Skyrim is now in my top five of all time
primesuspect
Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
So I've got over 100 hours in, and even though I haven't really gotten into the main questline yet (I've only visited High Hrothgar, and haven't done anything after that), I'm ready to put Skyrim in my top five of all time.
There are tons of bugs. The AI is frustrating and stupid. The UI sucks. The voice actors are redundant. There are badly broken quests. The dragons glitch sometimes. The combat is really not that challenging.
Despite all that, this game has captivated me like nothing else. The story is triumphant and staggeringly deep. High political intrigue that pulls no punches, ambiguous morals, and powerful issues all weave into a tapestry that few games could hope to approach in scope. The story of Skyrim is worthy of literature.
The fact is, I'm intimately familiar with the setting, the characters, and almost everything the game has to offer, and here I am still watching the trailer for Skyrim, getting shivers. The epic tale of the Dragonborn and the Thu'um is one for the ages.
The only downside of this game, for me, is that Bethesda has shipped a terribly buggy game... and the sad fact is I don't care (and apparently neither does anybody else, as the game has received serious critical and gamer accolades across the globe). I don't necessarily like the precedent that this sets, but the game is just so goddamned good.
Thank you, Bethesda, for making this, and I cannot imagine what you have in store for Elder Scrolls VI.
There are tons of bugs. The AI is frustrating and stupid. The UI sucks. The voice actors are redundant. There are badly broken quests. The dragons glitch sometimes. The combat is really not that challenging.
Despite all that, this game has captivated me like nothing else. The story is triumphant and staggeringly deep. High political intrigue that pulls no punches, ambiguous morals, and powerful issues all weave into a tapestry that few games could hope to approach in scope. The story of Skyrim is worthy of literature.
The fact is, I'm intimately familiar with the setting, the characters, and almost everything the game has to offer, and here I am still watching the trailer for Skyrim, getting shivers. The epic tale of the Dragonborn and the Thu'um is one for the ages.
The only downside of this game, for me, is that Bethesda has shipped a terribly buggy game... and the sad fact is I don't care (and apparently neither does anybody else, as the game has received serious critical and gamer accolades across the globe). I don't necessarily like the precedent that this sets, but the game is just so goddamned good.
Thank you, Bethesda, for making this, and I cannot imagine what you have in store for Elder Scrolls VI.
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I'd put it top 10-15, but I can easily think of 7-8 games I've played that were better
my biggest beef with Skyrim, is it is a console port with eyecandy, and I'm not the biggest fan of console games
I love how unique everyone's experience is with this game. No two play throughs will ever be unique. You are who you play, and you do what you want. That by itself is extremely difficult in game design, but to make it that open and still tell a complex and engaging story is quite the achievement.
Skyrim frigging owns.
So. Much. Content.
I'm the same way. I'm around Level 20 or so and haven't even made it to High Hrothgar either... I'm just wandering around clearing out caves, I cleared out the ruins of the Dwarven City beneath Markath and made some sweet Dwarven Armor, and then made my way to the Orc Encampment in the Northwest corner of the map where they taught me how to make orcish armor...
Damn you, prime. Damn you for telling me this. I now see many hours of doing Thieves guild quests in my future.
This tells me that this might work for the other factions too. If I keep hunting down bandits and criminals, will something cool happen at Jorvaskrr too? I aims ta find out.
I'm going to spend a lot of goddamn time on this game.
It's a complete 180 from my experience with Oblivion, but I can't figure out why.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-personality-flaws-skyrim-forces-you-to-deal-with/
Maybe I'll reunite Skyrim and clear it of anybody who would weaken the country or something. Go become thane of every hold and kill all the bandits or something. Just doesn't seem quite as epic as the quest lines...
I find the faction quests to be awesome; especially the Thieves Guild "keep improving the Flagon" questline. After doing like six mundane Vex/Delvin jobs, you suddenly get "special" jobs where you have to restore the Thieves' Guild influence in some hold city. Long after I thought the "main" Thieves Guild questline was finished, last night I had to put down an upstart new guild in Windhelm, and also had to help Tovilia re-establish trade with the Khajjit. It just keeps going and going... and there are tangible rewards as shops keep opening in the Ragged Flagon. Every time I complete a new special job, the guild looks better and better; shelves are stocked with food and items, things are cleaned up, the cobwebs are gone, the mood of the NPCs is better... Hell, there was a new recruit in the guild last night with a whole backstory. It's awesome.
"Cause any trouble and there'll be trouble."
I wonder if I can murder them without repercussions... Would the guard give a shit?
Also, why aren't any of the other thieves doing any real work? Lazy asses. They just sit around all day hoping something will get done rather than actually sneaking into places. Vex is supposedly the ace infiltrator and all she's done lately is infiltrate a bunch of bread while sitting in the Ragged Flagon. The whole lot are fired as far as I'm concerned.
Patch 1.3 Notes:
General stability improvements
Optimize performance for Core 2 Duo CPUs
Fixed Radiant Story incorrectly filling certain roles
Fixed magic resistances not calculating properly
Fixed issue with placing books on bookshelves inside player purchased homes
Fixed dragon animation issues with saving and loading
Fixed Y-look input to scale correctly with framerate
Perhaps this will make a little less "silent crash to desktop" action.
1.3 added a bug for me, unless this is supposed to happen.
Everytime I fast travel OR take the carriage to a major town, there is a dragon flying above. and even in some towns, landing on the town buildings lighting the town on fire. I upped my dragon kill big time tonight
Fatcat, I've had that happen a ton without patching. I will quite often arrive at a town and have the guards go berserk in a minute when a dragon shows up. I figured it was just because the game had to make up for the fact that I always fast travel
I truly feel like a bad as now. My character is now thinking about the possibility of crafting armor out if dragon bones and scales to see if it's even possible. Skyrim makes crafting enjoyable and a valid build path. Oblivion could never come close.
OK, crafting spells was fun but only because it was so broken.
Charm for one second, fortify mercantile for one second. I always made that first.