Just wondering what the opinions are from people that have not played any elder scrolls game before and skyrim is their first.

Lol nobody i guess nobody is a 1st timer here

This is my first elder scrolls game and im 140 hours in and loving it.

Now this is a topic I'm interested in.

I to was wondering. I put myself in their shoes, and asked how would I feel.

Frankly, I'd be pissed if I had some of the major issues that have arose, but as a long time fan, I know what to expect. Some have major issues, others do not, others yet are somewhere in the middle.

Anyway, yeah, speak up folks, I'm really curious to!

Here, you can have a :cookie: while you share your experience.

edit: forgot "major" in "major issues". :blush:

I'm busy so must be brief, It's a good game with better potential.


The support is....odd as are various other things. I find myself playing in spite of a decent array of nagging things - but nothing insurmountable. I see the potential.

If I had to summarise the launch experience I'd say it's akin to being an early starter in an MMO, exciting new world bugs a plenty but without the developer feedback.

Probably wondering how ot get into a "raid" :teehee:

Me too, First time Elder Scrolls player.
I'm a Fallout fan.
And that's what this game feels like or should I actually say, I see where Fallout came from.
Even the lock pick game is the exact same..
And no V.A.T.S., but you still get slow-mo kills.
Wonder if you get the slow-mo bullet to the head shot like Fallout when your archery skill is TOP in Skyrim, "I don't know".
Ther-ya' go, that's what I think.

I'm absolutely loving it! Probably one of my favourite games this year Haven't been this hooked on anything in a long, long time. Kind of makes me want to play Oblivion, and Morrowind despite how old they are.

Awesome.

[PC User]

brilliant game, havent had any issues with the game yet
and i enjoy it allot.

only destruction is UP

Its amazing.

Not only am I a first time TES player, I'm pretty much a newb gamer. I'm 33y/o and this is the first game I've bought in about 12 years. I was intrigued by the trailer and watched a few "let's play" videos on youtube and was sold.

While I don't really have anything to compare Skyrim to in terms of graphics, gameplay etc., I can say that it's been seriously addictive! I'm browsing reddit/r/skyrim all day and have been in and out of this forum several times now. This is my first experience with Steam and I have to say that part doesn't impress me. I don't really use any of the steam features and it feels a bit intrusive. I understand why it exists though. I love the storyline in Skyrim and I've found myself researching more and more of the TES lore. I'm playing the game without any mods just as it was intended and the art in the game is just extremely well done. I find myself constantly stopping and looking at scenery thinking that most of the game looks like a piece of art that someone took weeks to create a single shot. It's amazing it's realtime.

I haven't experienced many glitches except for the falmer's textures not loading the first time I encountered them. Their normal maps were there but no bitmaps. I also ran into a dragon that was being resurrected and it came out of the ground with it's skin off. I killed it pretty quickly and it did give up a soul. A few minor oddities like Lydia's persistent door blocking etc. but none of them really distract enough to ruin the experience for me. Also as a testimony to the game's art, look/feel, my wife (IRL) who could care less about games actually sat and watched me play for an hour the other night. She was very impressed by the reality of the scenery and dynamics in the engine. She said she could definitely understand why people would want to sit and spend hours running around "in there".

The AI is just leaps and bounds above anything I've ever played. There seems to be a lot of randomness built in which is very very cool to a newb gamer. I always hated the predictability in the older games' AI. I wouldn't say that Skyrim has turned me into a hardcoe gamer and to be honest I probably wont buy any more games until the next TES game comes out. I'm not really interested in other types of games. Skyrim just resonates with me because of my fascination with dragons and medieval times.

I think my lack of experience with other games helps me appreciate Skyrim even more. I'm just completely blown away by every aspect of the game. My hats off to the team at Bethesda for the work that obviously went into this game. I appreciate the effort that it must take to pull something like this off. Very, very, very well done. IMHO.

Edit> I posted something similar to this on reddit a while back and got some comments on how I had a PC to game with if I'm not a "gamer". In case anyone thinks that's odd here, the reason is that I'm a 3d artist and so my machine is already beyond the req's for playing skyrim. I'm not a game 3d artist, though honestly, after playing this game i'm thinking about moving in that direction.

Welcome back. :celebration:

I'm a first time Elder Scrolls player, and admittedly picked it up rather begrudgingly out of a complete lack of anything else to play. My experience has been kind of a mixed bag:

The experience as a whole is wonderful, there's some cool places in the world [edit: Blackreach is AWESOME!] and it's nice to finally have a game to *explore* again, it's been far too long since I've had that. Some quest lines are pretty awesome (huge fan of the thieves guild quests). I definitely appreciate that, with some exceptions, I can go places and get impromptu quests to complete stuff or find items and then later down the road find someone that needs it and be like "oh hey I already have that" and it's taken care of, much less of this "get quest, targets spawn, go get it, repeat" nonsense.

