I would rate Skyrim 10/10 because it immerses you into the game and have you make tough decisions that could greatly impact your playthrough.

Rofl, I hope the OP is joking.

What is the scale?

1 being really [censored]

10 being really awesome

Then I'd give Skyrim a

6/10

There are to many flaws to ignore and I have said it before it is a lackluster RPG. With no choices that matter. And you can do everything without a single consequence. Your character is a walking posessed doll that saves the world who has no recognition for his deeds. No sense of accomplishment. And I refuse to Imagine it because that isn't how a RP works.

Based entirely on vanilla 4/10 with Dawnguard and Dragonborn 6/10. I'f it was the only TES game probably an 8/10.

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Vanilla, 7/10.

Modded, 9/10.

(Nothing's perfect)

Vanilla 6/10

Vanilla+DLC 7.5/10

Modded 9/10

The only choice I can think of in the game that has an impact is choosing to destroy/join the dark brotherhood.

8/10. I like it a whole lot more than Oblivion, but less than Morrowind.

I absolutely agree with this. Oblivion has flaws too, as well as Morrowind.

But there is a saying and I know Skyrim is a video game, but the concept is the same idea.

When it comes to books a lot of the time we tell readers, "If you notice the writing then you should put back the book." The difference between a poorly written book and that of a good book with some of its flaws is the writing. If you're "reading a book" then it's bad. If you're "living a book" then often time it is good.

Reading Means you notice the words

Living Means you're creating pictures and scenes

I honestly think a good game is one that can mask it flaws with a well woven story and world. Skyrim only has one of those.

I'm one of the people that don't rate games with scores, at all.

Of course I still like games (especially the ones that I play the most), I still see their good and bad features, bugs etc. I may say that I like one game a bit more that the other, but I just never rate games with points. All that matter for me if if I like it. No points, no ratings.

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I generally prefer not to give a numerical value but in this case 7/10 comes to mind. It is an amazing game but had some glaring issues that seem odd why they were overlooked and I feel too much attention was paid to making it look pretty over making it deeper or more challenging.

Of the hundreds, or maybe thousands of games I've played in my 30+ years of gaming (since about 1982), I'd say Skyrim is most definitely in the top 10, and most likely in the top 5 of all time. A number rating I'd give it, and basing it off of a modded Skyrim experience, would be a 9.8

With being .2 short of a 10, because of how easily the game can CTD or bugout, but then again that's because of its complexity. A game that is a perfect 10, would let you remove mods , without damaging your save, and keeping your current progress, and remain stable. Nothing more immersion breaking that a CTD. Granted though, games that are modded are going to have bugs and CTD's due to modders doing things they shouldn't be doing, or creating conflicts with other mods, but would be awesome of there was a way for the game to have a diagnostic mode, where it would scan your mods and determine ahead of time if anything being done will create a conflict or 'bug' of some sort, that could affect gameplay, and also give a basic report of how adding that new mod would affect your PC's performance overall.

I love Skyrim. I absolutely do. Would I give it a 10/10? NOAP. Vanilla would be about an 8. With mods, probably a 9.3/10.

8/10

"Great game, a little disappointing, tho."

I'll give it a 9/10. Simply because I'm thinking about the lore, and browsing the forums whenever I'm not playing it. Regardless of how glitchy it is, and how the combat isn't fantastic.

8.5/10

It's not 10/10 ,because the vibe is too realistic.It's more like a Viking-ish 'era' simulation,rather than an Elder Scrolls game.It makes me want to think about political matters and what would be the best thing to do for Skyrim,which Oblivion and Morrowind did't have.In Oblivion and Morrowind you just walk around high(stoned) on magical fantasy vibes.

In Skyrim when i do the Dark Brotherhood, i feel like [censored], and i don't like that.When doing the Dark Brotherhood in Oblivion the character just didn't feel evil.(in a good way)I am not sure why but it didn't.

And also there are some problems with the quest mechanics.

And also after dozens of levels doing random stuff and when you finally start it,the main quest DOES feel weird ,if you are not a goody two-shoes nord.It just does.

PS: if you add Radiant quests(especially assassination DB quest),kills cams and more general side quests,Oblivion> Skyrim all the way.

Ign gave it a 9.5/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH1GUi8rNQk

Rate as opposed to what?

As opposed to and open world RPG where you can go anywhere and do pretty much anything you want? I'd probably give it 8/10.

Compared to the rest of TES? 6/10. Not horrible, but not great either.

Too many missteps for it to earn anything higher than that from me.

@OP: something to think about

I'd never give Skyrim 10/10. If I had to put a number on it I'd probably land on 6... or maybe 7 if we add the DLC. It's modability is great though, with mods it could probably be bumped up to 9/10.

Main reasons for giving it a middle-ish grade would be the horribe user interface, linear quests and how dumbed down it is compared to earlier installments.

Game's still enjoyable though.

I'd still give it a 10/10 but it's not the greatest game ever made and it has it's issues.

I'd rate it as "totally worth my money". That would be all, I can't compare it to other games since TES is a very special niche for me, unfulfilled by any other series, and I also don't like to compare it objectively to previous TES games as it would lose pretty bad and I don't want to hate this game, I can't let myself do this. It's too fun to hate on it, and I've spent alot of hours playing it.

10/10 - Skyrim destroys all past AND future games!