I'm not interested really in creating another debate that's been hashed over in several threads. What I am interested in showing is where the gamesas community stands on Skyrim and the level of hate/love its been getting here in the forums. Although it will not prove anything, I'm sure this poll will show most of the hate directed at this game will be from the minority. I could be wrong but have at it.


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It's not to pour gasoline on the fire, its too prove that most of the haters are in the very vocal minority.

Of course they're the vocal minority. The people who are satisfied with the game aren't going to be posting on the forums.. they're going to be playing the damn game (well, most at-least).

The whiners on these forums always make me laugh.

I'm 16 I adore the game apart from the extreme lag I'm suffering on PS3, which takes it from a 10 to a 6.

That would be "pouring gasoline on the fire", meaning that by your own admission this thread serves no other purpose but to cause more petty squabbling.

Interesting poll results so far.

kind of predictable imo

I get sick of seeing the same thread over and over again. Wish the mod's would make one thread so all the "balance" debates could be merged into one. I for one love reading about peoples funny adventures in Skyrim/Oblivion but those get drowned out by "why I hate skyrim that says the same thing the last the millions said. Now, I can link this poll to show just how "correct" they think they are as to what the masses want.

Imbalance isn't based on community perception, it's based on hard numbers, and I dare anyone who thinks the game is perfectly balanced to show any aspect of the game even remotely as important as how much damage you can do that can be increased tenfold by a skill like Pickpocketing as opposed to a skill like Smithing.

The post needs additional options, in Is Skyrim Balanced ? it needs an aditional answer "doesnt need to be", because at the moment, yes, it is unbalanced but it doesnt need to be, because it would be against the "play like you want" policy. It would be impossible to balance a game if I have the option to play either as a gimped or a godlike character.

The other option it needs, is in the last question. A cool option would be a mix between WoW progression and TES progression.

THe answers don't capture my opinion well enough to choose.

Skyrim is about #4 on my Steam "time spent" list, and by the time Fallout 4 comes around, it will be #1. Yet my posts tend to the negative simply because there are major components of the game that don't click for me. Am I a hater? I mean, overall, I enjoy the game, until I have to use the menus, crash, forget to switch to my headset (speakers are set to 96Khz output, and therefore, don't work correctly with Skyrim), or level (which is its own topic). But when any of those things happen, my experience breaks down. I can't see Bethesda learning much from "I knew it! The Letter from a Friend led me to..." or "I walked in Shriekwind Bastion and I was sure..." What ISN"T working, though? I can see them attempting to improve.

Whoa there. It's not the games fault it's too cool for console school. Thats like a PC gamer saying he hates Bethesda for making a game so good that his 512MB RAM, Pentium III CPU, and onboard GPU can't play the game.

Bottom line, don't blame the game or the developer for problems on your end, such as not having the power to play it without lag.

PS - Not trying to flame, just to make a point. I play on PS3 as well.

I'm loving the game, I have issues with it, but I love it. I'd be playing it right now if I didn't have to work.
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I came to this thread to post I'm not voting because the voting poll is silly. ^_^

You all need to go home...be a family man...or work with your mutter in the market selling produce. It's fun but hard work.

But the problem with this is that it is a Role Playing Game, not a FPS MMO min/max paradise festival. The game is balanced because it is a single player experience and all builds are viable and playable. Some might be able to deal more damage or take more hits, but they are up close types, others are sneaky, or ranged, or illusionists, or whatever you want to play as. The character you are playing now will never interact with any other character you've made or any one else's.

Well said Sir. It truly does not need to be.

lol, what kind of moronic argument is that? Balancing the game doesn't allow people to play how they want? What if someone wants to play a character with Lockpicking and Destruction without being a gimp? Ooops, guess they can't play like they want, but it's cool, because balancing the game would make it so people can't play how they want.... huh what?!

Can't vote. I'm 14

I polarized it on purpose.

Just make your self too damn old.

Except that you can play as lockpicking destructoid... so it's fine. You wont be able to play the same way as a fighter or a thief, but I promise that if you turn on the game right meow, make a new character, and do nothing but pick locks and cast flame, you will be playing the game. You could even do questlines, clear dungeons, and explore! Again, you wont be as effective as certain things, but you have the option.

I think that for some reason people think that all the characters should play the same way? And that if they did it would somehow make the game balanced? If you look at RL, you have people with different skills and they go through life doing different things. Some of those things get them more than other things.(EDIT- This means the people who have the less effective skills must do more work to get the same amount of things.) So you have the option, you can be a communist and everyone will get the same thing no matter how effective they choose to be and you will have balance, or you can be smart and have effective people be rewarded with more so that they have an incentive to continue being effective.

With all the complaining going on, I'm not sure it was that predictable...

I wonder how so many people could be satisfied and happy with a "broken" game. :bolt:

Not going to derail the thread. Is this seriously a joke...I mean [censored].... It runs fine performance wise on the Xbox. It's a bad port to PS3 that's the problem. It happened with Fallout 3 too. I don't even know understand... wow just wow.

the product that was promised to be functional, and it only semi-functional on console...whereas a game purchased for a computer that does not meet minimum specifications was one thing, the game in question was purchased for a system where the developer stated BY releasing the game that it would be a functionally playable game on said console.

Dropped to the 20th page on the forums. Shows you how much traffic this site gets....more votes please.