Answer honestly.
Did you not like Skyrim from day one, or did the internet convince you it was bad.
Answer honestly. Did you not like Skyrim from day one, or did the internet convince you it was bad.
Answer honestly.
Did you not like Skyrim from day one, or did the internet convince you it was bad.
I preferred Oblivion when Skyrim launched because it has lewd mods.
>love skyrim
>honeymoon phase wears off
>hate skyrim
>expectations correct to normal levels
>love skyrim
same
It's fun with mods, the game is pretty weak though.
Helgen is aids even on a first playthrough. After that though I enjoyed it for a few hours before the shit scaling, shit dungeons, and shit "cities" really set in.
All Elder Scrolls games are shit. All Gamebryo/Creation Engine games are shit.
I wasn't an underaged frick and I played both morrowind and oblivion before and that should answer the question.
Still love skyrim to this day. Frick twittards 4chins and plebbit.
>Did you not like Skyrim from day one
I didn't like it from day zero. I hated the game before it was even out.
Frick amerishit games. Western videogames died in 2007. I hated and currently hate everything but Terraria, Risk of Rain, original Ace of Spades, and Rimworld.
It was one of those games the more I played it the more disappointed I got
Loved oblivion, didn't like skyrim
mods make it great though, even just stuff like camping, fires, and managing cold weather add so much immersion
I was in high school when it came out and part of the school newspaper so they allowed me to write game reviews. Gave the game an 8, got a bunch of shit from classmates about why I didn't give it a 10.
>and part of the school newspaper
Jesus, you never had sex, didn't you?
>so they allowed me to write game reviews
Fricking lol, well that answers it.
I can tell you right now that I certainly wasn't getting laid that year lel
look at you aren't you very cool
>haha, you engage in activities outside of the social norm! Aren't I a chad?
>posted to Ganker
OP pic reminds me of a time from my high school days
>put in different lunch period from my friends one semester in high school
>sitting alone reading a book for english class at empty table
>outgoing girl wants me to sit with her table so I'm not alone
>decline a few times but she keeps trying
>eventually relent because it's hurting me how much she's putting herself out there to include me in a group of friends
>introduce myself, know nobody
>have nothing in common, very awkward each day at lunch, too autistic to start conversations
>one day a week or so later I come to the table after getting my food to find they all relocated to a table outside because they were too polite to ask me to leave and I was too autistic to take the hint
Shit was hilarious looking back but incredibly awkward at the time.
Being 13 at the time, I enjoyed it but felt like something was missing. Looking back on the series I think I remember Oblivion the most fondly
I never played Skyrim because I didn't like Oblivion.
I have shit taste in games I guess because I played a frick ton of non-modded skyrim and enjoyed it immensely.
Running around forests and fields exploring dungeons, getting loot, shouts, quests that give perks (like that mara quest line), and most importantly finding rare, unique, or interesting items to put on display in my house (like those insects in jars)
Loved it when it came out because the first playthrough of TES games is special. Glaring flaws in multiple aspects of the game become impossible to ignore the more you play; especially engine related issues that affect the feel of the game in the same way as all preceeding games.
End up liking it for what it is after the differences between expectation and reality are settled and recommended the game to others with caveats.
I like skyrim. Modded, of course.
I was already in college you tard, didn't give a shit about a watered down oblivion which was already watered down Morrowind. I didn't even bother pirating it.
>hyped as frick at release
>spend three days straight playing it
>after 30-40 hours the realization sets in, I've seen everything, it isn't going to get better
>squeeze 5-10 more hours out of it, never touch it again for years
Did a few attempts at playthroughs with some big tiddy mods and the like but the spark just isn't there, you can polish a turd all you want but in the end it's still a turd.
everyone convinced me it was great, then i played it and it was shit!
frick you todd!
I mean I enjoyed it but I had a negative perception of it from day 1. It was very clearly a downgrade from oblivion.
Bethesda has been in a death spiral since fallout 3. Every game worse than the last.
On day one, I hated Skyrim for all its casualizations, and simplifications and its very apparent consolitis.
The consolitis got fixed by mods and at some point I admitted there's more to a game being enjoyable than the complexity of its mechanics.
>and its very apparent consolitis.
God remember when we saw the UI and it was all console garbage? The menus were disgusting and souless. I remember comparisons to the old games UI which used notebooks and shit to stylize the game, then skyrim happened and everything looked like transparent shit.
I still like skyrim I think it's alright
people have convinced themselves they hate it but it's bullshit
its all bullshit
I remember thinking the visuals and general art direction were a huge step up compared to previous Bethesda games and there was a honeymoon phase in that regard. That aside the quests were always really bland and I hated the main story so much I made a new character to avoid being ass-kisses as the dragon born and just did side content until i got bored. I have like 300 hours into the game and still haven’t ever finished it.
Its always been pretty 5/10 for me.
