Skyrim: Game of the Decade!

[monkeycid]

I have nothing negative to say about this game.

 

I've "completed" it several times with different character combinations and still find myself playing this game over and over gain. Furthermore, whenever I find a new mod to play with, I never actually get around to trying it out because I often end up caught up in the Skyrim quests and story once again and forget about the mod entirely.

 

If this is the last in the Elder Scrolls series (not counting the online game coming out), I wouldn't be disappointed.

 

All in all, Skyrim is my favourite game of the last 10 years.

[Gepardus]

Amen.
Your confession will be taken note of, when you will be judged.

[Jexsam]

I have nothing negative to say about this game.

I take it you've never actually played it, then.

[dboura]

 

I have nothing negative to say about this game.

I take it you've never actually played it, then.

 

 

Or the PC version of it at least.

[Lagoon0654]

Great game sure, but of the decade?

Lmao no. Even as much of a fanboy I am, I'll admit this game can be a giant piece of shit at times.

[monkeycid]

I have the PC version and I haven't had any problems with it. Hardly any CTD errors. I've had a couple of problems with quests but nothing that hindered my enjoyment of the game. I do, however, play on medium settings with a low resolution to help with stability as well as minimal mods running at a time.

 

I do believe many errors and crashes PC users experience are caused by them trying to get too much out of the game. Skyrim doesn't have to be loaded up with mods and be running at ultra settings to be fun!

[Jexsam]

Skyrim doesn't have to be loaded up with mods ... to be fun!

Yes it does.

 

Let's be honest here. The quests are bland with little to no variety, as well as being largely linear - evil quests for evil character, good quests for good characters, with very little overlap. Dungeons, while at times visually impressive and better executed than anything Oblivion did, are still bland once you've done three or four. Enemy variety is lacking, and even the ones that require a little more effort to kill like Falmer and Giants are unrewarding at best. Armor and weapon variety is sorely lacking. There are very few memorable characters - Cicero and Sheogorath are the only ones who really stood out. Anyone else with potential, like Ulfric, Tullius, the entire rest of the other guilds, Esbern, are all wasted or underutilized by poor writing. Certain game mechanics are either blatantly broken (smithing+enchanting, fireball stun lock) or underpowered (Destruction). Vanilla followers are nothing but dumb meat shields at best and infuriating door jams at worst. And don't get me started on how much un- or half-finished shit there is in the game that could have improved it ten-fold if they'd been completed, like capturing and holding mines, farms, and lumber mills for the civil war, or all the aborted city sieges for the same...

 

Skyrim isn't a bad game, though. Having an open world where you can go do whatever is something Bethesda has always done relatively well, even if the things you do in it aren't always that well executed. Combat is fun, if a bit simple. And even with the flaws I pointed out, pretty much everything in the game is interesting enough to warrant trying once. But without mods, both aesthetic and mechanic, the game would've been dead after a year or so. "Game of the Decade" it is not.

[...0...]

Its nice game and i enjoy it alot becouse of mods and constant tweaking.

 

But game of decade not even close.

 

I think Bioshock 1 was better.

[...0...]

 

Skyrim doesn't have to be loaded up with mods ... to be fun!

Yes it does.

 

Let's be honest here. The quests are bland with little to no variety, as well as being largely linear - evil quests for evil character, good quests for good characters, with very little overlap. Dungeons, while at times visually impressive and better executed than anything Oblivion did, are still bland once you've done three or four. Enemy variety is lacking, and even the ones that require a little more effort to kill like Falmer and Giants are unrewarding at best. Armor and weapon variety is sorely lacking. There are very few memorable characters - Cicero and Sheogorath are the only ones who really stood out. Anyone else with potential, like Ulfric, Tullius, the entire rest of the other guilds, Esbern, are all wasted or underutilized by poor writing. Certain game mechanics are either blatantly broken (smithing+enchanting, fireball stun lock) or underpowered (Destruction). Vanilla followers are nothing but dumb meat shields at best and infuriating door jams at worst. And don't get me started on how much un- or half-finished shit there is in the game that could have improved it ten-fold if they'd been completed, like capturing and holding mines, farms, and lumber mills for the civil war, or all the aborted city sieges for the same...

