Amen. I admit, I have oft been guilty of the same, and I regret it.

This really is a problem. I call it post-materialist narcissism, but there really is a social trend of deconstructivism, where everything has to be pulled apart and min-max criticized and categorized and brought to "closure." I believe it is a combination of seeing what the modern world is capable of: high technology, space exploration, immortality, and knowing these things are being kept from you by evil, greedy rich pricks.

People have become bitter, jaded, and defeatist generally as compensation for the pain they suffer in even daring to have hope when they KNOW how corrupt to the core our modern materialist super conglomerates have become. Everything for the money, everything a competition, everyone forced into labor and contextual slavery to serve some sadistic control freak's agenda.

More than ever before, hope HURTS. But, there is more reason to hope than ever before.

I think if people were to slow down, stop trying to rush to competition and obsession and closure on everything and simply take a step back to enjoy life for what is good about it, even a mortal life would be a lot more rewarding.

Besides, who's to say we cannot all live forever. We certainly have the technology to mass produce sustainable secure public housing in a modular format which incorporates distribution of rationed essential resources like healthy food, clean water, modern medicine, while at the same time providing ANY defense against biotechnology which we presently have absolutely NOTHING in place to deal with, and all in a model that heals the natural environment.

So what if you have to limit the number of kids you have to 2 or 3 per century. People would compromise, and there is plenty of room considering these habitats for humanity can be erected in essentially any environment on the planet (and off it.)

So yeah. In the immortal words of some video game person: "Less QQ, more pew pew." Less instant gratification expect the ultimate answer to life the universe and everything or nothing, and more constructive thinking on solutions, more enjoyment of the moment for what it's worth, because whatever it is, it will never come again.

Or something.

Yes. It's called nostalgia.

This is huge, because it will mean huge sales in Japan if nothing else. Japan is a big market, and this mag is very highly trusted by the so-called "Japanese hive mind" (just kidding)

Add on top of that that Japanese people have a Norway/Sweden Viking fetish, Skyrim should break all records in Japan!

Skyrim definitely has it's flaws, but there are games that make up for their flaws in other ways enough to deserve such a score.

For example, how many TES fans would say Morrowind is a 10/10? I probably would've, but it really depends on what the score means. A game can be a 10 because it's polished, almost completely bug free, almost no issues, etc. etc. I think it's also fair to give a game a 10 if it's deeply flawed but also amazing enough that despite those flaws it ends up being undoubtedly worth playing and as good or even better than those polished but less ambitious games.

That said, I think the PC UI and controls are bad enough to take at least a half a point from Skyrim. The game/combat balance issues could subtract another .5 maybe.

I am not affected by random anonymous people on the internet pretending to sum up everything they known nothing about me in a single word they imagine to be clever. Besides, everyone knows the answer is 42.

I don't care if it solves anything, your're the hater not me. Im having fun playing the game right now.

I wasn't really getting at that, but I agree. Some things do seem pretty half-assed. I wasn't going to get into details, but I'm bored so I will.

I still haven't done much if anything with the Imperial/Stormcloak thing, but from what I've heard and seen - it sounds pretty lame. There have been a few things I've been extremely disappointed with. The appearance of both Dark Brotherhood outfits is awful (except on women). The "clothes" outfit seem to have not been throughout well at all, it seems almost entirely mismatched - you shouldn't have effects supporting completely different play styles on the same armor set. Also, the male mask that should cover the face...doesn't. Babbette was done really poorly as well. her voice acting is terrible and they didn't even bother making an outfit for her.

Quite a number of the perks are just...terrible. The entire smithing tree with the exception of the perk that allows you to smith enchanted items is a horrible idea. I mean having to spend perks to smith a certain type of item is bad enough, but the fact that there is a heavy armor perk on the light armor side and you need to go heavy for daedric is terrible planning. The master level destruction spells are practically useless. They need to do about 2x as much damage to be of any use (or maybe destruction could scale).

This game is amazing and one of the best I've ever played. I still would never give it a perfect score. The UI alone is enough to keep this game from being considered "perfect".

Passive-aggressive much?

Very much.

