Current vote count at the time of my posting: 550 Yes, 80 no. (That's exact, I didn't round, the numbers just worked out that way, and include my own yes vote).

This is clear evidence of the "vocal minority" since if you just read the comments through the thread it's about 50/50 with the naysayers being more vehement in general.


In my opinion, anyone who's "unsatisfied" with Skyrim either A: isn't a fan of the genre but tried it anyway, or B: had set up some ridiculous expectations.

If you've played any other Bethesda game at release, you know that Skyrim is BY FAR the least buggy one ever - yet about half of all the negative posts complain of bugs. There aren't many games that do get released and have fewer bugs. Some complaints are valid for PC users, such as the UI being made for consoles and PC unfriendly by comparison to previous games and PC game UIs in general. Fair complaint, yes; game breaking, certainly not. A minor annoyance at worst.

Bottom line - the game has a ton of content, impressive graphical quality for a game that we all knew was designed to run on PS3 and Xbox360 - and because it was designed thusly, it doesn't have requirements so high as to force out budget PC players, which is a good thing. It has more depth, history, intrigue, and sandbox coolness than any other game in the fantasy genre, ever. And only that last bit is in the least bit subjective.

"Satisfaction" is very much a subjective term, but you define the terms of your own satisfaction. I can say only this: If you find Skyrim unsatisfying with it's handful of imperfections, there is no game to date ever made in this genre that could possibly have satisfied you by the same standards. Some of you might say how you loved Morrowind, Oblivion, FO3, etc., but in the end if you loved one of those and not Skyrim, the only reason is because you had lower standards for that game. If you did look at it objectively, even in it's day-one state Skyrim beats every other gamesas game hands down artistically and technically.

I will repeat what I said in my post, though:

I have put up several large complaints in the forums about balance issues, broken features, bad UI, and the utterly lazy implementation of features like followers, marriage, and guilds.

That said, I voted that I didn't feel "ripped off".

That's not hypocritical, and that doesn't mean the problems I point out don't matter, just that I find that on balance, I think the game is worth my money. That in no way invalidates complaints about deficiencies in the game, especially when many of these errors are glaring and easily fixed. Saying that because I voted "yes" on this poll means that all complaints about flaws in this game are overblown is a gross misrepresentation of what people are voting for.

The poll reflects the question, not the statement you are trying to pull out of it. If the question had been "I believe this is a perfect game, and wouldn't change anything," THEN you might be able to make those claims. However, I suspect you would have had wildly different poll results.

I've played both versions of the game xbox and PC and I have to say the PC version (I have a HD 6850 on PC) blew me away in the quality diffrence. But the console version was the version I ended up playing on, despite the better graphics. Purely due to the poor interface changes, the PC version felt so rushed, as opposed to the xbox version where it felt like it was tailored to work perfectly.

I also believe that the game will upscale to be as good as a high end PC in terms of resolution and texture detail when the new consoles are eventually released. Effectively closing the gap between the 2 platforms.

Yes.

My only big problem is with steam. While it isn't too big of a deal for me since I have an internet connection, I have friends that want to play but will have trouble with it since they have no internet connection at home. Plus I heard about a patch that makes you log into steam every time you start the game... which would be irritating, since I don't always have an internet connection when I want to play.

That aside, I'm glad I decided to go for the pc version after all. My computer runs it better than I thought it would and there have already been mods released that make the game prettier. When mods start adding new areas, improve vampirism, and add more content I'm going to be really happy. <3

As a Skyrim player : yes, could improve things but i am happy with game content.
As a PC player : no, game is bugged, maybe as bugged as Daggerfall back in its time and not optimized for gaming rigs (mainly thinking of RAM usage there).

With this game Beth lives up to its reputation.

Just wish the PC crowd got some additional love. A mouse-friendly interface, DX11 features, etc.

No, its buggy, jumpy and unfinished. Hate the steam crap, if I wanted steam I would have downloaded it and have it already just a trash program taking up space on my pc. I would have waited until Jan or Feb of 2012 to buy if I had known there were this many problems with the game or when ever the fixes are in place.

As a PC gamer I think Skyrim is yet another bad console port. I like Skyrim as a game, but I'm disappointed with it as a PC game.

I have no problems with it - the bugs will hopefully be sorted out, but my 4 year old rig handles this without any problems on ultra, so I am happy (only crashed three times in 150+ hours)

Well even with its flaws it's still better than most other games so i can't really say no.

I voted yes and cant understand anybody who didn't vote the same.

How can anybody complain when you exit a dungeon and see a giant being attacked by a dragon. Deciding to attack the Giant which then decides to fight me back. My partner died trying to defend me and the giant was now running after me as I was trying to hit him with my low level mage skills.

Running, trying to escape from the giant, earth trembling on my feet cause he is too close to me, running up a hill, waiting for my magicka to raise and finally turn around, distance being fair enough for me to throw two ice spells on him. How surprised was I when seeing the dragon crawling behind the giant and flaming him to hell. My two icebolt thrown together hitting the giant so hard he felt 20 feets over the dragon. I was so amazed to see that scene. The dragon already injured much by the giant, was now crawling fast on me, I took my swordn turn around and start hitting him, thinking I got him, he just grabbed me, shaked me and thrown me away like a rat... I lost.

What a moment, 90 seconds of pure delight, fun and fear. That single fight was worth the price of the game to me. A memorable fight.

