Morrowind Tribunal was the high point for me. Loved that expansion, great balance of QUEST REWARD - RISK. Quests were hard in Tribunal, but the rewards were WORTH IT. Nice items.

Oblivion was ruined IMO by the scaling system, making gear, levels meaningless as everything just kept getting stronger and my character seemed to get weaker as I leveled up.

Skyrim started out great, but I really miss stats and spell making, and I have the PS3 version so I can't really play it right now

If it is too easy turn the difficulty slider up, then come back to me.

The thing is, all that changes is amount damage taken and given. It doesn't actually change the toddler-level mechanics.

Yet another Zelda "RPGers" opinion, huh?

Skyrim is the only pure RPG out for the XBox platform currently. The only others that come close are the DAs and the MEs. To me, complaints like this sound like what they are, an "RPGer" who has no idea what RPG is.

Another heavy-handed thread. good luck with your next game, dont let the door catch you on the way out!

- Then why did a noob thug kill my sword and shield warrior? Oh right, because two handed weapons hurt and it isn't "that easy" unless difficulty is set to such.

- Play a game long enough, it gets repetitive. Also, learn to have imagination. My Nord's responses to a quest sound a bit different in my head then say... my Khajiit.

Are we outsourcing forum complaints now?

:violin:

I'm going to obliterate some of your points into the oblivion realm where they came from:
-The game is just as easy as you make it. I was unbeatable at level 7 in morrowind and oblivion only became hard if you spent time leveling up non-combat skills and non-combat attributes. (same like leveling up speechcraft, pickpocket, sneak and lockpick and stamina in Skyrim).

-Dungeons in Skyrim are not repetitive at all. You've clearly not played oblivion nearly enough, it had literally the same dungeon with the same twists and turns in it everywhere. Whenever you found a new cave, you knew it was familiar because it was exactly the same dungeon. About repetitive quest-lines, if you are talking about the infinite misc-quests in the game...I have no idea how you can make infinite quests a bad thing. If you are talking about the actual quests.. Which of them are any more repetitive than the quests in morrowind and oblivion?

-This is outright wrong when comparing to morrowind and oblivion. I sincerely get the feleing you haven't even played those games. You could max out every single attribute and every single skill in both morrowind and oblivion, without having to sacrifice anything at all. In Skyrim, even if you do level up every single skill to 100 and balance out the attributes as well as you can, you'll never be able to do everything because you can only pick 80 perks and fully master only 7-9 skills. In Oblivion, a character with 100 in every skill would automatically be a master in everything.. So your argument why Skyrim is bad fails completely because it actually only applies to morrowind and oblivion.

-In both morrowind and oblivion your starting birthsign didn't even matter 90% of the time because the little buff to a few attributes that most of the birthsigns had, became pointless at later levels.

-The 'illusion' of choice? You have a choice. You only become a werewolf for a little time for crying out loud and you get the cure very fast by playing further into the quest-line if you truly feel the need to do that quest-line.

-The new houses in Skyrim have introduced something mods were able to add in oblivion, mannequins. Decorating your house was never easy in Oblivion unless you were playing with mods. It's nearly the same in Skyrim, but this time we actually have mannequins to put armor on.

-Plenty of things we don't care for? What..Here I thought you were a role-player. There's nothing more satisfying than playing an average joe making his living chopping woods, cooking meals and hunting wolves and deer. You clearly don't appreciate the detail bethesda has created when it comes to actually playing as whoever you want. In morrowind, the only damn way to make money at all was to go to dungeons and loot bodies and doing quests. Skyrim has so much more than that, I can't understand how that is a bad thing.

-It only makes sense that there's more than one quest in a single dungeon. Why wouldn't a bandit leader who stole a family heirloom of Mr. Battle-Born be also on the bounty list?


There, all your arguments obliterated. Have a nice day.

thanks for your snobby opinion OP. all the things you enjoy look like a hamburger to me too, so take that.

huh, well for 80 hours worth of play it sounds like you got your moneys worth, i mean thats how you really have to look at video games. You played for eighty hours, i've played like maybe two or three game FRANCHISES that you can play for that long.

Pretty much nailed it.

I keep trolling myself by reading these threads

I have played a lot of games. Most of those games I don't play anymore.

The ones I stopped playing I did so quietly. I made no forum posts/announcements about my decision or the reasons for my decision or my opinions of those that still enjoyed the game.

I simply stopped playing it; uninstalled it and moved on to other pursuits that I found more interesting.

More people should try this.

Blatant alt of the Op. Same join up date and nonsensical response means its most likely the same guy agreeing with himself.

For what it's worth though, I'm almost as disappointed as he is.

I just want to +1 this post

Possibly because a forum is meant for the free expression and sharing of thoughts, ideas and experiences from all perspectives (which means it's a platform to voice positive and negative views and the spectrum of opinion between those poles). Whilst you may not agree with all the sentiments others express, they have the liberty to express them in this type of arena and should be allowed to do so without risk of persecution and ridicule.

I don't agree wholeheartedly in what the OP has said, but there are seeds of truth to the notion that many of the dungeons are small and very linear. However, I've found some that really took my breath away - the first Dwemer ruin I stumbled on was a fantastic experience. Far from being too easy, I've underestimated how strong some NPC's are and had to re-evaluate my approach to defeat them. The main quests are undeniably brief and there is a lack of flexibility in the choices the player can make to affect the outcomes.

What I greatly resent, is the notion that "casual gamers" undermine the needs of "serious gamers" - a gamer is a gamer, every one has invested varying levels of time, money and effort according to their means to be able to play. If there is a decline in the quality of games available, it's more probably symptomatic of the shortsighted business models of a copycat industry that favours short term gain for the lowest cost, typically at the expense of risk and innovation.

If you support freedom of expression, then you must also support the right for others to express their thoughts and ideas which you do not agree with. This includes their right to ridicule you.

I enjoy "fast food" as much as I do enjoy "fine cooking". Skyrim offers a middle ground between both for me...

But please, YOU didn't like it. it's YOUR opinion. I won't try to change it, it's YOURS. Insulting other people's opinions though... Makes you sound like an ass. weird heh? what kind of world do we live in, where one can express himself BUT must deal with people's reactions...

Everyone just own up. The forum is more fun than the game.

90% of the things you mentioned were in Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, and Oblivion.

You like TV dinner games.

+1

Totally Agreed.

Same here.

I mean this 100% sincerely, I feel really bad for the people who have experienced these game-breaking faults and problems that they can not get past to enjoy the game, because I have had sooo much fun with this game. 3 different characters and the farthest I've gotten on the main story is the part where you learn the 3rd word of the FUS RO DAH shout. Got a level 30 character, a level 15 character, and a level 9 character. All of them completely different from one another, and all equally as fun.

I don't see myself playing another video game for a long time.

Idiot. Oblivion was utter [censored], and even simpler than skyrim at that, even WORSE than skyrim. Mods fixed Oblivion to nearly-as-good as skyrim, while mods will push Skyrim faaar past previous TES games.
Please take your crybaby ignorant posts elsewhere.