Skyrim - seriously?

Seriously though.

Since when can body parts be cut off?

you can decapitate but that is the extent of the dismemberment, no arms or legs.

Yes, I'm aware of the mods. I just did a bit of research on them for the sake of being informed. But alas, none seem to address the terrible combat animations.

Right!

Since my One Handed skill reached Level 100 I've been able to decapitate people. I don't have control over it, it just happens sometimes. Y'know, when those cinematic 'finisher' kills happen and the game camera swaps from being first-person to looking at your character do the last attack on an enemy.

This claim that its PLAGUED with glitches is GROSSLY overstated. The folks who whine about the excessive glitches are just as annoying as the people who praise the game. Both are extremely wrong.

OH. MY. GOD.

WHAT ELSE HAVE I BEEN MISSING????????

It's Skyrim, so probably quite a bit :P

I enjoyed Skyrim a lot, but as somebody who played it at launch I can safely say my experience was marred at first by the amount of glitches and bugs I encountered. Everywhere I went I encountered something messed up. Some of the glitches are humorous at first, but after a while I was sick of them. But playing it now is totally fine. It's like a completely different experience. It may have been a mess at first but at least Bethesda sorted it out with successive updates.

Yep, sounds like you've played the game a lot more than me.

I bought the legendary edition under the assumption that it was a good game... but after reading what you've just said - it sounds terrible.

Not only that, but the idea of side quests and random exploration doesn't seem like much of a viable option either - considering how bad the actual gameplay is.

@ Pedro

Nope, Especially for console gamers, they were dead on about the bugs. if anything, the bugs Ive heard about hear have been rather tame.

You shouldve seen the one where the entire floor turns invisible. Or the more boring where the game just freezes.

I guess you got lucky.

I see your point but there is a world of difference between creating a GOOD game that's moddable and a TERRIBLE game that lazily expects unpaid volunteers to fill in all the gaps.

Furthermore, mods can often create unstability and are also often just gimmicky things that are only used for a bit of a laugh. (Like naked mods or costume mods.)

LOL

My friend, I assure you I have played the "game". But to be fair I'll admit I haven't played it that much (because I couldn't stomach the lameness of it). So, okay, maybe the music changes in different parts of the game or whatever.

But my main gripe with the game is the combat.

A "bow" that feels like your firing toothpicks.

- other assorted weapons that are like "hit X then wait 3 seconds while the enemy gets out of harms way before a strike it made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

...

And the fact that gold coins seem to have no value (as there is nothing to buy.)

And as for the "magical" element of the game it seemed tedious and unintuitive at best.

SKYRIM the best WRPG for me i love it

@thereal25: I was mistaken. You have played the game, but as a 12 year old you cannot grasp it.

Don't worry, one day you'll grow up, and you'll see what you were missing.

heheh, no my friend, it's the other way around:

it's the 12 year olds who have given this game a 94 avg. score on metacritic and described it as "awesome" and "amazing".

@thereal25: Again, I assure you, there's nothing to worry about. You'll grow up eventually and learn to appreciate truly great games. Just don't lose your copy of Skyrim (if you really have one that is).

so did i

@ Al-Manyouk

Its more ambitious than great. Not that theres anything wrong with being ambitious but in Bethesda's case, they're writing code their engines can't cash.

The mods really do make a difference for this game. They may not improve the story, but they improve pretty much everything else. You might have to download 50 other required mods and not know which of the 100 files for each mod to download and install before installing the mod you want, but in the end its worth it. If you have a powerful enough PC, it can turn Skyrim into a nextgen game.

@thereal25:

alright, it's time for you to put your money where your mouth is: tell us 5 games you love and we'll then dissect your selection in direct comparison to this thread and your comments.

I like it but I haven't plaed it longer then 7 hours. (Started last week)

@ udUbdaWgz1

Dissect Mine ! :D

I love Arkham City

Trine 2

President Evil 5

Portal 2

and Bayonetta.

And DiRT 3 !

These games are absolutely flawless. ;) miles better than Skyrim.

@Lulu_Lulu:

lol, now that's the kind of stuff I like :)

Try Gothic 2, ppl. Much better open world rpg.

@ udUbdaWgz1

Well thats dissapointing.... :(

I lied about these games being flawless, Ive got major gripes with all of them. Don't get me wrong, I love'em to death... But I'm no zealot, I know a flaw when I see one, even in my own favourites.

Still Miles better than Skyrim though :p

Skyrim is that good that you can over look its flaws. You can spend hours and hours on it and not touch any missions. An amazing game to say the least

^That Doesn't Make Sense^

Isn't you overlooking its flaws what makes you think its good ?

Besides the fact that you seem to be a troll, because of how immature your post is

I don't see whats so mind blowing about this too you just because it's popular doesn't mean its for everyone.

^Doesn't Mean its good either^

doesn't mean anything other than not everybody is lucky enough to have good taste hehe :p

I've got 346 hours in the game and I honestly don't even remember a game break bug. The game is great, but not everyone is going to agree. Although personally I suspect the TC is just trolling and / or never played the game very far.

lol, sorry, I've only played arkham city out of that group and so I couldn't say much. though, I will say this about that game: I do NOT like, no, i usually HATE combo fighting/fighting games, but, i think arkham city is an excellent game. and, even though, the camera and directional thumb-control is, at times, a big issue that causes me to yell at the damn game! i still recognize how good of a game it is. in fact, i wish they would have added even more depth to character building process and had more and more meaningful side quests. it was that good, imo. better?

@ udUbdaWgz1

Oh good. You noticed there was something off about the side quests. Thats exactly where I was going with Arkham City, three of them were absolutely terrible.

