Honestly, for a buggy unbalanced game like this where killing chickens can get you in prison or a single mutt can clear an entire giant camp and all the mammoths, dealing with the dragons in this game has to take the cake in bad designs. Now I'm not here to say I hate Skyrim, I've been loving this game and obsessed over it (when I should have more focus on my college finals) as any of you here, but when it comes to probably the most important themes of this game, fighting dragons, I feel pretty let down with what we have here.
Now tell me if this hasn't been your experience. A dragon appears, you quick select all the necessary items for the fight, but then the dragon lifts off and flies around in circles causing havoc and attracting every NPC in a five mile radius. You begin the chase after the dragon to do your dragon slaying Dragonborne thing but every time you get close it lifts off again paying hardly any attention towards you even when you've managed to do enough substantial damage to hold its aggro.
Now this isn't even the retardED part of these encounters, what really pisses me off that even on Master difficulty when you're still able to manipulate the dragon's line of fire (which just consist of getting behind a wall and taking cover) to beat one, you notice you don't even need to lay a hand on the damn animal since half the level has now been aggroed by the dragon and are just as convicted to killing it as you are. Really you don't need to do a damn thing, just let the stupid animal attract all the attention and then get zerged to death as you're eventually hailed for its defeat.
One of the most important encounters of the game, and you can beat it during a bathroom brake. And as the title to my topic insist, the dragons in Skyrim are just idiots. Now if a dragon could handle all the chaos its so easily capable of stirring, I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it. But the dragons in this game aren't, a single mammoth or giant could hand a dragon its ass and have time to one shot you while you run up to its corpse and try to loot it. Three guards could take on a dragon alone, with some weaker dragons hiding in a hole and letting your horse do all the work can also end up paying off, and let's not mention how broken the game gets when you have Barbas the immortal mutt around.../facepalm
Well, I don't know, I think I'm about done bitching about this for now. What do you guys think?
Oh and one final comment, fuck the dragons, this game should be about slaying Necro/Pyromancer and their godly unbalanced one shot kill from a mile away dishing asses.
Now tell me if this hasn't been your experience. A dragon appears, you quick select all the necessary items for the fight, but then the dragon lifts off and flies around in circles causing havoc and attracting every NPC in a five mile radius. You begin the chase after the dragon to do your dragon slaying Dragonborne thing but every time you get close it lifts off again paying hardly any attention towards you even when you've managed to do enough substantial damage to hold its aggro.
Now this isn't even the retardED part of these encounters, what really pisses me off that even on Master difficulty when you're still able to manipulate the dragon's line of fire (which just consist of getting behind a wall and taking cover) to beat one, you notice you don't even need to lay a hand on the damn animal since half the level has now been aggroed by the dragon and are just as convicted to killing it as you are. Really you don't need to do a damn thing, just let the stupid animal attract all the attention and then get zerged to death as you're eventually hailed for its defeat.
One of the most important encounters of the game, and you can beat it during a bathroom brake. And as the title to my topic insist, the dragons in Skyrim are just idiots. Now if a dragon could handle all the chaos its so easily capable of stirring, I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it. But the dragons in this game aren't, a single mammoth or giant could hand a dragon its ass and have time to one shot you while you run up to its corpse and try to loot it. Three guards could take on a dragon alone, with some weaker dragons hiding in a hole and letting your horse do all the work can also end up paying off, and let's not mention how broken the game gets when you have Barbas the immortal mutt around.../facepalm
Well, I don't know, I think I'm about done bitching about this for now. What do you guys think?
Oh and one final comment, fuck the dragons, this game should be about slaying Necro/Pyromancer and their godly unbalanced one shot kill from a mile away dishing asses.