Like I said in my somewhat rambling and off topic post above, the hate comes from self-hate, or rather from a deep sense of futility we endeavor to overcompensate for to remain sane, but the negativity is projection of our own inner turmoil. It is understandable. That is why we are taught to turn the other cheek, to forgive, to understand what they do when even they do not.

The greed and disparity of wealth and the excuses the successful make to shirk their civil responsibility are truly sickening, truly a humiliating disgrace to all of human achievement throughout history. It is understandable how people get to such a place emotionally. Such futility is TOXIC to society.

A cheap packaged bastardization of every forked tongued underhanded trick in the book, and they're actually proud of it. In light of all other options technology makes available, they are proud of this. Mediocre empires for mediocre minds. Some day little lord Farquat will evolve and the world will cease to suffer, which is the reason for most random acts of hatred.


Oh come on, we all know the human wireless network is a CHINESE hive mind, syndicated by News Corp! =P

While this doean't mean that Skyrim is perfect by any means, it is a milestone in western RPG-development.

Four people in Japan liking a game made in the USA is a milestone in western RPG development?

Do elaborate.

"The term "passive-aggressive" was introduced in a 1945 U.S. War Department technical bulletin, describing soldiers who weren't openly insubordinate but shirked duty through procrastination, willful incompetence, and so on. If you've ever served in the military during wartime, though, or for that matter read Catch-22, you realize that what the brass calls a personality disorder a grunt might call a rational strategy to avoid getting killed."

Much indeed. But I'm not sure how you came to that diagnosis by anything I posted. Calling someone out for taking cheap shots or name calling isn't passive aggressive, it's just plain old aggressive! Like "hitting back."

You should get used to that if you want to go around with that chip on your shoulder telling complete strangers on the internet you don't know anything about they don't what they're talking about, without bothering to make even a minimal effort to throw up a link to someone else's deductive reasoning as to why.

Actually, Skyrim is the first non-Japanese (Western) developed game ever reviewed by Famitsu that was given a perfect score:

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998, Nintendo, for Nintendo 64)
2. Soulcalibur (1999, Namco, for Dreamcast)
3. Vagrant Story (2000, Square Co., for PlayStation)
4. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (2003, Nintendo, for Nintendo GameCube)
5. Nintendogs (2005, Nintendo, for Nintendo DS)
6. Final Fantasy XII (2006, Square Enix, for PlayStation 2)
7. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008, Nintendo, for Wii)
8. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008, Konami, for PlayStation 3)
9. 428: Fūsa Sareta Shibuya de (2008, Sega, for Wii)
10. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (2009, Square Enix, for Nintendo DS)
11. Monster Hunter Tri (2009, Capcom, for Wii)
12. Bayonetta (2009, Sega, for Xbox 360)
13. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2009, Nintendo, for Wii)
14. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (2010, Konami, for PlayStation Portable)
15. Pokémon Black and White (2010, Nintendo, for Nintendo DS)
16.The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (2011, Nintendo, for Wii)
17.The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011, Bethesda Softworks, for PlayStation 3)

Now yes, there are a few other western games that received 39/40, but Skyrim is indeed the first western game to receive a perfect 40/40 from Famitsu.

Though, I don't necessarily agree with the score, it is a huge achievement.

how do you get into the chinese market? are they only playing wow? i mean they have to have computers for that...but probably not good enoughs for skyrim...?

I imagine that by now, the Japanese are playing something more along the lines of Avatar. Like full interactive virtual reality simulation involving the entire nervous system. In ten years we won't even need to come out of our shelves to eat, except for special occasions. Our bodies will be kept alive forever and our minds free to expand exponentially and infinitely as our technology allows.

"But only if you got they money." LE SIGH!

sounds like fun...life outside your chair turns from hmm ok to freakkkin annoying way to often way to fast...

and all this interaction with other "people" oooooorrrr

Only bothers me when dogmatic corporate or religious cult [censored] bags try to FORCE interaction. In my opinion, that is even worse than segregation. The forefathers knew that liberty was like oxygen, and too often the human species gets on some FOTM bent to smother itself to death with some silly “next great leap.” It almost always ends in failure. They almost never understand why.

at least in the united states (and especially texas) you have to right to shoot everything stepping on your porch

True, but I have yet to see militia rifles or pitchforks crafted small enough to smite the buggers nano-stepping on my brain porch! O.o

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