Why Skyrim Sucks

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Skyrim's award winning writing: Where you can parade around as an Officer of the Imperial Legion, join the Dark Brotherhood, kill the Emperor still as an Imperial Officer, not be recognised by the Penatus Oculatus or whatever it is despite single handedly ending Skyrim's civil war, and then after becoming the leader of the Dark Brotherhood and what should be one of the most famous Imperial Officers to ever live, go to Riften and have Maven Black Briar threaten you with the Dark brotherhood. YOUR Dark Brotherhood.

Skyrim is like a RPG Gateway drug. You get a taste for RPG mechanics, but once you try the real deal elsewhere, you can never go back or look at it from the same perspective.

Sad thing is that Skyrim is miles ahead of Starfield as an RPG, yet Morrowind is miles ahead of Skyrim. BGS regresses further with every new game. 😑

"Free unpaid labor shouldn't be required to unfuck a AAA game with millions of dollars behind it." That's it. That's the perfect description of why Bethesda titles always wrankled my ass. They rely on post-launch beta teams of developers to fix things for them.

In Neverwinter Nights the guards kind of ignored you, until you became the knight captain. Then they saluted you and their behaviour towards you changed. In Skyrim my character became on officer in the imperial army and the guards told him no to lollygag. Its little things like that, that take me out of the world.

I'd be happy to forgive the flaws, except this game might be the most often released game in the modern era. PC, 3 generations of console, VR, and in a few years, inevitably mobile, countless special editions, DLC, and premium mods. The game has been beaten to a bloody pulp. If they want to keep cashing in on it, then it is naturally going to be a target for deep review and criticism by contemporary standards. Make a new damn game already.

Skyrim fan boys/girls rarely admit that this was the first game in history to turn dragon fights into just another tedious chore.

And the ouroboros of suck continues with Starfield. They learned nothing.

My ONLY critique is that you attribute Todd Howard to Bethesda's problem when the devil is most assuredly Pete Hines. A high ranking Zenimax man and also a writer for Bethesda. Frequently he ignores criticism of the games writing by saying that fans think too much and that it should be accessible to everyone, including women (Women cant enjoy deep writing or gameplay? Now THERE'S a problematic statement) I directly attribute the fall of Bethesda's quality to Hines. And the devil's greatest trick was convincing the world it was Todd instead. Todd's facial expressions in presentations seem.. hesitant. Like he doesn't want to say what he's about to say.

I've always been annoyed at Skyrims lack of actual role playing. They've got a bunch of really cool races that you can play as, but it makes no real difference in how the world itself treats you. Same thing with joining the different groups and factions, except for who you side with in the Civil War. I want stuff like cities not letting you in right away if you play as a Khajitt, or the Companions refusing to let you join if you are part of the thieves guild. I know they had stuff like that in Daggerfall. It's too bad because I don't think that Bethesda is willing to put in that kind of work ever again. It seems like all they care about is how to simplify everything and how to charge money for user made mods.

Loved skyrim when it first came out. Then i discovered fallout 3. Loved fallout 3. Skyrim seemed shallow. Then i discovered Oblivion. I loved Oblivion. Skyrim and Fallout 3 seemed lesser. Then i found New Vegas and it was fantastic. Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Skyrim paled in comparison. After New Vegas i started playing games like Dragons Dogma, Mass Effect, and now Baldurs Gate 3. Everytime i go back to Skyrim it just feels more hallow and hallow.

"To Todd, it was more important to have stuff rather than let the stuff be any good or fun to find. Quantity over quality." And now we have Starfield. "Over a thousand planets to explore." Translation: Over a thousand barren wastelands with copy-paste assets and unengaging, unimportant, meaningless "points of interest."

Skyrim is simply one of the games of all time. The writing was written, the visuals were designed, and the characters were speaking. Truly one of the games ever made

Ahh another hour long video on why the game I keep playing sucks, and I'm going to watch all of it and proceed to spend the next 72 hours perfectly crafting an intricate and well balanced modded Skyrim experience only to stop playing an hour into my playthrough.

I'm just so glad baldurs gate 3 came out alongside starfield, I think bethesda needed to be humbled.

My honeymoon phase with Skyrim was shattered when I killed the f*cking emperor and there was no effect on the world other than a few lines of guard dialogue. Another honorable mention is the fact that you’re forced to join the thieves guild as part of the main quest, despite playing as a lawful good warrior with zero inclination to threaten or rob innocent citizens.

One slight thing you messed up: The lines in Skyrim weren't recorded Alphabetically, that was Oblivion. The Voice Acting is so stiff in Skyrim because they didn't hire too many VAs, so a number of actors were recycled for MANY characters. I imagine its so stiff due to fatigue more than anything.

"Skyrim is the Imagine Dragons of videogames" is the most accurate description I've ever heard. When you first play it you are blown away by the grandness and seeming complexity (ie listening Radioactive for the first time or playing Skyrim as a 14 year old), but as time goes on you slowly realize that is just a clunky, surface level one-trick-pony where everything is just the same bland experience repeated ad nauseam .

Well seeing how Starfield turned out I don't have high hopes for ES VI. Starfield literally feels like skyrim with a Space skin.