Why do you hate Skyrim?

[AstylahAthrys]

Hate the game? No. Sick of hearing about it? Yes.

The amount of hype leading up to its release was ridiculous, so much so that it went from a game I was ambivalent about to a game that I have no desire to play.

It's a shame that happened. Skryim is fun, but I can totally see why if you didn't care about the game the hype would kill it for you. I was starting to get sick of seeing it everywhere after awhile, and I was stoked for the game to come out. When someone who is a fan is thinking "We need to merge some of these Skyrim threads, there are too many," than the hype is a bit too much. It's such a bizarre reason to not want to play a game and at face value seems like it would have no merit, but I completely understand it, and can relate to it.

 

[Svane]

So far, I have only one complaint, and that is the fact that enemies can perform execution finishers. In Morrowind and Oblivion, if you got low health, you have a chance to back up and heal. In Skyrim, if you get to a staggeringly low amount of health, there's a good chance you'll be frozen in place on the spot for an enemy's finisher, giving you no chance to dodge their attack, no chance to evade them and heal, etc. Nothing frustrates me more.

Yeah, this is very frustrating! When suddenly dragons became stronger due to level scale on my mage-character, they could hit me one time and I was down to some 50% health and suddenly I'd be frozen in place, while the dragon slowly walks up to me and suddenly eats me, without being able to do anything at all... That just ain't fun or fair.

 

[scw55]

There's frustrations.
Say I got bored of archery so tried daggers. Daggers don't work well with no points in 1her on level 38 enemies.

Skyrim is fine. It's a good game. It's more immersion than Oblivion. Though not immersion enough for me to want to repeatedly do the job quests in any guilds.

Main quest felt

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a bit short and was quite anti climatic. They just states what happens now and pretty much says: "Go and fuck off and do shit"

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Side quests are interesting if you actually want to do them. No point forcing yourself to do them if you don't want to do them.

I'm not slaving my life to playing it 24/7 because I'm older and I have a wish to do activities in moderation.

I dislike the inventory UI.It should have kept the spreadsheet layout where it listed several items at once with their data in different columns to the right.
There's a bug where it's impossible to dual wield two daggers of the same kind via the favourite menu.

It annoys me that you cannot cast spells while dual wielding/got a shield and weapon because it dents hybrid options. There's the favourite system but that some-what breaks the flow of combat. It's like using Pause a lot in Dragon Age. I don't see the logic denying the use of weaponry while casting. Perhaps the weapons acts as a vessel to cast the spell. It's like saying holding a staff ought to prevent spell casting. However on the flip side it's nice being able to 'equip' spells. However this does reduce the amount of spells you'd want in your arsenal. Say if you're a mage that invests in debuffs and buffs and offensive damage spells then it's a nightmare to juggle everything. Oblivion solved this by hot keys.

Every game has flaws or philosophies of design you disagree with. Doesn't prevent it from being a good game.Just means it's annoying sometimes.

 

[Skoldpadda]

Listen, OP. The internet is positively infested with Skyrim-banter right now, each thread more pointless than the last one ("what's your favourite Skyrim in Skyrim? Mine's Skyrim! Skyrim Skyrim Skyrim Skyrim! I'm naming my firstborn Skyrim, after my dog, who is also called Skyrim.")

But goddamn, your thread takes the cake.

We don't hate Skyrim. We hate its fucking fanboys who go on and on and on and on and on and on and on about it.

I don't like Skyrim, I don't like Bethesda games in general. I would like to just ignore it, and play something else, but you podpeople won't let me.

If the game's so good, why are you so busy bothering the internet about it, instead of just playing it continuously and dying of malnutrition?

Fuck.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

I don't know, I love Skyrim.
Though I feel like trying Aren now...

 

[TheGauntman]

I don't hate Skyrim, I just honestly don't see what all the fuss is about. It's a bethesda game, it's the biggest and buggiest one yet, and like all Bethesda games gives you absolutely no sense of progression or achievement outside of making small numbers go big. I get wound up by Skyim fans' refusal to shut the hell up about how they think their game is the best thing since fucking jesus, and this of course means that the large number of fantastic, creative and well put together games that have been released this year are going to get overshadowed at pretty much every award thing ever.

