Why is Skyrim so popular?

I don't really see why people are loving this game so much. After I put in 40 hours, I was over with most of the content this game has to offer except the Radiant Quests which are more boring than seeing paint dry. Most of the other quests are fetch-or-kill type. Why do people claim "OMG Skyrim has so much content all gamers went MIA for months!" I don't find anything interesting to do since most quests suck, there is nothing interesting in the environment and all that detail Todd Howard said was in the game, where the hell is it? The enemy variety is miniature and most people don't have any sort of personality. The first dozen hours were awesome, but then it turned out really boring. Oblivion had way better quests, even if there were no random encounter, much more beautiful environments, so much enemy variety and better NPCs, even if they looked like clay models. Oblivion intoduced me to RPGs and I was hooked for a hundred hours straight.

So the question is, why do people like it so much? And please don't tell me it's so much fun to roleplay...

No idea. But then again, I also have no idea how anyone could play Oblivion for a hundred hours.

You could make the same point about WoW. It's the sheer amount of content combines with the desire to complete as much of it as possible that make for an addictive and immersing experience that's helped by the quality of the story and atmosphere. It also had the advantage of riding on the popularity of the previous games which added to the hype.

To me it's because it's crazy immersive and so nice to look at. I have not finished it but really liked what I did play.

Because its a good game maybe?

The game got boring to me after 126 hours of gameplay, but then i took mods to the skyrim

Try mods, there awesome , makes the game more fun , theres a mods thats called "moonpath to Elseweyr" Really good, Even has its own made voices to the npc's

I won't tell you why I liked it because you wouldn't listen and I don't really care if you like it or not. I will say however I liked the last 3 Elder Schrolls games for over 100 hrs each and will continue to do so. Just sayin'.

Kind of liked oblivion..How ever i thought over time they would improve the combat..Its so boring it drives me to tears.Why i havent touched the game in mounths..Id rather play reckoning with the better combat..Its amazing all these years an elder scrolls people cant get the combat right..Wish they would try some thing new like my boys on the reckoning team tried to do..At least it was a fresh idea..Shame not more people took to there game..The game wasnt bad at all..

Because Skyrim does what it sets out to do, immerse you in a PLAYER-driven fantasy land where you are the hero. An open world action "RPG" with freeroam certainly has its appeal to a lot of people, and Skyrim does a great job in that regard.

Because Skyrim does what it sets out to do, immerse you in a PLAYER-driven fantasy land where you are the hero. An open world action "RPG" with freeroam certainly has its appeal to a lot of people, and Skyrim does a great job in that regard.

Maroxad

When the environments are so ugly, the characters so personality-deficient and where the world hardly responds to your deeds, how do you become immersed?

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So the question is, why do people like it so much? And please don't tell me it's so much fun to roleplay...

LordTrexGuy

1.Freedom of exploration...

2.Huge **** world!

3.Nice visuals...not great not amazing...

4.Immersive world...

5.Fantastic atmosphere.

6.For the mods

Personal "whys":

There are so many weapon and armors i can collect...i have a house mod with unlimited mannequins and weapon racks...where i put on display every piece of armor and weapons i have collected ingame...

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SPYDER0416

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Why are rts games so popular? I hate that ****...

I am not a big fan of skyrim as well, but it is popular because it is a good game. Same with rts's, just because i hate the genre doesn't mean that the games themselves are bad, they just aren't for me. That also goes with just because i like a game doesn't mean that it is a good game. So when people say "it shouldn't be popular because i dont like it" and vice versa, it doesn't make much sense, because it might appeal to others.

Whether a game is good or bad is subjective but every game has areas which can be evaluated objectively.

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LordTrexGuy

If you don't want to be helpful, you can avoid posting here unless you want to answer a very direct question which I think only a 4 year old would fail to understand and I never asked for your dumb template.

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SPYDER0416

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Agreed

Why is Skyrim popular?

For the same reason Dancing With The Stars and Lady Gaga are popular.

A certain percentage of the population, likes whatever they're told to like. Even when the PS3 version was unplayable, sites like GS were praising it like it was the greatest thing since sliced bread, and there were actually people on the PS3 board who were unable to play it - but they were praising it anyway - because they thought they were supposed to.

That's why.

Because modding community. I can make the game into whatever I want it to be

I really don't know.

Some people like endless fetchquests I guess

To me it's because it's crazy immersive and so nice to look at. I have not finished it but really liked what I did play.

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has a really bad story line...most of the quest lines are "omg my boss died...hey newbie...i know we just met, and this is crazy: would u like to run *organization*" soooooo many fetch quests in 3 or 4 different dugeon types that all end up blending together. not to mention the clunky combat and how mary sue your character is...even more op than superman...only thing left is flying...oh wait u have a pet dragon

and its not really that nice to look at...even on pc with the high res pack that bethesda released, and after trying some of the graphic tweaks on steamworks, its still rather ugly for 2011...but thats what u get with a game that's so huge and fits 9 gig...

i really cant find the immersion factor that some people find in this game, its so clunky and all the characters are extremely bland. according to steam i put around 60 hours in the game and i cant remember a single characters name to save my life. ive given it its fair chance and ive tried it over and over with different mods hoping that it would be better than...fallout 3. idk maybe the whole cheesy characters and bad combat and horrid story lines with tons of fetch quests(read: same quest different flavor text) is lost on me? but i dont see why everyone says this is the 2011 goty

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LordTrexGuy

If you don't want to be helpful, you can avoid posting here unless you want to answer a very direct question which I think only a 4 year old would fail to understand and I never asked for your dumb template.

