I chose excited...but I really am like the (OMG SCREENSHOTS, ITS ANNOUNCED) but I approach it with a more interested yet calm level...thats why i chose excited

Hopeful.


I'll refer you to the http://z4.invisionfree.com/BethF_Informer/index.php?showtopic=5


Bethesda haven't reached the stature they have by releasing bad games. I know I wont be completely satisfied, but I'm sure they'll release a good game.

Mutation is one of the mechaniss of evolution. As such it may have harsh short-term effects but is beneficial in a long-term perspective, just like natural selection. The question is whether Skyrim is going to be a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation#Beneficial_mutations for us, the immediate subjects or will it only serve to further evolution of TES series in the future.

Sceptic - Very Sceptic

Like so many others after playing years of Morrowind, I was totally drawn into the pre-release Oblivion hype. Now, years after the release I can say that Oblivion was a good game. But having let myself sway by all the news , articles, screens from before the release, truly destroyed the game (in a way) for me. I was led (mostly by my own fault but nevertheless) to believe Morrowind II: Oblivion was going to come out and not TES IV: Oblivion, and so the game fell extremely short of expectations. I want to enjoy Skyrim. And as such I try not to judge anything until I see it. Of all the info we have so far on Skyrim (and it is fairly limited at the moment) only the one-piece armor rumors worry me greatly at the moment. For all the rest, I believe it can all be good OR bad.

The TES situation reminds me of the Haggunenons (of the Hitchhiker's Guide)...
They evolved several times over lunch.
"If for example one was drinking coffee and could not reach the sugar it would, without a second thought evolve into something with much longer arms, but which was quite incapable of drinking the coffee."

TES was a great RPG in Morrowind, but morphed into Oblivion and [IMO] lost sight of the goal. The same may happen again with Skyrim.

I'm excited but also worried about the direction the series is heading from what I've heard so far. I'll reserve judgement until I've actually played it but I'm betting I'll be disappointed.

I'm actually skeptic, as in I don't have an opinion due to lack of evidence.

I'd say excited. I don't worry about the taste of a completely different scope in the game. I went through that when Morrowind came out. Since Daggerfall is still my favorite game, the change of direction in its sequel led to pretty big disappointment for me, and prevented me from fully enjoying a good game. When Oblivion came out I was much more prepared to see a different scope, so I was able to really enjoy the game for what it was. And boy did I enjoy it hehe. Since I enjoy both action games and more traditional rpg's, whichever direction they took it I think I'll enjoy it, as long as it has the TES freedom, and has good fundamentals as a game.

The changes are, well, to quote a co-worker "a big risk".

Let's face it: so much has changed that short of making up our minds based on how we THINK it will play, we all really have no idea whether we actually like them or not *as a matter of play*. We can formulate all the ideas in the world about whether they are good or bad in the abstract. Until we play it, we can't say for sure what is a good idea and what is bad.

Simply put, if I were to be convinced that removing the class structure from previous titles was bad, it might not be possible for a truly epic gameplay experience to change my opinion. If I was convinced class-less systems are best, I'd likewise see a truly awful experience as "no worse than MW/OB". The only reasonable way to judge the impact is to go in and judge Skyrim as Skyrim. Not as "The game that came after the game after Morrowind" or "Fallout 3 without guns" or "the 2011 Game of the Year". You just need to play it and judge how it all works together, without filtering the actual game through your expectations. And for that, well, November is a long way off.

Therefore, I'm "really nervous" about the changes, but "decidedly excited at the prospect of getting to actually TRY them and see how they work.

the reason people are sceptic is because theyre so nervous this game wont meet their expectations.. thats atleast the way i feel. but im sure itll be awesome no matter what

i lol'ed

Skepticism leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate is of the darkside!

I look forward to killing some monsters and naming them after the members at this forum.

Yay!

I voted "OMG OMG OMG THEY'VE ANNOUNCED IT, THERE ARE SCREENSHOTS, OMG, SKYRIM FTW!!!", as that most accurately describe my feelings. The GI article only confirmed my reason to be eager. Especially since they now also include crafting. Crafting! What's not to like? 11.11 will be better than my birthday and Christmas combined. I don't think my hype will make me disappointed, as I am not expecting Morrowind 2 or Oblivion 2. I'm expecting Skyim, and that is the game I'm looking so much forward to.

There have been a few items which look positive, and a few others that appear negative. Overall, I'm expecting a "mixed bag" of "improvements" and "what were they thinking?" moments.

I'm strongly in the "character skills" over "player skill" traditional RPG fan category, although I can see the merits of mixing in action elements as long as it doesn't trivialize the character's role in shaping the experience. While I though that MW was by far the better game, OB definitely had its bright points that fixed a few of MW's problems. The bad side was that it took a number of other problem elements and effectively removed them from the game or made them irrelevant, instead of reworking them. Less < More.

The remark about fewer respawning locations is a potential positive (I thought that the automatic 3 day respawn of almost everything in OB was actually worse than the problem with no respawns in MW), if handled decently. A few things have bad connotations on the face of it, but might still be an improvement, depending on how they're handled (removal of attributes, cutting of still more skills, heavier reliance on perks), while other things that just scare me (unified armor) aren't confirmed.

At the moment, I'm not intending to buy it immediately upon release, but to wait a few days or weeks for a general consensus of opinion about the changes. If it turns out to be an even more FPS-ish action game than OB, then I'll pass on it, or at least wait a year or two until modders have fixed the major flaws and turned it into something worth playing more than just once to "beat the game" (assuming that the CS is released and that the revised engine isn't hardcoded to insure a uniform level of mediocrity), or it hits the "budget bin" and I can buy it for what it's worth. I'm hopeful, but expecting something "about the same as last time", which I consider to have been "good, but not great". Meanwhile, I'm STILL playing MW (modded, because it DID have its fair share of flaws) with some regularity after all this time, long after OB has been relegated to that bottom drawer of "maybe I'll get back to it someday" titles. Hopefully, Skyrim won't join it.

believe it or not it acts like a disease, go figure...

anyhow I'm Highly optimistic, only played morrowind and oblivion and to be honest, morrwoind was way better for me, BUT that's a matter of taste so no bigy, I have the feeling that Skyrim is going to be the best, most polished Bethesda game ever made.

they have like 6 huge open ended rpg games under their belt already (fallout3, morrowind, oblivion, daggerfall.....etc), so they can't go wrong

fixed that for yah


man I'm such a nerd

:rofl: Have a http://www.imperial-library.info/dogate/til_fishystick.jpg for that one.