Thanks Bethesda for such a dream game. Too bad so many people are complaining so much and just cant appreciate the vision you had for that game

(English is second language to me)

That's the crux of the problem right there. Whilst it's great that you can play it on a four year old rig, for those of us with new and more powerful rigs don't get to see the level of detail our machines are capable of handling. That and the fact that all the menus are geared for use with a controller rather than a mouse.

I'm happy with the game.

I've run into a few bad bugs here and there, some FPS issues but nothing terribly bad. The crashes though are starting to annoy me a lot.

I'm totally satisfied. One of the best games I've ever played.

There are issues I have with the game but the good far outweighs the bad.

I have only experienced 1 CTD, seen 1 bone float into the sky, and had 1 area lag like crazy.

My biggest issue (UI) will eventually be fixed by mods and I have already downloaded many mods that improved the game (HD water, 4,096x4,096 snow textures, enhanced sky & milky way textures, FXAA injector to change the color tone of the game from greenish to more bluish which gives it a more cinema feel... plus other various HD texture upgrades).

Ok the question here is basically do I think that Skyrim is worth buying? Of course it is. It's probably the most fun I've had playing a game ever. Does it have flaws? Of course it does. Do those flaws annoy me? Yes, its annoying to havethe wrong dialogue choice chosen bc of a sticking ui. Does that in ANY way get in the way of my enjoyment of this game? ABOLUTELY NOT.

The results of your poll should tell you if people agree. I voted yes (and suspect that's what most people chose) because...

a - bad graphics..no...these aren't bad, although by all means. Tell us of a game that does it better.
b - bugs...show me a world this size and complex without them
c - botched UI is a legitimate complaint. I use a controller (xbox), so it's no problem for me.

While it's a shame you aren't satisfied, it's likely because you've yet to play a game like this. Move on, or deal with it.

Am I 100% happy with every piece of content in the game? No.

Do I think it's still a great game? Yes.

Was it worth the money? Hell yeah.

My theory is, that if internet forums hadn't existed and you would have bought it in a shop thinking, "This looks cool!". You would have loved it thoroughly.

People on these boards tend to lean towards petty nitpickings regarding a small broken item, a texture, some odd thing or two and the supposed balance/imbalance. I'm one of the old gamers who bought a game, played it and talked to my friends about it. We enjoyed what we were given (usually) and nothing more.

So YES! I′m very, very satisfied with my game...

Very Happy with PC version. Minus bugs and Balance. Once either Beth of Mod's fix these I'll be completely happy.

As a PC gamer I have no problems with any of the technical aspects of the game. I have been playing games for about 25 years now on the PC/Commodore 64 and I have seen alot of bad things. I think many gamers just like to view things through their own rose colored glasses and its easy to do this when a certain game or two was the beginning of your gaming experience the nastalgia never leaves you and you form biases that prevent you from seeing things the way they are. Morrowind wasn't my first game, unlike many of the people who worship it so I think I can judge it more fairly and tell you the honest truth when I say that Morrowind probably had the worst UI and technical problems of any Elder Scrolls game I have played, yet [censored] of that game will never say it. The UI in Morrowind was ancient, click and drag style used in many 1990's RPG's like Ultima Online and it took a long time just to organize your inventory, it was clunky and the icons were ridiculously small. Needless to say it required some modding (atleast for me) to clean up. I won't say that the UI in Oblivion or Skyrim are leaps in technology, but they are certainly better than Morrowinds UI by a fair stretch. In Morrowind, I think I spent nearly as much time managing my inventory and moving items around as I did playing the game. Rose colored glasses wil never allow some of the [censored] to see this though.

All in all, from a technical standpoint, I think Skyrim may be the best in the series so far. The game is stable, even on mid range PC's. You don't need a $1500 dollar PC just to play this game at reasonable settings. I have played about 100 hours so far, only once have I crashed to desktop and I have only experience one bug where there was overlapping textures (i just reloaded my game and it fixed the problem). The UI takes some getting used to, but I have no problems with it and its certainly not any worse than any game they did before, so I will never understand the complaining some people have with it. Oh well, im a happy gamer right now. :thumbsup:

The game doesnt have many bugs... Look how big the damn map is, do you really expect game this large to work without any kind of bugs, it's almost impossible to make that but what do you know you're not a programmer anyway... I haven't run into any game breaking bugs or any major bugs.

and yes i'm happy with my purchase.

I voted yes. I'm enjoying the game, I have 60 plus hours in and already I have ideas and different things I want to try out with a new character so I can't complain I'm not getting my money's worth out of it. Already it's less than a dollar an hour of playtime and as my playtime goes up, the cost per hour will go down. I bought for PC rather than PS3 even though my computer isn't really high end because of having the console to get out of any glitches that might stop my progress and for the ability to add mods.

There are definitely things I don't like about it, but overall the good outweighs the bad.

I don't regret buying it, but that doesn't mean I think it's perfect either.

On day 1 I would have said "Yes" without blinking but I don't know whats happening; my framerate has dropped from what used to be very smooth at medium/ high settings to stuttery and unplayable on the lowest settings possible. I have no idea what is going on. I am (or was) very happy with the game, all those "Giants hit a homerun" "Crash to desktop" and "horses fly" bugs were insignificant compared to me actually not being able to play it. brewing hard.