Skyrim - Two months later.

[isometry]

Played 120 hours, I have lots of quests left but I'm taking a break. Great game, but for me the long term flaw is on the numbers side - skills, items, difficulty.

I enjoy the game whenever the battles are the right difficulty, but I get bored when they are too hard or too easy. If I start the game on Expert or Master difficulty, there are some tough spots in the early game but soon it ends up too easy. It's mostly a matter of playtesting and fine tuning that could fix this, so I'm hopeful that mods will.

 

[Spitfire-IX]

I still have it installed, but haven't really played it for a while now.

the main quest just finished to soon. just as I was really getting into it. It has made me want to have another crack at Morrowind though.

 

[baconsarnie]

Got it for christmas and only clocked about half an hour (45 mins tops) on it. Stupid january uni exams. The wait should pay off because i can go straight in with useful mods (better UI and framerate) and necessary patches.

 

[DanielBrown]

I played it during every woken moment for a few days, then I had all trophies and didn't feel any need to continue. Went through at least a great majority of all the dungeons though. Had a blast with it, so yes, I'd say it was everything I'd hoped for.
Would've been nice with a little less bug filled game, but with Bethesda you know what you get. Apart from a game breaking glitch on my level 50 character(x.x) I didn't encounter anything too bad. Also felt like the faction quests was very short. I often had the feeling that I joined their secret society, killed the bad guy and then you were named guild master.

Don't care much for the DLC, unless it'll be Shivering Isles-big, but I'd like to see Hammerfell in the next game. My most played race in Oblivion was Redguard, and with Skyrim it seems like they are heavily arabic inspired(I don't care about lore for any game, so I don't really know anything about Tamriel(?)). Could be fun to see how it would look.

 

[an874]

Personally I burned myself out on Skyrim within the first month, and can't bring myself to touch it again now. There was just something it lacked.

Ditto on this. I got to around level 46, and then stopped. I didn't even get that far into the story, I spent most of my time exploring random things that kept cropping up on the horizon. Eventually, after I had taken a long hiatus from it due to college finals, I picked it up and ran into two very long dwemer ruins that I couldn't clear due to glitches (which I confirmed with the elder scrolls wiki) and said, fuck it I've had enough. I was glad to support it, and I had a lot of fun, but it may very well have been too big a game. It's impossible to thoroughly debug and balance something this huge. No game is without a glitch or two, but here, it got more frustrating for me. All the same, whenever the next Elder Scrolls comes out, I'll be happy to support it.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Now that I have a really good feel for the game I can start roleplaying a lot more. There are so many different ways to roleplay in this game and in my opinion they are all going to be fun (currently doing a Ranger-hunter type who lives in the wild 90% of the time).
There is just so much content to keep me busy for probably a few years.

 

[Rad Party God]

Got the game on the 24th of december (amazing Steam sale) and I still don't have a month playing it, I still think it's awesome. I absolutely loved it, just like any Bethesda game. Sorry, but the only thing I like about BioWare is Mass Effect. I'd had a lot more fun playing Bethesda's "boring sandboxes" than BioWare's soap operas.

 

[legend of duty]

I just got it two weeks ago and I love it but i always feel too weak in that game and some skills take a tad too long to level up.

 

[synulia]

Wait, wait, wait. Hold the FUCK UP. After ALL THE HYPE, ALL THE GOTY 2011 declarations, ALL THE MASTERPIECE labels being thrown around, two months later the consensus is that Oblivion was better? After everybody ragged on Oblivion for being so repetitive and generic? People are calling SKYRIM generic? WTF.

 

[A Weary Exile]

The only things on my wishlist for Skyrim that I didn't get:

-Spears and crossbows. ;-;
-Mutually exclusive guilds ex: join the Dark Brotherhood, fight the Companions or something similar.

