No hate, just giving my opinion. If anyone else loves the game, then feel free to love it on the merits as you see them. I just found myself very disenchanted by the experience relatively quickly compared to the other games in the series.Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF
Just sayin'. Don't hate.
I played skyrim with the sole intention of making my character into Robert Baratheon from A Song of Ice and Fire, and waltzing around crippling everything and everyone with a giant warhammer. It was great fun and I enjoyed it. I think my favourite moment was having a drunken King Robert take exception to something someone in Riverwood said and promptly slaughtering the entire village in a drunken rage, culminating in Gerdur being the last villager alive and promptly having her head blown off with one mighty blow of the hammer. Then he propped their corpses up on the battlements as a warning to all of the dangers of drinking and the dangers of insulting the true King.
Yes I am an awful man.
Sounds more like a mix between Robert and Joffre, but ok, carry on...
I went with a Breton because, hey, who does not like magic resistance, and made her a two-handed war hammer-wielding, heavy armored sneak-thief.
Pictured sideways as to emphasize her Daedric Warhammer of fire-burnining death. It is a one-shot kill deal, and I do not really need to sneak up on a bloke to add backstab damage, but doing so really hammers the point home.
Forsworn an easy death, am I right?
Necromancers: great settlers of cold caves and beheadings.
...Got a Thu'um called Swing Hammer? Take that, deathlord.
But seriously, smurf necromancers.
Traditional Dragonborn greeting to a dragon.
That armour is snazzy as hell.
I haven't bought a single piece of DLC yet in case they ended up making a GOTY edition like they did with Morrowind, Oblivion, and Fallout. They need to hurry up and announce this!
Haha, "in case". Of course they're going to! They just have to release the last one (I hear it's called Redguard), then it's a straight road to the GOTY!
Not released, trademarked.
God Quin, learn some business law.
Yep. Only played Skyrim and Oblivion and they both ruled. Yes there are areas in which they can improve but there's also countless things that they do really well which seem to be glossed over. Don't give a smurf if anyone disagrees because if they do, they're wrong. This is not subjective, this is objective."I played 60/100/140 hours of Skyrim! What an unengrossing and unimmersive game!"
Now I KNOW you are trolling Pauw, because you don't have brain damage, so you don't think Oblivion is any good. QED.
Remember the spoon thief LJ entries that introduced you to the world of me?
Any game where I can murder a town, leaving only spoons and force the Duke and Duchess's corpses to parade down the street in their underpants is not a bad game. I'm not saying it's EXCEPTIONAL and BRILLIANT and OH MY GOD but it's not worthless either.
Also re: the question about why the horned helmet:
It's so I can see my handsome Dunmer face
Skyrim was my first Elder Scrolls game, too, and I really enjoyed it. More than 216 hours so far and still so much left to do. I always play as a Nord because the other races are fugly.And the 50% ice resistance in a land of snow and ice helps, too. I think it's a gorgeous, beautiful world and I love every single moment I spend in it. Sometimes I say "smurf you, quests" and just climb a mountain to watch the scenery. The Rift is probably my favourite hold, it's just gorgeous and so alive.
Is the game perfect? Of course not, it's really easy and there's no endgame challenge once you have Deadric Armour, Dragonbone weapons and 100-skill enchantment. There is a disturbing lack of variety: do one Nordic ruin and you've done them all, barely any enemies in vanilla. Draugr, Bears, Sabrecats, Wolves, Spiders, Falmer, Vampires, Chaurus, Bandits, Dragons and Automatons. That's it. Given the amount of enemies in, for example, a FF game, that's really just sad. The amount of bugs this game still has is absolutely killer as well. It helps thanks to the unofficial skyrim patch-mod, but even so. Having the game just out of the blue crash to my desktop is rage-quit-inducing as well. I don't get why the children you adopt have to live in the same house, what's up with that? Why can you only take two, anyway? What do I do with all the money I make? I have over 600.000 gold with nothing to spend it on.
But despite the above, it's still a fantastic game, because all (well, most at least) of those flaws can be dealt with thanks to the great modding community. Too easy? There's a mod for it. Don't like the perks? There's a mod for it. Want better graphics? There's a mod for it. Want tougher dragons? There's a mod for it, and so on.
Dragons are pansies, but thanks to a Dragon mod I recently installed it's a thrill again to battle them, even at lv 51. I remember a new black dragon, tons of hp, capable of summoning Draugr Deathlords, Dragonpriests and Whispmothers, but better yet, with a shout it summoned a storm. The sky turned black and it started to rain, while lightning rained down from the sky and struck you or your allies. Combined with the epic music, it was a fantastic battle as my character, Aela, Lydia and Jordis hacked and fired away at the beast, bringing immense satisfaction once he finally fell down. There was a similar experience where, after we defeated the dragon, it fell down the mountain. It reminded me so much of Gandalf striking down the Balrog on the mountain in the LOTR movies, a really memorable moment in the game.
There's just so much fun stuff to do. I love the companions and Aela especially, which, thanks to an immersive mod, have become even better and require more work to complete. I enjoy rebuilding the Thieves' Guild or the family-atmosphere of the Dark Brotherhood. Hunting for Dragons with my Housecarls and shield-sister is a fun adventure. Helping citizens with their troubles or making deals with the Daedric princes is alwasy very satisfying. I remember the Namira (I think?) quest, with the cannibals? I didn't like it, but, well, I wanted the Oblivion Walker achievement, so I joined the ritual. Only to later sacrifice the follower you gain from that quest to Boetiah to sooth my gnawing guilt, and just murdering the rest of that cult in cold blood. Fun times were had.
And the person who mentioned Fus Ro Dah'ing people over the edge of a cliff? I know the feeling bro, it never fails to be amusing.
So yeah, I really have a lot of fun with Skyrim and I haven't even done everything yet. Still have to do Dawnguard and waiting patiently for Dragonborn. Until then, I find myself enjoying this particular mod "Sexy maids of Skyrim". It's surprisingly immersive and extremely well-made, it's about as fantastic as mods can get.
I've gotten my hands on a GOTY edition of Oblivion, but I find it much harder to get into. It's just so stiff and clunky compared to Skyrim, it's hard to enjoy it. But I kind of want to get into it, because I'm really interested in playing all the stuff with Sheogorath. I have heard a lot of good about Morrowind, but if it's even clunkier than Oblivion I doubt I'd get much enjoyment out of it. It's not the graphics, mind you, but the gameplay experience itself. I just miss the streamlined, well-oiled feel of Skyrim. Everything in Oblivion seems so overly complicated, as if the game wants to remind me why I avoided WRPGs for so long. I hate allocating individual points to individual stats. People may enjoy class-building, but I hate it because I just can't choose. I always want to spread things evenly, which, in these kind of games, never gives the best builds for characters. I prefer Skyrim, just health, magica and stamina, while stats take care of themselves as they do in other RPGs. That's how I like it.
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