I assume for a moment that the OP - and the many others who have start posts like this - aren't doing it to get a little bit of attention.

So what gives? You don't like the game. You can say that in five words (see? . . . I just did). Why go on and on about it? Why start a thread on the Skyrim forum telling everyone how much you hate the game? Why make negative comments about people who like the game? Really negative, derogatory comments? Why put so much time and effort into this. What do you trying to accomplish?

Perhaps you . . .

(1) . . . think if you post enough negative comments about the game, Bethesda will suddenly say: "Whoa . . . that guy's a freakin' genius! I mean, hell, we've been making games wrong for over twenty damn years! Where the hell has he been? He should be our leader, our dragonborn! What the hell? Maybe he's the Messiah? Let's pull the game now - right now - and fix all the horrible defects like, you know, how the player can't ride a dragon. For hell's sake, how did we overlook that?"

(2) . . . are lonely, desperately lonely. Lonely like a leper. And you're unemployed. So you're a lonely, unemployed leper. You have lots of time to lurk on forums on like this and take out your dissatisfaction with your life, you wife, your neighbors who insist upon putting their garbage in your cans, your dog who only likes you becasue you put food in his bowl once a day . . . all your unhappiness and loneliness is vented like a custom shock spell on Skyrim.

(3) . . . are thirteen years old. You can't drive, can't date - well, you can, but you're hopelessly in love with a seventeen year old cheerleader who keeps calling you "Eddie" . . . and your name is Kyle. This is funny for you. Hilarious. Like making fart noises in class and bulling around the eleven year olds. You can tell all friends how you dissed Skyrim while you're putting on fake tatoos so you'll look older.

(4) . . . are severely disappointed in Skyrim. Damn Bethesda to hell and back! The last good TES game they made was Morrowind! Everything else was a cheap knockoff of some other idiot video game that only the young kids play. And, of course, Bethesda dummied it down. Way down. Morrowind, now that was a man's game. Why, using alchemy, you could complete the main quest in like sixteen minutes, leaving you pleanty of time to read the books and memorize lore. Who wants to actually play a video game? Why the hell would Bethesda change that!! Sure, the graphics svcked so bad that the Better Bodies mod was made, like, IMMEDIATELY but so what? Time has passed and the ashland-tinted glasses through which you observe the world are completely unforgiving on the subject of spears.

(5) . . . just like to start fights. Forums are the only place you can do it without getting your glasses broke.

(6) . . . still think there's a secret club for people who hate all video games. It's like the cool people's club high school . . . only secret. Really secret.

Harsh? Perhaps. But I can't figure out why you don't just go play another game? Seriously?

Totally disagree.

Harsh? Perhaps. But I can't figure out why you don't just go play another game? Seriously?

Also, if you disagree you are either playing a style that is avoiding this problem, you are tweaking the difficulty, you're lying to yourself, or you're one of the rare-ish people that dont mind playing on master and taking 10 minutes to kill a single bandit chief.

Multiple people have noticed these problems...just because you haven't seen them yourself, doesn't mean they don't exist. You just haven't seen them yet.

oops, wrong post XD

I assume for a moment that the OP - and the many others who have start posts like this - aren't doing it to get a little bit of attention.

So what gives? You don't like the game. You can say that in five words (see? . . . I just did). Why go on and on about it? Why start a thread on the Skyrim forum telling everyone how much you hate the game? Why make negative comments about people who like the game? Really negative, derogatory comments? Why put so much time and effort into this. What do you trying to accomplish?

Perhaps you . . .

(1) . . . think if you post enough negative comments about the game, Bethesda will suddenly say: "Whoa . . . that guy's a freakin' genius! I mean, hell, we've been making games wrong for over twenty damn years! Where the hell has he been? He should be our leader, our dragonborn! What the hell? Maybe he's the Messiah? Let's pull the game now - right now - and fix all the horrible defects like, you know, how the player can't ride a dragon. For hell's sake, how did we overlook that?"

(2) . . . are lonely, desperately lonely. Lonely like a leper. And you're unemployed. So you're a lonely, unemployed leper. You have lots of time to lurk on forums on like this and take out your dissatisfaction with your life, you wife, your neighbors who insist upon putting their garbage in your cans, your dog who only likes you becasue you put food in his bowl once a day . . . all your unhappiness and loneliness is vented like a custom shock spell on Skyrim.

(3) . . . are thirteen years old. You can't drive, can't date - well, you can, but you're hopelessly in love with a seventeen year old cheerleader who keeps calling you "Eddie" . . . and your name is Kyle. This is funny for you. Hilarious. Like making fart noises in class and bulling around the eleven year olds. You can tell all friends how you dissed Skyrim while you're putting on fake tatoos so you'll look older.

(4) . . . are severely disappointed in Skyrim. Damn Bethesda to hell and back! The last good TES game they made was Morrowind! Everything else was a cheap knockoff of some other idiot video game that only the young kids play. And, of course, Bethesda dummied it down. Way down. Morrowind, now that was a man's game. Why, using alchemy, you could complete the main quest in like sixteen minutes, leaving you pleanty of time to read the books and memorize lore. Who wants to actually play a video game? Why the hell would Bethesda change that!! Sure, the graphics svcked so bad that the Better Bodies mod was made, like, IMMEDIATELY but so what? Time has passed and the ashland-tinted glasses through which you observe the world are completely unforgiving on the subject of spears.

(5) . . . just like to start fights. Forums are the only place you can do it without getting your glasses broke.

(6) . . . still think there's a secret club for people who hate all video games. It's like the cool people's club high school . . . only secret. Really secret.

Harsh? Perhaps. But I can't figure out why you don't just go play another game? Seriously?

I love how the responses to the OP average out to "I liked it, so you must be stupid, don't know how to play the game, or just shouldn't bother with Elder Scrolls games."

Im sorry m8 but you dont have a point... really...
for a game of this size, magnitude and complexity it has incredible low amount of bugs, the AI is better than ever (even tho people say high lvl sneaking is over the top, dunno havnt reach high levels with sneak yet), there are some pathing issues, but even those are few.

as for balance, most of the complaints are just people having a problem learning to use stuff thats all, there are obviously issues with most skills/builds, but hardly gamebreaking at all, magic is pretty good if played properly., people complaining about destruction usually dont use it well.

as for the awckwards events like the coin stealing thing... well thereso nly so much mechanics and code/script that can be put into a game this big dont you think? they could have changed all the theft coding for that particular case I guess... but meh is all the rouble worth it just for that tiny weeny detail?
THAT broke your immerssion? really? I gues being the best most detailed living world ever built on any rpg has no bearing because you stole from a npc you were doing a shackedown

best rpg ever,

It's always been like this on these forums. You cant' give any constructive criticism without these people calling you names or saying you svck. I really wish the mods would clean up posts like that.