Skyrim = Overhyped?

[silasbufu]

For me , Skyrim took the "hype" , kicked it in the balls , hit it with a showel, ran it over with a truck and then pissed on it's face.


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It sure did beat the hype..

I'm loving this game and I really don't care about what others say ( especially when so many people are hating on a popular game just to be on the other side of the fence, where the "cool" people are )

 

[jessegeek]

Wow, everybody needs to chill out and feel the love a bit here.

OP: yes, the grammar was really poor, but (and this coming from a total spelling, punctuation and grammar Nazi) it's not the end of the world. The post was intelligible and therefore the OP got his or her point across.

Secondly, I think the OP did raise a valid point. The fanboy threads, and the constant ads, really made me get over my excitement for this literally weeks before its release. Consequently, despite being an RPG fan, I have not bought the game, and am instead happily toddling around Arkham City.

Also, can we nip this "if you hate Skyrim you hate all RPGs" thing in the bud right now? I love RPGs- hell, I even play tabletop D&D and customise my own figures- but I've been growing weary of the Elder Scrolls series myself. The static NPCs is a real immersion issue for a start, and according to the review on this very website that hasn't changed. Also, just as a general point, isn't the pseudo-medieval-England setting getting a bit freakin' old now? I mean, there are a million and one historical settings that a magical lore (and maybe even technology!) could be woven into, and it just feels really bizarre that the vast majority of the Western RPG franchises are still slavishly trying to ape Tolkien's world. What happened to the rich cultural legacies of Greece, Egypt and Central Africa (to name but 3)? Don't they get to be used as RPG inspiration?

 

[killer12480]

To stop you people bringing up the arguement I was in earlier, I have changed all my related posts to "I've removed this comment." Now please leave me alone and talk about the game. I'll start......here.....now.......yeah....

I've only played about 2 minutes of this game at my boyfriends house, but it was AWESOME! I have been a huge fan of The Elder Scrolls, and have all four other games (Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion) on my computer still! I really want to watch some of the videos on youtube like the Let's Play or funny moments and such.

But NO! I will wait until Christmas to play it. I don't really consider spending 2 minutes misjudging my bf character's health, being eaten by wolves, or roasted by dragons to constitute as having played the game. But I'm confident I will love it to death!

I do not thing it has been OverHyped. I think it deserves all the praise it has gotten and then some. Let's just say, once I get this game, I will never leave my room again.

EVER!!!

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Oh yes, it is most definitely overhyped. Bethesda is as Peter Molyneux as you can get without actually involving Peter Molyneux.

Their trailers = Overglorified parades of orchestral bands and banner squires.
Their actual products = Roach motel-level of bugs and shit AI. Gameplay and plot vary between each.

 

[emptyother]

Cant say i noticed its pre-launch hype. But theres bound to be a "awesome" effect when you put Vikings and Dragons into a game.

But it definitly deserved the post-launch hype it got. I didn't think they would be able to make me feel like i felt when playing Morrowind for the first time.. The freedom. The awesome sights. The lore and the world. Epic.

Though they could have done a little more work on the companions.. They are too silent, and dont have any story, quest or personality.

 

[Blandman]

I don't know about anyone else, but I keep forgetting that dragons can pop-up (or down as it were) at any moment, thereby causing me much surprise/terror every time I hear them and momentarily think "What the crap was that?" This somehow makes it consistently fun, as I'm not always on edge about dragons. I get relaxed. Content. Then BAMWTFFIREBALLINMYFACE.

Also:

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

Not sure if anyone's replied but I'ma do it anyway. Horses in Skyrim are meant to be slower (as a loading screen once told me) but apparently balance it out with more endurance. I can't say since I still haven't ridden a horse (20+ hours of gameplay and no horse? I know right), but loading screens have never lied to me before.

Lastly, I have nothing to say on the actual topic. I just felt left out.

 

[Jzolr0708]

In my opinion, Skyrim is fantastic. To be honest, I hated Oblivion; it was clunky, the entire land was just one flat fast travel map, there were so many skills you had no idea what to pick, so many spells when you only used about 3, over complicated weapons system, and a main quest that was nearly impossible to follow. In addition, I found the setting to be just a bit too... well, medieval. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the Medieval setting, but it just was way too much for me.

Friday morning, I met up with a friend of mine, a hard core Elder Scrolls fan, to try it out. 3 hours later I was at GameStop getting my own copy. Skyrim mixes a tight and tuned interface with a handful of useful, unique spells, an incredible story, and scenery and environmental actions that will blow you away. To me, Skyrim is the Dungeons and Dragons version of Bioshock.

 

[killer12480]

Oh yes, it is most definitely overhyped. Bethesda is as Peter Molyneux as you can get without actually involving Peter Molyneux.

Their trailers = Overglorified parades of orchestral bands and banner squires.
Their actual products = Roach motel-level of bugs and shit AI. Gameplay and plot vary between each.