Other than that? It's fantastic, definite GotY for me. The removal of weapon degradation is a *huge* plus, especially for someone who's as obsessive about keeping things in pristine condition as I am. :s

 

[T8B95]

Wait, wait, wait. Hold the FUCK UP. After ALL THE HYPE, ALL THE GOTY 2011 declarations, ALL THE MASTERPIECE labels being thrown around, two months later the consensus is that Oblivion was better? After everybody ragged on Oblivion for being so repetitive and generic? People are calling SKYRIM generic? WTF.

The only thing that surprises me is that you are surprised. As much as I love the games, I remain firmly convinced that 90% of the Elder Scrolls fanbase just love to ***** about anything.

OT: Still playing it. When they announce Elder Scrolls VI in five years, I'll still be playing it. I think that it's one of the best games I've ever played.

 

[Veylon]

Wait, wait, wait. Hold the FUCK UP. After ALL THE HYPE, ALL THE GOTY 2011 declarations, ALL THE MASTERPIECE labels being thrown around, two months later the consensus is that Oblivion was better? After everybody ragged on Oblivion for being so repetitive and generic? People are calling SKYRIM generic? WTF.

Yep, pretty much. And when Elder Scrolls VI comes out, we'll all reminisce about the good ol' days of Skyrim. Once the nostalgia glasses are firmly in place, even the glitches and terrible AI will be remembered as part of the charm.

 

[Zaik]

I still enjoy playing it while I play it, but it's hard to start playing it now.

I think the biggest issue I have with it is the lack of urgency to do anything at all. I can understand why it 's like that, in Oblivion it seemed like the world was going to blow up any second and you were some sort of irresponsible asshole for stopping to do sidequests before finishing the main storyline. However, skyrim is the complete other extreme. Nobody even needs your help at all, city guards have no trouble handling dragons with minimal casualties, and usually end up doing most of the damage for you unless you're great with a bow. You're just some sort of dragon soul vacuum. Perhaps Skyrim' most powerful maid or something(bonus points for Argonians)?

 

[caladors]

Personally I burned myself out on Skyrim within the first month, and can't bring myself to touch it again now.

Yes I burnt myself out to a degree but it has to be said what burnt me out the most was one thing and one thing alone. BUGS. So I finally saw fit to do the main dragon based quest and I say little more because I don't want to be spoilerific and then I went onto the other main quest Civil war.
I won't bore you with who sided with or what I did just this, I am incapable of finshing the civil war due to bugs. Now there are many other quests I can't finsh due to bugs but this was the proverbial straw. I could take not being able to finsh a number of quests or having some item which I can't drop and do not know to where it goes. That was alright but the straw is this. I admit this a bit meta gaming and very power gamer but I did the thing were I made the best possiable enchantment for alchemy so I could do the best possiable enchanting and so on until I believe I was capped out. Then on one load my potions I made were not as good everything had a flat cap.

They capped how you can make things better before you are able to finsh one of the main story elements. Let this sink in for a little please.
They took time to stop you from having more powerful gear because you spent hours trying to make powerful gear, instead of fixing major bugs.
I am not talking about drop one 3 pound quest item, I am talking about not being able to finsh the second most important and for some the most important element of the game. They took time to make sure you can't be over powered but they didn't fix that major bug.

Let me explain something, if you don't want to be over powered or if you not interested in making the stupidly best gear, you don't have to, you won't constantly die if you didn't it's perk not a necessity. If the player did this it's cause the want to. What that update did was stop enjoyment.
What that bug does is stop enjoyment. I don't know why you play games but I going to hazard a guess and say it's for enjoyment!

 

[Joccaren]

Got to about 200 hours in, decided to fuck it all and rush the main questline so I could say I'd finished playing it, but stop playing it 'cause it is excessively boring. Some variation to it would have helped a lot, as well as having the world both live on around you without your interference, and react to what you do. Its in that awkward place where the world is just static entirely. It does nothing without you interfering, and very little when you do interfere.
Add to that some more interesting combat systems and magic spells, some reasonable graphics (Did they put any effort into the PC version?) Fixes for bugs that really, really shouldn't exist (I can't become Thane of Riften because I visited my new house before talking to the Jarl... The fuck.), some decent difficulty and it would be alright. Personally, it did almost everything wrong in some way or other, and few things right.

