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Ive now played 190 hours in Skyrim but...
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Some things starting to annoying me alot.
Number one is CtD/and grapical glitches after while.
Number two is voices of npcs and there TXT is always same and always same voices all over Skyrim.
First i thought wow 70 different voice instead of couple in Oblivion but firstly i liked the voice in morrowind and Oblivion i somehow miss them hehe and don't like most in SKyrim plus fact that many npcs all have same voice.
So i gues some voices maybe 10 of those 70 used on most npcs and all others prolly 60 on npcs you wont see much or one time:(
Why they gave all inns shops and soldiers all over skyrim same voice maybe 6 different over all those npcs and why oh why same tx little sentence specially shops or points where you sell you stuff everytime same txt plus txt thats from quest you've done and they keep repeating how greatful they are for thousend time:P
Shops and inns almost always empty nothing happens most of time its still all waxmuseum innkeeper waits behind counter same go for shops.
Patch finding companions and AI npcs also is not that much imporved sinds Oblivion.
Diversity of mobs almost all over Skyrim wolfs bears trolls and dragons everytime same mobs. And some mobs dont belong in a deep freeze winter land who also roam around in swamp.
I love the quests and dungeons and how world is open and beautiful and huge i realy love exploring, but the points that annoy me after so many hours getting on my nerfes hehe.
Prolly alot more things i would love seeing improved but ill wait for patches and mods it prolly is alot better game in 6 months time.
For now i still enjoy the game despite fact some things annoying me.
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Thats a crazy amount of hours. I played about 40 and got bored and 'beat the game'.
I thought it was a really good game, but yeah the biggest difference between it and Oblivion is the graphics.
Remember Old School Ultima Online
I've shelved it for now. Waiting for the creation kit and some decent mods. I can only get so much from vanilla, seeing as it's a rather sad console port.
Great game, just needs some community love to make it awesome.
I love the TES series a lot, but the thing that always makes me stop playing them is the little-to-no character interaction. In Skyrim, there have been a lot of times that I thought an NPC in an inn or around town looked interesting. But of course, talking to them just yielded the canned one liners.
As alive as some of the parts in the world feels, I always feel like the town inhabitants are dead; just husks of flesh rummaging around their predetermined schedules.
Also, it seems a lot of the guards have cousins off fighting the dragons im Skyrim while they're stuck at guard duty. Sure would be nice to run into some of those cousins.
While I would love to play this game, I am not one to pay more than one dollar per hour of game play. From what I have read there is less than 40 hours of game for which they want to charge sixty bucks. Too much money for what I would be getting. So I am waiting for it to hit the bargin bin.
I agree however that this game could reallly use some "community love" and I am really looking forward to it.
I would not say you "beat the game" unless you reached lvl 81 and compleated at least 80% of the content but wrather you "finished the main story line".
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can
be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard
HA. I would say this game has more bang for your buck than any single player rpg ever made. I would be satisfied if I had to pay $99.99 for it.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can
be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard
I've already put about 20hrs in and haven't even advanced the story line 1/10th of the way through. The side quests are really great.
Exactly. I Did act one at the start, Act 2 around lvl 40 and after I finish all the side quest and hit lvl 80 I'll do the final act. Plus I rolled 2 different classes to play when I burn out on the main. Have an 2h heavy orc, an dual wield steathy kajiit, and a high elf destruction x2 caster. The Theives guild and Dark brotherhood questlines are my fav so far.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can
be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard
I agree with Donev and Redcor. I'm ~67 hours in on just my first character and I've only done the first four parts of the main quest. TES series' main content has never really been the main quest, but practically everything around you.
I probably have that much in as well..haven't checked. The repeated voices and merchant responses do get annoying at times. Of course I love the game but even after the patch I have some bugs I can't get around as far as I know. The companions questline stopped after I came back from the Glenmorril Witch Hunt. Vilkas spouts out some shite about revenge after the old man is killed and then never offers "The Purity of Revenge ". Then I was with the Stormcloaks when they attacked Whiterun.. I refused to go into the city and the game notices this..lol... I was reprimanded by Ulfric. Now I can't get into Jorvasskar w/o a key. Vilkas sometimes comes out and I can get regular misc quests but still no revenge quest and the two companions still stand menacingly around silver-hand corpses telling me ...ad nauseum .... what happened 3 months ago while I was gone. Those bodies should be rotten.lol. A few others never register people I talk to..like the Jarl of Riften..one quest I partially finished tells me to talk to her but it never offers a conversation line that will end the quest. Now she's been replaced with Maven Black-briar so i guess I can write that quest off.
