The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Angry Review
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Platform: Xbox 360, PC, PS3
Developer: Bethesda Softworks
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Genre: RPG
Players: 1 Offline Player
The Greybeards train a new Dovahkiin in order to judge and review the newest Elder Scrolls Game, Skyrim. Does it live up to the incredible hype? Or fall from the sky in flames? Angry Joe finds out!
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532 thoughts on “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Angry Review”
Yes, skyrim has bugs but doesn’t any great game have no bugs? And besides the few small glitches that happen now and then are usually funny. I mean its not every day u see the people of Riften start killing eachother for no reason. Still their are some annoying glithes like for some reason the doors [Sometimes] will remain open and then you can never go in again. Or the Forsworn Conspiracy mission when the guards of Markarth will always try to arrest you. But other than that its just funny little things like a mamoth falling 200ft outa the air. Basicly I’m saying that all games have glithes no matter how hard the developers try 2 help it. Skyrim has set the bar for all MMORPGS and it definetly deserves a 10/10. Wolrd of Warcraft eat your heart out.
The only difference is that this game in particular has an ENORMOUS amount of bugs. Ranging from funny to annoying but the majority of bugs belong in the game breaking category.
Yes every game has bugs, but there are few that has this much devastating ones.
I get this game thanks to you Angry Joe and it is awsome!
im a werewolf =D
i only change when i get annoyed by the superstrong mages sometimes :/
Although I still want the bugs fixed, I still find it funny to see some of the bugs in game like a dragon flying backwards or a dragons animation getting locked in 1 position.
Seriously Joe? A 10 out of 10?
Guild quests are a joke, the main quest is a joke and almost every other quest is about being an errand boy or killing random bandit leaders. Marriage is a joke, the level scaling, although improved, yet again is screwing things up. Dialog is a joke, racial differences are a joke, the amount of voice actors are a joke and the engine is a joke.
In your Battlefield 3 review you took all three platforms into account, so why not with this game Joe? Ps3 suffers from immense lag, as does the the pc version and even though you have not encountered many bugs, ALLOT of other players have, you cannot deny this.
Sneaking is a joke, the perks are a joke, radiant A.I. is one big joke and infinite questing is a joke. Magic in this game has been turned into a joke. enemy/friendly A.I. is a joke, leveled loot is a joke, the journal (sorry, the GPS) is a joke and the so called living economy is a joke.
It delivers on content but interesting and story driven it is not. Moral choices are none existent and instead of choosing your own path in this game, it is chosen for you, all the time.
You are one of the harshest critics on games at this very moment, yet you fail to give this game the treatment it should have had. It is a good game, but it perfect? No Joe, No!
Damn. A little extreme. You really hate this game.
Care to explain WHY its a joke? If you simply repeat the fact that you think its a joke, it doesn’t help get your point across. Its redudant, annoying, and childish, and withoout evidence, you will NOT convince others of your point. EXPLAIN.
But he did…
Have you even played this game? Perhaps calling all those features a joke is not fair, I admit, but dissapointing and lacking it is in many cases. Skyrim is a good game and I still play it every day, but I just can’t help but to notice how much it is lacking at certain aspects.
Quests are plenty but most of them aren’t interesting and memorable at all due to the lack of story, characters, moral decisions and diversity. Combine this with the rushed Guild questlines and your character has almost nothing left to associate himself with. This game is a role-playing game, but because of all the generic and none relatable quest, this game barely offers content for the role you yourself wish to play. For the biggest part this game chooses a role for you.
Another thing that bothers me are the social interactions with NPC. They lack dialog and intelligence which makes them feel like mindless drones and forgettable. They serve no purpose other then giving you a quest or selling you a product.
All of this and more makes my character feel…none existent. I just don’t feel like I am a part of Skyrim’s world. Choice in what you wear, where you walk or whom you side with, but you have little choice in who you are and how you choose to act.
This is my biggest complain it I think it counts for allot. A world needs more then beautiful scenery and free roaming to feel alive and believable.
