Disclaimer: Everyone has their own personal opinion and everyone is entitled to their opinion. If you don't agree then that's fine.

You know there are times when I feel like facepalming or head desking. As I question things that make my head explode.

One of my Personal Gripes and is commonly a gripe of others is the way they did customization.

The fact that before you leave Helgen you cannot fix any issues and have to go through the unskippable content all over again. They fixed this by adding the face sculptor in one of the DLCs, but it was Beths mistake for not allowing us to change our appearance if we got things wrong the first time, so why does she cost 1000 gold? Uh uh no. She should be free considering that I have to make a Out of Character, Out of RP trip to her if I have to fix something.

So I have option of

-Going through UnSkippable content

-Going to Riften because I rather not have to watch for the forty thousandth time the attack on Helgen

And I know the argument. "Just roll with your characters flaws". Which my response is I'm a terribly vain human being and want my characters to look as I imagined them.

Another gripe is no piece metal or piece clothing. And gender based clothing. At least at least in Oblivion there were a few pair of pants that females could wear. One of my biggest biggest biggest reasons why I don't play female characters is because Bethseda decided that females would be okay with just dresses. In Oblivion I created two different females that I actually really liked. The first one was a pirate she wore the laced leather pants, some light armor boots, light armor gauntlets, and had a shirt. She enchanted a cutlass later.

Another female was a crusader. She had heavy armor boots, heavy armor gauntlets and wore a shirt. If Oblivion had extra piece metal, I would have put pauldrons on her shoulders and kept the cloth shirt.

Also bring back medium armor.

I don't want to be stuck between light and heavy. And I think the way light and heavy are addressed in Skyrim is utterely ridiculous. Light armor is mostly alalala sneaky, while heavy armor is for heavy combat.

Errr people can use Light Armor for more than just stealth you know.

Also more Robes. And a good variety of Robes with Pants and Robe Robes. Not every character I role with wants to wear traditional length robes. I run an adventuring mage who uses no combat, but pant robes seem hard to come by.

Yes... its absurd that we could not respec before leaving Helgen keep. Im so bored of that intro its not even funny.

So am I.

I basically go do something else if I must make a new character. Its actually one of the biggest reasons I avoid making new characters.

Also, the Face scultpor doesn't allow you to change your name for your character. So screwed in that department. I had to pay 1000 gold basically to give him a haircut, because I forgot to unbald him during character creation.

When I create my character I choose the no hair option so I can watch their profile and fix their details beforehand.

I love the intro but a respec would have been good.

I can agree with you. Though I'm okay with it that there's no piece armour or clothing. I wouldn't have complained if there was, though.

There's also a few other things that bother me about Skyrim.

1. For one, I think the guilds are way too rushed. ''Yeah you just came here like, about a week ago. But we're most certain that you're qualified as the new Arch Mage despite your mediocre skill in magic!''

2. I find it rather unrealistic how most clothes don't seem to be very protecting against the cold. I got no problems with Tavern clothes etc being there. But I really would have liked it if there were more clothes to truly fit the cold weather such as fur coats and all. When looking at most of the people in Skyrim, I'm wondering why they aren't freezing to death. Especially non-Nords.

Which makes me happy that I play on the PC. I can respec anywhere, anytime. All with a few console commands.

Give me your computer then.

*exchanges Crazy's CPU for his console and runs away*

Hmm, what are you going to do with just a CPU? You'd need a GPU, PSU, mobo, RAM etc along with it

I hate the intro with the burning passion of one million exploding chickens.

That is why I went to PC and have the live another life mod, [censored] is awesome.

However, even with mods and whatnot, I'm bored with skyrim atm.

For me I am having problems.

I love a few other RPGs more than Skyrim.

One of them being Dragon's Dogma, which oddly is extremely linear. But IDK, I'm just having so much fun playing it. I've played it over like three times now and still haven't gotten tired of it. I also like the whole Ghouls and Goblins feel to the end. It's just amazing.

Kingdoms of Amular, though that one is older. Just adore the unique fantasy setting. Unique cause I haven't seen a concept like this in the media. And Todd Mcfarlane is my idol.

Witcher 2, now THIS. This is how an RPG should be like.

I feel like the next TES game should be a birthing of Dragon's Dogma and Witcher 2. Witcher 2 for its story and quest choices. Dragon's Dogma's character customization is flipping amazing. I require all customization to be like this.

I love Skyrim when I love it.

I hate it when I hate it.

And often my gameplay is like this

"Yes, fresh air, exploring"

then something breaks my immersion, mad forever at Skyrim, rage quit.

You need to get into roleplaying if you want to keep enjoying Skyrim for ever. It seriously makes the game 11,11,11x more fun than messing around or trying to complete everything.

Live Another Life+armor mods+ access to racemenu+ Oh hell the list goes on and on. But this is why I play on the PC.

My personal gripe? Having a one-sided MQ again.

They want a canon ending? Fine, I'm cool with that. But they could still have an alternate universe "non-canon" side with a "bad guy" ending as well. It would also add further roleplaying and replayablity options to the table.

I have looked for other viable Skyrim replacers. None have I found.

For me its Witcher 2. God this game.

I'm in love.

Also in a few months I'm getting Thief.

All those games you mentioned, I too, love to play.

Dragons dogma has some of the most fun combat I've played in a long time.

The witcher 2's story was so good that it took me about 3 months to attempt another play through cause I was so..loyal (I guess that is the right word) to the side I picked (Scoia'tael).

KOA was awesome because of the world/combat for me (I still have fun combo-ing moves, running around etc).

I tried so hard to RP, I really svck at it

It's like, my eyes cannot see what isn't there...

If anyone has any RP advice, I'd love to see it

Mostly just the lazy writing. So much of the writing seems like it never got past the first draft stage.

For example, I recently did that quest starting in the inn in Dawnstar where you head up to Nightcaller Temple with the priest. The background for the quest is that everyone in Dawnstar is having nightmares. The priest says something like "It's the Daedric lord Vaermina feasting on memories, and the nightmares are echoes of her presence". And your reply is "Ok what's your plan?"---not "Hang on, can you explain that mumbo-jumbo a bit more?" or "Why does Vaermina feast on memories?" or "What's so bad about Vaermina feasting on memories?" or anything like that. Just slavish obedience. And then it gets even worse, because when the priest gives you some evasive answers to some relevant questions, you say "I don't trust you, you're hiding something". And the priest's reply is something like "You'll have to take my word for it as a priest". And then your options are either to not take the quest, or to say "Ok I trust you, let's go".

FFS Bethesda, could you have at least tried a bit harder?

You realize I play DnD and Pathfinder?

Or maybe you don't.

All well I'll Imagine away all of Skyrims flaws and agree with you.

Dawnstar*

My post was to Personablaze.

Dragon's Dogma also has an interesting story. At least to me. Sure it was kind of cliche at times, but it was still cool.

Witcher 2s story is AMAZING. And Choices Choices Choices and guess what they actually matter.

Kingdoms of Amular had some really fun combat. Actually KOA I felt, this is what Fable 3 should have strived for in its gameplay and world.

So an RPG should be like a mature Fable? That's what the Witcher 2 felt like to me with more sluggish/slow combat then Fable.

I see your gripes about the beginning and simplifying things but I still feel that it's the best RPG released in the past few years and I still prefer to play it over other games that I still haven't finished or the many I have still yet to even try....same thing with Oblivion up until the week before Skyrim and I have it for Xbox which says a lot, I just love me some TES

Kingdoms of Amular was more Fable than Witcher 2 was.

Not able to change names, especially once you realize it's "Prisoner"