The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Review
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My theory:Cleril said:
Skyrim is the first province of Tamriel occupied by humanoids, right? So the dragons saw fit to begin the extermination of humans at the very heart of their beginning. Having been around so long, the humanoids here have lived long past due.
I mean, it's a simple theory, but if you ask me, it works. Plus, Alduin is said to create and destroy all of Nirn from the Throat of the World (The biggest mountain in- you guessed it- Skyrim). Therefore, it only seems fitting that he destroy everything immediately adjacent his place of- how would I put this- coming to existence?
Welcome to Skyrim....sorry....Sky Rum
We have 780180472592 lines of dialogue more than Fallout 3!!!
Sadly delivered by 4 people. Seriously its been a few towns now and the same bloody voices. For a company thats all about immersion they know how to completely shatter that dont they and alongside having TERRIBLE animation on character and those bloody awful shaking shadows as the day goes on.
Surely someone in development when "Hey...those shadows are a bit annoying", "lol what? your playing the game we make?"
And one thing thats bugging the absolute balls off me is....No quick spell like Oblivion. I have to put all weapons away...cast spell....get weapons back out. Tedious and mind numbingly boring. You find yourself playing on Very Easy so you have to do this less.
GODDAMN BETHESDA TEST YOUR FUN FACTOR PLEASE!!!
We have 780180472592 lines of dialogue more than Fallout 3!!!
Sadly delivered by 4 people. Seriously its been a few towns now and the same bloody voices. For a company thats all about immersion they know how to completely shatter that dont they and alongside having TERRIBLE animation on character and those bloody awful shaking shadows as the day goes on.
Surely someone in development when "Hey...those shadows are a bit annoying", "lol what? your playing the game we make?"
And one thing thats bugging the absolute balls off me is....No quick spell like Oblivion. I have to put all weapons away...cast spell....get weapons back out. Tedious and mind numbingly boring. You find yourself playing on Very Easy so you have to do this less.
GODDAMN BETHESDA TEST YOUR FUN FACTOR PLEASE!!!
Are you serious? The Elder Scrolls series has more depth than 99% of other games out there, and the characted detached from the game world? Compared to again whatever other game, the character is very far from that. But again I assume you really don't know what you are talking about here so I will just walk away slowly now instead.Skyweir said:
I completely agree with this above poster. Saying that it has more depth than 99% of other games out there is all well and good, but it's what Elder Scrolls shares that 1% with that makes it feel an inferior experience, even compared to its previous incarnations. For example, everything Skyweir has raised is fixed in other hybrid open-world RPGs like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and The Witcher 2...KillerRabbit said:
My problem is that, despite being crammed with limitless content, choices... there's very little relevancy for doing any of it. To quote our Yahtzee, "I can, but why would I want to". This is combined with the fact that the world tends to lack any grit; it's all very just there, the characters that populate it feeling like they could populate just about any other relevant world and they'd be write at home. Both Oblivion and Skyrim are "deep without being deep", they're accessible to the layman but not inaccessible to hardcore RPG enthusiasts. But once you start saying it's the "deepest, most immersive RPG ever made" it starts to share space with true PC RPGs. The Witcher series, the STALKER series, games like the original Deus Ex. They have found a true home on RPG, and recent Elder Scrolls games, that focus on working on both console and PC, frankly, have no right slotting in there alongside. They may be deeper than whatever passes for "average" nowadays, but that does not make them truly masterpieces that can go toe to toe with ACTUALLY deep, expansive, PC-exclusive RPGs.
Alas, I truly think its inherent popularity lies in that the "average" experience is so dull and scripted that anything that comes along offering captivating fantasy open-worlds presented in a non-linear fashion feels like a step up, but strip away the hype, the paint and the fanbase and you've got a slightly middling deep-ish experience that has been matched and frequently surpassed by on countless occasions from whatever it wants to consider its "peers".
I've played about 15 or 20 hours of it so far.
It's obviously a Bethesda game, which is both good and bad. You kind of have freedom of choice but it's a very certain kind. You can choose from a really good variety of races, customise the hell out of your particular character and give them a name. Afterwards you can completely nail down how you want your character to fight, what gear they have and the way in which you want to explore the world. The crafting system is pretty nice, too.
The world is believable now, too. As in cities and towns are dotted about with farmland, water mills and little villages around them in a way the makes sense, instead of being like fallout 3 where was random garbage just thrown about everywhere.
But it's only a role playing game in the sense that you choose how to fight stuff. You don't get to make many choices with regards to the quests, the quest text itself is often just one or two lines and your character is basically a cardboard cutout to project on. I also never felt like I was really impacting the world at all. I'd finish this big quest and nothing would change, people would just wander around the same way and everything would look the same, as if nothing had ever occurred.
A lot of the NPC's just felt... I don't know, empty, like in a lot of Bethesda games. It's just a series of sights to see but doesn't have an impact in the same way as say the Witcher or Dragon Age 1 did.
It's a good game, don't get me wrong, but it has a lot of the same problems as Oblivion and Morrowind.
It's obviously a Bethesda game, which is both good and bad. You kind of have freedom of choice but it's a very certain kind. You can choose from a really good variety of races, customise the hell out of your particular character and give them a name. Afterwards you can completely nail down how you want your character to fight, what gear they have and the way in which you want to explore the world. The crafting system is pretty nice, too.
The world is believable now, too. As in cities and towns are dotted about with farmland, water mills and little villages around them in a way the makes sense, instead of being like fallout 3 where was random garbage just thrown about everywhere.
But it's only a role playing game in the sense that you choose how to fight stuff. You don't get to make many choices with regards to the quests, the quest text itself is often just one or two lines and your character is basically a cardboard cutout to project on. I also never felt like I was really impacting the world at all. I'd finish this big quest and nothing would change, people would just wander around the same way and everything would look the same, as if nothing had ever occurred.
A lot of the NPC's just felt... I don't know, empty, like in a lot of Bethesda games. It's just a series of sights to see but doesn't have an impact in the same way as say the Witcher or Dragon Age 1 did.
It's a good game, don't get me wrong, but it has a lot of the same problems as Oblivion and Morrowind.
So far i am playing a wood elf sneaky archer and dragon fights pretty much suck.Deviate said:
"Lucky" the Base Stats got streamlined and i got everything i wanted to unlock for the archer/dagger/sneaky/pickpocketing build and now throw all my points into magic and destruction.
Maybe that'll make the dragon fights more fun or else i have to restart as heavy armor 2h warrior.
We'll see, untill then i avoid dragons as much as i can.