Can you say angry troll?
waw dude thats is pure bullshit this game is a pice of fucking art sow shut the fuck up. joe is a smart man and gave this game a 10/10, O AND THUMBS UP JOE
If the game is Shit, you must acquit.
This review proves this is not the case. I should be purchasing this game for the PC very soon…Thanks AJ.
OK GUISE IM SORRY IM ACTUALLY A HOMOSEXUAL SLUT WHO LIKES IT UP THE ASS AND SKYRIM IS GREAT. SORRY EVERYONE NOW IM GONNA FUCK MYSELF LITERALLY AND THEN HANG MYSELF.
GGGRRRARAAAAA!!!
HEH HEH HEH
THAT AINT ME! THAT AN IMPOSTER!!!!!!! YOU BASTARD WHOEVER DA FUC YOU ARE! HOW DARE YOU POSE AS ME!!! YOU RIPPED ME OFF! I WILL COMPLAIN! YEAH I’LL SUE! THEN I WILL RIP UR LUNGS OUT
and i will too
Oh, one more thing: if you haven’t done the Forsworn Conspiracy and No One Escapes Cidhna Mine missions, then you’ll probably find a stupid bug that pisses anyone off. A lot of people has this bug (including me), and it stops you from walking in Markarth as the guards try to arrest you for nothing, still it’s pretty easy to fix, I fixed mine and there are no signs of it now. Still, it’s a pretty annoying bug.
The ONLY things I disliked about Skyrim were the bugs, and the fact that there are TOO MANY dungeon missions. In this point, I liked Oblivion’s missions more, because I thought they were more original and you didn’t know what to expect (c’mon, how to forget the Painted World? And Dark Brotherhood’s mission Whodunit? was classic and fun! ^^), in Skyrim there are original missions too but most of them just require you to enter some Gods-forsaken dungeon / tower / cave and get an artifact for someone while you fight Draugr. You know to expect that. Despite its flaws, though, I think it was an excellent game and totally deserved a Game Of The Year award. The lowest rate I would give this game would be probably 9/10
Wow, I agree with Joe. Skyrim is an amazing game in my opinion, despite the fact that I disliked oblivion, I got double the enjoyable playtime out of skyrim in a matter of a single week than I got out oblivion total. Even if you HATE RPG’s I would reccomend skyrim , I myself don’t like them that much but I love Skyrim. Amazing stories, great visuals, unmatched immersion, hard work, High production values and tons of content make Skyrim one of my favorite games ever. You can easily tell this game wasn’t just thrown together too fast like some games (MW3, perhaps?) The game, the regular edition, comes with a full map of Skyrim and even the INSIDE of the case is decorated. And the only two significant complaints i have are the lacking companion AI and that enemies don’t scale well to your level, the latter is rare but pretty annoying too. And off subject I cannot wait to see what fallout 4 will be like on this engine.
I fucking loved this game but my main gripe with it is the main quest as they are supposed to be very epic and something that puts you on the map in the world of those games when I finished it I did not feel a sense of weight of what was done yeah it was awesome to go to valhalla (yes its called sovengarde but its really based on norse afterlife valhalla hopefully I spelled that right) but it was kinda odd I myself didnt really feel like I saved the world but rather held back the inevitiable unlike in oblivion I actually felt like I helped saved the world from destruction and anytime I went to that temple of talos seeing the dragon statue I can feel a sense of accomplishment for going thru that entire quest, in skyrim its just like “eh whatever I took an arrow to the knee” and life goes on with nobody even caring what you did, town guards I saved the world from a soul eating dragon I dont give two shits about your fucking knee call me the hero skyrim or something give me special armor for my deeds.
[SPOILERS IN THIS COMMENT] I got the same feeling about the ending. It’s like they’ve out more effort into the game itself, and forgot the missions. There are many good, cool and fun mission but like I said, most of them are just get into a dungeon, find something, bring it back. The dungeons are WAY cooler than in other Elder Scrolls with all the puzzles to solve and open doors (like the Dragon Claws, for example), but I still think they were overrated. It’s not that cool to enter dungeons every single time, guys. Please, make a DLC / expansion with less dungeon missions, I would love it.