Also, not everyone has even played Skyrim. Modern Warfare 3 outsold it something like 3:1.

Why do you hate MW3?

Hate the game? No. Sick of hearing about it? Yes.

The amount of hype leading up to its release was ridiculous, so much so that it went from a game I was ambivalent about to a game that I have no desire to play.

Also, this. What an awesome first post sir!

Thanks. Long-time lurker, first time poster.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

If you've been ruined by linear or MMO rpg's, you will not enjoy it.

I like you Sandbox, and this may have been my response the first time you wrote this I'm not sure, but this is an a bit of an out of line thing to say. It makes it sound like your argument is that the ONLY reason you can think of for someone not really liking your game of choice is that they have been 'ruined' by lesser RPGs. Poor form.

Ruined may have been the wrong idea... perhaps I should have said "if your preferred style of RPG is linear or MMO..."

Also, I like you, too.

 

[Vhite]

I love Skyrim and Morrowind because they are both so different and are not like Oblivion.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

It's just not that fun. I've played it for a long time, over 50 hours and I've had more fun than all that time playing three hours of my Trine 2 that I just bought today. And there's no reason to keep playing it. Once you realize that the developers just kept adding as many random quests as possible to bulk out the game, you start to notice how the thing simply fails to fit together as a cohesive game. It doesn't take long to experience everything Skyrim has to offer - probably less than most linear games out there. The other hundreds of hours of playtime is made up by repeating those things over and over again. If you find THAT fun, you ought to get tested.

 

[babinro]

There are plenty of valid reasons to hate this game. A lot of what Skyrim does is just sub-par compared to gaming standards this generation.

- The combat plays like it's 10 years old with almost no sense of excitement
- Challenge comes from enemies having more hp as their tactics never change
- Enemy AI is predictable and idiotic
- There are very few reactions to what is going on in the world causing immersion to be lost very easily.
- The UI is playable but not intuitive and sometimes annoying
- The game as I understand can become almost unplayable after enough hours on the PS3
- Level scaling has improved but still feels like a grind in the late game
- There is almost no attachment to characters in the game
- The story, while acceptable, seldom becomes gripping or truly interesting to play through. My main exception to this was the Dark Brotherhood which I loved.

I take the opposite approach in that I'm actually surprised a lot of people don't vocally hate this game. Prior TES fans included. This is a game that refuses to evolve into current generation gaming and feels like a solid expansion to Oblivion.

All the above being said though, I've put 80 hours in the game and intend to play more. The game disappoints on its potential, but the overall experience is still fun enough to keep me playing.

 

[RedHighwind07]

I don't hold a deep dislike for it, but it's definitely not the greatest game ever made IMO. I was kind of bored of it after 10 hours. No one was more shocked than me, but I really couldn't be drawn into it like I was with Oblivion. It was kind of monotonous I thought.

 

[Nocola]

I don't hate the game per se, but I DO hate the fact that I never tire when playing it. Suddenly it's tomorrow, and I have school o_o;

Try suddenly it's next week, and I have an exam.... Balls. o__________o

 

[McNinja]

Hate? Nah. Dislike somewhat? yeah.

The reason is that I don't care. The game never introduced real characters, just people. You are never given enough time to care about them, or the cities or towns you are trying to save from Alduin. The questlines are far too short, and it seems like chunks are missing from them. I mean, you walk into the college, do a spell (I had to do a flame atronach, my friend had to do healing hands), get in, do three quests, and BAM, you're the archmage of the college. Really? I just got here three hours ago. The Thieves guild questline seems longer than the rest, though.

And the game really glosses over that whole "end of the world" thing. People only mention it in passing, then stop caring. They basically say "Yup, worlds gonna end, Alduins here, you gonna do something about it?" There's no build up to it, nor is it epic or hard. It is the same as every other dragon fight in the game. The imperial and stormcloak quests are the same. No real build up, neither of the factions have much personality (except the stormcloaks are racist), and the quests end up just being dull with no real satisfying end. It's just like "wow, was that it?"

