Just do what you honestly think. Try to factor in all the experience bethesda has accumulated (oblivion, fallout, morrowind, arena, daggerfall). will this truly be their best effort? Personally I think yes.

Poll options are rather skewed. There needs to be a "Very Good" and "Good" option between "perfect" and "bad".

I voted bad, but I must say that in comparison to my experiences with previous Elderscrolls games.
Its simplifying, but improving as well. I just personally don't like some of the direction.

So while I voted bad, it will still be better than most games right now.

I won't think that it will have the most spectacular graphics of all time, but its going to be pretty dang close I'll tell you what!

Good.

Bethesda has never made a game I haven't enjoyed. Well, as far as their RPGs go.

Im just glad we're getting a new Elder Scrolls, and that its not some rushed sequel like so many games today. I admire how Bethesda reinvents every game so it will never quite have the same "feeling" as the last.

Good, some things are a letdown, giving even further into the hands of the simplifying general public, while other things are an improvement.

I have to say I think you might be pleasantly surprised. Bethesda might just make this have many many different components. Remember although they screwed up with a lot of systems in Oblivion they are easy to fix. Much of the things in oblivion are as simple as making things more rewarding. And it sounds like they are already working on making the world very unique and special.

I'm also in the "better than any other game currently being produced but still a letdown" category.

This!

Im going to have a very hard time enjoying it without every character having dialog. That was my immersion tool.
And spellmaking (although I like the new approach, multiple effects) was my skooma. It was one of the few customization outlets left. Enchanting being back will help, depending on how they implement it, if its Oblivions enchanting I will be beyond upset.

Like I said, I don't agree with all of their approaches, or most, so it will be less enjoyable to me. The improvemnts in combat and magic will make it, to me, an action game without walls.

I want Skyrim to be harsh, brutal and unforgiving. A place where the strong survive and the weak get crushed. I want to see taverns full of men drinking, groping barmaids and fighting. I want to see remnants of villages, burned to the ground and littered with charred corpses, the cries of refugees or orphaned children from a cellar or under debris mixed with the sound of roaring fires.

I want to feel threatened, I want to feel like the world is against me, only to beat the odds and thrive in the harsh mountains of Skyrim. I want it to be overly melodramatic...wait, no...that's this post.

Anyway, i want it to be gritty, harsh and imposing.


Yes, when i go to any given city and talk to random strangers they usually spout the exact same line as the guy i asked five minutes ago word for word. That's real people for ya.

EDIT: I completely misunderstood the actual topic when I wrote this it seems, that's what I get for skimming.

Skyrim will mostly be available to play, for casual gamers...

Because simplified = casual...

I voted number 2 under the sincere hope Bethesda dispels some of the rumors flaoting around, and that the rest of the game makes up for the lost skills.

Its gonna be good. I have no reason's to worry, only that I hope I can last till November.

I wish I shared your optimism. I think the game will still be fun-ish, but I also feel it will be a step back from Oblivion and Daggerfell, which I already consider inferior to Morrowind.

Its not really optimism, rather realism. I thought Oblivion was great, and I thought Morrowind was great. The games stand on their own, ya don't need to know what happened in one to play the other...so because of that I never compare the games. Morrowind had its issues, as did Oblivion. Morrowind did a lot of things right, as did Oblivion.

Skyrim will do a lot of things right, but it's gonna have its issues. I just know I'll enjoy whatever they give me while laughing at the odd things that somehow still got into the end product, not letting what the past games were like to dampen my experience.

I voted other.

On one hand I want this game to be very good, and from what I've heard there is a chance. A REALLY GOOD CHANCE.

But there is still a chance that they can still simplify it too much for my taste, worst case scenario they make the armor work like Fallout armor works. Hopefully it won't, cause for Fallout its ok cause armor has been like that through the entire series. But if they do this with Skyrim... there is a possibility I may not play it for a long time after it comes out or at all.

I'm aware Morrowind is not a perfect game, and Oblivion corrected many things wrong with Morrowind. But they also went backwards in more ways than the went forwards, in my belief. The greatest sin being the simplification of things, which was neither necessary nor condusive to an improved experience. It's for that reason I beat Oblivion a few times, then stopped playing. I still play Morrowind these days. To be honest, I'm seeing the same thing with Skyrim: Correcting some of the things Oblivion did 'wrong', but then proceded to change things for the worse in areas that didn't need changing.

I voted spectacular, but I agree that you need a good and very good options.
I think it will be very good, but I hope it is more complex and have more culture than OB.

Considering all the fantastic ideas in this forum and the fact that all of them can't be included, the game will be disappointing in that respect. In terms of an enthralling experience which keeps you hooked though, I don't think they'll come much better than Skyrim.

You either don't know what the word casual means or you are pruposefully being an ass.

A casual player is someone who plays when they have the time, someone who structures their playing time around their life and not the other way around as a hardcoe player would. It has nothing to do with skill or ability in any way.

Waaaay too much daylight between "Spectacular the most meticulously generated game of all time" and "Bad, somewhat of a let down..." to vote anything but "Other"

It will be better than Oblivion but not as good as Morrowind or Daggerfall.

This. I'd say very good, but not "best of all time" because that's just a nonsense statement.