I, like many out here, have been looking forward to Skyrim since I first got wind of it. I absolutely loved Oblivion, and am one of the fans who believe that oblivion was better than morrowind. Now knowing how many had big issues with Oblivion after being very hyped up about it, how will you handle it if it doesn't come out nearly as well as you expect.

I'm opening this up for discussion to help keep my fellow TES lovers feet on the ground, which can be quite hard.

Modern Warfare 3

Skyrim WILL exceed my expectations. :yes:

I will begin waiting for TES VI. And simultaneously pray to every single Daedric prince to curse those that made Skyrim bad. Then I would log on here for 5-6 years and whine about the game being bad. In case Bethesda fails that is.

Get. Out. NAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Anyways, Beth has yet to dissapoint me, i have strong faith.

i wont care. ill play mw3 or battlefield 3.

It'll most likely meet my expectations. But, then, my expectations aren't inflated to silly levels.


(My answer is a tie between "mod the heck out of it" and "go back to Oblivion")

If the game somehow managed to be a step backwards from both MW and OB . . . I would probably complain repeatedly on the official forums :tongue:

big MW fan i hate infinity ward but activision..people that made MW and MW2.. are great. have you seen Battlefield 3 trailer. the graphics look incredible and the interactive environment is one thing that MW can never have i don't know which to get
Back to Skyrim
Skyrim is the game i have been looking forward to forever its been since 2007 and i am like a lot of other gamers out there so you might want to take the last option off cuz it disproves the subject. i would never be disapponted with a TES game they have spent 5 years on this.. that is unheard of. Their level of detail is rediculous, every single leaf is cut out on its own to move freely in the wind, you knowhow long that would take, this game can never be disappointing

i have faith in beth.


and for the people even saying mw3 just get out now...

I have faith, but if it doesn't work out, I'll mod em'

Activision didn't develop any CoD. They publish them. In fact, it's Activision who's killing the franchise.

@OP Skyrim won't bomb.

I have full faith that skyrim will more than fulfill my TES needs...and take away all my gaming time. I will hopefully have D3 beta and BF3 to keep me busy while I wait for mods to fix whatever needs fixing if need be.

if it bombs enough that I dont like the game then I will probably visit hell to see the drop in temperature

I've seen and heard enough about Skyrim to be 100% certain it won't absolutely svck.

Even if it turns out to be a bit disappointing, it isn't going to be so dire that mods can't redeem it.

What if the sky falls?

from whats been shown i doubt skyrim could fail

Regardless of the quality, I think Bethesda's pedigree as of right now, is so strong that they pretty much have a "Get out of crappy game free" card. If Skyrim svcks, it will still sell. The real problem would be, is if Skyrim svcked and the next did as well.

As for what I think? I believe BGS has too much talent to release something under an 8.5 on a 10 scale. It's not like they push out games as annual iterations as cash-ins. Each product is obviously a labor of love.



Exploration has always been the core of an Elder Scrolls experience. Whether or not that is intentional. Oblivion's only real failure, was removing a large amount of the incentive for exploration, and I'm not just talking about Loot, though that certainly was a part of it. The overall sense of the game just didn't reward discovery, too much was tied down to random quests or that terrible level-scaling implementation, as well as an overall lack of uniqueness and coloring detail to the world. The world failed to compel by being formulaic and predictable to the point of exploitation.

It's hard to explain, In Oblivion, the player's interaction with the world was great, but the world's interaction with the player (Incentive, stimuli, challenge, contrast) was just sorely lacking.

Morrowind was the Opposite. Actually playing Morrowind, the game is pretty clunky, the magic is boring, stealth is stupid and shallow, but how the world compels the player to keep going anyway, is just amazing. I think that's how you define a "Toy" from an "Experience".

Then chickens become the dominate race.

for all that I don't like that I hear about SK, so far none of them appear to be unmodable.

except for lack of spears and the game being designed to look similar on all systems *shudders* i havent really seen or read anything that i didnt mind or actually thought was an improvement. it certainly cant get any worse than oblivion.

Setting aside all consideration of whether it will or will not or can or cannot bomb - presuming that it does:

I'd come here to watch a few posters (who shall go nameless) try ever more desperately to make believe that it's really great anyway.
I'd keep on playing Morrowind and Oblivion.
I'd look for another series.
I'd keep an eye out for TES VI, since if Skryim were to bomb, you can be sure that Beth would do some major housecleaning and rearranging of priorities, though which way that might go is anybody's guess.

The odds of Skyrim bombing are the same odds that COD becomes a full flesh RPG Shooter, 0%.

If it bombs I'll go back to Oblivion but I don't see it happening not with Howard leading the ship.

get off these forums~ bliviongate:

If it bombs I will not buy it a month after release for 1/2 price like I planned and just wait for Fallout 4. GOGO shotgun justice!