They aren't personal preferences at all. Todd Howard stated TES games are about being who you want to be. Skyrim does not let you be who you want to be. You can't refute that. You can try, if you'd like, by saying you created your character just fine.. but the truth is you created your character within the confines of what the game allows, and that's not the freedom we were promised. "Don't want to kill a good guy? Too bad! We won't talk to you or allow you to do any quests unless you do it!"


I'd say we can, as you've mentioned having no problems in your game. Sounds unique to you, since a lot of us have dragons that fly backwards and no elemental resistance.

you seem like the type that still hasnt figured out how to use your brain, go back to school.

Why do you let us choose multiple options?

I couldn't be a Astronaut Fire-Fighter in Morrowind, so I created my character within the confines of what the game allows.
That "within the confines of what the game allows" can be applied to every game.

Yes, lots of people have problems and lots of people doesn't have problems, It's a normal thing, it's called software.
I fully agree that Bethesda should (and will) fix the issues, but I don't agree that we should generalize the game as broken.

cuz not all of the best selling games are the best games. I don't consider blackops to be a good game though it wasn't bad either, but it sold really well. Games like morrowind and oblivion didn't sell that great either but they were good games. By winning GOTY, the less popular games become more popular and can then sell better.

Of course, but the actual freedom we were promised (a.k.a., the wiggle room within those confines) isn't there. You have less choices in Skyrim than you did in Fallout 3, which is odd considering TES is apparently about choices and being able to shape your character.


It's called poorly written software. All Xbox 360's are designed to have similar hardware. Same goes for PS3's. If the software was properly written and put through various tests, we wouldn't be having the problems we're having. PC's are a different story. We're all running different hardware, so it's certainly not as easy, but the fact that they gave us a release date and pushed out a game that had numerous problems, even if they didn't affect everyone, is on them.

And you're telling them it's okay. If someone continually makes mistakes, you punish them. Bethesda is a multi-million (or billion? eh, probably not) dollar company, so we can't exactly kick down the CEO's door and spank him.

.. but we can give bad reviews and refuse to acknowledge Skyrim as an amazing game until they actually get their [censored] together and put out the games with the quality and freedom they've been promising us for quite a while now.

this. skyrim is worth your money and then some. its buggy as all hell, but when it works it blows everything else out of the water. except for saints row 3, but im the minority in that opinion :sadvaultboy: . then again, given that brown-nosing description G4 apparently gave for the game, their GOTY will be just as loltastic as you think :shakehead: .

If there was a bug that prevented you from completing the main quest, Skyrim would still win GOTY. Aside from the bugs, it is the most amazing game I've ever played, and I am positive that Beth will patch those up to near perfection

I want to know how Gears 3 is still in and Uncharted 3 isn't.

One of those two games got 59/72 PERFECT SCORES (the highest since Ocarina of Time), another looks exactly like it's predecessor and you play as a fat***.

Yes because anyone who has a different opinion than you is a troll, right?

Lol, are you kidding? There is no "official" GotY, and no, you don't have to get a GotY award to sell your game as GotY. See Borderlands for example. It had a GotY edition, but won no GotY awards.

To be honest... this poll is on the Elder Scrolls forum. What do you expect to see?

My favorites of the year: Skyrim -> Dark Souls -> Deus Ex -> Dead Island.

I didn't think Skyrim was going to be better than Dark Souls and I wasn't even planning to get Skyrim at release. Then my younger brother ordered me a copy from Amazon and got me release date delivery and I played and was holy s*** this is better than I thought it would be. I got some nits to pick here and thar but overall I am very pleased with Skyrim. It's really reinvigorated my fervor for TES. Dark Souls is an amazing game as well and honestly didn't think Skyrim had a chance of competing with that game for me. Viva la Skyrimjob!

Remember, these are just like my opinions man.

I'll vote for skyrim once its playable on console.

:rolleyes: wow. you must not like good stories in games.


Nope. all this guy does is complain about everything. look at his sig! if he doesent think Todd can do good work with Tes then why is he still buying the games?! why is he still here? just to complain. it's like a 5 year old kid who got a piece of candy but it didn't taste like he thought it would and he moaned about it to his mom the whole way home.

No, I do like good stories in games.

Thats why I love the Uncharted series, as it has the best campaign out of any game I have ever seen. I played it in a Sony store once and that series alone is why I bought my PS3.

(I do also have an XBOX but I am looking so sell it towards a Gaming PC)

Portal 2 is better than BF3 and AC:R combined, so if Skyrim blows it out of the water it is no contest.

see i find your expectations to be unrealistic this was a labor of love 5 years in the making, content gets cut, time and money are finite, things that we think might work may no be possible due to hardware, software, usability. The game when compared to other games like it is amazing! the fact is you dont sand diamonds you cut them. If some branching quests had to be cut so that other features got more attention so be it, magic looks and feels so much better and while the creativity may have been cut it was done so in favor of play, you cant have every system you want it just doesnt work that way. And perhaps YOU think that it should have been done differently but as a whole this is a brilliant game really a masterpiece in a genre that has become thin as of late. Also i have had no bugs period on xbox or PC if your on PC and getting bugs its probably due to steams compression of files more than anything although some bugs seam to appear for other more often.

I like the self-contradiction in two sequential sentences.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
-Buggy, but has loads more replay value

Assassin's Creed: Revelations
-Probably the best contender here
-Storyline is hard to get into sometimes especially without playing the last few games, however, that is a credit to its continuity

Portal 2
-Game Clone, with better MP support

Battlefield 3
-if you think Steam is bad! Origin!
-Another FPS, only been done 10x over

Gears of War 3
-I dont play the gears series

Dark Souls
-Meh

The Legends of Zelda: Skyward
-Zelda games have always been Ocarina of Time, with a Twist. Add a boat, a train, release similar game

Batman: Arkham City
-Another good contender

Ok people, we're in the semi-finals. Everyone should join and vote, because Skyrim is currently losing to LoZ. Also, voting for Gears against Assassin's Creed will give Skyrim a better chance in the finals. It will win much easier against GoW than it will AC.

so according to those brackets, Zelda is better than Skyrim? lol..

Skyrim is awesome and the best TES game I've ever played and it hasnt even been totally patched or modded yet

Grats Bethesda!

:D

Surprised to see SS so far ahead of Skyrim. Arkham City was a closer race against SS if it stays like this.

Ah well, see what happens.

The Legends of Zelda: Skyward
-Zelda games have always been Ocarina of Time, with a Twist. Add a boat, a train, release similar game

Assassin's Creed: Revelations
-Probably the best contender here
-Storyline is hard to get into sometimes especially without playing the last few games, however, that is a credit to its continuity

Riiiiight, because AC has changed a lot.... :rolleyes:
And I do like that franchise, but...come on...they are being a little bit repetitive