While the "shit" aspect may be a little harsh, I can't say you're wrong. The Elder Scrolls series has had a lot of trouble with AI, from stopping a fight to have a nice chat to getting stuck in a wall.

But I'm not sure it's really the AI in Bethesda games in general. And the Peter Molyneux thing....Did you just quote Yahtzee? I did once, and only once. I suggest you do the same because no one is going to want to here people quote a man who says mean things for a living. Not a threat or anything, just a helpful suggestion.

Also, I found their trailers to have just enough glory to border on the FANTASTIC!!!

 

[Rawne1980]

Not sure if anyone's replied but I'ma do it anyway. Horses in Skyrim are meant to be slower (as a loading screen once told me) but apparently balance it out with more endurance. I can't say since I still haven't ridden a horse (20+ hours of gameplay and no horse? I know right), but loading screens have never lied to me before.

Lastly, I have nothing to say on the actual topic. I just felt left out.

I saw the loading screen but it still feels ... wrong ... when i'm riding.

I did the Dark Brotherhood chain and got Shadowmere (I missed that horse, he was my favourite in Oblivion, it's nice to get him back) and he goes really slowly.

I mean, these buggers are so slow if they went any slower they would be going in reverse.

It's all well and good replacing speed with stamina but I shit you not, your character outruns the horses. All mobs outrun the horses. I used it a couple of times and haven't bothered since. It's faster on foot with stamina potions.

Seriously, buy a horse or wait until you get one then tell me they don't feel *slow and clunky*.

They look better than the ones in Oblivion when riding but feel like they have 3 broken logs and are hopping along on their last good one.

Thats one of my only complaints with the game though, everything else has been amazing.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

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 think I've managed to translate his dialect. I will respond to his concerns as I have interpreted them

Seriously, dude? Of COURSE it's overhyped. That's part of the fun for us Elder Scrolls fanboys. We just spent the last week solid with 20 new skyrim threads a day, and it was called the second coming of christ at LEAST once per thread. If you believe the hype, you haven't learned yet. You gotta just have fun with it.

And really, you need to learn to type. That was way too difficult to read

 

[Blandman]

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Wait...are you telling me that the loading screen lied? It'll rue the day!

But yeah, from videos I've seen of them they did look a bit sluggish, but I had assumed that they'd actually "feel" faster than they looked. A shame to know they don't (didn't know that Shadowmere was back in it though. I guess we can put his slowness down to being 200+ years old).

Guess I'll stick to foot-slugging like a trooper.

 

[killer12480]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMKJ9fDM2mo&feature=BFa&list=FL1xZQyzJKTWFb-LgzugaZgw&lf=plpp_video

WIN WIN WIN SKYRIM FTW EPIC AWESOMENESS BLAH!

 

[jopomeister]

Personally, judging by the quoted persons spelling, they do not seem like the kind of person who would enjoy anything like Skyrim, who would probably benefit more from the mindless shoot 'em up that is MW3 or something...

 

[sumanoskae]

It's delivered on most people's expectations, and surpassed many of them.

Overhyped, it was not. Just isn't your thing.

This. It's so good I'm actually having trouble judging it.

 

[DalekJaas]

It is the best game I have ever played.

 

[Grey_Focks]

blah blah, everything is technically overhyped, but just because you don't like it means everyone doesn't like it. In fact, everyone I've talked to IRL is loving it.

Seriously, other than the occasional bug or crash, It's pretty damn amazing. Seems to be quite a bit more emphasis on "massive awesome epic moments", and I guess I could see why some people might not like that, defending your favorite village from a random dragon just feels great, as you slay it the villagers gather round and cheer for you...feels good.

And screw it, I love the new leveling system. No more people tediously min-maxing levels so that they got the 5x multiplayer for their attributes, which was a pretty shitty system to begin with. Honestly, other than the possible exception of random crits (and even those are starting to grow on me), I love all of the actual gameplay changes they've implemented. Hell, even the regenerating health doesn't bother me, since it really has little/no impact on fights, and just keeps you from having to spam heals spells after every encounter. All good.

 

[thirion1850]

Did he actually get reported -and- punished for stating his opinion? Holy sh-

 

[elilupe]

Not at all, in my opinion it is a worthy sequel to Oblivion. The only thing that disappoints me is the in-game map. I have come to hate it so very much. It's hard to know where things are, you can't see roads, the clouds obscure things, you can't get a normal overhead view, only that sideways, annoyingly not-quite-overhead view, and it looks painfully low-poly.
/rant

Besides that, I love the game to bits, and I know I will get very much play time out of it.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Yes. Of course I've learned to filter over-hyped sugar monkeys railing about games that will be forgotten or of average renown in a few months.

 

[Slayer_2]

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.

It's crap to me. The italicized bit is implied in a post that is 100% subjective to my tastes and in a sentence that is started with "I think". It is an opinion, too few people these days can tell the difference between an opinion and fact, and just assume that their opinion IS fact, which is both arrogant and stupid.