Your honest opinions on this game. No hatejerk, no anti-hatejerk.

>>389745306
t. todd

TK Dodge makes it fun.

>>389745306
I'm wish fallout 4 had decent sex mods already.

It's the ultimate "i'm a gamer!" game

Its sorta fun to walk around and take in the sights especially with mods but everything else is lacking. Theres really fuck all to do in game other than copy pasted radiant quests magic is boring. Infact all combat is boring because its way to simple. Skyrim is the perfect example of wide as an ocean and shallow as a puddle. That being said I still go back to it every now and again. Its a good relaxing time waster.

I had massive amounts of fun with vanilla Skyrim when it came out. Not the best, pretty bland combat, super surface level rpg but I had fun regardless.

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>>389745306
It's a good game, you can't say otherwise, even with all the lies and memes, Bethesda really did accomplished something with Skyrim.

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Shitty combat, hitboxes aren't even close to the models, favorites and equipping system are garbo, power attacks cause stagger 90% of the time but the 10% they don't cause you to die, dragons are completely unrealistic garbage.

>>389745306
the one of the best eroge in the history

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It's a decent game that can be a great game with mods depending on the kind of experience you use the mods to create.

If you like sandbox gameplay that can very unforgiving, with survival elements thrown in such as needing to eat, drink, sleep, stay warm or freeze to death, make camp fires etc, then modded skyrim is pretty damn good.

Just don't expect great storytelling.

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>critical and commercial success everywhere
>even Japan loved it
>everyone on /v/ has hundreds of hours in it
>everyone on /v/ claims to hate it

>>389747050
>even Japan loved it
they think it's a porn game

>>389745306
Found it boring, to be honest. I remember checking the save file before uninstalling and seeing I clocked in 70+ hours. Most of those were spent either aimlessly wandering vast empty areas or completing copy/paste dungeons. I felt like it was designed to be a time waster while feeding you false sense of accomplishment.

Ultimately though, I'm just the wrong person to play that kind of game. I don't like games where I have to find my own fun, I like hand-crafted experiences. Of open worlds, I only really like those that are densely packed with hand-crafted content.

It had some stuff I enjoyed though, like getting smashed and waking up in Markath, the haunted house quest, it had some good quests but too much inconsequential filler shit in between.

>>389745306
The environment is pretty, but it gets old fast. I liked Oblivion because it felt like a real world - you could talk to every person, explore every city.

The city design in Skyrim sucks, and the NPCs suck too.

Oblivion quest lines were varied and were nearly a game on their own. The ones in Skyrim felt like they were tacked on at the last second.

>>389745306
improved on oblivion art, oblivion was a lotr movies ripoff, still nowhere near morrowind glory
wasted everything else important
worse quests,story,characters, combat, slightly better loot system, atrocious faction story lines, still using technology from 2003 etc. etc.
sad really, TES is my favorite setting.

>>389747250
oh right, cities, oblivion were tiny boxes but felt alive, morrowind cities didn't have moving NPC but still looked like real cities
skyrim cities just move everything wrong with the game into spotlight even more

>>389745306
You idiot, the entire game and developer IS a milking meme

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Honest opinion? It lacked content. The first few hours were exciting, but eventually you realise just how lacklustre it is. Walk, explore, walk, explore as you may; there is hardly anything cool to be found. For a person like myself who loves finding interesting loot - realising that I can simply craft items vastly better than anything that could be found, really takes away from the incentive to explore or to accept a challenging quest in the hope of receiving a good reward.

I find the only way to enjoy this game is to mod the living crap out of it.

>combat
Skyrim>Oblivion>Morrowind
>story
Morrowind>Skyrim>Oblivion
>quests
Oblivion>Morrowind>Skyrim

>>389747783
>>389747610
on the last thought: nothing has any meaning in the game, no conclusions, no epilogues, no second bottom to the quests, no afterthoughts about what happened
game is empty and shallow, sure I clocked 90h in it but mostly due to two things 1. I love TES 2. searching for something interesting and there was nothing of worth
never touched it again since finishing.
Couldn't even play Enderal on same engine, too much pain.

>>389745306
Playing through it right now, because I never really beat it and I feel like everyone should at least once before they make fun of it.
So far it's like doing the same thing over and over and getting the same results.

>>389747908
modding doesn't really help, it's still gives no motivation to go anywhere
nobody sane wants to play through those quests again

>>389745306
It's one of the best games ever made.

