all beyond saying it existed!

It felt like a game that was marketed purely to fans of the series, without any attempt to hook possible newcomers.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

To me and about 99% of the people who've gotten this game and had a decent idea of what they were getting into, no, it's not overhyped.

It passed my expectations with the combat actually being good. It's the very definition of how streamlining a game can actually make it better.

 

[Lejsen]

Underhyped if anything, i've been hurt by overhyped games in the past and have always been skeptic of exciting new games, but Skyrim has simply just blown me away.

 

[Luke3184]

I was casually wandering along a river side, when I hear a raw up above me. Pulling up my bow I scanned the sky behind me looking for the dragon only to turn back round just as it thumped to the ground beside me. I was like level 5 so I turned my ass around and fled, it's frost breath on my heels. I thought I was going to die when around the corner came a guard patrol who immediately rushed the dragon. I took the opportunity to hide behind a rock and heal myself in the most hero like fashion I could whilst the guards agrod the dragon. I then spent the next five minutes diving from rock to rock avoiding the ice breath and shooting the dragon out of the sky so the guards could attack it. Gradually the guards died one by one, until it was just me facing down the injured dragon. By this point its wing were crippled so I fired up both my hands and blasted it. However I ran out of mana before it ran out of life and ended up diving off of a massive cliff into the river below, it followed me down bashing its head on one of the outcrops taking away the last chunk of life it had.

This was unscripted, how something that has this as a random event be over hyped?

 

[pulse2]

In though MW3 was overhyped and only delivered what I knew it was going to deliver anyway, but that didn't stop it being the best seller of all time and stuff

 

[BiggyShackleton]

Christ, this thread trolled a lot of people. The OP hasn't responded once, just left everyone to shout at each other and post pictures of Crysis.

 

[Tharwen]

Yes. Very much so. It's Oblivion with better graphics and better magic combat. Nothing else is really improved IMO.

But what about the larger repertoire of actors? The more detailed and individual settlements? The sprint button?

 

[Faladorian]

Skyrim....

I dint like it... Dont get me worng i play it and found it decent but noffing special. Its overhyped in my opinon.

And before you sods out there start russing trypeing things like

''Dont juge the game before the 20 hour mark'' or somting like that its worth rembering that i can in 3 hours playing somting like Castlevaina OOC and enyoing my self vile i play skyrim for 3 hoursand found it lacking

Am i the only one who see that this game is burtalishly OverHyped?

I love Skyrim, I think it's fun as hell, and I had a pretty good idea it was going to be good before I got it.

However, I wasn't pissing my pants waiting to get it. All games are overhyped, and Skyrim is no exception.

Also, if you don't like it, you don't like it. The only person it could possibly hurt is you, for losing $60. Even then, you could probably return it if you wanted to lol xD


I don't see the point of people being mad that the audience for a game they like is not "the entire world."

 

[Ubermetalhed]

If you did't like Skyrim, well, what can I say, you are a person who hates RPG's then. I bid you farewell, and may our paths never cross on these forums.

I love RPG's and even I can say that Skyrim is both over-rated and was over-hyped. Not to say it's terrible, it's still pretty fun. Just immensely underwhelming.

 

[erto101]

Over hyped?

Not a chance....

If Skyrim was a woman i'd be leaving my wife and it would be having my babies.

If I was a woman i'd be having Skyrims babies.

I have no idea where these bugs are I keep hearing about, i've not encountered any.

Graphics look great on my PC, Controls are smooth enough and easy to use (I love you, favourites button), the UI is a lot better than Oblivions (only a compass on the screen so it's less intrusive as well), the quests are better (still some mundane ones but i've been going for over 30 hours on side quests alone i've barely scratched the main quest line).

I only have 2 issues 1 with the horses and 1 with crafting.

The horses just seem .... slower, to me. I think i'll have to mod myself in a new faster mount at some point.

The upgrades on weapons and gear don't make them look any better. They have the same look no matter if the are basic or exquisite ... makes no sense.

One of the loading screen tips said that the horses of Skyrim made up for their lack of speed with endurance. So I guess they're supposed to be slower?
I've also spend close to 30 hours on side quests, mainly the Dark Brotherhood and the Theives Guild. ohh, how I love it.
Also, I'm a friggin werewolf!!

 

[Laxman9292]

Wow. This is just sad. I think you people need to calm down. I've already explained my first post, and it seems I need to explain a bit more. I am not a raging child. I am an 18-year-old High School Graduate with a 3.7 GPA. IRookieI, my grammar is a hell of a lot better than yours. Also, I was not talking to you, so you had no reason to respond other than the fact that you're a complete troll. Take a look at some of the other forums. There are people who have said much worse things, and yet you're all calling me out? Just sad. I can post whatever I please. It's not a crime to put several exclamation marks together. And I have heard of paragraphs. But if I'm simply ranting on a forum, I do not feel the need to use them. A rant is a continuous stream of words and ideas and does not need to be structured correctly. I already went back and corrected my mistakes, yet you called them out for no reason. But I think I'm going to stop soon, seeing as this may "offend" you more than it already has. This is a website. It has almost no affect on the real world, meaning I have no fear of being reported. And I find it ridiculous that I could be banned for speaking my mind. So, if it will calm you down, "I'm sorry." Now stop calling me out and talk about The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

But see? There is your problem, you weren't talking about Skyrim either or responding to OP's post. You just attacked his grammar and added fuck all to the discussion other than the fact that you know how to use grammar, which is an ad hominem logical fallacy (some people can be just as smart, if not smarter than you, even on the internet. So watch out when you try to act like a genius). Congratulations but it really isn't that impressive. I would have been more impressed if you put together a coherent post about why you don't think Skyrim was overhyped, you know, the kind of discussion the OP was trying to initiate. Now I just think you're a douche, which is what most people will think too. Be a little more respectful and always, always, ALWAYS! Address the topic.

OT: I haven't gotten the game yet because I'm a poor college kid so I'll be waiting a while unfortunately until I start working over break... But I fully expect to be blown away, which I guess is getting hyped, but then again I felt that way since they announced that Skyrim was even a thing.

P.S. You're only here at the pleasure of the mods and community and if you aren't respectful of the community then you don't belong here.

 

[crepesack]

I think Skyrim is crap. I loved Fallout 3, and this is more or less the same engine and play style, but this fantasy crap just ruins the game for me. However, this game has more fanboys than Call of Duty, and they are far more rabid. I hope you donned a flame-resistant suit prior to writing your post.

The game isn't crap. You just don't like fantasy. I don't see what you're getting at. That's like saying the Discworld series is crap because you don't like the color purplish-green.