I went into oblivion blind high off of playing morrowind as a 12 year old. It taught me a valuable lesson about getting hyped for games before they came out. When skyrim came out I got it just because I had to give it a shot, but it was just the same mediocrity the whole game. Dont get me wrong, morrowind was pretty mediocre or shit for a large portion of its facets, but some of things it got right were better than any other game. Sadly those things got gutted and they slightly improved upon everything that was shit.
I made it 20 hours in and realized I wasn't having fun. I focused on blacksmithing and thought I was tough or at least prepared. Then I'd fight bandits in a camp and they'd suddenly two-shot me and I didn't know why. Didn't feel consistent and I didn't see reward for the preparation I put into it, so I dropped it.
>anon overlevels himself by spamming non-combat skills and gets btfo by level scaling, refuses to use difficulty slider for its intended purpose, gets mad
>making decent armor doesn't mean anything
>combat isn't consistent or follow a clear set of rules
>point this out and make skyrimgays seethe
ok
anon unless you giga levelled yourself to like level 30 just by smithing, there's no way you would have gotten destroyed by normal bandits on normal difficulty
i didn't giga level shit, I wanted to RP as more than a murder hobo and the game couldn't handle that
>muh difficulty slider
gay shit. balance the game with clear mechanics
anon you just suck at bideo gayms then
I can go my entire life enjoying other vidya and not miss anything Skyrim has to offer
truly, if I wanted to just kill shit with the chance of getting 1-2 shot out of nowhere then I can play a FromSoft game
>wanted to RP as more than a murder hobo
yeah, Bethesda should really do something about their combat-centrism, especially since their combat fricking sucks
this is why people dont like to talk to you. You are disingenuous
I've always liked skyrim.
I still do.
But one must recognize that it's a game as wide as the ocean and shallow as a puddle for the most part.
While it plays better than, say, Oblivion, it's also a step back in so many categories.
If it weren't for mods, the game would have had no longevity whatsoever.
Neither, I always loved skyrim and always will.
I can easily see it's flaws, but I still enjoy it nonetheless.
It was a glitchy unplayable mess for a solid year, and even now it's necessary to use a fanmade patch to fix literally hundreds of glitches because despite re-releasing it so many times, Bethesda can't be bothered.
I thought it was one of the greatest games ever on release.
After playing more WRPGs and getting a few hundred hours in (when the repetition of the dungeons and the lack of real choices really started to set in) I ended up thinking it was just a good game, especially modded, but not great.
I liked it, then I played Morrowind, and don’t like it anymore
Never played it. Not interested in the way it does first person combat.
I was a kid when it came out. I was on the level of normalgay where seeing a first person game that wasn't a shooter seemed revolutionary. Of course I loved it on release. The internet didn't convince me otherwise, I just moved on to play better wrpgs afterwards
Loved it launch and I still do a yearly playthrough, usually in winter for max comfiness. Could not care less what some asshurt Gankerirgins think about it because 'popular thing bad'. Legendary game, it will be played and discussed and re-released forever.
I played it day one, finished it and never touched it ever again. I didn't hate it but I thought it was pretty bland.
It was clear to me from the moment the intro started that Beth had barely improved from Oblivion.
Not that that stoppped me wringing some fun from it
Skyrim was my gateway drug into degeneracy thanks to modding. If Best Buy just had the PS3 version in stock like I wanted and I just bought that instead of a PC copy I'd probably be a normalgay today.
Played Skyrim in high school.
Upon beating the game, everything I had done felt so hollow and pointless. All the side quests meant nothing, and the main game story felt so uninspired and bland.
It was like Lord of the Rings and the scale of a Lego set. It was so empty, so bland, and so uninspiring. Nothing the game did left any impact, and no concept it introduced felt interesting.
Shitty series, shitty game.
I thought Skyrim was disappointing as hell.
I was obsessed with skyrim on day 1, but I was also 11.
As I grew up and had the number of games I'd played go beyond the single digits it lost a lot of it's lustre though I still don't consider it a horrible game.
I love Skyrim. I hope Bethesda eventually sees why the LE version (which has been removed from steam) has the same appeal to people as Morrowind (both can be played on potatoes) and eventually releases it on GOG DRM-free for easy access and modding. the only way to get it right now is through piracy or maybe green man gaming
I like Skyrim
I got the most fun out of it on Switch, bizarrely.
Great game when I first played it 5 years ago, still great now
>B-BUT IT'S BAD BECAUSE REDDIT TOLD ME SO
name 5 better games
Jackie chan 1 to 5
>name 5 better games
Any 5 souls games.
Bethesda fans tend to be moronic
And it isn’t just Skyrim
Morrowind is made up of autistic morons
Skyrim is made up of stupid morons
Fallout has a fanbase of furry degenerates and stupid morons
>Fallout has a fanbase of furry degenerates
It does? What makes you say that?
Didn't enjoy vanilla or modded Skyrim because the flaws were immediately apparent and it was hard to justify playing it over Oblivion. That said, I did immensely enjoy Skyrim VR.