Wait, wait, wait. Hold the FUCK UP. After ALL THE HYPE, ALL THE GOTY 2011 declarations, ALL THE MASTERPIECE labels being thrown around, two months later the consensus is that Oblivion was better? After everybody ragged on Oblivion for being so repetitive and generic? People are calling SKYRIM generic? WTF.

I got into an argument with others in a different thread as I didn't think Skyrim deserved to be in even the top 5 of Yahtzees, and agreed with him that it was peer pressure forcing him to put it there, when they all thought it should have been #1. The game is meh. Not great. Its refreshing, but Oblivion was better, and Morrowind was better than that. And yes, Skyrim is very repetitive and somewhat generic too. This is what hype will do to a game.

 

[LobsterFeng]

I'm not going to touch it until they make a patch that fixes all the PS3 problems, if that ever happens.

 

[Joccaren]

They capped how you can make things better before you are able to finsh one of the main story elements. Let this sink in for a little please.
They took time to stop you from having more powerful gear because you spent hours trying to make powerful gear, instead of fixing major bugs.
I am not talking about drop one 3 pound quest item, I am talking about not being able to finsh the second most important and for some the most important element of the game. They took time to make sure you can't be over powered but they didn't fix that major bug.

Let me explain something, if you don't want to be over powered or if you not interested in making the stupidly best gear, you don't have to, you won't constantly die if you didn't it's perk not a necessity. If the player did this it's cause the want to. What that update did was stop enjoyment.
What that bug does is stop enjoyment. I don't know why you play games but I going to hazard a guess and say it's for enjoyment!

That is the main problem with games today, and is even worse with Skyrim. They focus on balance, not fun. Skyrim is worse as while it tries to do balance, it fails miserably at it. You are OP from the second you start out to the second you finish even without enchanting glitches. On normal you are given disadvantages of reduced damage compared to what is advertised on the spells, and higher enemy resistances than normal - or something like that. From memory it was 70% of damage advertised is actually dealt. On Normal. It should be 100%, and you make the damn AI better so that it poses a challenge. Add to that that when you fail that badly at balancing a game, you really should try to fix the blatantly cheating balance issues that are purely for fun, you should fix the balance issues that don't involve cheating so that people have enough fun without cheating - and as you said fix the damn main quest bugs. I couldn't get past Esbern on the MAIN quest as he would finish his speech in 1/2 second and not unlock the door. I had to download a mod to fix that. That is just pathetic. The main quest. Bethesda, get yo shit together.

 

[Random Fella]

After a while the entertainment level did decrease, but if I have nothing to do it will entertain me easily.

 

[zenoaugustus]

I got it on my birthday ( 6th of december) and stop playing it a month later. I got bored , for some reason i found it lacking . I have about 100 hours in at and near the end i just did the main quest because i was sick of it. A little dissapointing seeing as i played oblivion for about 300 hours ( vanilla). I don't know what about it i didn't like though . I think the world was too big and void of action . I can't say for sure though , everything felt so...so... Superficial . Sure it looked nice , but thats about it . Don't get me wrong it's not a bad game , but there was something about it i found lacking. I actually preferee oblivion for some reason.

I concur. I like Oblivion more except for the combat. Skyrim's melee combat is far superior, in my opinion at least. But yeah, I feel Oblivion has a little more substance to it. Not to dock Skyrim. I've enjoyed the 150 hours I've played.

 

[Nydestroyer]

Still playing still loving did take a small break from it to finish AC:R (btw dont go from skyrim to an asscreed game I got pissed at the different stealth idk why not a good game to game transition for me lol) Sure it lacks some oblivian features I loved but still a great game. Each moment you play it all be it bland in some aspects you get this story to tell to other people who play skyrim XD