Helpful in what way exactly? There are hundreds of raving reviews on the internet that you can read at your leisure. What exactly is the point of threads like these?

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Because Skyrim does what it sets out to do, immerse you in a PLAYER-driven fantasy land where you are the hero. An open world action "RPG" with freeroam certainly has its appeal to a lot of people, and Skyrim does a great job in that regard.

LordTrexGuy

When the environments are so ugly, the characters so personality-deficient and where the world hardly responds to your deeds, how do you become immersed?

Well, I personally hate playing Skyrim (I gave it a 3.0/10 on this very site and consider it to be the worst game of 2011). But I believe I can answer those questions anyway.

Ugly environments: A lot of people say they find the vistas absolutely breathtaking
Personality deficient characters: I dont think everyone pays attention to that.
World hardly responding to your deeds: This is an issue with too many open world games out there, in fact, Skyrim does a better job that a lot of games, such as Assassin's Creed, Saint's Row and GTA.

As for ways Skyrim immerses people.

Its soundtrack, mostly loading screen free experience where the world isnt seperated into a lot of smaller areas, no shoehorning, the player driven nature of the game and the extra stuff you can do in the world, such as owning a house, work, get married (shudders), ect.

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Pedro

If you don't want to be helpful, you can avoid posting here unless you want to answer a very direct question which I think only a 4 year old would fail to understand and I never asked for your dumb template.

Helpful in what way exactly? There are hundreds of raving reviews on the internet that you can read at your leisure. What exactly is the point of threads like these?

Yeah in all honesty this thread is kind of pointless. You ask about why its so great, then when someone tells you you shoot down their debate and list a bunch of reasons why you DON'T think its so great.

Its a straw man argument and is just completely pointless to ask why its great, then see a bunch of examples and have access to a bunch of reviews, if you just want to argue why you dislike it so much. I don't need to waste my time explaining why Skyrim is great if someone wants to ignore me or pretend my reasons aren't valid, even if they are shared by millions of gamers and dozens of game critics.

You don't like the game and yet you clocked in 40 hours? Do you not have any good games, or are you just stupid?khoofia_pika

Why is he stupid..Perhaps he wanted to see what the end game was like if there was one..Man i hate replies like this..Some times ill play a game for like 20 hours an figure man this game is horrid..

On an unrelated note, I'm just wondering, how long would it take to complete every quest and find every location and masks in the game? Like non randomly generated quests I mean.

I got somewhere to 230 hours in Fallout 3 and its DLC before I found every last unique weapon and character and bobblehead and finished every last quest there was.

Do you put 40 hours into every game you find boring?

The main story in Skyrim wasn't amazing. The rest was excellent though.

The best part for me was the sides quests and exploring the world.

Skyrim was a big improvement over Oblivion for dungeons. Tons of unique caves, ruins, and keeps to explore. I don't like the map and environment as much as Oblivion, but there is plenty to do.

The NPCs in town are much more engaging and interesting and help make the game feel alive.

The graphics and music are fantastic.

Mods are what make the game so much better. I haven't played it in a few months, but I know by the time I come back there will be hundreds of mods to add to the game. I was working on my own dungeon before I stopped playing.

I usually find those people who can't enjoy elder scrolls games or rpgs like them is that they are games that you get only what you put into them. Your hand will not be held, fun little sidequests and secrets will not jump out at you (I'm still finding awesome little tidbits and unmarked quests nearly 200 hours into the game), and mods you apply to the game for new, free, endless content.

The game got boring to me after 126 hours of gameplay, but then i took mods to the skyrim

Try mods, there awesome , makes the game more fun , theres a mods thats called "moonpath to Elseweyr" Really good, Even has its own made voices to the npc's

danygo1996

I will say this...

I uninstalled Moonpath to Elsweyr because the voice acting was godawful.

Because its awesome.

Gameplay , quests ,deapth in combat and magic, Mods, Huge world, Great story and side quests.Best RPG EVER. I am serious and not being sarcastic. It really is the best rpg in my opinion.

Because its awesome.

Gameplay , quests ,deapth in combat and magic, Mods, Huge world, Great story and side quests.Best RPG EVER. I am serious and not being sarcastic. It really is the best rpg in my opinion.

neo_87

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Because its awesome.

Gameplay , quests ,deapth in combat and magic, Mods, Huge world, Great story and side quests.Best RPG EVER. I am serious and not being sarcastic. It really is the best rpg in my opinion.

Toxic-Seahorse

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Because its awesome.

Gameplay , quests ,deapth in combat and magic, Mods, Huge world, Great story and side quests.Best RPG EVER. I am serious and not being sarcastic. It really is the best rpg in my opinion.

wis3boi

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Because its awesome.

Gameplay , quests ,deapth in combat and magic, Mods, Huge world, Great story and side quests.Best RPG EVER. I am serious and not being sarcastic. It really is the best rpg in my opinion.

Toxic-Seahorse

Is it really needed at the end of the day? What does this depth constitute?