And after you finish the game, people are almost completely indifferent to what you’ve done, who you are. The only ones that actually mention something are the guards (“You’ve vanquished a great evil from Skyrim. You’ve saved this land, and our very souls” <—I remember a lot of guards keep telling you that as you pass by, but it's not that often though), the songs about the Dragonborn that some Bards sing in inns, and that's all. Nobody tells you "By the Eight / Nine Divines, you're the Dohvakiin! You've defeated Alduin!", nothing. Unlike Oblivion, that people recognized you as Hero Of Kvatch, for example. You don't even receive a special item, like, some badass weapon or armor, NOTHING. Absolutely NOTHING changes after the game ending, as the dragons continue to attack you after you finish the Main Quest. In Oblivion, I felt like a hero. In Skyrim, for some reason, I felt like a tool. as I think they could've made a better ending for the game, but that's my opinion anyway. Despite that, I still love this game and would rate it 10/10.
This game is *fantastic*, however it isn’t 10/10…not yet.
Perhaps after all the patches and DLC and everything has been compiled into one ‘GOTY Edition’ or ‘Platium Edition’ or w/e, THEN it can possibly be 10/10.
For now, the bugs and pretty major issues that plagued the game (even today) lower the game to 8/10 at launch, MAYBE 9.5 if you count the most recent patches.
It is not excusable to have blatant buggy issues, even on consoles. The only way this bullshit of ‘release now for full price and patch it up months later’ will be when people call out the devs and refuse to buy it UNTIL it has been patched up.
As for me, I’ll give it a go once the price goes down and all the DLC/patches are all bundled together.
did you see that the youtube user TheElderScrolls6 said that skyrim is the worst rpg ever? This guy has serious mental problems
Its the truth again bringing the Truth. Skyrim is one of the most complex games i have ever played however i do fell like some creatures are way to strong for their own good. [Giants] Other than that this game will provide you with lots of varity and keep you playing this for hours. I would recomend this game to all RPG lover trust when i say it will exceed your expectations and more and i can safely say that this is one of the few games that deserves a 10/10.
Look for my comments on other Angry Joe video’s because everyone deserves the Truth.
Skyrim isn’t perfect… yet. As is, it’s the closest to perfect that any game has ever come to, but with DLCs and patches it can only get better!
I used to be a game reviewer like you, then I took an arrow to the knee
LOL
Thats a solid review but however their are same facts that he left out like, the fact you can get away with some crimes with no consequences, or the fact that the empire banned the worship of Talos. One of the great 9 gods. Which is also bothering the stormcloak rebels. Still a very good game, defenitly would recomend this game to RPG lovers of all kinds. It is totally worth the 50 or 60 dollars.
I love this game, and I respect Angry Joes unbiased opinion. He’s willing to give many games (Even games that really weren’t meant for the “hardcore” demographic”) a fair chance. I can tell you right now I would not EVER touch Dance Central if it weren’t for Angry Joe. He gave it a fair shot, and turns out it’s pretty good!
Skyrim has got to be one of the best I’ve played in awhile along with Bastion. It’s been a good year, if only for these two gems.
For all you trolls especially (not so) cool guy 666:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFZrzg62Zj0
Who saw the VGA on spike skyrim won
now that Skyrim won the GOTY award tonight I hope everyone will se this 10/10 isn’t enough to tell what an epic gane Skyrim is!
Someone reviewed this game and gave it a 3.5/10! I WILL KILL HIM!!!
Didn’t play the first few Elder Scrolls, Morrowind was.. terrible, Oblivion was meh.. I gotta admit, coming in as someone who’s not much for these games, I loved this game.
I wouldn’t give it a 10/10, mainly cause it is plague by alot of bugs, as well as the main story is.. pretty meh from what I’ve seen so far.
Other than that? You have the free roam, the awesome leveling up system, and easily a hundred hours of fun right there.