Neither
I liked it day one and I like it now, the Internet can go frick itself over "muh seven hour long retrospectives"
I remember buying it back in the day since I remembered playing Bloodmoon and Oblivion, but I got maybe 10 hours in and just kind of stopped playing it and played something else and have not really touched it at all since.
I genuinely hated it within hours. Bought it day one. Did not look at the internet at all. I loved oblivion and I immediate was like "holy shit, ANOTHER dungeon that looks identical and has nothing but draugers in it?" The puzzles were insulting to my inegligence, the quests were much more surface level and samey. My opinion was not colored by the internet in any way, shape, or form.
>insulting to my inegligence
Doubt (x)
I never liked it. Was kinda excited before release, but wholeheartedly disappointed.
Nearly everyone likes it here and everywhere else too.
I never played it.
It looks boring and janky. Fallout 3 i did try and i've never been dissappointed that much by a game that often in my life despite giving it an honest to god try exploring most of the game.
Skyrim looked even more bland.
I respect its sexmod community though.
I haven't played Skyrim. Oblivion was trash and Fallout 3 reinforced my perception of Bethesda having gone down the shitter.
thought it was okay at first, but was excited to see more. then I kept on playing and realized that there was no more to see.
My cousin who absolutely loved it let me borrow it and I thought it was meh. Granted I'm not into fantasy setting to begin with, but I thought I would give it a try because of the hype. Killed my first dragon and I was like "yeah, I've seen enough". Funny enough, I STILL keep buying it, bought on PC and even bought it on Xbone before MS bought them out, because it wanna see why people love it so much. In the end, Tom still got me.
I likes Skyrim when it came out and o want to play it again because I never finished it but new games keep coming out all the time
I liked Skyrim and waited in line to get it on release. It was okay but the faction quests are the worst in the franchise
i hated it since day one
I didn’t like it from day one because of how dumbed down it was from Oblivion let alone Morrowind or Daggerfall. Still play it though but the dumbing down, railroading, scripted events and the choices you make not really mattering always annoys me. For instance the game pretty much treats you as a Nord no matter what race you place as.
Day 1, I thought "This is kinda basic."
Day, I dunno 7, I realized "I'm not having fun."
Day, hell I lost count, let's just say year 2, with a bunch of mods, "Hey, this is kinda fun.. I'm bored."
Year 3, with a bunch of mods again, "Hey, this is kinda fun... I'm bored."
Modern, "Enderal is cool, but overall Skyrim is boring."
Day one, I would say I liked it. It takes a little while to realize how "thin" the game is.
I fricking HATED it when it came out. I thought it was "oblivion with guns without guns" and a buggy mess.
Like 7 years later, I tried it again and loved it. Inf tlof the few games where I can constantly start new characters
I can't get into Bethesda games to be honest. They all feel very quantity over quality when it comes to quests, locals and all that. I gave Morrowind many tries but that game has an awful use of the keyword system, ie. npcs from across the fricking map say the same thing when queried, which makes them look like a NPC hivemind that dispense the same canned lines. Given how those type of games have a lot of dialogue and Morrowind has no voice acting, it's kinda lazy to recycle lines. Then with Oblivion you have the recycled interiors for all dungeons, they all use the same exact asset which is boring as hell, quests also do not offer enough agency to the player, so despite the games being open, you really don't have much of a say in the quests. It's all very surface level when it comes to The Elder Scrolls games to me. I skipped FAllout 3 because I heard it was "Oblivion with guns" and I thought that was a very damning thing to say about it. With Skyrim I just eventually dropped it, I don't know those games aren't that interesting to explore despite being open world.
It was bland than and still is.
I have literally never finished it. It's just boring. 5 attempts, and I can't find enough of a shit to give.
I wanted to like it because at least the setting seemed more interesting than Oblivion's but I got disappointed by the shitty guilds and quests
>play skyrim a ton on ps3
>finally get enough money to build a gaming pc
>found a guy on youtube that can convert PS3 saves to PC saves
>buy and install skyrim on pc
>for some reason completely lack motivation to continue playing, make a new game, or play skyrim at all
>this was 10 years ago
I don't know
ive tried playing it twice. once on ps3, then again on pc. i got maybe 5-6 hours into it both times and then dropped it. i liked oblivion and the fallout games, but i couldn't get into skyrim.
It looked cool, but after doing some cursory research into the systems and mechanics it seemed like a massive step backwards mechanically from Oblivion. I remember telling one of my coworkers off because he was hyped for the game, then he spilled his spaghetti and was like "Y-yeah I hate it too".
Day one. They made the game more moronic every release since Daggerfall so i was expecting nothing.
>pirated it day one
>boring, dropped after 2 hours
>tried playing it like 10 times since then, even bought LE on steam somewhere around 2014
>always dropped after a couple hours
>finally manage to play it during covid
>use some meme mod list that supposedly improves stuff while keeping it close to vanilla
>its just oblivion but worse in every way, except i guess enemies take more damage?