Skyrim - Two months later.

[illas]

I'm level 70, am running around in full 2x enchanted and improved Daedric Armour and am wielding a one-handed sword and shield. I have completed:

1) the main quest
2) the thieves guild
3) the companions guild
4) the mages guild
5) the dark brotherhood
6) all the shouts

... and yet I'd still not call it "game of the year". Extraordinary quantity yes, but several other games have superior quality (though are much shorter, for example: Bastion).

... and then there is Dark Souls, which has both. And is extraordinarily deep and difficult and beautiful.

Don't misunderstand me, Skyrim is very good. It's just not great, probably due to the lack of polish ruining immersion - which is the compelling element in most RPGs. It's been an awesome 70 hours so far though, and when the mod toolkits are released, I'll probably invest several more...

 

[Dusk17]

I still hate the character creation system. EVERYONE is hideous, I understand they were trying to make them look rugged but they only succeeded in making everyone look like cavemen.I cant stand to look at my character for more than a minute before I get the urge to say screw it and remake him from scratch hoping I can magically make his face bearable. Also dont get me started on the way the elves look in skyrim. You know something went wrong when you start shopping for helmets to hide your character's face from yourself.

 

[ElectroJosh]

I am loving Skyrim - I sort of stumbled upon the Dark Brotherhood quest by accident (due to the way I was playing the game) and found that to be very cool indeed.

I would rate it above Oblivion vanilla and even Morrow-wind vanilla but maybe behind Fallout NV (which is still my favourite of those sorts of RPGs)

 

[SneeringCanuck]

I'm still really enjoying it, my only gripe is that there's no good major mods out (yet), I was disappointed when I bought it on boxing day and all I could find was nude mods, tweaks and a variety of weeaboo hair/weapon mods.

 

[uzo]

Fun enough.

In dire need of mods though.

Uzo's Mod List For All Fallout/TES Games:

1. Fatality ! Combat must be unforgiving, generally a 1-, 2- or 3-hit affair. Blocking in TES and ducking for cover in Fallout are actually important. Eg - headshots in Fallout are almost always instantly critical. Guns, axes, arrows, and knives HURT.

2. Reality ! Food, drink, sleep, diseases that are actually a problem. Those endless gecko steaks, jugs of wine, nuka colas, cheese wheels, radishes, etc. are actually important now. I played a mod of Fallout 3 where I spent most days in the game simply gathering enough supplies for me to eke out an existence. Couple this with crippling radiation sickness and deciding whether to eat that irradiated mole rat or tuck into your precious CRAM supplies becomes a decision of import. Muttfruit - food of the gods.

3. Fiscality ! I like reactive economy mods. Prices vary based upon demand and supply - walk into town and sell a thousand daedra hearts, and people will get over their appeal pretty quickly. Hell, I just saw a street urchin walking down the street bouncing one.

4. Variety ! The mods like Mart's Mutant Mod etc where you get creatures spawning of various sizes & colours - not every single creature being a clone of its fellows.

 

[Monsterfurby]

I am still waiting for a mod to reliably take spiders out of the game before I buy it. Seems like a cool game, but my desire not to have a panic attack is much stronger than my desire to play it right now.

"lol arachnophobia, youz sucha wuss"-crowd, that's your signal, I suppose.

 

[FaceFaceFace]

I'm on a break due to college. I beat the main quest, the mage's college, and the civil war and I'm like level 49. I plan to eventually get all the shouts and the last dragon priest mask (i have 7). I also barely started an alt who's going to do the dark brotherhood and the thieves guild. So no, I'm not burnt out or dissapointed.

 

[8bitlove2a03]

My single character has 350 hours under his belt, has done all, the major questlines (save for the Dark Brotherhood, because I'm in the process of doing it now), is a thane in each hold, hehas every daedric artifact, has cleared almost every dungeon, has all the words of power unlocked, has maxed every skill (still don't understand why 81.5 is the Max level), has half a million gold....and I'm still playing.

I like this game still.

 

[nothingspringstomind]

Yeah, still playing (second run as a stealthy assassin/thief). I feel really bad because i have 8 games bought over christmas that i still haven't touched. Though thanks to my constant playing; i'm only 3 trophies away from platinum!

 

[nothingspringstomind]

I am still waiting for a mod to reliably take spiders out of the game before I buy it. Seems like a cool game, but my desire not to have a panic attack is much stronger than my desire to play it right now.

