Why SKYRIM does NOT deserve to be GOTY

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What doesn't make sense?

theuncharted34

1. People around here hate COD but love Skyrim.

2. COD has yearly releases. I don't know when Oblivion came out but it definitely wasn't last year.

But at first, a lot of people around here buy the latest CoD for some reason and THEN hate on it.

It won't be long until Skyrim gets that treatment, A lot of people hate on Oblivion now.

The people who say that Skyrim does not deserve to be Game of the Year obviously haven't even played the game.

Yeah, my game definitely wasn't a buggy mess for me and a lot of others who played the game, besides on the ps3. I don't even think the TC has even played the game, in which case his opinion in null in my view.pl4yer_f0und

Don't get the complaints of bugs, literally haven't had more than a handful, which is true for any game.Badosh

[QUOTE="StrongDeadlift"]

It will never cease to amaze me how far fanboys will go to defend their game. For instance, I DARE you to go into a Skyrim thread, ANY skyrim thread, and point out the word "bugs" and "glitches". It is the general consensus that Skyrim has an above average amount of BOTH of these, yet I PROMISE you there will be at least ONE person who will deny it with every fiber of their being.

RobbieH1234

Jesus, some of them glitches are actually terrible.

This. All this Skyrim worship is just the honeymoon phase. It will wear off within a month or too, and then the hate will start to pour in (aka. People will start to wake up). nothing about the game is "new" or "revolutionary". Its all been done before, hell, by other Bethesda games. I personally found Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3 both better and more interesting/engaging to play, but thats just me (and the scores and sales of the games arent very far off).. Like I said in the OP, i racked up like alot of time in the game by leaving my console idle because it just didnt pull me in, yet when I played both fallout games, I was glued to my TV for a week. StrongDeadlift

I've said this before. A game doesn't have to do ANYTHING new or revloutionary to be good. It just has to do those things that have been done before better.

its either skyrim or witcher 2 GOTY so get over it

have not played the game yet Skyrim, right now I'm playing Dark Souls great game, so far i have heard lots of complain es the the game has bugs on all 3 platforms but that the ps3 suffers the most, Skyrim should not have been realised its an unfinished game and any unfinished game dosent deserve to be nominated GOTY, but it deserves to win the most bugs in a game GOTY i have never heard this much complains about a game

And it's not like the mods add whole quests to the game. mrmusicman247

[QUOTE="StrongDeadlift"]This. All this Skyrim worship is just the honeymoon phase. It will wear off within a month or too, and then the hate will start to pour in (aka. People will start to wake up). nothing about the game is "new" or "revolutionary". Its all been done before, hell, by other Bethesda games. I personally found Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3 both better and more interesting/engaging to play, but thats just me (and the scores and sales of the games arent very far off).. Like I said in the OP, i racked up like alot of time in the game by leaving my console idle because it just didnt pull me in, yet when I played both fallout games, I was glued to my TV for a week. mrmusicman247

I've said this before. A game doesn't have to do ANYTHING new or revloutionary to be good. It just has to do those things that have been done before better.

Somebody's gonna take an arrow to the knee...khoofia_pika

Why SKYRIM does deserve to be GOTY:

It's insanely fun.

Animations are 2 gens behind. But the game is great. Dark Souls should be GOTY in my book.silversix_

I played approximately 50 hours and I gotta admit I had fun between the 10th and the 40th hours. However ... you'll probably agree that the beginning and the end of a game are pretty important for a lasting good impression. So for me:

The beginning was extremely uneven - you notice all those little issues, like animations, small bugs, and I had problems with crashing.

The ending, which for me was with the main story line was pretty bad. The last few hours of the main quest were boring and anticlimactic (not to mention easy, even though I was below level 20). I felt exactly like a courier, though I won't get into details because of spoilers.

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[QUOTE="StrongDeadlift"]This. All this Skyrim worship is just the honeymoon phase. It will wear off within a month or too, and then the hate will start to pour in (aka. People will start to wake up). nothing about the game is "new" or "revolutionary". Its all been done before, hell, by other Bethesda games. I personally found Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3 both better and more interesting/engaging to play, but thats just me (and the scores and sales of the games arent very far off).. Like I said in the OP, i racked up like alot of time in the game by leaving my console idle because it just didnt pull me in, yet when I played both fallout games, I was glued to my TV for a week. BrunoBRS

I've said this before. A game doesn't have to do ANYTHING new or revloutionary to be good. It just has to do those things that have been done before better.

[QUOTE="StrongDeadlift"]This. All this Skyrim worship is just the honeymoon phase. It will wear off within a month or too, and then the hate will start to pour in (aka. People will start to wake up). nothing about the game is "new" or "revolutionary". Its all been done before, hell, by other Bethesda games. I personally found Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3 both better and more interesting/engaging to play, but thats just me (and the scores and sales of the games arent very far off).. Like I said in the OP, i racked up like alot of time in the game by leaving my console idle because it just didnt pull me in, yet when I played both fallout games, I was glued to my TV for a week. mrmusicman247

I've said this before. A game doesn't have to do ANYTHING new or revloutionary to be good. It just has to do those things that have been done before better.