 

Skyrim isn't a bad game, though. Having an open world where you can go do whatever is something Bethesda has always done relatively well, even if the things you do in it aren't always that well executed. Combat is fun, if a bit simple. And even with the flaws I pointed out, pretty much everything in the game is interesting enough to warrant trying once. But without mods, both aesthetic and mechanic, the game would've been dead after a year or so. "Game of the Decade" it is not.

 

 

Dungeons are one of best improvements over Oblivion and offcorse dragons and there animations all tho there to easy to kill and to many.

 

What i like so much about skyrim is freedom and explore in world and relaxing if modded right to my taste.

 

Some good graphics mods and sound can do wonders already plus so many realy nice immersive mods can make it a superb game.

 

But its still not even close to game of decade.

 

 

[Taskmaster]

The stability of the game can sometimes kill it, flat out.

 

And a lot of the combat mechanics are lackluster.

 

But the exploration and all of that, is just unstoppable.

[DMCDante]

I guess I would have been the only one to agree with the OP if it wasn't for GTA V. I never minded bugs as I know how to circumvent them, combat of skyrim gets enriched by mods. I know, I know, mods don't count as they are not made by the game developer, but I consider them part of the experience why the game would have been game of the decade for me. The freedom to apply user made modifications and tailor a game to your tastes is amazing in my books.

 

GTAV overtook skyrim for me, because of it's online mode. I've only just gotten the game and skipped on all the OMGWTFONLINESUCKS period of the game lol

[Captain Cobra]

Lets see:

• Combat still floaty as fuck, and the only weapons that were satisfying to use were the two-handed ones.
• Awful spell scaling for most schools of magic.
• Removal of attributes, permanent birthsigns, and some skills made characters feel much more samey.
• Leveled loot made even more useless by smithing, making everything you'll find in a dungeon vendor trash.
• Most dungeons were very linear.
• Little variety between enemies.
• Civil war has little impact on Skyrim, despite having such an integral role in Skyrim.
• Alduin was a generic dragon with a different model and one extra shout.
• Dragons in general being weak and easy to kill, even at expert and master difficulties (and are technically wyvern if you're one of those people.)
• Perk system mostly consists of boost x by y type perks.
• Sidequests were less intresting than previous titles, for the most part.
• Can become the leader of a faction after only doing a few quests for that faction.

 

...Among other things.  I'd be lying to say I didn't have fun with skyrimjob, but Game of the Decade material?  It's not even Game of the Month material.

[cornbreadtm]

90% of the game is subpar. But all together it's better than most games. It's no Neverwinter nights 2, game play wise or Knights of the old republic 2, story wise. But it does everything decent enough to make the game fun which is all you can really ask of a game.

 

And like Cocaine Cobra said the "Removal of attributes, permanent birthsigns, and some skills made characters feel much more samey." This the main reason why this games falls off. Without properly modding it the game looses most of its re-playability do to the removal of its RPG aspects. Without a good story to back it up, its a rouge type .Which isn't a bad thing but the game isn't built around the format, making it a poor rogue type. Since the game is made around the idea of replays, it isn't as good as it could have been.

 

I'll give it game of the last 5 years though. I've been pretty disappointed in everything that came after Dragon Age: Origins.

[junkacc]

Skyrim = most underachieving, over-hyped, over-rated game of the decade

[Rayblue]

^

It got overrated because of its size.

 

Nevermind, Skyrim is what made me drop off MMO gameplay completely. No lag, no exploiters, no dorks running around and trying to scam or to steal your drops, or pay too much to level up. I never had this much fun playing and modding since GTA: San Andreas.

[Gepardus]

Yea, Skyrim is actually preety much fun, but it can´t hold me forever, tough mods can extend playtime quite a bit.

[ElvenScoundrel]

This game isn't game of the decade. Unlike GTA:5, where you're playing through the story of three characters with unique personalities and twists and turns, and unlike GTA:5, which makes you question western culture and society as a whole, Skyrim is a bland, uninspiring game. This is a downgrading of what used to be a deep RPG experience unlike any other. Is it fun? It can be, but it lacks so many things it's not even funny. This game was a massive disappointment and it doesn't shine a good line on TES Online.