>>389745306
Shallow
Some fucking nonsensical design and quest choices
Bugs everywhere continuing the tradition of fo or es games requiring players to fix it
But an overall appreciated effort to make something the long abused mod community could build upon

Then they FUCKED that last bit up with paid mods again so hey

>>389747050
>everyone on /v/ has hundreds of hours in it

Speak for yourself lmoa

>>389748023
This is the only correct opinion.

>>389746858
>dragons are completely unrealistic garbage
you dont fucking say?

>>389748023
>>389748679
surprisingly true.

>>389748763
he probably means how they don't simply fry you all the time like air fighters
but really don't even want to touch dragon issues, there is too much disappointment involved

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>>389748023
Agree and I'd add a 4th

>living world feeling
>Oblivion > skyrim > morrowind

Oblivions NPC schedules were far more detailed than skyrims and much longer. The world felt more alive. There was some AI features stripped out in skyrim as well. Morrowinds NPCs did absolutely nothing.

>>389749094
they did nothing, but rooms were set up more alive than in skyrim
skyrim just doesn't feel like people live there at all

>>389745306
Wide as an ocean and deep as a puddle.

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>>389748919
>install Requiem
>Dragons now kill you with a single breath of fire or single bite until you're high level and covered in good gear

Sorted. How it should have been in vanilla.

People overplay it and then decide they don't like it.

>>389749379
nah, played it only once
witcher trilogy 3 times
oblivion 3 times
morrowind twice(it's just too much reading to forget)
Gothics 5 times
heck I even played ME trilogy about 4 times

have nauseating effect from skyrim, do not want to touch it

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I thoroughly enjoyed it and so did /v/ for the first two weeks. Then it got popular so we all have to hate it. The game has its flaws and is certainly dumbed down compared to its predessesors in a lot of ways. But anyone who calls Skyrim an outright bad game has never played a truly bad game before.

>psp is 10 years old
still works, even the battery

I never actually finished it or started the DLC because it gets old so fast. Combat stays the same from start to end and every dungeon is basically the same. Crafting skills are the only things that have a sense of progression but they're all completely broken and consequently not satisfying.

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>>389745306
I thought it was pretty fun, can go about 100 hours on a save. The major quests are pretty dumb, like the thieves guild and dark brotherhood, but if you don't take it too seriously, going in trying to hate the game, its pretty fun. The music is great and has a couple of the best tracks in the series. But definitely has the worst battle tracks. My biggest problem was the repetitiveness. Draugrs and claw doors. Thats a puzzle you're only supposed to use once, because when you figure out the solution they all jusy slow you down by like a minute for no reason. And all the other "puzzles" where the solution is literally above it, what the fuck. As an RPG, it's not. I still have fun with it, more than Oblivion. I played them in order so don't get triggered, Oblivion fags.

Debate me.

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>>389747783
This is a 'city' in Skyrim

>>389745306
They stripped it down way too much. Loot is garbage since most things you can smith or enchant yourself. Destruction magic takes so much work to make useable and it still isn't that good. I sincerely miss being able to craft my own spells. Leveling up feels a lot less meaningful without actual stats to level up.

>>389745306
The world design, quests and characters are garbage
It's only fun when you leave the tutorial cave, pick a direction and just walk around the world

>>389750498
A city which the lore says has been destroyed by a disaster.

>>389745306
It's ugly.
No scale
dialogue is bad
story is uninteresting
gameplay is bad
level design is bad

With utmost sincerity, I don't understand how someone could legitimately like this game.

the first 3/2000 times you hear the ambient music is sort of okay

It's fucking fun with at least 150 mods.

I was yawning all the way to the ending. Oblivion was better.

I think it's a good game. But, for a game that meant to be played for dozens of hours, the mechanics are too shallow and ended up boring after 10 hours.

The whole game is only feels great if you never played a video games before, which I guess is why it got praised at the first place.

>>389746818
It's a bad game.

>>389747050
>>even Japan loved it
nips are the ultimate plebs though

Fun but I can't play the unmodded version anymore.

I had fun with vanilla, I had even more fun after I started modding it.

I can't get over how bad crafting is in this game. Smithing makes it so you have absolutely no reason to use found items since even from the start of the game with 25 Smithing you can craft something better than anything you find, since you can't upgrade enchanted items until later. The problem even applies to the unique items you find. So that takes the fun completely out of loot, which is a major reason people play a game like this. Money is also made trivial by alchemy.

What incentive do you now have to go exploring dungeons when everything you need can be obtained in town?

There is a multitude of other things wrong with the game but this is a fundamentally broken game design that affects everything else.