As a PC gamer, the interface is extremely infuriating in a lot of areas: Favorites system doesn't work at all with dual wield, stacked weapons, getting disarmed, and that annoying right-hand-missing bug when you try to load two of the same magic spell quickly; menus tend to get buggy with mouse control not hitting the options you're hovering over and just plain exiting out of the menu when you click on a valid menu option; the constellation display method of skills is obnoxious; and save games could go for being able to name them.

Mechanically, as with Fallout 3 (also my first Fallout game) I find it generally weak, as a seasoned veteran of a couple decades worth of fantasy games. Being a primarily combat-based game, level progression seems kind of wonky when it comes to non-combat skills; there's entire skill trees that are useless (pickpocketing, lockpicking); crafting seems oddly grindy especially for a single player game, although I'm no stranger to the grind; dragons are...not at all challenging at any level of play, adding yet another game to the giant list of fantasy games that have TERRIBLE and disrespected dragons; roleplay seems incredibly limiting due to limited options on how to deal with situations, virtually any more-strict 'class' and persona type thing locks you out of a ton of content so it just seems like a thief/rogue game through and through despite trying to present options; keep sieging is hugely lackluster; encouraging quicksave/quickload spam is bad; and why in all of hell does pickpocketing cap at 90%.

As has been beaten to death on this forum already with all its arguments and counter-arguments, balance is waaaaaaaaaaaaay off in a lot of areas. Again, being a veteran gamer, I'm well on the side of "I'm not going to do anything that intentionally weakens my character, so the world needs to rise up and match my power." The power of some perks is just crazy. In honesty, all this pvssyr about mages being under-powered is weird, because they seem like the only thing that's at the *right* power level while other stuff is pretty overpowered by a significant margin. [edit 2: Yes I play on Master.]

I could continue to ramble, but it is the internet after all and it's an achievement if you make it this far!

I had only read about Oblivion before. I preordered Skyrim and Battlefield 3 since I KNEW those would be the games-to-get that I'd like the most. I kept getting in late before. So glad I got them both. :disguise:

I expected Skyrim to be a more forgiving action rpg. Not like Demon's Souls or Gothic where choices matter more and punishments are harsher. I felt good about that since I just wanted to enjoy my playstyle and good story.

The most suprising thing was the amount of story in this game. I was interested in every little thing people had to say then I come on forums like this and see people just think nothing of some quests (misc. ones usually) as if it's just number counters. There's such great backstory for everything, and it all fits so well even the smallest tasks. I experienced no bugs for the longest time only occasional freezing which is very rare still. I had played New Vegas :fallout: for a change from my usual fighting-game and competitive-fps games. It was satisfyingly good.

Only problem that I've had with open-world action rpgs like this is the lack of speed and skill. Obviously, playing fighting games and shooters so often, I DEMAND skill as high as max-difficulty DDR :shocking: (Dance Dance Revolution). Sometimes I like to manage things like management sim games have, and sometimes I enjoy a good story. Skyrim provided both very well, especially the excess of story. A big problem, AND THIS IS IMPORTANT, is distance-between-interactions in open world games. Think of it this way... you could have an empty, open area with nothing but running across emptiness or you could have a game where everything is RIGHT FREAKING NEXT TO EACH OTHER even to the point where you need to pause the game and select menu options in order to survive. I always choose the latter and consider any unnecessary emptiness a pointless waste of time. However, Skyrim as well as New Vegas both managed to immerse me well enough with the environmental design, great characters, and character builds that feel like they matter.
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I couldn't decide how to play at first, so I started by experimenting with variety. I tried sneaky bow attacks, sword and shield, just about everything up to level 11 at which point I finally settled on Mage casually. I did enjoy the various gameplay systems though. A simple melee system that works; attack, block, breaker. This works well enough and is fun although my first playthrough was as a mage. Mages have a nice variety of spells although Wards are useless compared to shields. My starting assassin-style gameplay is what I expected somewhat from the thieves guild, but instead I was pleasantly suprised to find that they DISAPPROVE OF KILLING PEOPLE. So, just like the late-90s thief games, you're trying to steal for profit without being seen. :ninja:

Since I never had the displeasure of seeing bugs other than very rare freezing, I consider Skyrim an amazing achievement. I always am disappointed at how entitled and whiny people are about such things. I wonder if they even remember that not everyone has things like this. Spoiled brats. Skyrim's only lacking features are low difficulty (developers should stop raising enemy health and lowering player damage as the sole difficulty adjustment in games, there's a whole wealth of things that could be changed for difficulty. It's like only eating bread when you have a kitchen full of exotic food :cookie: ), slow speed, and its restriction to a single setting since it is part of a series in that setting. :tes: It's an amazing game that I'm glad I got for a rpg-change from my usual hyperactive game library. :toughninja:
:deal:

EDIT: TL;DR bliviongate: VERSION---> Game's good, entitled whiners are spoiled brats, great immersion and character management, game's kinda easy and slow, great story-telling even little stuff.

