Why don't YOU have Skyrim?
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Because after a rental, I deemed that, while they've made some improvements since Oblivion (equipment degradation, stupid speech minigame, that godawful leveling system), the core problems that made me dislike the series are still there.
Level-scaling: Level up the wrong skill-set in the wrong ways, reach a point where one bear will rip your face off without a problem.
Lack of flow: The sidequests seem to follow a philosophy of "throw it all at you and see what sticks," giving no indication of relative difficulty nor reward, and a difficulty curve that was apparently inspired by the output of the dev computers' PRNG (and is unrelated to the reward value).
Unskippable voice acting: Yes, I get it. Your brother is missing, family feud, blah blah blah. Shut up and let me get on with it. I just heard all this crap five minutes ago before the game crashed/on my last character.
The only slightly less godawful leveling system: See level-scaling and for the love of the gods, don't grind lockpicking early!
Maybe in three or four years when the inevitable GOTY/Platinum/GH edition is available for $10 on GoG, I'll pick up a copy.
Level-scaling: Level up the wrong skill-set in the wrong ways, reach a point where one bear will rip your face off without a problem.
Lack of flow: The sidequests seem to follow a philosophy of "throw it all at you and see what sticks," giving no indication of relative difficulty nor reward, and a difficulty curve that was apparently inspired by the output of the dev computers' PRNG (and is unrelated to the reward value).
Unskippable voice acting: Yes, I get it. Your brother is missing, family feud, blah blah blah. Shut up and let me get on with it. I just heard all this crap five minutes ago before the game crashed/on my last character.
The only slightly less godawful leveling system: See level-scaling and for the love of the gods, don't grind lockpicking early!
Maybe in three or four years when the inevitable GOTY/Platinum/GH edition is available for $10 on GoG, I'll pick up a copy.
I don't own any of the current console generation and my parents refuse to buy a new computer, despite the fact that our computer can't even play morrowind.
I take this point of view regarding "free-to-play" games, setting a low montly limit that I would not overspend no matter what. With normal games I am the opposite: it does not really matter how much a game costs, as long as it is worth my time. I would probably buy Shenmue 3 for $300.DefiantWolf said:
I have no money.......At least...Not if I also want to eat.
Guess I will just have to wait a few more days.
Guess I will just have to wait a few more days.
It's not really the type of game I'd play a lot, and not meaning this in a bad sense, I don't want to waste the money on buying it.
That's not to say I think Skyrim is a crap game. I've watched it, it looks great, seems exciting, and my friends enjoy it! I just probably wouldn't think of it as the best 60 dollars I've ever spent.
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That's not to say I think Skyrim is a crap game. I've watched it, it looks great, seems exciting, and my friends enjoy it! I just probably wouldn't think of it as the best 60 dollars I've ever spent.
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I have A rule called: "buy bethesda games a year after release if you really want to"
for 2 reasons,
first their games are usually buggy and
second their textures are atrocious and they generally have too much (for me) game breaking stuff in their games so I wait until the modding community fixes this stuff
for 2 reasons,
first their games are usually buggy and
second their textures are atrocious and they generally have too much (for me) game breaking stuff in their games so I wait until the modding community fixes this stuff
I have MW3, Dragon Age and Batman: Arkham City to finish. There's just no room for a game of Skyrim's size. It's now on my 2012 list.
With Bethesda games, I find it worthwhile to wait until all the DLC is released and most of the bugs are ironed out. Also, my current rig barely clears the minimum specs.
i don't have a xbox or ps3.
i don't know if it will run on my labtop.
i don't have that much money to spend.
i don't know if it will run on my labtop.
i don't have that much money to spend.