>>389750562
most of those can be fixed by mods
personally:
>loot is mostly recycled into ingots to train smithing
>I haven't found a mod that really makes magic as reliable as melee or bows
>crafting your own spells seems real neat
>having actual stats would be cool as well
hopefully they unfuck everything next time
though with their current track record it's going to be even worse than FO4

>>389750421
Oh yeah and I forgot to mention the retarded scaling, pretty much no combat besides "click until you win", and everything else we know already. It's heavily flawed gameplay wise.

My honest opinion is most people who continue talking about Skyrim this many years after it was released have to have been underage when it was released.

Did I say honest opinion? I meant factual statement. *Smirk*

>>389745306
Tell me what you feel about this game. No emotions, please.

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Good
>Skyrim as a world
>It's still TES
>The visual appearance of the races
>The music
>Some of the dungeons

Bad
>The combat, everything ranging from unsatisfying melee to shitty magic
>The writing
>The bugs
>The graphics
>The voice acting
>The badly optimized engine

Mods "fixes" about half of the bad, some things are unfixable though. But still, with mods I have enjoyed several hours of it. Vanilla is okay the first time you play through as long as you don't expect much, but I can't understand how people want to replay it unmodded.

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>>389745306
Very comfy, it has a well established atmosphere and the villain is cool enough. Shame the combat is so repetitive and alot of the quests are very shallow. Also listening to the same five voice actors all game gets annoying.

>>389747132
But anon, it IS a porn game

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>>389751471
Good magic mods are usually part of bigger overhauls. Magic is utterly broken in Requiem (and I love it). Meanwhile most dedicated magic mods I've tried just add a lot of fluff.

>>389751471
That's part of the problem though. Why is the game being designed such that it has to be fixed with mods later? Sure I understand fixing the occasional bugged skill or item, but we're talking about entire system mechanics here.

I played vanilla when it came out, around 100 hours before I got bored of it. Played it again with some mods after all the dlc came out made it about half as long.

The worst part about Skyrim is it just magnified the same thing that keeps the elder scrolls series from being a top tier franchise in my book - the world is dead and unresponsive except the player. It really kills any sense of progression or feeling of achievement you might get from your journeys.

Maybe I'll get the whole thing and mod it to fuck again and see if anything changes but I doubt it.

>>389751886
because bethesda is excellent at making easily modified mediocre games

>>389745306

>amazing game on release day.
>minor upset/frustration some things are flat out missing from oblivion, but still good.
>was always expecting it not to be as good as oblivion (see every RPG over the last 5-10 years)
>normies invade it.
>don't care, still playing/not looking online/really invested.
>everyone (that matters) had finished it before October.
>the game as a whole was okay but falmer sections, dwemer sections and generic dungeons partially ruined things.
>most people cheated and ruined the game for themselves.
>the difficulty curve of the game was shallow at best.
>despite this the hardest content was hard, the best weapons were desirable and it had an okay story.
>bonus points for being comfy as fuck, music and design wise.


>normies parade it as the best shit ever.
>normies first game.
>modded out the ass with inane shit that ruins everything.
>people still talk about it even today which as a whole is the most negative shit ever, as it means we're not getting TES:6 in 10 years or we will but it will be dumbed down and sell based on the name alone.

I'd say I had amazing fun for a month, then I moved on. I thought it was an amazing game, but not as good as Oblivion or it's expansions, and only because it wasn't as fucking shit as everything else (Zelda)

>>389745306
Bad visuals.
Bad gameplay.
Mostly bad or mediocre quests.
No memorable characters.
Bad dungeons.
Very little choice or roleplaying actually involved, both in the sense of character building and interacting with the world.
Decent mods, but nothing that really fixes the game's glaring flaws.
Decent setting, but hampered by uninspired art direction.

At least it's not Fallout 3.

>>389752598
>despite this the hardest content was hard
Are you fucking serious?

>>389752852
>"ebony knight wasn't hard"

Never played Skyrim before, is there enough functionality in the base game/with mods so that I can go full cozy and get my own home and take a wife and shit in addition to the main quest? Is it satisfying or shallow?

>>389753006
You can build your own home with Hearthfire.

>>389752990
That's right, it wasn't.
There are so many fucking things in the game that just make every engagement fucking trivial that you have to actually limit yourself constantly to give it any challenge whatsoever.

Alot of caves
I wish they would make some kind of castles, giant churches to explore

>>389753085
this is true, even on my first playthrough I'd limit myself.

Like I personally played as a deer hunter and would make all my cash selling deer hides because I was big into the RP element.

and I'd make up scenarios and reasons why my character was going to place X or Y.

the investment value of skyrim was huge, the gameplay value among other things was lacking.