Only way it could’ve been better is co-op, but it is one of the better single player games I’ve done in along time. Just.. tone down on that ‘slobber’ a bit. It’s good, but never perfect.
Anyone mentioned the giant glich/bug yet <.<
makes me rofl every time
I CAN SEE MAY HOUSE FROM HEERR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z9TdDCWN7g
‪The Dragonborn Comes – Skyrim Bard Song and Main Theme Female Cover‬
every thing i’ve seen about this game tells me it is amilion times better than oblivion , i was actually let down by oblivion, don’t get me wrong i enjoyed it all teh smae , but here is why i didn’t like oblivion so much .
1. you went from being a center piece prophized character in morrowind , to being “jsut the person helping the central character in Oblivion. this was agmae breaker to me , because it made the game feel less epic , and made me feel less influential on teh game story as a whole.
2. the magic handling in the pc version of oblivion was TERRIBLE. in morrow wind you could scroll spells from in game , in oblivion that was gone , and being a mage was really a broken afair as you had to pause the game essinetallly any time you wanted to change spells
those reasons really left me not really quite fuly immersed into oblivion.
I don’t have skyrim yet but the more i hear about it the more i wish i wasn’t so broke. i’d so love this game on PC , but right now i just don’t have the money and might not even get any for x-mas . great review though joe wish me luck on getting the game.
The game ir greath. I would rate the gameas a 9.5/10 because it’s realy is the best open world RPG ( and the best I have played) in this type of world – mythic medieval, but it has some things I didn’t like.
For example they took out the wepon and armore fixing part. Maybe some like that it was taken out because in Oblivian it was kinda lame (in my opinion), but I think all it needed was improwement. I agree with u Joe that the AI of companions needed improwement and the enamies also need some improwement for example I killed someone in stelth and fis companion just relaxes after some time and thinks that he was imagening things ( I think that they should be allerted that someone is there atleast not just asume that it all was his imagination expecially if I shoot him with an arrow (he didnt find me and thought that that was ahis imagination as well) ).
Also inventory was prety bad ( It was better in Oblivion in my oppinion), but I liket the favorites addition although it could have been devided in particions like: wepons, potions, spells ect.
I realy liked how they improwed the leveling sistem.
The fight with dragons are the best dragon fights in gaming history.
People finaly look good in game.
Quests are good with a good story.
Werewolf form are realy disapionting because you cant do a thing in it ( mainly picking up obyects or using any other action / I would prefered if I could chaing back to human when ever I want)
There should be some animation when you drink or somthing and some effect from drinking too much.
The bounty sistem is better but it still needs improwemen (1000 for just attackin a man and the same amount when u kill someone. And the bountie of bandit leader heads only 100 ?? The same amaunth for a giants head? I think thats a litle cheap. Who would be willing to kill a giand for 100?)
I would like the option to start a fight with someone that isnt to death as well (not oly the ones in inns for 100 bet)
Only thing I didn’t agree with Joe on was the melee, the melee is still clunky, dark messiah had a better melee system I thought. It’s just spam a button in Skyrim and hope you destroy the blocking guys stam before you run out
Thieves guild is more pure neutral than evil. It’s a business. Plus it gives you some of the best, looking and stat-wise, armor and one-handed weapons in the game. It’s plenty fun too.
To the ppl who said they wish to unsubscribe because this game doesn’t deserve 10/10, maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t. But I find it’s a little ridiculous to dislike all his reviews based on 1 out of many you might not agree as much.
Come on, mate. Ten out of ten? No offense, by any means, but I think you’re either being a bit biased for your most highly anticipated game, and/or didn’t take the time to notice the one major flaw that this game has, especially coming off of the heels of Fallout: New Vegas: interesting and memorable characters. Clearly Bethesda was trying so hard at other things that they forgot to do characters as well as they did them in that last game.
Apart from that, this review was decent. I am especially happy that you did the, “Powa!” joke that I was expecting.
I want to say it once more clearly: Skyrim is definitively a game with it good points, but a bad RPG when it comes to consequences, immersive world, memorable characters and a real role that actually matters.
