I think if skyrim turned out to be a mediocre game it would crush me more than any other game tbh. The other games I play I don't care if one of them is bad because there are always other FPS's to play, but I never really got into any other RPG than elder scroll games, even fallout didn't feel right.

There really aren't more than a handfull open world sword and magic rpg's anymore, and even less that are good.

You know what is gonna svck. If there is any validity to 2012 then we only get 13 months to play and mod Skyrim before the world explodes.

@Bethesda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHeP9Sve48

i'm kind of shocked that a fan of the series would think there's even the slightest chance that Skyrim would svck. Have faith man
Bethesda isn't one of those develops that rushes a new game every to make a quick buck. They know how bad that is for a series *cough*callofduty*cough*
Bethesda takes time on they're games, and put a ton of effort forward to make sure we are getting the best game possible
:foodndrink:

I still haven't played a Bethesda game yet that I didn't enjoy to some extent (mainly meaning that Morrowind, Redguard and Battlespire were decently entertaining but I won't play them again) and the same goes for FO3 and FNV. So I'm not doubting them in the least for Skyrim and I actually have a good feeling that it will be the best one of them all, and usually my feelings are right.

My memory is a bit shaky as it was a long time ago bit I'm pretty sure Oblivion disappointed a number of fans after Morrowind. I'd by surprised if Skyrim didn't do the same.

Morrowind did the same thing for Daggerfall fans. Many sequels do the same thing. However, anyone who says Oblivion "svcked balls" is just wrong. I'm a very big advocate of differing opinions, but they're just wrong, period. Whether a person likes a game or not is one thing, but Oblivion does not svck balls. It just doesn't. I'm assuming other people agree with me on the definition of "svcked balls".

I was satisfied when I played Oblivion. It wasn't perfect but it delivers. I believe that Skyrim will be awesome!

Yeah but those disappointed Morrowind players were too busy trying to figure out what was different about the two games and obsessing over it. Kind've hard to get immersed in the game when your too busy trying to compare it to another game.

People have a tendency to compare sequals :rolleyes:

Or.. coming out of the sewers stunned by beautiful graphics.. dying of a bandit..

And then getting totally and utterly bummed out at the lack of immersion, options, gameplay, character building, good dungeons/cities/villages, interesting NPC's, good fights, quests with any depth.. oh my.. need I go on.

Not this again.

I trust Bethesda... They're the creators of my favorite series, and I know they won't screw up their masterpiece!

so you are saying skyrim is going to disappoint more tes fans? now thats just ridiculous, from the info that has been confirmed for skyrim so far, they were mostly improvements, so when i imagine myself playing skyrim, i see it being way better overall than oblivion

I'm looking at skyrim as making up for Oblivion so I have faith.

I'll lose it the second I notice any catering to the console platform over the PC platform. Low res menus in Oblivion that you had to scroll and navigate through are a no no. I want my resizable windows and streamlined interface that Morrowind had back.

Wait, what? Making up for Oblivion? What's that supposed to mean?



So that's where this thread is leading, eh? Every :wallbash: damn :wallbash: time :wallbash:...

Ignore me. It's a routine cleansing process.

Yeah, a terrible habit. I don't compare games until I finish them so that it doesn't get in the way of the actual game. If you spend all your time trying to compare the games breaks your immersion in the game and thus dulls the game to you and making it seem like it is a worse game even though it may not be. People have to be subjective but that's too much to ask I suppose. I mean, when I watch a movie based on a book I don't decide if the movie is good if it followed the book exactly or not, I decide if the movie is good on it's own merit and not compared to the merit of it's counterpart.



And you have proved my point. Too much time comparing the game to Morrowind and if it wasn't the same you get disappointed and it ruins your gaming experience so the only thing you attribute to Oblivion is disappointment even if it is unfounded. I had plenty of immersion with voice acting, beautiful world, beautiful music that synced well with the environment and deep sidequests. Morrowind had nothing going for it except it's main quest story. It's gameplay was probably one of the worst I've ever played, no options, most characters have a complete lack of a personality, annoying dungeons that were normally half empty, lackluster side quests and ridiculously easy gameplay that you can quickly out level. So please don't go around trying to point out flaws and try to act like Morrowind was perfect, because it was far from it.

Yeah but that's just you. Obviously not everyone is going to have the same expectations of the game and besides it's early days yet, there's an awful lot people don't know about the game at this point.

It will be all that was good about the previous games and none of what was bad of course.

You get a D in begging.

But you get an A++ for pessimistic attitude!


I feel my lock thread senses tingling!

if you don't have faith or don't like the elder scroll games then why you even on here lol i think this game is going to be awesome :violin:

I just typed out a long winded response but my connection cut off and i lost it, so ill give you the condensed version.

Comparing oblivion to morrowind is not like comparing a book to a movie, its comparing the first movie in a series to its sequal.

I think you work under the assumption that people who did not like oblivion did so because of their own pre-determined ideas of what was wrong with it but your wrong, people compare it to TESIII because its a sequal, do you understand this? Its not a stand alone game, its not a offshoot or a spinoff its a sequal. Of course people are going to compare it, especially when its shortcomings are immediately evident. I really tried to enjoy oblivion, i really did, even after the dissapointment at the removal of my favourite skills, but i kept going, trying to enjoy it but slowly the feeling that something was not quite right began creeping up on me as i played, until it was just a feeling of something very wrong.
Oblivion as a standalone game is great, but as a sequal it fails miserably IMO.

After Oblivion there's plenty of reason to doubt Bethesda.

I've put total faith into this project. They've truly shown to have listened to us and really delivered a polished product so far. At most I'll just say "Well, maybe this could have been a tiny bit better" after 500 hours vanilla, then just mod it and be content for another 500 hours.

I dont think that skyrim can svck anyways, so relax guys

Er... but they haven't showed us so far, and in fact, everything they've shown seems to prove they HAVEN'T listened to us (except making sure there's lots of culture in this game).