If you can beat a game's main questline in under 3 hours, either you cheated, or the game needs to be fixed.

Overall, I liked the game. It was a fun 89 hours.

 

[ryanthemadman]

Well, my biggest problems are as such (btw i love skyrim too, but its not without its flaws):
1. The loot. While it has a large variety of loot and stuff to sell, eventually you'll get to the point of the game where the economy of the entire country cannot take it. You'll end up taking an hour and a half nearly for every dungeon to sell the gratuitous amounts of shit you find! I found things I didn't want or need and even had one moment where I couldn't sell something because it was too expensive for anyone to buy. While I could have bought a few things from those people, they had nothing I wanted. I have the armor and can make the weapons I want cheaper than I can buy them and I have over 300 lockpicks, more potions than i even need, scrolls I keep forgetting about, and more arrows than I could possibly hope to use so that stuffs out of the question.
2. I wish they would bring back the Oblivion selling. So that way I didn't have to spend to much time selling shit.
3. I hate the NPCs. While a few of them are enduring, almost all of them ANNOY THE SHIT OUT OF ME! I think I've heard every one of them's repeated 2 or 3 lines at least 50000000000000000000 times and I don't want to hear them anymore. Usually I save and go on a rampage in every hold, killing anything that moves and that usually helps me out. But if someone makes a MOD to shut them up I will sell my 360 copy and buy the PC one. Even though I'll have to get a new video card as mine sucks.

 

[Duffeknol]

There are plenty of valid reasons to hate this game. A lot of what Skyrim does is just sub-par compared to gaming standards this generation.

- The combat plays like it's 10 years old with almost no sense of excitement
- Challenge comes from enemies having more hp as their tactics never change
- Enemy AI is predictable and idiotic
- There are very few reactions to what is going on in the world causing immersion to be lost very easily.
- The UI is playable but not intuitive and sometimes annoying
- The game as I understand can become almost unplayable after enough hours on the PS3
- Level scaling has improved but still feels like a grind in the late game
- There is almost no attachment to characters in the game
- The story, while acceptable, seldom becomes gripping or truly interesting to play through. My main exception to this was the Dark Brotherhood which I loved.

I take the opposite approach in that I'm actually surprised a lot of people don't vocally hate this game. Prior TES fans included. This is a game that refuses to evolve into current generation gaming and feels like a solid expansion to Oblivion.

All the above being said though, I've put 80 hours in the game and intend to play more. The game disappoints on its potential, but the overall experience is still fun enough to keep me playing.

I was actually already typing a huge rant, when I decided to scroll up just a wee bit and saw this post. Didn't bother finishing my story, you already summed it up.

 

[archvile93]

Actually I felt like I wouldn't like it because it seemed too much like Oblivion. From what others have told me, despite the new voice actors the characters still feel like there's nothing behind them but just a few canned responses. The animations are still poor, the combat still feels floaty and lacks weight or enjoyment, your actions continue to have virtually no impact on anything save for a few dialogue changes. Evidently killing all those dragons barbequeing the landscape and ending a civil war weren't all that important. The world is still big but still almost completely deviod of unique or interesting things, and there's still piles and piles of bugs and glitches. You can say they might patch them later, but one, that doesn't make them go away now, and two, I might run two 100 mile marathons back to back in the same day, but that doesn't mean I will.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Oh and as for all the glitches and whatnot, patches to fix those will come, as I recall Oblivion had a few of those as well.

Let me get this out of the way first. "They'll fix it later" Should never be an excuse for a company releasing a flawed product.
Yes, I know full well that releasing bug free software is damned near impossible. Sometimes glitches happen that are impossible to recreate in a QA environment, I know that.
But with the number and severity of bugs I've seen reported about Skyrim...that just reeks of the company releasing the product before it could be completely tested.
For all I know it could be some executive douche nozzle insisting on a specific street date and the developers having to cut their QA period short, I can't speak to that. But at the end of the day the result is the same.
Someone knew that the brand has enough loyalty to turn a profit on an unfinished product and to me, that's just not okay for ANY game.

