The graphic quality and animations do not tell you what the engine is like at all.

You jump to conclusions instantly. Don't you? You do....

^This or any DRM that requires online connectivity for the retail-disk version of the game. Also, the game needs to be good, which I'm sure it will be.

after playing the abomination that is Dragon Age II, theres seriously nothing that can disappointed me in Skyrim.


It would have to be a corridor shooter for me to be not buy it.

100+ hours of content is incomplete? What games do you normally buy?

For some reason the only thing I can think of is if it feels too much like Oblivion, but I don't think there is much chance of that.

Just what is already confirmed in the game now already is enough to make me want to play it, that means that no matter how horrible everything else is i will still play this game. the worst thing that can happen is that i'll be surprised over how bethesda screwed t his game up. but bethesda has yet to completely let me down, even fallout 3 which was series that they just picked up off the ground and made a sequel to was good, better than their trademark elderscrolls 4 in my opinion really, they put a lot of effort into fallout 3. But you can count on this. Bethesda game studios will make games as well as they possibly can with current technology and all the tools that they've got. sure the graphics MAY be going to be not cutting edge, but they will throw their best at every game that they make, (thats what they've done so far and are doing with skyrim) and they will make a Good Game oblivion was a good game, but many morrowind fans hated it because morrowind was more immersive. oblivion was still a great game if you looked at it it just had a bad storyline, its just that people compared it to the epic morrowind but not every other game around, its kindof like this thing where people tell you you should compare yourself with yourself and not the guy next to you. also everything bethesda wont take care of, modders will.



Out of respect for the developers making this game i am going to buy every game that Bethesda Game Studios (not softworks, game studios) will make or have a big part in making until they will end up like blizzard, a company that is highly overrated, blizzard fans tend to say that every game blizzard makes is the best game ever, to me blizzard games have never been "best of its kind" but they have been good games. world of warcraft was a let down and they aren't such a great company anymore. they joined up with activision and activision was also once a GREAT company, but now its more mainstream and mass media-ish.

Bethesda Game Studios is still making games to make Good Games! not to make profit,(sure they want to make profit, thats their job, but they're dedicated to making the best game that they can everytime they start with a project) and as stated in an interview with someone i don't remember, maybe that Pete Hines one, Then the publishers aren't pushing them on what time they need to finish the game and are very reasonable and understanding about how long it will take to make the game because they realize that the reason those games are purchased is because of how good they are and how well designed they are, and if they push the developers then they know that the overall quality of the game will go down and therefore they're going to have less buyers. Until this changes i'm gonna buy their games. :foodndrink:

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a bland New Vegas-like world, or heck just the technical problems that game had would shy me away for some time. I still have Oblivion and Fallout 3 to entertain me if things go sour.

Then again, this thread isn't exactly shining with positivity...come on folks, let's try to keep things cheerful.

A couple things come to mind:

1) Too expensive or my computer won't run it.
2) Dull, blah, unoriginal setting. I like the feeling of an alien world.
3) A game with little depth, as boring dialogue choices, simple quests, lack of brain food.
4) Too glitzy, and I'm really afrid they've gone this way with the "gee I can see my weapon in 3D", or "finishing moves", or things like that.

An Atom Bomb going off in my toilet as I read the Skyrim manual before slapping it in my Circle Box for the first time.

i dont think looks have to do with the game engine but i could be wrong..if it does i will try to find the thread that did this..they compared pics of skyrim to OB and im sorry but skyrim is in a whole different league compared to OB..it makes OB look awful. Also a great game engine can put out a bad game because developers dont know how to use it.. If a developer knows gamebryo inside and out..then it could be epic and i think Bethesda does..ill look for that thread its an incredible difference

It's progression more than anything else.

You know what REALLY svcked on 360 with Oblvion (not so much for Xbox Morrowind at least not from my experience). Game breaking glitches. with my first character i:

a )couldn't finish the mages guild (i went into a well too early, didn't retrieve the item, and then i didn't come back for a while and it disappeared)
b ) I couldn't finish the Hermeus Mora Quest
c ) i couldn't finish the Umbra Quest (until an update finally came out)

I HATED this so much. they really need to make sure none of this is in when the game ships (i think they fixed the mages guild problem, but my game was already wrecked)

i know what your talking about the same thing happened to me on the hermeus mora quest...it stopped collecting souls so i had to start over

There is NOTHING in THE WORLD that WOULD MAKE ME NOT TO BUY SKYRIM!!!!oneone!eleven1 But some things that would make the game worse is AGAIN making THE RADIANT AI worse! (They had to dumble it down to Oblivion, but i hope they wont lie this time.)

Oh and for that post above mine, I could not finish thieves Guild. Oblivion was my first TES game and i hadn't really played Rpgs
(now i love them(even Fable III)) i think it had something to do with the fact that i killed 10 people on one quest and attacked (by mistake) at the Khajiit Questgiver... even if i paid the bloodmoney i could not go on.

Hmm... It'd take quite a bit to make me not even want to bother. Basically they'd have to screw up a bunch of lore, make vampires/werewolves lame or not even flesh them out at all, or slap on another generic main quest that can barely keep me interested.

well i'll probably buy it but what would make me not finish it or replay it... if it was as big a dissapointment as dragon age ll or if i just thought it svcked

My friend, the gods couldn't take Skyrim from me.

Yeah if I die before release I know what I'll be doing above the clouds!

If I read Valve Steam any where on the box.

Poor mod support would make me not to buy the game. Every other matter has been confirmed not to be in. I might not buy the game if I can't have pole-arms though, but I doubt myself on this.

1:bad story telling. Unlikely problem.
2:Boring gameplay. Very unlikely.
3:my pc catching fire from the game's overwhelming awsomeness. 85% chance of happening.

it wasnt that.. in the thieves guild once you are far enough to where people come find you to get quests there is a problem with mithril and there is a small percentage of a chance that instead of running to find you she runs away from you..it sux and she is very fast..basically if you are in leyawin she is running in bruma hahaha..if crap like that happens then ya that would be a deal breaker for me

TOO EVERYONE..read my edit..i know everyone is gonna buy the game because we are die hard fans but what would make you stop mid way through or not play a second time

ANYONE WHO HATES STEAM PLEASE READ THE OP.. i just put it up there i didnt want to start a thread over something so small