I honestly wonder, because whenever I go visit these forums, I rarely see something nice being said about this game. It's almost always something bad, like 'TES is dead' or 'Talk about a let down,' etc. I mean, criticising is one thing, I understand a true fan of the series will always critisize the game because they want it to be better, but saying the game is broken and flat out svcks accomplishes nothing. It sounds like alot of people used to play Elder Scrolls, but then they took an arrow in the knee and decided to spend their free time trolling on the forums instead. I played the S%#! out of Oblivion and I loved almost every second of it. I think this game is a massive step forward for the series. I'm not saying the game is perfect, but it is a great improvement an addition to the series. Do I that some things need to be re-balanced, edited? Of course I do, and, in time, I'm sure they will. But people complain way too much. And sure this game has it's fair share of glitches(most of which I don't mind), but that's to be expected. This game is huge, not as huge as Daggerfall per say, but this game is crammed with so much content and detail, I'm surprised how they managed to fit it on one disc. If you voted 'No,' you're a either a hypocrite or a troll, because if you don't enjoy Skyrim, you need to start playing another game and GTFO the forum. But, for those of you who do like this game, I'd enjoy hearing your thoughts and opinions about it.

I love Skyrim, just like I loved Oblivion and I loved Morrowind. I have some gripes, but they don't diminish my enjoyment of the game unless I let them.

As has been said countless times before, the reason you see more complaints than praises on the forums is because those of us who like the game, are too busy playing it to spam the forums.

Though, I can do both because I know how to use the Steam overlay effectively

everyone complains too much here

i'm going back to finish the main quest XD

What Recombinant said.

*Walks around the nearby whinefield and heads back to Skyrim*

It's amazing.

Agree with the above. I'd add Fallout 3 to the list - although that is not a TES game, it has he same feeling as the TES games.

(edit, but all this talk about seemingly everything in the game being overpowered or underpowered, is just, well, let me just say "strange" to me)

Don't get me wrong, I am enjoying the game and it is a good game, the problem is that it isn't the game that it should be... There is a lot of people over-reacting but there are some genuine issues with what we got.

I think too much effort has been put into prettying up the graphics, really I would be playing the game as it is right now if it were still at fallout 3 level of graphics, considering the fact the game could then handle larger cities and more NPCs the game would feel more alive then it does now... I think skyrim has had it's focus too much in the wrong areas, too much radiant story which doesn't really add anything other then "clear this cave out" or "kill this bandit leader", etc. Some of the skills are broken and certain sections of the game have just been over-simplified and I think that's due to targeting casual gamers but RPGs aren't game for casual gamers and so I think that's a mistake. Let's remember right now Destruction is broken which is pretty much the tree that the majority of all mage builds will want to include, partly because it's been over-simplified.

Ok improved graphics are a good thing, but not when they're clearly at the cost to the overall gameplay which I think skyrim's graphical improvements really are bordering on, I think the engine should have been better optimized and instead them have given us the more epic battles that the fans have really been after for the pass... goodness knows how many years. The optimization in skyrim is clearly not very good, given how the X-Box 360 and PS3 are having issues running it properly and the PC version is still on DX9, I mean DX9? Clearly this is a straight X-Box port because that's a pretty major issue considering that you're talking about a 5 year old facility which doesn't even come with Windows Vista or 7. There are other issues including the fact the game was released as a 32-bit executable file only (64-bit executables run about 11% faster on 64-bit systems) with a 2GB memory limit...

Right now, I'd say the biggest issue that gets to people is the short duration of the MQ and Guild Questlines, Oblivion's quest lines were about the right duration/size where as Skyrim's are just short, I'll be blunt about it. The whole point of an RPG is Role-Playing but just as you're starting to get into that role, the questline is already over and you're a hero/leader of everything/etc...

So yes, I am enjoying the game, but there was clearly a lot of bad decisions which are plain to see and that is decremental to the enjoyment that I am getting out of the game, not directly as a result of me thinking about these issues during game play (unless I start seeing unloaded textures or get a crash to desktop) but that after I've finished playing the game, I know there are these issues that shouldn't be there.

I enjoyed the guild quest in Oblivion because I actually felt like I was the Guild Master. Skyrim guild quest ends, I feel like nothing every changed. I hear some one liners and very repetitive ones. Other than that, I don't feel like the guild leader. Fighters guild or Mages guild in Oblivion I felt like the actual guild master by the disposition I had from my peers and the responses I received. Overall the quest in Oblivion felt more accomplished and effort was applied to earn it. Skyrim is so stripped down and vague.

If you say so. I see two or three "THIS IS THE MOST PERFECT GAME IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, NAY THE SOLAR SYSTEM, NAY THE GALAXY, NAY THE CLUSTER, NAY THE UNIVERSE" threads on the front page most of the time.