"lol arachnophobia, youz sucha wuss"-crowd, that's your signal, I suppose.

Oh, dude, i feel the pain. I don't have arachnophobia, but the ones in Skyrim are DAMN scary!

 

[rapidoud]

Going to start playing it next month, I hear it's not too bad.

 

[Sarpedon]

I am still waiting for a mod to reliably take spiders out of the game before I buy it. Seems like a cool game, but my desire not to have a panic attack is much stronger than my desire to play it right now.

"lol arachnophobia, youz sucha wuss"-crowd, that's your signal, I suppose.

I suffer from the same thing, but the spiders in Skyrim don't frighten much. I use them to exorcise my arachnophobia >!

The ones from Dragon Age almost made me cry, though.

 

[Mallefunction]

I admittedly only started playing about a week ago. So far I like it. It's much more tolerable than Oblivion at least, but it still has the same problem where you can do everything...therefore nothing you do REALLY matters and you get bored after a while and lose focus of what you originally set out to do.

Admittedly, I'll probably play it for a month and then forget all about it. The lore is really the only interesting thing and even then there is too much distance. I can't get emotionally invested in any of these NPCs or their problems.

 

[Mallefunction]

I am still waiting for a mod to reliably take spiders out of the game before I buy it. Seems like a cool game, but my desire not to have a panic attack is much stronger than my desire to play it right now.

"lol arachnophobia, youz sucha wuss"-crowd, that's your signal, I suppose.

Oh, dude, i feel the pain. I don't have arachnophobia, but the ones in Skyrim are DAMN scary!

XD I actually encountered one on the road randomly today. It was eating a deer it had killed. Scared the crap out of me because I didn't expect to see any of them above ground.

 

[Pebkio]

I say now what I said when I first saw it's gameplay in a trailer: It's the product of the gaming industry from a decade ago trying to fit into the new styles of today. It's style of gameplay was big back in 2002, when Morrowind came out. But Oblivion, and especially now Skyrim, just expands graphically on that same system. It doesn't innovate... they didn't evolve the system.

In fact, they just dumbed down on more complicated stuff, like non-combat skills. It really removes the whole role-playing feel and you start to just feel like "the Best Beat-Stick in the Land" running through quests while cool things happen around you.

I gotta say, though, I really like the perk system, now that's evolution. Makng your character randomly do something extreme with a melee weapon is not evolving the genre.

So, yeah, I got bored with it after a while. I still finished the main quest and ended the revolution, though. But since I'm not limited to which factions I can join, there really isn't any replay value.
...Morrowind sure if fun, I replay that occasionally...

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I would've much played something with the feel of Condemned... but with magic. Wait... FusRoDa... and they both were born with the rare ability to shout... and it both took time to recharge the shout... and, for both, it meant that they were were the only ones who could stop a cult...

...could Ethan Thomas, given enough time, learn how to slow time?

 

[Twilight_guy]

It still costs 60$ on Steam so I'm still waiting to buy it... talk to me on the 1 year anniversary, maybe when the 6th game comes out.

 

[kyoodle]

Played around 50 hours (would be more if it weren't for coursework) and I honestly feel like I've hardly scratched the surface, looking forward to going back to it soon.

 

[Mr Dizazta]

I haven't touched the game in a while. I am currently working on a back catalog of games that I started but never finished. During my break from Skyrim, I finished Dead Space 2, Red Dead Redemption, Bioshock(for the first time), and Fallout 3(for the first time after several resets). I am currently working on playing Assassin's Creed II. I got all the way to the last sequence, then my entire save game data was corrupted. I have been backing up that game like crazy because I lost my save game data twice now. After that, I plan on playing Half Life 2(for the first time) then maybe Portal. But seriously, my back catalog is huge. Hopefully I get majority of it done before Mass Effect 3 and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning come out.

 

[Nimzar]

Still playing my first character, a Breton Battlemage-I'm in my mid-40s. I've logged 132 hours according to steam.

Things have gotten rather easy.

0 cost, dual-casted incinerate w/stagger. Nothing stands a chance. Dragons can't attack. Dragon Priests can't attack. Warriors die as they charge at me. I'm wearing Legendary Double Enchanted Dragonscale Armor. I resist 75% of Magic and cast Destruction Spells for free.

 

[Creator002]

I still play it now and again. I plan on redoing the main quest line eventually, but I've got too many side quests at the moment unfinished.
I'm also waiting for the construction kit to make my own houses/dungeons/characters and what not.