This is my first TES game. Its very addictive. I played my first character to level 20 to get a feel for how this game works then started over with much more focus on how I wanted to play. I love the freedom of the open world design. This game is brilliant.

Having trouble fighting dragons since the last patch though.

I'm new to Elder Scrolls, and I'm playing on a PC with good power but a graphics card that is probably marginal. I decided to try the game after one of my WoW friends picked it up and suddenly stopped spending his life on WoW.

Even with the game graphics dumbed down, the visuals are excellent. I've had some frustration with the mouse sensitivity as well as freezes when trying to exit the game (both improved by the 1.2 patch), but overall it's plenty of fun. There's a sense of unknown danger wherever you go, unlike WoW (except maybe in world PvP). Once the bugs are fixed, I think the biggest negative will be the inadequate information about the quests in your quest journal -- if you pick up a quest and don't go to do it right away, you're likely to have no memory of what you're doing and why.

I'm not a new player, I've followed TES games since Arena. I was 19 when Arena came out, Someone recommended it to me as I was into RPG (Used to DnD a lot), So I tried it, and found that I loved it.

I got a, warm, I suppose you can call it an 'OMG' feeling (no such thing as OMG back in '94) when I first started playing it. I got the same feeling with Daggerfall in '96, and Morrowind in '02, and Oblivion in '07.

I got the same, warm 'OMG' when I first started playing Skyrim in November that I got when I played Arena. So yeah, I feel like a new player whenever a TES game comes out.

This is my first TES game, and I am totally taken aback by how awesome this game. The fact that I am on a forum about a game shows how much I am in love with Skyrim, I never come to game forums, or any forums really. But this game has truly captured my imagination.

I'm loving it and I even went out of way to learn the lore of the previous games to better understand what's going on in the world of Nirn.

I'm absolutely loving it. I've always stayed away from these games as Im not a fan of first person games but a friend convinced me to try this one out. I'm having a blast and find I'm having a hard time making myself stop and go to bed. I've had relatively few bugs and question if I'm just lucky based on all the complaining on these forums. TBH if I'd visited these forums before I got the game I'd probably stay really far away from it. I just find it mind boggling how much complaining people here do regarding a game that Im personally having a great time with.

That is normal when they first rise up.



Use the console to save when/if on the PC. Open it (~ key) type:

Save "Name_here_using_underscores_rather_than_spaces_with_names_using_more_than_one_word"

Example:

save Joe_Blow_in_Riverwood

P.S.

Great responses so far.

wow to be honest i was not expecting so many new players to like this game, i am playing elder scrolls when oblivion came out i have seen morrowind but didn't like it much due to outdated graphics, well although i found skyrim to be fun for a week, atm i have not played it for 2-3 days due to finishing the main quest (i got disappointed of how it ended and how short it was) , but i guess i can believe why new players like this game so much, i know when oblivion came out i couldn't stop playing even if people complain it was buggy or was worse than morowind it was my 1st open rpg game and i loved it so i guess new people liking this game is normal, but for veterans players who come from playing morowind they still say they liked morrowind the most.

Well I couldn't get into Oblivion. I bought it two times but it never clicked with me even though I didn't give it hardly any time. My biggest rpg game history was being in an end-game raid guild in Everquest but it was 6 days a week and it was too dominant in my life. So I heard about Skyrim coming out, heard about all the things to do, so I picked it up on release day. I love it. So many things to do and they're not all just fetch missions. I like the dynamic dragons, different towns, playstyles, etc. I've been playing for about 60 hours on one character and haven't done much on the main quest.

There are some things I don't like, such as having about 10,000 potions that would take forever to sell because the merchant is broke, but its all petty nonsense. Really enjoy playing the game, although I'm not too sure of whats going on and if I should like the Imperials or Stormcloaks, I just know that the Imperials were about to decapitate me so they lost a point in my book.

First time TES player here as well. Fallout 3 was my first RPG and I loved the open world, and I played WoW for a few months because I love fantasy/medieval settings. Then I played the first Dragon Age, but I hated it because I like open world RPGs. I prefer my shooters to be linear. So when I heard about Skryim, I knew it'd be open world, I looked at some screens/videos. I then proceeded to pre-order it for the PC after cancelling my Diablo 3 pre-order. It is a fantastic game, haven't experienced any major bugs yet, I do want to update my graphics card down the road to be able to run on ultra and have better texture mods that work.