I know alot of people have gotten Skyrim and am kinda surprised nobody started a thread about it.
So I just finished the main quest.
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The game main quest ended out of nowhere. I really thought that once I took the Elder Scroll to the top of the mountain I would be transported back in time and would be presented with a more quests. I didnt expect it to bring Alduin to me. And while on the subject of Alduin, the fight with him was extraordinarily tedious and annoying.
I honestly cant say that I found the game to be too interesting. The world was big, but extremely bland. I found the worlds in Fallout to be more unique and that was a post nuclear wasteland. The towns on the outside may have looked different but once you went into a building they look like they were just copied and pasted. Same for the dungeons/caves. The neatest looking place was probably Blackreach.
Not a fan of the AI AT ALL. Many times I killed things I should have no business killing because they wont step over a rock or cross a river. Giants and Mammoths were very terrible with this. I've killed multipleof both on plenty of occasions because of it. First giant I killed I was LVL3. LEVEL3!! I let it chase me all the way back to the Whiterun stables. I hopped up on a roof and shot arrows at it. It seemed like the only time I died was when I got a bounty and I refused to pay it so all the guards would come after me.
The actual dialog I found to be boring and pretty linear. Half the time instead of responding to what you chose they would often go half way back to what they just said and repeat it and regardless of what options you chose to speak it eventually led to the same end 90% of the time.
The game even now after a few patches still suffers from some obvious consolitis. When I first started the game creating a character was so weird. I couldnt tell how to navigate the interface. Even now when cycling through inventory there is an icon next to the list that NORMALLY is the items thats highlighted. Sometimes this is not the case and the highlighted item is not whats next to that icon. This had led me drinking potions that I didnt need, selling things I needed. You can tell the GUI was made for a controller and not a mouse. The FOV is painfully low too.
I also ran into a glitch when getting Esbern from under Riften(?). I walked up to the door and he wouldnt say anything, essentially stopping the game. At first it could be solved by no clipping in the console, going through the door, and striking up the reaminder of the conversation with him. Latest patch took out clipping. This bug now requires you to download a 3rd party program, extract sound from one of the sound files, and copy them to the Skyrim folder. WTF?
The last 3 games I bought at full price or, on or very close to release have not lived up to their expectations. Homefront, BF3, Skyrim. Maybe when I pay $60 for a game I expect too much. But when I buy a game @ $5 like say.... BRINK (yes im pimping BRINK again a-holes) I dont expect much and then am pleasantly surprised when it turns out to be half way decent.
Your Skyrim opinions please?