What if Skyrim is awful?
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It would be added to the laundry list of AAA overhyped flops, where what is given to the press is carefully manicured to look 100 times better than the end result.
Rage, Dead Island, Mercs 2, Ninja gaiden 2, ff 13, Brink, DNF, I mean the list goes on for miles.
Rage, Dead Island, Mercs 2, Ninja gaiden 2, ff 13, Brink, DNF, I mean the list goes on for miles.
I don't necessarily hate Bethesda. I'm just tired of the Skyrim fanboys trying to tell me Skyrim's the almighty Holy Grail of RPGs, and every game that has dragons and an open world is a shitty game trying to copy Skyrim(when, in fact, Dark Souls release its first trailer, with a dragon, mind you, before Skyrim released their first trailer).Hides His Eyes said:
I haven't enjoyed any of Bethesda's recent games except 1, but that's just me. And it was Hunted: The Demon's Forge. I didn't enjoy Fallout 3, or Fallout: New Vegas, or Oblivion. I'm not saying that all these examples mean that Skyrim will be a bad game, because it certainly looks pretty, but that's as far as my interest goes. By way of gameplay, Bethesda's first person games are just not for me.
I hadn't thought of that... One of the first comments has sense in it though, turn to Saints Row or Assassins Creed, they seem to have promise.
Definitely not getting my hopes up for any of the upcoming war games though...
Definitely not getting my hopes up for any of the upcoming war games though...
I love you. I have been thinking the exact same thing every time I get excited about it. I'm so scared. Help me.retyopy said:
I played Oblivion 50 times....WITH NO MODS and I enjoyed it THUROGHLY. I don't use mods for multiple YEARS after i get the game, so if skyrim sucks, THEN THAT WOULD KINDA SUCK.
Laugh in the faces of everyone who bought it most likely. Followed by, 'I told you so'. Come on, it's Bethesda for christ's sake, it's going to be poorly developed.
I'm not buying it day one as you can probably tell, but will happily buy it when a Steam sale comes around, no sense letting a game this big go unplayed. Just got to hope the game breaking bugs will be fixed by that time.
I'm not buying it day one as you can probably tell, but will happily buy it when a Steam sale comes around, no sense letting a game this big go unplayed. Just got to hope the game breaking bugs will be fixed by that time.
Really, from what I've seen, I haven't found anything wrong with it at all. Pretty much most of the complaints reviewers ***** about I rarely notice. People who have played the game gave thumbs up, the combat looks cool, there are a variety of quest, no more neck seam, better music, more variety in environments, companions, dragons, dual wielding, pretty much everything I want.
Though Soul Charging on the other hand...
Though Soul Charging on the other hand...
I really wouldn't care either way. I generally dislike any RPGs with swords, shields, magic, and British voice actors.
are you distinguishing between bethesda game studio's and bethesda softworks? remember, softworks is a publisher, so they release games that they havent actually made themselves. Hunted: the Demons Forge, and rogue warrior are two examples. Todd Howard and his team are in charge of this, and they wont drop the ballarragonder said:
I felt sort of similar. Though jRPGs are generally more to my tastes.evilneko said:
The landscapes are gorgeous, and if you like that, it's sort of worth randomly loading up with Ren's Beauty Pack and a few other goodies if you like exploring and don't want to pay this months payment for an MMORPG you were playing, but get the same sort of feeling of wonder when exploring. It's actually not that huge of a game, and it certainly made more large with the Shivering Isles expansion pack and Oblivion gates(and the Oblivion realm isn't honestly that large, and mostly just lava). You'll get the very same thing out of it if you like that in an MMORPG. You'll want Ren's Beauty Pack or some other thing to fix the bad face of your character, but otherwise you'll get something very close. The landscapes are some of the most gorgeous in all of video gaming. As well the mythology is fascinating.
On the other hand, for many people, it doesn't satisfy more than that. Many of us don't like first person gaming, and the third person perspective of Oblivion isn't that greatly developed. Furthermore I found myself doing that very exploration a lot and getting more because I really didn't like the NPCs in the game, I like being able to forget those potato faces exist. I honestly wish I knew of a good complete overhaul for NPC faces. Because there's few NPC face designs in the game I like. Maybe Sheogoroth and a few others.
But if I avoid NPCs and just explore, that's very boring. And if I do engage in the quests, I'm reminded of how bad everyone is designed and it makes me feel less excited. There are some kind of cool quests, but nothing truely amazing. I'll admit I did quite enjoy saving Kvatch. Not the NPCs, so much. But storming a castle like that through a secret entrance in the church.
Also, while it's true that there are several quests, there's not near as much to do as people say. There's not nearly as many as people claim. Seriously, just look here.
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Quests
It's not nearly as impressive as people claim.
Also, the world isn't nearly as big, again, as people claim, it is very easy to go from one end of the map, which says "Turn back. You cannot go any further" or whatever it says, to the other side which tells you the same thing. I've done it several times.
So again, it's mostly nice for exploration. You can get a sense of awe at the mythology and world, and it makes a good sandbox for your character, makes you sort of think "hey, it would be fun to play some form of Dragon Quest or Zelda in this realm", I don't it deserved any kind of "game of the year", though. When you're not being distracted by the badly designed faces. And it can get very boring when you're tired of exploring. There we definitely better games in 2006. I would say it's worth around 10 dollar or maybe a little more. But then again I'm a person who thinks that Chrono Trigger is worth $30 today, and was well worth $60 when it came out.
What's a game that deserves "game of the year", you say? Okami. But that's just my personal taste, I suppose.
Gosh it's a lonely game, even if you do like the NPCs and their faces. It's about as lonely as Final Fantasy XII. Possibly slightly more.
Either way, I don't think that Skyrim can be possibly worse than Oblivion. But I'm glad that there are people who aren't going to hype something just because Elder Scrolls is still easy for people to hype, unlike Final Fantasy which has fallen far, far from grace. If anything, I think that Bethesda is going to be better with time. Or so I hope.
And by doing that, for one, there needs to be more things to do. Their list in Oblivion is not good enough. There are not nearly enough quests in Oblivion. More terrain wouldn't be bad, but that's more optional. What they need is more quests.