if it had worked right, straight from the box the answer would've been YES!!! but in its current state NO. but the potential is still there so here's hoping they can sort it out
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Has anyone killed someone and later had a relative of that person come after them? I recall that in advertisemants but haven't experienced it.

Yes, I got the 60 bucks I expect to get from it.

I'm a bit disappointed with the textures originating on the LCD (least common denominator) a 6 year old piece of hardware. I had believed they'd put more work into doing a "separate but equal" PC port and support the mouse click-drag interface better, but they've dropped "PC first" and I guess I have to be more comfortable with "console first." Frankly, with the way things are, I'm the outlier and they _should_ do the consoles first. That's fine.

The story and game world I find as engrossing as I expected, and a far cry better than Oblivion. I don't yet have the enjoyment that I expect after playing Morrowind with some of the old Brett's hair and some cool armor mods I recall from all those years ago, but I feel this game could get me there.

No. I was expecting them to have fixed some of the main issues that people didn't like about Oblivion - such as the terrible level-scaling, the necessity of the quest marker, unkillable NPCs, the identical dungeons, and stupid NPCs. But all they did was superficially touch upon these issues - the problems are still very much there. If we add to this how the main and faction questlines are now extremely mediocre and far from compelling, the gameworld is underpopulated and doesn't react properly, the magic system has been inexcusably sized down, and numerous other criticisms, then Skyrim is a thoroughly disappointing Elder Scrolls game. It isn't as disappointing as Oblivion was, but it's still pretty bad IMO.

It was all I could have expected, being my favorite game in Its vanilla state, although I think It was really overhyped... by the overhyped themselves.

I think it surpassed my expectations. I was worried a bit but I find it to be a masterpiece.

Yes I think this game lived up to the hype. It is the most expansive and best looking game I have ever played. My first run through the game I fast traveled alot and I think that created more of a mission grinding feel although I was getting a lot more exploration done in less time. This time through the game I am running everywhere so I am getting a better feeling of immersion. The small details of this game are what make it for me. The numerous waterfalls, water current, bird nests with eggs, flying bugs, scurrying rodents, fish jumping up small waterfalls, northern lights, etc. show the level of detail they were going for in this game. A couple of the quest lines were a bit short for my liking, especially the Bards college, but these will probably be expanded on with mods.

Yes

It's a great console game on the PC, pity the graphics are 2006.

This!

So much potential if only they could fix it.

I'm going to be honest here, I've logged, 282 hours of in-game time since release. I've had more time logged but I deleted the saves where I macro'd play-time....
I didn't really have great expectations because I knew what this game was being made for. So my answer would have to be, I think I got pretty close to what I expected. As far as hype, well, I didn't nor do I ever buy into it.

If people weren't so impressionable, the anger we see at the moment wouldn't be nearly as extreme.

But people are so, whatever, somewhat irrelevant.

I just wanted a game that finally had some atmosphere and i got it, Oblivion had none whatsoever and was way to neutral for my tastes.

Qualified criticism != hating.
Also there are a lot of people not visiting the forums, who do indeed have the same problems as most of the people here.
I have 3 friends, who also play this game, and all of them have some points of criticism. They just don't bother to post here (or anywhere).

It lived up to my expectations, because my idea is to just accept the game for what it is.

Took a while to get used to the layout, etc, but eventually I grew to love it. 8D

That's true. I would so love to have mounted combat. I hate "Hold on! Would you stop attacking!?! I'm trying to dismount! I SAID HOLD ON! GEEZ! Okay I'm--dammit, you killed my horse!"

I don't want to hold my breath though. Last time I did that, I past out, fell over, and hit my head on the coffee table.

I am still waiting for my face to melt from the awesome graphics!

So the conclusion of this thread has to be that you can't compare expectations.
And for once 10 pages worth of opinions didn't result in mud throwing.....i think there's hope for us afterall. :wink_smile:

It hasn't lived up to the hype for me. Oblivion was a better game for me. Skyrim is immensely impressive visually and has a superficially realistic world, but the NPCs in it are utter rubbish compared to Oblivion's, NPC dialogue can be extremely stupid and repetitive (guess who works for Belethor at the general goods store?). The quests are also shallow, and justifications for inolving the PC in them (as opposed to the NPCs sorting out her own affairs) are often extremely implausible, something I had hoped would be improved since Oblivion but which has also gone backwards. The guild stories and main stories are very poor compared to Oblivion's, certainly in terms of quantity. Most quests involve going to dubgeons to pick something up. This isn't good enough, frankly. Although Skyrim is still a very enjoyable game, the series's RPG elements are seriously regressing.