Couldn’t agree more. It is great, but memorable it isn’t. The main plot was boring (just like oblivion) the side quests were more interesting (again like in oblivion). The cool graphics ware off quickly. It just seems as if there is nothing you can do to change a thing in this world, except a few dialogue options.
I find it odd that Joe didn’t mention any of the obvious similarities to the previous 2 Bethesda titles – Fallout 3 and Fallout NV.
When I first cranked up the game and started playing it I was shocked to find myself saying – “they took that from Fallout NV, they took this from Fallout NV and they took this from Fallout 3″. And then when I levelled up for the first time and saw the text scroll across the screen I was sure I’d seen that somewhere before, yep, Fallout 3…
When I read Bethesda were building the game on a new game engine I didn’t expect that engine to turn out so much like the one previously used, even if it is from an end user perspective.
At times I have found myself wondering if they simply took the previous Gamebryo engine, and just reskinned it!!!
Because of that I have to disagree with your review score Joe, and I usually respect your review scores – your Duke Nuke review was spot on.
8/10 for me. Still a great game, but disappointing in many areas, especially as I’m more of an Oblivion fan than a Fallout 3 fan.
great review Joe!
I Have played about 50 hours now on the pc and i have had it shut down 2 times but other than that i have had no problems with it and it append just when i went to a new area so did´t hafto replay anything. And i seen that some people think the controls are really bad but i have no problem with it. maybe because i use to play on the xbox so i don´t have anything to compare with.
All i can say is this game is made for me. The one big problem is I CANT STOP PLAYING THIS GAME.
9/10 for me yes it need some fixes and tweaks. Its not perfect but i freaking love it
Joe said this was the penultimate western RPG, has he ever said what he considers the ultimate then? Or was he just misusing the word?
To play the Devil’s Advocate. I do not think this game deserves a 10/10 score. Certainly a 6, maybe even a 7.5 but definitely not a 10.
First of all, I think Bethesda should’ve put more time into it fixing the god awful glitches and environmental bugs that stops you dead in your tracks. Some of these bugs and glitches are pretty damn annoying. Several times I had to reload and hope that the environs I explore don’t stop me dead in my tracks.
The A.I is so incredibly stupid it’s taking all the fun out of combat. Once you level up a bit, you can pretty much stomp everything in your path like a vengeful god and completely ignore any and all tactics. Sneaking/Archery is especially good for this.
The last boss… Well, let’s just say that when I came across him, he didn’t even manage to kill a single one of those three toons before he keeled over, arrows sprouting from his body. Yeah. A little bit on the tame side. I was expecting more. A Phase 2 or even a phase 3. Kind of a let down.
I also came across several NPC’s with the same voice actor. I assume it’s a minor audio glitch having a female with a male voice over. Not really that big of a deal but it does kind of spoil the immersion.
Whenever I was playing it, I was always expecting more. I was never truly satisfied. Like something was always missing. Maybe it’s the Elder Scrolls games in general or Skyrim itself, but I found it lacking. While I could immerse myself to a certain degree, it was never really a “Damn. This is awesome!”-moment.
It’s a nice enough game, sure, but it’s found lacking in several parts that breaks the immersion and just spoils your fun.
In closing: Putting a cauldron over a shopkeeper’s head and then proceeding to stuff everything he has in his shop down your pockets = Comedy gold and never before was earning money the illegal way so much fun.
This is my story, I’m sticking to it. Argue with it , if you wish, but do it constructively. Fanboys can go hide.
Skyrim is a fun game but the PS3 version is TERRIBLE…Betheseda needs to fix the lag issue. After you reach 12mb saves the game becomes a clip show and impossible to play. Hopefully the fix this and then it would be a 10/10 game. But for now I say it’s just a 6/10 game for the PS3 version.
As to Skyrim/Witcher 2 Adventure/RPG.