Bethesda released a ps3 version I don't have a 360 or pc so of course I buy it. And seriously Bethesda have a garbage team. If you're f****** game doesn't work on a system don't release it, every ps3 skyrim owner should get their money back, it's disgraceful that they can release a broken game everyone is calling the best game of the year and make profits off it.

f*** Bethesda I'm never buying a new game from them ever again.

Love your threads strongdeadlift. :P Anyways i have to play it.TheGuardian03

That's the best you can come up with? Someone is trying to hard.

That's the best you can come up with? Someone is trying to hard.

Stevo_the_gamer

If anything all these points are just a testament to how truely amazing the game is!

With all these bugs and issues and to still be so highly praised and regarded, it really says something about the product and what if offers.

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That's the best you can come up with? Someone is trying to hard.

StrongDeadlift

I think... this image explains perfectly. Have fun.

Still better than any game this year. And I didn't like Oblivion when it came out. Skyrim is just miles ahead in terms of variety than other games. Lethalhazard

You cannot be serious

[QUOTE="Lethalhazard"]Still better than any game this year. And I didn't like Oblivion when it came out. Skyrim is just miles ahead in terms of variety than other games. IPWNDU2

You cannot be serious

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[QUOTE="Lethalhazard"]Still better than any game this year. And I didn't like Oblivion when it came out. Skyrim is just miles ahead in terms of variety than other games. KC_Hokie

You cannot be serious

This was my point. Almost EVERY feature of the game was underwhelming, and is done better anywhere else. The gameplay is incredibly weak/shallow, with no depth. The story is generic filler for the sake of having one at best, animations and A.I. that would look out of place in an Xbox 1 game, etc....lifeless emotionless manniquins who repeat the same dialogue over and over again...(and to think, I remember Bethesda actually bragging about the game having like 65,000 lines of dialogue or something. Right :roll: ). Not to mention (according to MY experiance and the experience of others) the one thing that the game DOES that actually IS noteworthy (how much stuff you can do) is done better by Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. StrongDeadlift

What kind of depth are you talking about for the gamplay?

I'm just amazed at how little the franchise has moved on from Oblivion.

The animations are still ridiculously bad,the voice acting is still poor ,A.I is still borderline-broken at times and the amount of bugs and glitches and just a general lack of polish in some areas is pretty unacceptable imo.

I know what the fans are gonna throw at me,how a game this big and ambitious is always going to have bugs,but I think its time some posters here stopped giving Bethesda a free pass all the damn time.

I think some people are trying too hard to not like the game.

I think some people are trying too hard to not like the game.

Big_Pecks

My copy is literally unplayable after more than 25 minutes. I don't care what kind of world they made, what kind of problem they were aware of that only the ps3 version has. The fact that Bethesda somehow wasn't aware of such a big problem (bulls***) and still released it and are making profits. The ps3 scores are still sky high, and they still have yet to even add a single fix.

I don't care if people think the game is their personal favorite of the year, Bethesda as a company don't deserve to have their product named the best game this year by any professional site. But it will.

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I think some people are trying too hard to not like the game.

Jolt_counter119

My copy is literally unplayable after more than 25 minutes. I don't care what kind of world they made, what kind of problem they were aware of that only the ps3 version has. The fact that Bethesda somehow wasn't aware of such a big problem (bulls***) and still released it and are making profits. The ps3 scores are still sky high, and they still have yet to even add a single fix.

I don't care if people think the game is their personal favorite of the year, Bethesda as a company don't deserve to have their product named the best game this year by any professional site. But it will.

[QUOTE="Lethalhazard"]Still better than any game this year. And I didn't like Oblivion when it came out. Skyrim is just miles ahead in terms of variety than other games. IPWNDU2

You cannot be serious

i have over 15 hours on the PS3 version and the game has not froze on me yet.jediknight52501

I was around 12 hours and told ActionRemix the same thing. Now It's not even worth it for me to play it anymore, not until there's some kind of fix.

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[QUOTE="Lethalhazard"]Still better than any game this year. And I didn't like Oblivion when it came out. Skyrim is just miles ahead in terms of variety than other games. Lethalhazard

You cannot be serious

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[QUOTE="Big_Pecks"]

I think some people are trying too hard to not like the game.

Big_Pecks

My copy is literally unplayable after more than 25 minutes. I don't care what kind of world they made, what kind of problem they were aware of that only the ps3 version has. The fact that Bethesda somehow wasn't aware of such a big problem (bulls***) and still released it and are making profits. The ps3 scores are still sky high, and they still have yet to even add a single fix.

I don't care if people think the game is their personal favorite of the year, Bethesda as a company don't deserve to have their product named the best game this year by any professional site. But it will.

This isn't some person to person thing. The ps3 version has a problem with the file size. The larger it gets the worse the game plays. My file size was about 6.5mb when it started but wasn't too bad my file size is 16mb and it's unplayable basically.

Eh... I don't think I can flat out agree or disagree. Skyrim really is the biggest game of its kind. No other game out there offers such an incredible sense of freedom or scale. There's obviously going to be glitches. Bethesda should leave their games in the shop for another year, no question about that, but the game, for what it is, is incredibly good. I think if you say Skyrim doesn't deserve GOTY because of glitches you could also say Arkham City don't deserve GOTY for leaving content out of the game (Nightwing and Robin) to charge as DLC and being a part of the whole "pass" system (Catwoman).