11-13-2011, 10:25 PM
lvl 12 female wood-elf, bow in hand, done a few random quests and explored parts of the landscape.
Just killed my first dragon. Impressions so far? A bit "meh".
Pros:
* Incredible world. There are no games other than TES that manage to create a space where you just want to stop and look around you all the time. Nature kicks ass!
* Variety: character customisation, quest types, landscapes, monsters, stuff to do. You shouldn't tire of this game easily.
* Decent graphics and music
The cons (IMHO):
* It's dull. The characters, the dialogue and the quests don't manage to inspire any sort of emotion in me. I'm constantly thinking of The Witcher2 while playing Skyrim. TW2 felt more like an actual story instead of a long list of fetch/kill-quests set in a fantasy world.
That's it really. I could point out a few shortcomings when it comes to simplistic melee-combat, bugs or other normal detractors; but I don't really feel the need to. 1 bulleted point for "cons" is enough when that point is *so* crucial (to me).
I don't care about variety in character custommisation, the length of the game or the size of the world, the number of NPCs, how they've improved level scaling from Oblivion, the lovely sunsets and the sprawling forests. I don't care about anything but story and dialogue and character. I wish I could ignore this, because I do see that Skyrim is a fantastic game in so many ways.
I get the sense that my disappointment with Skyrim is a continuation of my weening interest in sandbox-games. I loved Morrowind and Oblivion, but I never finished GTA4 or Red Dead Redemption, which were fantastic (yet dull) games. I've been in the business of loving video games for so long now that I realise now that I need an auteur, an artist or a director, showing me a piece of work; I need a directed experience; not sandboxy freedom of "gamer empowerment". I'd rather have a focussed experience - a 10 hour game making me laugh and cry over an engrossing storyline and interesting characters, rather than play a 100 hour game of patted out fetch/kill-quests in beautiful setting.
I'll keep playing the main story line and hope I'll connect with the characters a bit more, but so far, I'm actually considering playing through The Witcher2 a 5th time rather than completing Skyrim.
Just killed my first dragon. Impressions so far? A bit "meh".
Pros:
* Incredible world. There are no games other than TES that manage to create a space where you just want to stop and look around you all the time. Nature kicks ass!
* Variety: character customisation, quest types, landscapes, monsters, stuff to do. You shouldn't tire of this game easily.
* Decent graphics and music
The cons (IMHO):
* It's dull. The characters, the dialogue and the quests don't manage to inspire any sort of emotion in me. I'm constantly thinking of The Witcher2 while playing Skyrim. TW2 felt more like an actual story instead of a long list of fetch/kill-quests set in a fantasy world.
That's it really. I could point out a few shortcomings when it comes to simplistic melee-combat, bugs or other normal detractors; but I don't really feel the need to. 1 bulleted point for "cons" is enough when that point is *so* crucial (to me).
I don't care about variety in character custommisation, the length of the game or the size of the world, the number of NPCs, how they've improved level scaling from Oblivion, the lovely sunsets and the sprawling forests. I don't care about anything but story and dialogue and character. I wish I could ignore this, because I do see that Skyrim is a fantastic game in so many ways.
I get the sense that my disappointment with Skyrim is a continuation of my weening interest in sandbox-games. I loved Morrowind and Oblivion, but I never finished GTA4 or Red Dead Redemption, which were fantastic (yet dull) games. I've been in the business of loving video games for so long now that I realise now that I need an auteur, an artist or a director, showing me a piece of work; I need a directed experience; not sandboxy freedom of "gamer empowerment". I'd rather have a focussed experience - a 10 hour game making me laugh and cry over an engrossing storyline and interesting characters, rather than play a 100 hour game of patted out fetch/kill-quests in beautiful setting.
I'll keep playing the main story line and hope I'll connect with the characters a bit more, but so far, I'm actually considering playing through The Witcher2 a 5th time rather than completing Skyrim.