Plenty of people have said plenty of nice things about Skyrim, and it's sold like hotcakes, too. Thing is, people who have complaints will come in a lot louder than those who are totally content, especially this early on in a game series that's often very buggy initially (and Skyrim definitely qualifies), especially when an official patch quite literally broke people's games, and most especially after Bethesda has made so many major changes to the game's conventions and mechanics to boot. Whole new perk system, entire new crafting skill... bound to be some growing pains.

Yes I am enjoying the game. Yes I want many things to be fixed. Yes I want a workable patch on 360 so I don't have to play offline and be miss out on the other services Xbox Live offers. Yes I want patch 1.2 pulled while waiting for 1.3. Yes I want 1.3 right now. Yes Skyrim is still my personal game of the year.

Love it. Frankly, a lot of the complaints I chalk up to being the equivalent of someone plunking down a quarter mil on a Ferrari and then complaining that the horn is a half octave too high.

Cannot enjoy and criticize?

I enjoy the game, I've over a 100 hours on one character alone, however that does not mean I have no criticism about it, dialogue repeated too often "I was once and adventurer...."; poor engine performance even on high end systems, I could go on, but enjoying something does not mean there is something you do not like about.

Enjoy the game =\= it's flawless

Complaining or pointing out flaws = you want the game to be better in the future(at least to me)

Take dual wielding as example.
When Oblivion was released people complained the lack of dual wielding. Now it's in Skyrim.
If no one ever talked about it back in 2006, I doubt if dual wielding will appear in Skyrim. At least that could be a contributing factor to it.

in my experience ALL game forums are skewed to favor negative posts, i have no idea why. maybe it's related to the negative news thing, bad news is just more interesting than good. the fact is people who like skyrim are usually playing it, and many more are indifferent to game forums.

Nah, lots of people love this game. I love this game. And it has sold many millions of units. Figures such as those say little about how many people enjoyed their purchase.

But at the same time neither do forums like these (though people do like to believe 100 forum members arguing furiously amongst themselves will prove to be the basis of game/comic/film companies development policy). Since it seems regular, active posting is less then a couple of hundred people. And out of them there are people all over the map on the game - lovers and haters and everything in between, so it isn't even like there is 1000 unified voices hating/loving the game.

But don't worry, I have seen worse then this. Much worse, this forum is positively civilized compared to some in the past.



Agreed!

With the exception of how stupidly easy it is to cap Smithing and Enchanting, I actually like the new perk system and crafting system if I have to be honest.

The perk system stops people being the master of the universe in every skill, which you could be in Oblivion let's not forget. Mages are Mages, Warriors are Warriors and Theives are Theives, you can make hybrids as well and so you can tailor your character to however you want but you can't master everything. But of course there are some issues with the perk system, like the fact I just don't think melee weapons should be divided as skills anymore, it doesn't really make much sense to me that I have mastered one-handed swords but yet hit for less damage with a greatsword then a skeever deals with it's bad breath. I think their should be a few perks that separates 1 and 2 handed weapons but not skill. A lot of spell tree perks are useless or become useless later on (what perks in one-hand become useless? none?), more so the skill level perks since enchanting makes spells free and thus what's the point in having say the Master Destruction perk?

The new crafting systems are not over-complicated for what it's meant to be and the items required for it. The only real issue is that the following 3 effects exist in the game that should either have been very toned down or non-existent, Fortify Smithing, Fortify Alchemy and Fortify Enchantment. As for the new alchemy system could have been an improvement if the only change was that you selected the type of potion you wanted to make but more has changed then that, where have named potions gone?

One thing I would like the return of is attributes, I don't think the way Oblivion did attributes was at all well thought out back then either but I don't think their removal has been beneficial to the game play since now all the races are almost identical minus a once-a-day ability, some resistance effect, height and weight. I think the return of attributes which are based off of your skills (in other words they level in a similar way in which you gain character levels) but also with racial modifiers would have made the races a bit more unique then they're in Skyrim, possible more unique then they were in Oblivion.

Listen, people on the forums like to moan, specially when a game is new. Give It some time and they'll grow tired. Besides, I could name a couple of posters by their avatar that make up like... 70% of the negative posts, sometimes while motherlovingly praise other games, usually Morrowind or New Vegas, though tere's also the Witcher, Dark Souls and even Oblivion. Don't mind them.

I love Skyrim!

And I know that when Bethesda gets the bugs ironed out, it will be even better!

;)

Actually, I found out that for some people enjoying != liking, for some reason. I did not understand that myself though.

I do not like this game... I LOVE it!

Agreed.

I'm lost. Which of these questions do I answer in the poll?

"Am I the only one who likes this game?"

"Are you enjoying this game?"