I am sceptical and excited.
I want Skyrim, but I was disappointed by Oblivion.

Sure the promises sound nice, but they promised a lot for Oblivion.
So I am a sad mix of both. It could be empty promises, it could be amazing. I will play it either way, and I will enjoy it more or less depending on how it is made. But I will still play it...




On a side note, if this one is even worse than Oblivion, I am done with the series.

The whole "no attributes" (rumour or not) thing has me very worried and skeptical.

Sceptic.

I deliberately avoided all the hype and previews for Fo3 & FoNV but I was a dutiful little TESian all the way through the run up to Ob. Ahh, Oblivion. It could walk, talk, sing, dance and make tea you know? Must be true, I watched the videos, read the press releases and followed all the official comments. Heh, at least half of that was totally meaningless, there was quite a large disparity between all the hype and the actual game that was released.

And then it was released and in my hands and on my PC and I emerged into a beautiful dawn and none of the disparity mattered any more. None of the pre-release information meant anything once I started the game because none of it had prepared me for the next 20 hours spent shaking my head in disbelief at what they had done, what they felt constituted an open world RPG experience. This was when I realised the true disparity, the reason for my current scepticism. Beth and I have totally different ideas on what makes an enjoyable RPG.

So, yes, sceptic. Sceptical about all the information we will see and how it will actually relate to the final game and sceptical that Beth will make Skyrim a game I will enjoy.

Oh, come on. We've barely heard anything about the game and people are already pegging it to be the best or worst game ever? Get real, seriously. Give it some time before getting your hopes up or completely losing them.

Optimistic with a healthy dose of skepticism. I make sure not to hype the game for myself.

Sceptic, because I have not heard ANYTHING about spears!! I mean, everyone wants them, they should be in the game. There should have been a screenie of a spear-wielding Argonian. Why haven't they confirmed spears?!?!?! :bonk: :ahhh:

Nappa: Hey Vegeta, what does the scouter say about his excitement level?
Vegeta: IT'S OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!


All joking aside, I chose the "OMG IT'S BEEN ANNOUNCED" option. When I first saw some of the stuff (eg. cut skills) I was a bit sceptical, but the more I think about Skyrim, the better it gets.

Excited but also slightly worried. A good hiking/LARP simulator, possibly also a good RPG.

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj125/Gizmojunk/skeptical_hippo.jpg

What I saw of the visuals was fine by me... but I have to assume it will follow the pattern.

Oblivion was a let down for me because it felt so dumbed down, and different from what my view on Elder Scrolls is...I just hope to god they don't dumb it down further.
But yeah, i'm still kinda hyped.

I really don't know...

It seems a bit like they are moving even further away from a traditional, stat-based RPG with the rumoured changes to attributes, presumably player-skill based new combat mechanics, etc. But it's too early to tell if this is the case. Maybe the attributes are still there but depend on your skills / health / stamina / magic. The old system had great potential, but was never really utilized that well - intelligence was just a boost to magic, there were never any non-combat skill checks. So I see this as more of a missed oppurtunity (to make the attributes more meaningful, like SPECIAL in Fallout) than an actual step down from Oblivion.

On the other hand, I have high hopes that they are thinking in terms of choices and consequences now (some quests in FO3 had multiple paths, and these quests were praised in reviews). The hype leads me to believe that there will be a more believable world with inter-faction power plays. But these things are difficult to judge without actually playing the game.

For me, RPGs are about making decisions and having the game react to them, and about developing a character and using his/her strengths to my advantage, while being limited by his/her weaknesses. Oblivion was too much like putty in this respect, it never reacted to what I was doing and never put me at a disadvantage because my character was trying to do something he was unskilled at. FO3 was an improvement on both counts. Hopefully that's the direction they are moving in, and not just a reluctant move to appease fans of the old Fallout games.

Any move towards more character skill and less player "skill" (face it, neither the combat or any of the minigames in unmodded Oblivion were the least bit difficult) would be welcome, but I'm not naive enough to hope for this... A good action-RPG with great story, multiple ways to do quests, and consequences for choices made, would make me very happy.

I'll be waiting a month (or more), and decide then if I plan to buy it...
*and for what reasons (IE. I might buy it just for machinima, or like a fantasy Garry's Mod; when it gets cheaper).
Depends if I like the mechanics.

No skepticism never doubted Bethesda. I will carry my undoubtfulness to the grave.

SKYRIM! Game of the year 2011, my favorite game eveerrr.

Er, what are we voting on here? Skeptical of what?

I'm hovering beteween "jkfukwugfelyibgwleibfuiukjwbrfgbk!!~!!!!! SHINY!!!!!!!!!!" and "...wait, why are they doing that?".

I would pick "excited", but you kind of ruined the poll by labeling it as: "MO was great, Ob was even better"

Why can't I be excited while prefering MW to OB? I think OB was flawed, but I'm still fairly excited for Skyrim, just not quite in OMG-mode.

I'm worried about the game, but I'm sure it will be fine. The direction TES is heading shows an unfortunate pattern to say the least, but hopefully perks will be implemented correctly and the game will be worthy of praise.

how exactly does my disapointment ins oblivion make me unable to be "OMG" about skyrim?

My pants needed changing when i saw the announcement trailer. Nough said.

Morrowind was a ansolute abomanation and is extremly over rated oblivion is the best game ever made

I am not skeptical at all. People need to calm down and be patient wait for videos and more info. Bethesda is good and won't let us down.

We're voting on whether we fear what is new or not :thumbsup:

Skeptical. Disappointed with Oblivion and not too happy with SOME of the information we've got about Skyrim (really only about 18 skills, which I've already explained has a CHANCE to be bad or good, just depends on how they handle it. Also disappointed about the chance that attributes are no longer in the game. Otherwise, I'm cool with everything).

Mutation is usually bad :whistling:

Through induction as I would call it, being a geek and a physics lover :wub: Satisfaction level-wise: if they went from A to B - A being a satisfactory game and B a less satisfactory one - then a logical conclusion would be that they may go from B to C instead of another A or B.