[quote name='Telastyn' timestamp='1330525315' post='4917756'] Eh, my wallet is currently voting for 'make more single player RPGs'; once that's sated I can be picky.

I played the beta for kingdom of amalur and I thought it was pretty cool. [/quote]
I've been playing this lately and while it does have some problems (my biggest dislike is its menu/inventory system), I'm actually really enjoying it. I would definitely suggest checking it out to see if you like it too (Is there a demo? Is the beta still available? I blind-bought it myself but am pretty happy with that decision).

20 minutes of walk for 5 minutes of Joy.
Although i liked it, It didn't recieve my replayability, if you get what i mean.
I prefer Dragon Age over it, quite nice and i replayed it twice.
No offence.

Is this really a post on this forum?

Well how about the OP make a better game then Skyrim is a piece of art and shows what the team work of many great people over many years can turn into. I used to play it but then I took an exam to the head. When my exam is over I shall enjoy it once a week a few hours(the great thing about these games is that no online guilds ask you to log in which makes one feel free).

I don't think posts like these belong to these forums. We usually don't see that low quality stuff around here.

With that said, I can agree the game is cumbersome to get into if you're on PC - the GUI and controls are clunky at best.
I guess that made the OP (which must be young..) turn away from the game and post this nonsense.

This guy's just a troll, move along.

I used to play skyrim like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee

DIE! I hate that line, if you can't tell.

This guy's just a troll, move along.

^^This! There is a lot wrong with the game, but for someone to find absolutely nothing good about it is very telling.

I have to say, I approached it with an op

^^This! There is a lot wrong with the game, but for someone to find absolutely nothing good about it is very telling.

I approached the game with an open-mind. I loved fallout 3, I really wanted to love Skyrim. But after 4 hours of hack-and-slash with no tactical depth, fighting the controls and user interface at every step, and having bankrupted the entire local economy with one dungeon worth of loot drops, I decided that it's a pointless waste of time.

The open-world is great, the graphics are pretty decent, the sound design is not bad (except that every other guard sounds like Schwarzenegger). But the core gameplay mechanics just aren't very much fun, and the world doesn't have enough depth of interaction to make up for that.

So yes, while the OP is clearly overstating his case for dramatic effect, I don't think he's really all that far from the truth.

I started Skyrim, and I like it so far. It's a bit better than Oblivion imho (and Oblivion was already pretty good).

The combat is quite hard (on Adept), especially those dragons. I guess I should do more side quests to level first.

The graphics are OK, though seeing as it's 5 years later than Oblivion, do not show a progress of 5 years of game graphics to me. I guess that is due to PC games being crippled due to consoles

The water looks amazing, way more amazing than anything else. The mountains also look good. Less good looking however are: repetitive grass texture patterns (at least randomize between two textures please?!), visible polygon corners in rounded shapes (do there exist solutions for that in the meantime?), low level of detail in the distance even though my graphics card would be able to handle it, low level of detail outside a city if you're inside one, moving pixely artifacts in high detail reflective objects that settle after a few seconds, and the shadows only look good if set to ultra (which is ok after all the ultra setting exists).

The RPG, and skill system, seem to be very deep. Though the NPCs sometimes are somewhat dumb with repeating quotes that don't always make sense at any given moment. I also wish bunches of human enemies would not just charge to their death if I'm stronger than them. A bandit wouldn't rob of someone who just kills them, right?

Companions are annoying. They walk longer paths than you instead of following your steps if you jump off rocks and stuff, and it's too easy to accidently team kill them (IMHO, despite the less realism, it should be impossible to hurt your own companion in battle to make up for the fact that their AI is also unrealistically unsmart).

And finally, I like fighting outdoors way more than in dungeons. The game looks beautiful outside. The dungeons aren't really good looking and even make me a bit nauseous unfortunately (solved by pressing f to place the camera behind the character). Too much of the gameplay takes place in dungeons.

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