Skyrim ...Is it any good ?

bhavv · 18 Nov 2011 at 17:55

Merlin5 said:
Would you say this is a good assessment of the game?

1 Great Pyramid of Giza
2 Hanging Gardens of Babylon
3 Statue of Zeus at Olympia
4 Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
5 Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
6 Colossus of Rhodes
7 Lighthouse of Alexandria
8 Morrowind
*New*! 9 Skyrim

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Draeger said:
Fallout 3 is like TES with guns and grenades.

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jonneymendoza · 18 Nov 2011 at 17:55

bhavv said:
In the same way that Morrowind was.

bhavv · 18 Nov 2011 at 17:57

What you never played Morrowind?

Oh how I pity you.

Merlin5 · 18 Nov 2011 at 18:00

Soundtrack to the game is beautiful. Even the continue/load/credits/quit screen when you first load the game has that great rousing battle music and choir, like something out of an epic hollywood blockbuster. And there's been a couple of areas I've been where the music has been extremely reminiscent of legend of zelda ocarina of time, really nice soothing melodies and interesting instruments.

bhavv said:
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Heh, I never played any elder scrolls before this, so I'll take your word for it.

Subzero85 · 18 Nov 2011 at 18:02

Never really got into fallout 3 and new vegas, bought skyrim however, its the type of game you have to put a lot of effort into it

cosmos55 · 18 Nov 2011 at 18:03

its better than real life!

I agree about the music/score, its very professionally done.

Dave**** · 18 Nov 2011 at 18:06

Tyrone77 said:
What makes a big difference for me compared to Oblivion is that the dungeons etc have all been hand made. This is really important for my immersion in the game. With Oblivion I had no desire to trawl through dungeons because they had no personality.

This. Oblivion's dungeons were all copy/paste jobs and not to mention the bloody boring gates of oblivion that took you up the same towers all the time.

Don't get me wrong, Oblivion was good but Skyrim is so so SO SO SO much better.

Treebiter · 18 Nov 2011 at 18:18

Morrowind is in my top 5 games of all time (possibly even number one).

Oblivion, or 'generic fantasy RPG' as it's better known, on the other hand was bland, repetetive, everyone had pudding faces and the world just wasn't fun to explore.

Skyrim has recaptured the magic of Morrowind (feels very much like Bloodmoon strangely

) and even though I was initially annoyed by the 'dumbing down' of the game, it actually feels much better for it (Though I know there will be many who disagree)! It might even have topped Morrowind.

OminousLatinNoun · 18 Nov 2011 at 18:19

Tyrone77 said:
What makes a big difference for me compared to Oblivion is that the dungeons etc have all been hand made. This is really important for my immersion in the game. With Oblivion I had no desire to trawl through dungeons because they had no personality.

They are incentivised well also - both with loot as you get a chest at the end and possibly a new dragon shout.

jonneymendoza · 18 Nov 2011 at 18:33

Dave**** said:
This. Oblivion's dungeons were all copy/paste jobs and not to mention the bloody boring gates of oblivion that took you up the same towers all the time.

Don't get me wrong, Oblivion was good but Skyrim is so so SO SO SO much better.

in what way is skyrim better? just better game world deisgns?

modo77 · 18 Nov 2011 at 19:08

jonneymendoza said:
in what way is skyrim better? just better game world deisgns?

I was going to type a list, but every aspect of the game is better that oblivion (and a loved oblivion)
Skyrim is prob better than morrowind, in fact it is

And easily the goty

bhavv · 18 Nov 2011 at 19:10

Oblivion is simply the worst TES game ever made .....

And Skyrim is waaaaaay better. It simply is. BUY IT!

KidCanary · 18 Nov 2011 at 19:14

I dunno, to me Skyrim doesn't seem like that much of an improvement over Oblivion.

In terms of gameplay it's still basically the same copy and paste 'go here/kill him' quests, and although the dungeons may have been handmade but they still all look fairly similar.

Don't get me wrong, I think the game is very good, just not as much of an improvement over Oblivion as a lot of people make it out to be. One thing I will say though is that some of the textures in the game are absolutely shocking, and I don't mean that in a good way.

McBain · 18 Nov 2011 at 19:17

Amazing, simply amazing game.

Curio · 18 Nov 2011 at 20:24

KidCanary said:
I dunno, to me Skyrim doesn't seem like that One thing I will say though is that some of the textures in the game are absolutely shocking, and I don't mean that in a good way.

Why take all that effort to make the game look amazing and then use crappy textures :confused:

bhavv · 18 Nov 2011 at 21:09

Oblivion is only amazing if you never played morrowind when it came out. Or if you simply dont play many RPGs.

Craig1981 · 18 Nov 2011 at 21:15

I tried to play Morrowind after playing Oblivion and I just could not get into it. I imagine that its a very awesome game, but by the time I got to it it seemed too old and dated.

I think so far that Skyrim has taken what it learned from Oblivion and raised it up to a whole new level.

bhavv · 18 Nov 2011 at 21:17

Thats because you tried morrowind after being spoiled by the derpiness of oblivion.

You did it wrong.

Muzza1875 · 18 Nov 2011 at 21:24

Best game i have played in a long time, tbh i don't have anything negative to say about it.
I agree this is definite goty material.

KidCanary · 18 Nov 2011 at 21:29

Curio said:
Why take all that effort to make the game look amazing and then use crappy textures

I don't know, but here are a couple examples:
http://i.imgur.com/mRjXK.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DTf7J.jpg
(Shouldn't spoil anything)

The whole hand and sleeve in the second pic are laughable.

Obviously graphics don't make a game, but things like that are just inexcusable in a big budget modern game.