Heart Of Ice

Shot In The Dark

Identity Theft

and Watcher In The Wings.

They all have the exact same problem. Completing requires no skill of any what so ever, they each test your patience and persistance. But theres no strategy or skill, or hints as to how to complete them.

I expected more from "The World's Greatest Detective"

I didn't like Skyrim, either. I think I'm done with The Elder Scrolls, honestly. I loved Morrowind. Oblivion was a lot of fun until I played it enough to figure out that it was nothing more than a game of given roles that I could play with any character, rather than a game where I create a character with a specific role in mind and then attempt to play the game. Skyrim was just more Oblivion. I gave up on Skyrim sooner, but I think it's probably the better game than Oblivion. Oblivion just soured me enough that I quit Skyrim as soon as it felt like more Oblivion.

If you think the potion and magic systems are complicated, I can see why you'd have trouble with the rest of the game.

That's true. Obviously the original poster put no real time into the game, which is fine if they didn't like the beginning. It's not the easiest game to get into, but a lot of people love it. It's better than other mindless games like most of the CoD series.

Skyrim was a lot less polished than Oblivion but well worth the wait. The PC version is amazing. Mods absolutely made the game after the main quest was over for me.

That is... badass :D

As far as those criticisms go, I think only the combat being mediocre is true.

For the rest you have to be willing to let yourself be immersed in the world or the game will seem slow and boring. Its like watching a long epic movie. If you aren't immersed in the world its going to be a torture of wasted time as you don't care about anything that happens. Meanwhile there's someone two seats over in the theater that gets very invested in the character and story and loves the movie.

Your willingness to be immersed could be affected on a subconscious level. Perhaps you got sick of hearing about the game, someone whose opinion you respect was negative about it, or you were just not in a slow story mood when you first tried playing. First impressions mean a lot.

Yeah, there seems to be something about the whole feel of the game that just doesn't do it for me. I don't like the music, I don't like the accents, I don't like the lame things the characters say etc etc.

Funny that you mention first impressions because I recall hearing someone playing the game a while back - but I just thought they were listening to really awful music over and over again - which kind of annoyed me. lol

one of the best games I have played.

1. Fallout 3 - Ah, what utter greatness. EVERYTHING is superb expect for perhaps the final battle which is too easy.

2. X-COM: Enemy Unknown - A great remake of a classic. 9/10. It delivers everything a strategy game should: its sufficiently complex, challenging, fun and rewarding.

3. Mass effect 2

4. F.E.A.R (1 or 3) - Creepy, atmospheric great gunplay

Honorable mentions:

fallout new vegas

doom 3

the new Tomb Raider

Dead space 2

^I got a reall kick out dissecting Mass Effect 2, particularly its Dialog/morality system. I kicked its ass. ;)

I thought Skyrim was fun for a while. Exploration was the thing that made it fun for me. Than I played Dark Souls. I tried to go back to Skyrim after that and couldn't do it. The gameplay is pretty bad, just felt very button mashy to me, not much strategy to it.

lol I never really gave much thought to the whole paragon/renegade thing - I just did what I thought was appropriate - or in some cases, the most funny.

Same with the dialog.

@ thereal25

I never talk about it unless people ask me to because I get reall agressive about why I think its broken.

@thereal25:

lol, now i'm really confused as to your dislike for skyrim, since, I've also played fallout3, fear1, mass2 and newvegas.

those 4 games, which, i enjoy, have nothing over skyrim when i break them all down. obviously, they all have negative issues, but, at least, fallout3 and nv and skyrim allow the player to overcome many of them. fear1 isn't even worthy of comparison and i'll not get into the overrated, simplified, handholding and dumbed-down mass2 here, unless, it's warranted :)

like I've said, skyrim has some issues that I've argued about heatedly, but, i'd be foolish to think those games are head and shoulders above it.

ha, i just think everyone has their own opinion, so even though lots of people really like this game, it doesn't mean you have to love it too, but to be honest i love this game, maybe sometimes i will get bored of it too, but overall i keep playing it for almost 2 or 3 month. i don't like the look of the character either, cause it's really kind of ugly... so you could use the mod to improve it. but i really think the graphic in this game is wonderful, sometimes i just stop to see the scenery not doing the quest, even though it's fake not reality. if you don't like this game, you can just ignore it, play other games you love~ but you can try some mod, it will make this game even better and interesting

@Kevlar101 said:

:P

Seriously though...it's weird because just tonight, I was randomly thinking "Hm, I should play Skyrim again."

I happen to love it.

Opinions are opinions.

I LOL'ED @ the pic. I'm thinking of playing a sneak/archer character soon. I love slitting peoples throats with daggers. :P

WOW... you like Fallout 3 but not Skyrim? everything you mentioned in the original post applies to Fallout 3 also... i mean... wtf?

* music is dull in both, but actually stands out better in Skyrim imo

* characters are pretty much as interesting as bricks in both

* combat... well i must say VATS made it bit more interesting in Fallout 3, but essentially works the same way

* voice acting / accents / face models suck on both

* the story? equally bland in both imo

* as a bonus, both are equally buggy. in Fallout 3 i had to restart the whole game once, since one story quest totally bugged

that said, i really liked them both mainly because of the open world structure. i like exploring, and i personally think the story doesn't matter so much in games like these.

as for the other titles, X-COM remake was really cool, Mass Effects are shit (i really wanted to like them since i'd love to play a good scifi RPG) because they were way too linear and movie-like. FEAR? only the first one was good. they were never able to capture the atmosphere again in the sequels. went too far down the action-avenue.