Why don't YOU have Skyrim?
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Same here, plus I love that avatar ^_^Fluffles said:
Another reason is that I've only enough to buy a new game once a month and I did so with Dark Souls and I never really ride the wave of hype, as I find the underdog game in some genres can sometimes be better (in my opinion anyway) to the other more popular title at the time.
I'm just happy with what I have and that'll do me just fine!
Two reasons: the first is that my laptop is too weak to run it, and upgrading won't be an option until after I graduate and start making some actual money. The second is because buying an Elder Scrolls game on launch is kind of a dumb idea; why do that, when the Game of the Year edition is cheaper, works better, and has more content?
I am completely satisfied with my current games, since I've been accumulating a big backlog the last 3 years. As I work through it now, I see no need to pay full price for games I'll be able to pick up at like 50% off in 6 months' time, especially if that means I get a GOTY version too.
1. I've never played an Elder Scrolls game
2. I have $0.00, which I need for food
3. I'm in the middle of university exams
4. I have plenty of games to play at the minute
5. I plan on getting Arkham City or Saints Row The Third soon.
Take your pick.
2. I have $0.00, which I need for food
3. I'm in the middle of university exams
4. I have plenty of games to play at the minute
5. I plan on getting Arkham City or Saints Row The Third soon.
Take your pick.
Because I'm unemployed and don't have the money to spare, especially since Christmas is coming up and I haven't done any shopping yet.
I'm not really a fantasy kind of guy, I'm more into SciFi. Plus like pretty much every one else has already said, between university, food, sleep and other video games I still haven't finished; I'm not about to spend a ?100 I don't have on a video game I probably wouldn't have time to play anyway.
I think I buy it when the price drops. Maybe. Or I'll just wait for Fallout 4 or whatever it's going to be called.
I think I buy it when the price drops. Maybe. Or I'll just wait for Fallout 4 or whatever it's going to be called.
No money is the main reason. Well I do have money, but just enough to live for the next couple of weeks. Not even enough for next months rent. Hope to fuck I get that check soon.
But also, I was going to get it then my housemate moved out and took his playstation and my playstation is still at my parents house. I think I'll just wait til it gets cheaper and I don't have so much work to do.
But also, I was going to get it then my housemate moved out and took his playstation and my playstation is still at my parents house. I think I'll just wait til it gets cheaper and I don't have so much work to do.
Actually I do have Skyrim, and it is a amazing. And good choice on not getting it due to having work. I have done nothing but Skyrim for a while now.
For the same reason I don't play Minecraft. They are both objective-less time sinks.
Now before everyone gets on my ass about it... Sure Skyrim does have a story, and quests and objectives and all that happy horseshit. But if you plow straight through that you end up with the sort of empty feeling that you've missed most of the game because you wanted to see the plot.
On the other side of that coin: The second you stop paying attention to the story and go off on your own you get so bogged down in side quests and exploration that by the time you're ready to go back to the story line you're so far out of the proverbial loop that you may as well just start the whole damned thing over again to get a rehash on the plot.
Then you have all the crafting and mining and skills that do fuck all for the story line and just exist as an artificial way to inflate playtime and make you think that the game is engaging you just because it's taking you longer to beat. It's not taking longer to beat, tard boy. You're just standing in one spot longer and watching an animation of some asshole swinging a pickaxe to obtain ore that you're NEVER going to use because it's too heavy to carry around.
Then there the skill trees. I watched a friend of mine start the game over 6 times because he had (in his words, not mine) "fucked up my skills and got stuck." And that got me to thinking that if one of the top selling points of this game was user-chosen level progression paths, then they fucked that up royally. If you can get irrevocably trapped someplace because you lack the skills to free yourself then they are locking you into doing things their way anyway and all their customization options are just for show. Sure, it offers a level of realism to in-game situations based on your skills, but to me that seems TOO real. I play video games to escape the harsh reality of the world, not be reminded of it at every turn.
The Elder Scrolls series takes everything I hate about Minecraft and MMOs and rolls them in a little package that they want me to pay $60 US for. Thanks. No.
Now before everyone gets on my ass about it... Sure Skyrim does have a story, and quests and objectives and all that happy horseshit. But if you plow straight through that you end up with the sort of empty feeling that you've missed most of the game because you wanted to see the plot.
On the other side of that coin: The second you stop paying attention to the story and go off on your own you get so bogged down in side quests and exploration that by the time you're ready to go back to the story line you're so far out of the proverbial loop that you may as well just start the whole damned thing over again to get a rehash on the plot.
Then you have all the crafting and mining and skills that do fuck all for the story line and just exist as an artificial way to inflate playtime and make you think that the game is engaging you just because it's taking you longer to beat. It's not taking longer to beat, tard boy. You're just standing in one spot longer and watching an animation of some asshole swinging a pickaxe to obtain ore that you're NEVER going to use because it's too heavy to carry around.
Then there the skill trees. I watched a friend of mine start the game over 6 times because he had (in his words, not mine) "fucked up my skills and got stuck." And that got me to thinking that if one of the top selling points of this game was user-chosen level progression paths, then they fucked that up royally. If you can get irrevocably trapped someplace because you lack the skills to free yourself then they are locking you into doing things their way anyway and all their customization options are just for show. Sure, it offers a level of realism to in-game situations based on your skills, but to me that seems TOO real. I play video games to escape the harsh reality of the world, not be reminded of it at every turn.
The Elder Scrolls series takes everything I hate about Minecraft and MMOs and rolls them in a little package that they want me to pay $60 US for. Thanks. No.
Saints row the third, quite simply.
Skyrim had no pre order bonuses, and it being bethesda, I expected that if I got it for christmas, the bugs should be mostly ironed out by the time I start playing.
And quite frankly, as awesome as skyrim probably is, I downright need saints row 3. I was that big a fan of saints row 2 that the thought of not getting saints row 3 on launch is absurd, and I neither have the time or money to buy and play both.
Skyrim had no pre order bonuses, and it being bethesda, I expected that if I got it for christmas, the bugs should be mostly ironed out by the time I start playing.
And quite frankly, as awesome as skyrim probably is, I downright need saints row 3. I was that big a fan of saints row 2 that the thought of not getting saints row 3 on launch is absurd, and I neither have the time or money to buy and play both.