I was hoping to cure my Lycanthropy just to see the story. Wonder if I can do that without finishing the companion questline.
I've put in 52 hours on my dual wielder orc, who's level 48, and beat the game without fooling around with too much side quest stuff, didn't do any of the thieves guild/college/dark brotherhood/etc quests, and only got about 3/4 of the way through the Companions because of a bug. Also didn't do anything with joining the imperials or the stormcloaks. I did go through the main questline and beat that part though.
Started another character, an archer, and I'm level 43 on that character, with 83 hours played, and I've done damn near every quest in the game that I could find, with the exception of the Hrothgar line, which I left at the part where they summon me from the very beginning, and the College questline. Joined the Imperials and killed a lot of Stormcloaks for funzies. I'de say I've probably done 50-60% of the quests in the game.
There is definitely plenty to keep you playing, if you actually try to look for it, and mods will keep you playing after the initial luster has worn off. Still playing my archer, but trying to think of a new idea for a character, my unarmed heavy armor khajit didn't turn out so well.
I played my mage about 20 hrs in (lv 20).
I played a fighters guild through the Companions storyline and blah'd out around 25-30 hrs (lvl 25).
I've now taken my archer through the entirity of the Thieves guild (which SEEMS MUCH longer than the Companions) and have ALSO completed the Dark Brotherhood storyline. He's about to get in the Mage College. (he's got ADHD) (lv 43) I think I've spent about 60 hours on him give or take. Between the three, I've not done a SINGLE same quest.
Course, that's because I've avoided the main quest like the plague. Literally I get out of the first area and headed a different direction with each toon.
I will say the CtD is annoying but for the most part Autosaves make that LESS problematic. I do have the occasional issue where the game loses entire textures (for example: armor... becomes a massive blue blob on NPCs). Audio is also hit or miss but not TOO terrible.
Still playing though, in fact heading back in right now... :-)
It uses steamworks so you may have a problem on the mod front
Nah. It's just as easy as it was in New Vegas and it was a Steamworks title.
LOL well think about it OP you've played over 190 hours and your probably just doing the repeatable quests.. of cause the guards and innkeepers that you've probably seen over and over are gonna say the same thing... what u expect? like a different phrase for everything new day? the audio files in this game would never end hahaha... but i agree with the glitches i've clocked over 100 hours and seenin graphical gltiches but i'm hoping they gonna patch it soon
Ill say it now that the witcher 2 and Drakensang beat all other rpg for immersion and npc content.
I love the people in this thread that claim they have "Beat the Game"... Ummm... No you haven't you just finished one of many quest series in the game. This game is designed to be "Unbeatable" as no matter how much you do there will always be more to do. If you bought this game to just do the main quest and claim you've "Finished the game" you might as well have saved your 60 bucks and not even bothered as that is the absolute last reason to play an Elder Scrolls game. If you need me to tell you why you should be playing then you just don't get it and you probably never will. This is not your typical console game where you have 10-20 hours of content that is neatly aranged for you down a nice narrow corridor that you are pulled through by the nose.
Edit: Even after 190 hours Forest-nl isn't claiming that he "Beat the Game".
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In an Elder Scrolls game, I'd say that when you're bored, that's when you've beaten it
When I want a single-player story, I'll play a single-player game. When I play an MMO, I want a massively multiplayer world.
I'm still going strong and loving it.
I'm wondering how many factions/holds I can get to hate me before I rise as the Hero and save the world from Alduin.
So far Solitude wants me dead for "ruining a wedding", guards in Riften aren't crazy about me and keep trying to arrest me (but aren't very motivated yet).. I just killed that preacher guy in Whiterun the other day 'cause he was annoying to hear every time I'd run by him...
I guess that's what I get for being an Assassin, though.
So far the things that are really bugging me are the repetitive voice-overs... 70 voice actors and they're saying the same 10 things, in every city/town, etc. Especially the ones with the horrible "Ahhnold" accent.
The AI is terrible for enemies when you're killing them. I play cat and mouse with enemies a lot, being a stealthy type. It's one thing for other enemies in the area who are alerted to your presence to sorta "give up" looking after a few moments and go back to what they're doing... But when the person whom you're shooting full of pointy sticks is saying "Must be my imagination...", that is instant /facepalm material.
You'd *think* the individual with arrows sticking out of their abdomen or head would be fairly convinced that.. no... it's not their imagination. Those arrows are quite real, as is the blood coming out of the wounds. So, maybe they'd either continuously look for you, or would panic and try to hide, seek protection from other NPCs in the area, etc.
