I've been playing Skyrim for more than a year now, and even though im finished with the game. i can always get back to it when im waiting for new releases, or dont have anything else to play.

the game is seriously flawed when compared to past games.

money and success means [censored] nothing.

btw [censored] way, I love skyrim.

No game is perfect.
except for Skyrim

Yup. same here. Though Bioware owns an equal share of my soul.

playing an orc is one of the most creative games ever.

tes5 was dis close to being perfect. they jacked up the things I've been talking about for a year: no auto health. degradation. no spam. no noobs. no no no no no no no no no no no no

Skyrim is also only third on my list.

I have always loved TES, especially when I first found Daggerfall. I have watched this game succeed, evolve, and then take steps backwards that boggle the mind.

I like the older TES and as stated in another thread, would rather revisit some Oblivion quest more than Skyrims.

I guess I was wrong to want better. to demand more.

my heart is tes.

As I have stated. I have found the game more enjoyable with quest markers off. But there is far more character in Oblivion.

One of my favorite games is Metro Last Light. Just so much immersion. Your objectives on a clipboard, in dark areas your read with a lighter, the world is beautiful best post apo world I have ever seen despite it being dead it feels alive. The gas mask you can wipe off steam

The point I'm trying to make is that there are things that were far better:

-Oblivions Journal UI v.s. Skyrims

I hate the UI of Skyrim. It's so futuristic and to modern for a game like this. I want the old journal system back. I like the journal. And I don't like the 3D map, not always easiest to read when I cannot find roads due to cloud coverage. So I'm "climbing" up a mountain half the time.

-The Quest

The reason why I have enjoyed Morrowind and Oblivion and TES to begin with was the unique fantasy world they created. Skyrim went for a Game of Thrones style for their RP and it just doesn't appeal to me. I like the Dragonborn DLC better, Solstheim is my Shivering Isles to Skyrim. I rather be in Solstheim the whole entire time. The Reiklings, the Netches, etc. There is so much fantasy in my fantasy.

Skyrim lacks this emersion for me.

Even with mods, I'm barely at 1,000 hours. Mike is on Xbox and has 6x my playtime.

I don't think I could play vanilla Skyrim period, much less 6,500 hours of it, but kudos to him.

Morrowind was my favorite Tes, followed by Skyrim. But skyrim feels less like an rpg, and more like an open-world sandbox game.

No. I haven't come across a game I would consider to be such for a while now. Last game I played that was like that was Red Dead Redemption, and I had just stopped playing it altogether just last year (as in 2013) because it had gone to [censored]. These days I play numerous amounts of games on the PC of different types and occasionally will I play a handful of games on console.

I always come back to it, even cross gen. So I guess so.