[winny257]

for me is skyrim like oblivion, "mediocre"! the only game elders scroll the saga was morrowind for me, a huge game world, giant's quest, much more equipment, much more fractions and far from a larger atmosphere.

Although it is not the best game of the last 10 years, but it has revolutionized roleplaying era.

 

german \ deutsch !

 

für mich ist skyrim genau wie oblivion , "mittelmäßig"! das einzige spiel der elders scroll saga war für mich morrowind , eine riesige spielewelt , gigantische quest's , viel mehr ausrüstungen , viel mehrere fraktionen und eine weit aus größere atmosphäre .

es ist zwar nicht das beste spiel der letzten 10 jahre , aber es hat die rollenspiel ära revolutioniert .

[dobmc]

But the exploration and all of that, is just unstoppable.

 

You mean the dungeons are actually fun? I got tired of exploring them after realising that there all the same recycled rubbish. But I think Bethesda did a good job delaying it.

 

I guess this is a rant thread now. So I'll just exert my negative impressions about this game:

 

 

Just to remind you I'm talking about the unmodded/vanilla Skyrim. Some of the points might be re-used. Also I've played through the main mission once before modding… And my disappointment of the vanilla game after I started modding? You guess.

-Enormous amount of bugs/glitches, typos.

-Boring combat with paddle weapons

-Immersion breaking AI

-Horrible sound effects

-Bad navigation.

-Stupid and repeated enemy encounters.

-Bounty system and npc's reaction

-Meant-for-Xbox interface.

-low budget npc voices. Very boring, and recycled.

-Everything in the game is immersion breaking except a few of the landscapes (and they say lore friendly? Lmao).

-Ugly meshes/textures.

-Poor patches (I've said this before: Skyrim is probably the only game I heard that people downgraded to the previous version) Also, its not just the 1.9 patch.

-fogs in the distance

-fogs everywhere

-$5 DLCs

etc. etc. These are what I could think from the top of my head. 

 

If I would list every issue about this game, I would be writing a book.

 

and for people who say that this wasn't on a AAA budget: A game doesn't need to have a AAA budget to be good.

 

 

The positive impression:

 

 

-Large? I suppose?

-Cheating the system to fun around

-Voice

-Um… 

Dammit I'm trying not to be bias here but the game just cannot hold up without the modding feature.

 

 

 

Just saying but without all these features (moddable, release date, promotion…) Skyrim wouldn't even reach half of its current sales. The game might have been a success but as long as it sells, the harsh criticism continues.

[Captain Cobra]

And another thing I forgot on my list:  Fem Argonian voices were absolutely disgusting.  Why?

[Gepardus]

 

 

 

Just saying but without all these features (moddable, release date, promotion…) Skyrim wouldn't even reach half of its current sales.

 

U know that they are counting on modders like those here, dont you? 

[dobmc]

Yep, and you know the good but evil part about that? It's free.

[Gepardus]

Yep, and you know the good but evil part about that? It's free.

What´s so evil on that? It´s great!

[shinji72]

So the game sucks... and we are all here playing it, 2 years after release?
 We must be such a morons then.
The questline may be bland, and perfection doesn't exist...
But the art, design, ideas, concepts (like the dragonborn) they really hit the target.

You can see it by the amount of video, pictures, meme, that still flows the internet.
It really deserves his place in ealry XXI century's pop culture.

Then of course I'm referring to a modded Skyrim PC version. Why one would consider vanilla and modded skyrim two different games?
It's a Bethesda policy to make it open to modding after all. 
 

[Gepardus]

So the game sucks... and we are all here playing it, 2 years after release?

 We must be such a morons then.

The questline may be bland, and perfection doesn't exist...

But the art, design, ideas, concepts (like the dragonborn) they really hit the target.

You can see it by the amount of video, pictures, meme, that still flows the internet.

It really deserves his place in ealry XXI century's pop culture.

 

Then of course I'm referring to a modded Skyrim PC version. Why one would consider vanilla and modded skyrim two different games?

It's a Bethesda policy to make it open to modding after all. 

 

Yay, EXACTLY!