Yeah, apparently a lot of people don't like TES for the same reasons I do. I'm quite satisfied with the info on Skyrim right now, certainly more excited for it that any other game this year.

Cautiously excited, yet anxiously angry.

EDIT: No but really, the only thing I'm more excited for is DaggerXL.

I'm really looking forward to Skyrim. It's going to be fun, that's for damned sure.

Some things made my a little hesitant at first, but I've grown to like what I've been hearing so far. If things shape up like what has been described in the articles, Skyrim just may be the best of the series, outshining all other previous titles.

I am very happy, I personally love all the changes and info they have released so far.

Of course, the problem is that, in my eyes, the majority of naysayers probably want an exact copy of some previous game and don't have much experience with the series, as a whole, but rather with only just one or two games... thinking that their favorite out of those one (not much room for picking favorites from this, really ) or two is what the series should truly be. That's just how I perceive it, anyway. :shrug:

A lot of TES fans seem to have forgotten that each game in the series is very different from the others, even though we all have a hundred reasons why our personal favourite is better than the others. Skyrim will be different as well. This is very probably a good thing, they must have reasons for the changes, but sometimes you see change as a bad thing by default, and this can lead to dismissing the reasons for those changes as lies or excuses.
Nothing wrong with a bit of healthy cynicism, but it can lead to a feeling of victimisation. ( They are not making the game I demand they make, because of incompetence/money/xbox/casual gamers, don't they understand, why can't they see I'm right etc. etc. ) Maybe Bethesda have become greedy consumer fodder producers, I don't know for sure, but I very much doubt it. After all, they made the very games that so many people insist Skyrim will be worse than.

Damn, ninja'd by Seti.

I am so excited, I wish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIB325QFmvo was real.

This is my happy face: :mellow:

This is my angry face: :mellow:

This is my ES face: :bonk:


Make of that what you will.

This is what I am talking about. Why does this game need to be like old TES games? You don't know how things are going to turn out. Why discount the game solely because it is different?

When I said that I meant the journalist may have mistranslated. Aka - misunderstood. Also, birthsigns don't define TES at all. They were added in Morrowind* as a new way of advantages/disadvantages. That was a CHANGE. OMG! Everybody liked it. Attributes can be done better. +5's ended up making you break the point of leveling up. And finally, like i've said before. If they can do the on-the-fly spell combination like they want too, spell making would be pointless.

*as a gameplay element.

So...you need new pants?

In my experience, every video game forum that houses fans anticipating the game's release has that demographic of cautiously cynical types that expect the world of the game developers. Most often they can be the loudest voice of all due to the yelling, bellowing anger and accusations they make towards everyone else. But in the end, the mass majority of players on any video game forum are die hard, loyal fans that just want the game to be great in its own way. That doesn't mean they're blind - it simply means they're generally more open minded.

Well, that might be making a bit too much of it, but, I guess it depends.

I'm super excited about Skyrim. All other games, including Diablo 3, Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age 2, and whatever CoD that comes out, are taking a back seat to TES5. No game series beat the Elder Scrolls. None.

Any negativity you see here is a result of a couple of things; 1) People who have their expectations too high or 2) people that are excited have disappeared because the thrill of the teaser has died down and we're not getting a lot of new info ATM. I imagine that when we get to see a new trailer or a gameplay video, you'll see the roof of this forum get blown off again just like it did when the teaser was shown. Mark my words.

Well, http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheyChangedItNowItsvcks. Ain't that enough of a reason?
And mindless criticizing is fun I guess, catharsis-like. Or at least I hope it is, since the alternative is that all the people criticizing the game without solid data about it are slowly losing their minds... in which I include myself... oh wait the doctor said I was never sane to begin with...

I'm excited. They would have to royally screw up to disappoint me, honestly. My expectations are low and reasonable in my opinion. 1) Game at least as big as Morrowind (already confirmed to be roughly the same as Oblivion.) 2) More granular sense of culture and variety (already confirmed to be a goal of the team; it doesn't have to do much to do a better job at this than Oblivion did in my opinion, and I don't care if it's as culturally diverse as Morrowind was. Morrowind is not the be-all end-all of TES for me.) 3) Hundreds of sidequests (already confirmed to be 100+ in the game.) 4) Lore (they created a language of dragons for the game; indeed, it was the first thing they showed us of the game.)

Anything else is gravy. I don't care if they change the magic system or take our spellmaking. I don't care if Radiant Story/AI are all they're cracked up to be or not. When it comes to TES, even a "merely good" game is still an incredible experience for me. The fact that they are trying to improve it over Oblivion at all is sufficient for me. I would have frankly accepted Oblivion set in Skyrim (not literally, but you know what I mean.) Also, see my sig for why I'm not concerned by the news they've revealed so far. This is not blind fan adoration. It's just reasonable expectations by my own personal standards based on what they've given me so far over the years. (Morrowind, Oblivion, Daggerfall - which I went back to play finally - and Fallout 3.)

I was excited at first. The more I hear though the more concerned I am about a great series being dumbed down even further than before. I need alot more information before I can really decide whether this is going to be a great RPG or just another shallow TES game, like Oblivion.

I find this to be very true, both before and after release of any major game the forums are typically filled with cynics and whiners. It doesn't really matter what game it is or how good it actually is, the forums tend to be over 50% negative.

I don't think anyone is "angry" at Skyrim, but a lot of people are worried that the game is being streamlined and dumbed down, and contrary to popular belief, we do have reason.
Ever heard of this game called Oblivion? It was extremely dumbed down from its predecessor, and made so "more people" could enjoy it, aka mainstreaming. People don't like that. Well, a lot don't. Some don't have a problem with it. I personally do.

I think this problem roots back to people who's first TES game was Morrowind, like myself. I loved Morrowind, ever aspect of it. The gameplay, the lore, the scenery, the immersion, the "feel" of it. Oblivion completely wrecked that, and I really didn't like Oblivion for it. That is not to say, however, that Oblivion didn't improve certain aspects. It did, the combat was better, and the stealth/marksman system was a LOT better. But that didn't outweigh it's huge flaws.
After hearing the things that we have, the removal of key features in TES, it seems like the exact same thing is happening again. Therefore, we are completely justified in our pessimism.

I am not excited...I have gone BONKERS!

I'm half excited.
But I'm so used to disappointment that I know that Skyrim won't be all that it's made up to be.
Will be a great game but hardly an awesome RPG. /Opinion
And it'll have it's fail at game balance and gameplay execution.
But it's one of the few games I'm actually looking forward to.
So I'm 50/50 about it.

This is basically where my opinions stem from. And basically summarizes my thoughts so far.

Not mad or cynical, just worried.

Its a simple fact that your about 100x more likely to post if your upset then if your happy.

I've never been this excited for a game before. I have total confidence in Bethesda, and even some of the changes I'm not sure of aren't dampening my excitement. The people who see a single change and proclaim that they wont be buying the game are silly, imo. If you're going to get angry at a single change, you have to ask yourself, were you ever really excited for the game, or were you just excited for what you wished it would be? I am excited for the game that Bethesda is going to give me, and my wanting this or that feature isn't going to change that.