I believe Skyrim is an RPG, YOU have to ‘role play’ the game. Witcher 2 is a story/adventure game, where the role is made for you. That is what I believe the difference is between Story/RPG. That said, there is no clinical definition, and perhaps there should be, at least for gaming standards so people understand what they are getting into.
Calling Skyrim a sandbox is also true, but then Witcher 2 is still a story game. Difference being narrower focus, so of course the impact of everything you do in Witcher has a greater impact on the world at large.
But the freedom to do whatever you want is the main draw for a game like Skyrim. Yes, it’s just an advanced Oblivion, but Oblivion was an advanced Morrowind, and I loved that game, so power to it.
It’s all about what you as the gamer enjoy, not what others say about it.
In a roleplaying game you play a role and it the way you play the role it effects the surroundings: exactly what happens in The Witcher 2. The witcher 2 is more story driven and less open world then Skyrim, that’s true, but then Skyrim has way more a linear story then The Witcher 2. In The Witcher 2 you can have different endings, even where you play in Act 2 differs dramatically. And how you play your role in The Witcher 2 will always have consequences. Skyrim lacks consequences and a “real role” and that’s why Skyrim is less a RPG. In Skyrim it doesn’t matter if you are male or female, it doesn’t matter at all if you are playing a nord or an imperialist and so on. Skyrim lacks the typical roleplaying features and only features the fundamental gameplay features of any hack and slash game (leveling up, learning new abilites etc.).
In a role playing game it allways should matter how you play your role and in Skyrim it doesn’t. Even Fallout 3 is more of a RPG and Fallout NV even better. Skyrim is more like Oblivion, just a huge sandbox game.
oh man this review was friggin awesome Joe! UNLIMITED POWER!!!!!!! lmao You are the best man! That game looks incredible too,cant wait to play it!
i gonna be honest: Skyrim is great, but definitely not the best RPG of 2011.The Witchers 2 is better in my opinion: better combat, better story, better graphic, more memorable characters. The only thing that Skyrim did better is more content. Also, the pc version of Skyrim is full of problems: mouse control, UI… and unplayable without tweaks and mods. I give Skyrim (pc) 7/10 TW2 9/10.
The witcher 2 is pretty good, but I don’t look at it much as if it is an RPG…
4 me The Witcher 2 is a good adventure game, but a just a regular RPG, overall it’s really great, but not the kind of RPG I was waiting for… There isn’t much to do there, It’s not open World 4 real, it’s kinda mission based…
Seriously if this Skyrim had the gameplay of The Witcher 2, it would be perfect, there’s so many things in it, I have already spent days in it, and still have only found like 2% of everything that is out there.
But Skyrim kinda makes me sad on the combat, because it’s like “first attack, second atack”, then restart “first attack, second attack”…
But the game is so great that we even forget about that problem. GO BUY IT TODAY if you haven’t!!!!!
I don’t agree with you.
In Skyrim I have finished the mage and the brotherhood (I think that is the name, I play Skyrim in German) guild and also there I was kinda disappointed from the game. Now I’m the big boss of those but it doesn’t have any effect to the world at all.
In The Witcher 2 everything you do will effect the world. In that sense The Witcher 2 is a roleplay game par excellence. There are a lot of ppl calling Oblivion and Skyrim more a sandbox game and I honestly think that this fit better.
In Skyrim you nearly never have the choice to do a quest completly different. Also in that case it is less a RPG more a Action Adventure.
Funny that you say The Witcher 2 is a Adventure and Skyrim more a RPG. I think it is the other way around. Skyrim lacks too much polish. I guess the game become too big for the devs or the devs wanted to keep the game as simple as possible for the console gamers.
~Miro I also can’t agree with you
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I really, really enjoyed The Witcher 2. But although there are some choices that changes a little the story, I took the game like a Hack and Slash adventure game (I was like: ~Hell yeah u suckers, the more u come the more happy I get, I’m gonna smash u all muahahah…).