Edit: Despite that rant, I have been playing Skyrim way too much lately, so it can't be that bad I guess. I'm just disappointed in its shallowness.

It surpassed what I thought it would be and I didn't even have low hype.

Oh look, they're making TES V. Awesome. Now, on with life until it comes out... No daily visits to this or that game site for daily updates, no drooling over the latest screenshots. So, yeah, for me, Skyrim is every bit the successor to Oblivion, and then some.

Almost all. Being able to affect economies seems to be absent.

I think it did, but it didn't live up to the extreme hype over radiant story and hand crafted dungeons. Radiant story is kind of a huge let down after all I had heard of it but it's still much improved over Oblivion and even if we can't interact much with NPC's, at least we can look at them and their nice new models. Oblivion probably has the worst face models of any game I've played, and it's made worse by the fact we have to be zoomed in to look at their ugly faces.

For me, it's one of those games that hasn't lived upto all the hype, but hasn't disappointed either.

Short answer: Yes

Long answer: While skills were removed in number (18 compared to Oblivion's 21, or Morrowind's 27) it is my belief that skills are more in depth, thus actually giving you more choices and options to design and customize your character than ever before.

Removed as skills are Hand to Hand, Athletics, Acrobatics, and Mysticism.

Athletics and Acrobatics are actually the only ones removed. Hand to Hand is in the game, as a perk. Mysticism is in the game, the spells just shifted to Alteration and Conjuration.

Making a return as a skill is Enchanting.

Skills like Armorer became more in depth, replacing a shallow repair system with a full fledged armor and weapons crafting system that includes having to harvest and refine resources to create and improve your equipment.

Perks make skills more than just a mindless 1-100 grind, actually giving you the opportunity to specialize within those abilities and truly make a custom, unique character.

Guild questlines (at least the ones I have experienced) are shorter in overall duration (arguably too short), but the individual quests are more detailed and more involved, and quite frankly, more interesting.

The game includes an entire political subplot that didn't exist in Oblivion. I'd argue that the political subplot is far greater than even Morrowind's political elements.

The world itself is breathtaking, remarkable, majestic, and epic.

Each of the 5 cities has it's own personality and sense of culture.

There is a lot of detail in the game, loads of random encounters, and lots of things to find in the world.

If anything, I believe that Skyrim exceeded the hype and expectations. I expected to absolutely adore this game, but realistically, I didn't expect this game to surpass Morrowind. I expected it to be better than Oblivion, but not Morrowind (and that is saying something, as I absolutely love Oblivion. Pre-Skyrim, it was my 2nd favorite game ever, behind only Morrowind).

There were things improved, and there were things added.

I do agree that ideally, the game would be better if it included the things removed as well as what was added. But I do believe that what was added is better than what was removed, thus being an improvement, and better than what came before it (even if it could itself be better).

Spellmaking was lost. I believe the current gameplay and spell system is better than Spellmaking. Could it be better? Yes. But I believe it is an improvement over the past.

Armorer / weapon degradation and repair was lose. Smithing was implemented. Would it be better with both equipment degradation AND equipment creation? Yes. But I believe that Smithing is better than Armorer, thus, an improvement and better than what we had before.

Questline length was lost, but individual quests were improved. Would factions, guilds, and questlines be better with improved individual quests and more engaging overall questlines? Yes. But (for example) exploring the ruins of Saarthaal and uncovering the mysteries of the Eye of Magus is more interesting than running random errands for various guild hall leaders.

Skyrim itself could be better by including both the additions, and keeping what was removed, but I do believe that what was added is much better than what was removed, thus we have a better product overall than we had before, thus Skyrim > Morrowind.

I can think of only a very small handful of items that Morrowind or Oblivion completely did better than Skyrim does, and none of them are anywhere close to huge factors that deter from my enjoyment of the game. And no, none of them are Attributes.

Overall, I believe that Skyrim has better gameplay, better RP choices, better detail, and better "immersion" than previous Elder Scrolls games, thus becoming my favorite.

My opinion, of course.