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As for my hatred for Skyrim? I don't hate it, I don't CARE about it is more accurate. Having played Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion (And for the sake of this particular argument I'll include Fallout 3) I've learned that I don't particularly care for Bethesda's open world RPG titles.

The games sell themselves on the idea of making my own character however I want and letting me explore the world and interact with it in a manner of my choosing. In my experience that level of blank slate game play means that the developers end up having to write encounters that are generic enough to work regardless of what choices I've made. This inevitably translates into a game that feels flat, impersonal and boring.

Skyrim could very well be different, for all I know this game could read my mind and have a 24 hour team of script writers on duty to type up content specifically designed to make my game experience awesome.

I wouldn't know because I just don't have enough good will stored up with Bethesda to care.

 

[deadfishy12]

I'm on X-Box and this is why I hate Skyrim, I've wasted $60 and a few hundred hours on a game that apparently was broken from the start and neve should have beemn releasedL Herte are MY ISSUES:

>The non-completable quests unless done in the right order... (or not in some cases)
>The quest items you cannot get rid of despite finishing their quest
>The Markarth Guard bug which I can't fix despite trying every possible solution I've found online
>The random freezes when running about
>The broken autosaves (I wasted two hours of my life today collecting crimson ninroot assuming auto save would work when the innevitable crash upon exiting blackreach occurred... It didn't)
>The bookshelves that were supposed to be fixed in 1.3 haven't been fixed.
>Random dragon corpses falling out of the sky after fast-traveling to certain places.
>not being able to finish later quest if you pick up and quest item before being assigned the quest
>the flute, drum, and lute in my inventory
>removing bounty notes from inventory makes them unable to claim
>the random missing floors/walls
>the time wasted waiting for console load screens (while my PC using roommate instantly loads)
>the Uncompletable Dwemer Convector quest(unless you get lucky enough to receive and exploit the duplicate gem glitch for these missions)

 

[matej]

Hey everybody,

I would like to state my opinion and reasons why I hate skyrim and find it utterly boring.
When I was a kid i got a game called Dune 2 and I fell in love with gaming. After that came UFO1,2 Terror from the deep and soon there was baldur's gate 1, fallout 1, baldur's gate 2 and fallout 2 and my all time favorite game planscape torment.

Some of those games how can i decribe it i remember every weapon not just talking sword, every NPC, all quests and the difference of every city and culture. Good story, and great villains like Bodhi, Irenikus or Ravel in PT.

In that time there was also a game called Daggerfall witch I hated - boring, repetitive, i need something more to involve me in a game) ( like Diablo (hack and slash game) just couldn't play it and got bored soon)

Daggerfall was first game in this sequel - Morrovind, Oblivion, Skyrim and I hate them all.

Spend days playing game and after all this time can't remember story, a single character or city, just how empty, soulless and shallow they felt. All i can remember was walking for hours and killing stupid random monsters and tons of f...g glass shields.

In BG i was a hero for a good reason and story was epic. Planscape was even better.

I don't like where gaming is going. Dragon age 1 was ok - better than Ice wind dale and neverwinter nights but not even close to fallout2, BG2 or Plasncape torment. KOTOR was good game but more of action type. Mass effect 2 i found boring ... RPG's are gone...

POINT:
Soulless and boring game for wasting time...

 

[DementedSheep]

Really? I?ve seen a few hating on it but the overwhelming majority are gushing over it...yet threads asking why people hate it keep popping up. There are some who just arn't into it of course and people criticize aspects of it but that?s not hate. Are being hating on it in other fourms or somthing?
I'm pissed at it for glitching the Greybeards and sending me back 7 hours and for constantly selecting the wrong dialogue option. They will patch it eventually is not a valid excuse for glitches. You don't buy a game and expect to have to wait a couple of months to be able to play it.