I bet if someone really hate RPG games, they will probably like The Witcher 2. Because it has the gameplay of a true Hack and slash game, pretty polished, and only a few things from an RPG, I can’t say it’s RPG elements are really very immersive, I have only made a few potions, didn’t needed them much, and in general I even didn’t used much the RPG elements, I just killed everything with the sword. 4 me It was as cool as playing a game like Devil may cry…
I agree with you that skyrim looks a lot like a “sandbox”, almost everything feels scripted and not dynamic. But still it has like a million things to do. I have now something like 200 hours and I still haven’t seen much of the game, I have spent a lot of time organizing every item in my home, and everytime I get overweight, I go back home, sell, and organize items in my home.
Also I have been only making sidequest missions, so I’m still not much advanced on the game’s main story. Although I have spent around 200 hours, I’m still on the mission after we find out about the shouts (after killing first dragon), and have to talk with a guy that is in a mountain.
4 me the game is great, full of things, full of complicated, unexplained, spiritual things, that I even forget about the bad gameplay, the huge amount of bugs, the sandbox scripted feeling, and all of it’s problems. Although I would only give it a 8\10, I know that there isn’t any other RPG out there that I would play right now with so many things going on…
ps: The problems in Skyrim, aren’t really Skyrim problems, it’s really a Elder Scrolls problem. About Oblivion, when I started I was like damn, this is the best game ever, but after one day of playing it, I got so bored and uninstalled It, specially because 4 me it tasted like a real nude RPG, 110% scripted sandboxie style. But now this skyrim is less bad, and the graphic improvement means a lot to me.
ps2: I really liked “Dark Messiah of Might and Magic” back then, If Oblivion just had a gameplay and the dynamics of that game, I would call it the best RPG ever, just like This skyrim if it had the The Witcher 2 gameplay…
im not depending anything, but The Witchers 2 is a hack and slash game??? if u smash the attack button, u gonna die pretty quickly. and it has every core elements of a RPG: dialog, branching paths, deep story, moral choices, looting, level up system… I not judging which games is better, i just say its kind of weird when u say TW2 is a hack and slash game.
I played both games, and i think it all come down to personal taste. I prefer smaller world but full of detail, as well as lesser quests but each one fell well-crafted, rather than huge world with hundred of mundane tasks. Maybe its just me though.
Skyrim fanboys are worse than CoD fanboys.
Agreed.
So now I’m some hours more in in Skyrim and the game just doesn’t want to open for me I guess.
There are so many things that bite me. Why the heck am I allways attacked by some strangers as soon as I get near them? In nearly all other RPGs humans won’t attack me when I get near them. But when I find some old caverns in the wild and in front of them there are standing two men and I want to approach them with no weapon drawn they will automatically attack me.
In other RPGs I can talk to them and perhaps join a new fraction or what ever, but as long as I don’t give them a reason to attack me, I won’t be attacked. That is way more immersive. In Gothic 3 for example I can join the orc’s fraction – the enemies! THAT is open world. The world is more believeable that way.
There are also other issues I could complain. In combat for example if I hit an enemy he won’t be pulled back – no he attacks me as nothing happend. And vice versa I can hit the enemies while I’m hitted. What crap is that? Common dudes, I thought Skyrim would be sooooo awesome and then it makes so many mistakes?
But anyway. What I wanted to say is for the PC PLAYERS:
ENB Series is doing a mod for Skyrim. There are allready something released. Additional to that go to http://www.skyrimnexus.com/
There are tons of mods allready out. Especially animation fixes and some environmental improvements are very good. The mod scene proves it again: vanilla Skyrim is really a mess.
This game is really great, and i think i know why bethesda uses the whole prisoner scheme. I think it is because they are trying to deliver the message that even a prisoner, a sinner amongst men can turn from being prison waste to being the hero that everybody depends on. Thats at least what i think is the reason.
You never know why you are a prisoner and especially in Skyrim it could be for the wrong reason so that makes your idea kinda ad absurdum.
