What if Skyrim turns out to be bad?

I know this isnt likely at all but what if all the planets aligned and the inconceivable did happen? You open the box while admiring its beautiful artwork, genetly remove the disk while consumed by giddy joy, turn on your system with each second it takes to power up feeling like hours, and insert the game. You begin by making your character still unable to believe that all the months of patient waiting are finally at an end. The first suprise pops up almost immedeately when you notice that there aren't that many options in character creation. "Whatever" you say to yourself, "Lets just get this show on the road." You soon enter the world of Skyrim and are instantly dumbfounded by its sheer beauty. "Holly crap, the graphics are amazing. The landscapes are simply beautiful" you can't help thinking, but, as you progress and begin to explore the map you realize that, while beautiful, it is not much else. There is very little variety and the world is in fact quite small. At this point you experience some combat, lets say with a pack of bandits, and, even there, the game fails to impress. "Sure, a game like this isn't expected to have top of the line sword fightning and what-not, but this amount of awkward clunkiness and lag is simply too much." After defeating the bandits you decide to focus on the main quest. A few hours later you are shocked by how simple, short and predictable it is. "Well, Oblivion's main quest wasn't particularly noteworthy either. It was the guild's that provided intriguing and captivating stories." With that mind, you begin making a name for yourself as Skyrim's greatest thief and assassin. You are shocked to discover that instead of the visceral and fascinating tales told by the guilds in Oblivion, you are given simple and repetitive "steal this" or "kill them" missions witn no over-arching stories. At this point your hope begins to fade. The nagging and persisting thought that you've tried so desperately to ignore suddenly becomes undeniable. Skyrim is crap. How would you react?

I have always imaged a developer would make AAA game selling millions of copies. Then come back next year with the worst game that took 10 days to make and keep extreme wraps and only show what you want to get hype to make EXTREME Profit.

or re release the game and call it 2...

Then rename the dev and do it all over again.

I have always imaged a developer would make AAA game selling millions of copies. Then come back next year with the worst game that took 10 days to make and keep extreme wraps and only show what you want to get hype to make EXTREME Profit.

or re release the game and call it 2...

Then rename the dev and do it all over again.

k2theswiss

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I have always imaged a developer would make AAA game selling millions of copies. Then come back next year with the worst game that took 10 days to make and keep extreme wraps and only show what you want to get hype to make EXTREME Profit.

or re release the game and call it 2...

Then rename the dev and do it all over again.

driftingsilvia

My first though was Dragon Age 2, but Call of Duty work as well. xD Hopefull this wont happen to Skyrim though.

Skyrim wont be awful. I cant see Todd Howard, a seasoned RPG guru, to abandon the awesomness of the Elder Scrolls series. I trust Bethesda...

It's inevitable that somene will get on this forum and say how much they hate Skyrim and how bad it is. I personally got on here and posted how much I disliked Rage. No developer can make a game that everyone will like. Someone will always find it completely awful. That's just life. I know I'm in the minority with respect to thinking that Rage is a crappy game and I suspect the same will be true for those who will ultimately think that Skyrim isn't that great.

But what if Skyrim becomes one of those games that goes down in history for being one of biggest gaming disappointments ever? You know, on a level where pretty much everyone will agree that its pretty bad or at least not nearly as good as everyone expected it to be?

I couldn't bear to think.

I'm not a fan of the series/game but I certainly hold no ill-will against it. I hope it turns out well because there are a lot of people on here that are looking forward to it.

So many in fact that if Skyrim does flop, hell, Gamespot.com Forums are likely to fold in on themselves and explode, end-of-days style! ;)

What if Skyrim turns out to be bad?SimpsonKnight

I have faith it will be decent but not live up to the hype. I give it a 7.5/10 from what I have seen. Personally I just dont give a damn about it or elder scrolls.

Skyrim wont be awful. I cant see Todd Howard, a seasoned RPG guru, to abandon the awesomness of the Elder Scrolls series. I trust Bethesda...

EvilSelf

i got to see 30mins of it at e3 behind closed doors at the Bethesda/ID booth. YOU WILL NOT BE DISSAPOINTED. what struck me was how similar it was to oblviion in play style and things to do, BUT THAT IS WHATS GREAT!!!! though this time with the advent of dragons as wild cards in any encouter will be cool. the demo guy was walking past a troll herding its mastadon's when the dragon the player had earlier attempted to battle actually swooped down and flew off with the troll!! (troll is about 3-5 times bigger then u btw). magic users will get a kick out of mixing spells and the dragon words to.

This is what is making me lean towards getting this for PC... atleast if it sucks, the PC comminity can mod the crap out of it until it is good.

When i get it, i'll have 1 week to decide or it's back to eb games for a full refund. I hope this will not be the case.

Skyrim wont be awful. I cant see Todd Howard, a seasoned RPG guru, to abandon the awesomness of the Elder Scrolls series. I trust Bethesda...

EvilSelf

I will buy a big tub of ice cream and cry myself to sleep

Oye, shut your mouth!

... But should that happen, it couldn't be that 'bad'... We'd just have another so-so Elder Scrolls like Oblivion. It was fun, but far some profound.

I have always imaged a developer would make AAA game selling millions of copies. Then come back next year with the worst game that took 10 days to make and keep extreme wraps and only show what you want to get hype to make EXTREME Profit.

or re release the game and call it 2...

Then rename the dev and do it all over again.

k2theswiss

LOL Dragon Age 2.. Is a good example of that

i dont think it will be bad, but i also dont think it will live up to the hype. I think people will be most dissapointed with the length of the game, it has improved graphics and its only 1 disc so i think it will be slightly shorter than previous elder scrolls games.

Well, didnt this exact same scenario happen to Final Fantasy though? A developer known for their impressive RPGs, in fact some of the most famous RPGs of all time, released the highly anticipated Final Fantasy XIII, which was, well I cant really think of a better word than "crap." I dont think Skyrim is any more immune to such an outcome than Final Fantasy XIII was and look what happened there. So... ya, it could happen. :P

This actually is a possibility.

The game could be as glitchy as Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas, hopefully their new engine fixes said problems