Fable fan making a review of TES…
No wonder he doesn’t see all the flaws of Skyrim. >_>
My brother sent me this on fb cause he wants it for Christmas. We both grew up on RPGS but I have never seen anything like this game before. I think that Joe has a point its pretty badass and now Im even considering getting it. It looks like you get a lot of freedom in this game and I think that its about time. It would be cool to be able to ride the dragon and have it be on your side. But the dragon armour is pretty badass. I like how there are so many options that you can be a vampire or werewolf, I dont think that there are many games that you can do that. I think that its a 10/10 I think that I will buy it for my bro early and suprise him.
I agree this is 10/10 al the way.
However I do have more issues with this game, it is far from perfect but when you have 200+ hours of near-perfect content then a perfect score is deserved.
Next time I would like to see Acrobatics and Athletics return but maybe in the form of general perks. So that when you level up you wont just get to choose between magic, stamina and health but that you can also put points in a general skill tree that is uneffected by the skills you train. In this three you could then decide to put points towards being able to jump higher and run faster of course at the expense of other general perks. This way you have the ability to become more agile like in previous games but you dont have to end up like a Speed Tank (unless you of course want to be one).
Stop using numbers to justify it. An MMORPG has infinite hours of play, but that doesn’t mean it is all good. A good FPS can outdo an RPG (if your into both) because it is concentrated fun rather than dragged out.
I think I played the original Half Life for more than 100 hours and the original Halo for another 100 hours. I played Oblivion and Morrowind for much longer and I still maintain that HL and Halo are utterly superior because they were just funner.
Sorry? You can’t compare a FPS to a RPG, they’re completely different things. Though Skyrim has the bow and arrow in first person, they are still different. I also played Halo, and I love it, but in no way I think they’re more fun than any Elder Scrolls game, sorry.
Funner isn’t a word. Please learn English.
Sorry bro, you are being a complete and utter asshole, who cant argue so resorts too grammar insults.
Thank you.
on the pc there might come some nice mods about the perks.
hey joe there is a broken glitch in the game its an infinite gold glitch lol
hitler hates everthing sooo hate him bak
agree with everything accept he forgot to mention some things.
1. telekinesis should be made so that it can pick up and move people.
2. vampire sux, at least make it possible to get your own vamp clan going get some thralls up here and become a mother ******* master vampire, also have a different leveling system that compliments the basic leveling system for vamps maybe base it off of kills or meals.
3. werewolves are epic, maybe a complimentary leveling system for them as well.
4.maybe be able to get two followers with speech-craft perks or something.
5. i would like to see a quest line for a necro character haven’t found one yet if their is one.
6. ONE RING? really? one? but my character has 10 fingers?
7. i would like to see levitate put back in, maybe it could be the same spell as telekinesis it just effects self when nothing else is targeted.
8.this is a little out their but i would like to see, multiple characters made and you controlling one or the other, this i think would just be cool.
9. no acrobatics tree? think it would of been cool to have a jumping slash like attack perk, or 50% reduction in falling damage perk.
10. OK i don’t know why i saved this for last because this has bugged me since oblivion… were are my spears, my crossbows, halberds. I know you don’t NEED THEM but i would still like them/ also on kinda the same note i miss the different pieces of armor like the left and right shoulder pads, you don’t have to bring it back just allow different parts of them armor to be enchanted that would be the middle ground on the issue.
Well, remember that the game already is damn huge, and the game itself isnt on more than 6 GB, so putting those things in could make things very complicated, but they are good ideas still. Im just so glad that the game itself blew my expectations away. I had pretty damn huge expectation, and it gave me more than i had hoped for.
You can move bodies if you hold down the A button while looking at the dead person, but that’s all… also, I agree with the ring thing, it’s something that bugs me as well. About controlling multiple characters, nah, I don’t think that would work. It’s better to start another game than have more than one character in a single save. It’s a game where you can be yourself, you can’t be more than one person in real life (though you can’t kill dragons in real life too, lol
). And I definitely think there should be spears and crossbows in the game.
No, you can’t hate back a troll / hater, you’ll be doing what he/she wants. Best to ignore them
hitler, why watch a video of a game you don’t like?
This Game Fuc*ing sucks!