I guess it's for gameplay reasons, but I just think that enemies being on constant alert would be much more plausible and actually make it a bit more dangerous. I mean, they still can't see you if your stealth is high enough. I've had them looking straight at me, 2 feet away while I have my bow drawn... and they don't see me, and I'm not even in the shadows. I find that rather incredulous as well. I'm wearing black and red armor holding a bow aiming at their face.. I'm pretty sure I'd stand out.
Perhaps if you *leave* the area entirely and come back an hour later or something, they've gone back to whatever they were doing.
Other than that... I'm still really enjoying the game. Some of the quests are just brilliant. A few of the Dark Brotherhood quests have had me laughing my ass off at how wrong they are, and at how great the dialog is. Astrid is evil.
That said, I can't wait for the toolset myself. I've been trying to learn the Construction Set for Morrowind and Oblivion (basically the same, but with some differences - especially for terrains with Oblivion). I gotta say, though, it's one of the most unintuitive terrain editors I've ever worked with. It's slow as hell to move around, the camera's all wonky....
I hope it's better with the new toolset.
and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
150+ hrs and still playing it like crazy, when I have the time. My main only has 40% of the main quest done and hasn't even broke level 30 yet. Then again I play the game on master setting, and play the game on a more stringent version of Caiden's Rules.
You lost me here. Skyrim is a huge improvement over morrowind and oblivion combined.
I think you've burnt yourself out a bit. If you've spent 190 hours, you obviously love the game, but are tired of it.
How awesome is Christopher Plummer as Arngeir and Max Von Sydow as Esbern. Not to mention Colonel Tigh as General Tullius...
I'm 100 hours in and love the game, as I'm a big TES fan in general, but many times have felt like smashing my head on a brick wall.
*Begin spoilers*
My main issue with Skyrim is that it feels like 90% of the time, Bethesda completely drops the ball on wrapping up a storyline. The Companions, College of Winterhold, Main Quest, and Civil War quests were all fun...until the ending.
I realize that the questlines were supposed to be more open so that the repeatable quests made more sense...But the ending to the main quest and the civil war left me scratching my head.
Both quests end with kinda a "You helped us win, kthxbai" feeling. The dragons just fly off at the end of the MQ and you get near no recognition from anyone. In the Civil War, the winning side just makes a speech, then almost NOBODY, and this is the annoying part, almost NOBODY in the world acts like anything's changed. Only a few people in Windhelm and Solitude even acknowledge that one side has won. In fact, many, MANY people around Skyrim talk like the war is still going on.
The Companions storyline has practically no goal to its plotline, and so ends with an abrupt appointment of you as leader. The College of Winterhold is a bit better, as there is some storyline, but there was a dropped potential when nothing was done more with the Psijic Order.
*BIG SPOLERS* However, I do like that later on in Arniel's Endeavor you can figure out the cause of the disappearance of the Dwarves in the College. That is the magnitude of discovery I was hoping most quest chains to be.
The Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild are the only substantial major questlines. Maybe they focused on these as people like being sneaky bastages.
Eh, all in all, here's to hoping they did this to set up for some foreshadowed Thalmor expansion. Either that or an expansion where you get to investigate why so many guards have faulty knee-protection.
*End Spoilers*
TL;DR: Game overall is great, but most questlines are underwhelming.
-Itilos
Played: EQ1, EQ2, WoW, WAR, EVE, LotRO, AoC, RoM, FoM, CoX, PotBS, GW, SWG, VG, PS, and others.
I'm playing a Nord that focuses on 2-handed weapons, heavy armor, smithing, and enchanting, which will side with the Stormcloaks. One of my brother is playing a pure stealth character. We've both spent tons of hours in the game, and I'll play it againg but using either of these three builds I'm thinking of:
Stealth Character minoring in Illusion (Dark Elf)
Stealth/Conjuration (Bound Weapons and Armors) Character (Breton)
Sword and Shield Character minoring in Restoration Character (Imperial)
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Plus remember you didn't just bought the game. You also bought the construction kit.
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EDIT:
I'll share his sentiments with this one. I don't know whether I'm talking to a Nord, a Breton, or an Imperial. Back in Morrowind, every NPC felt different. Dunmer sounds grumpish, Bosmer sounds mischievous, Khajiit and Argonians sound exotic, Redguard sounds black (sorry for the lack of a better term), Imperial sounds American (LOL), Breton sounds frail English guys, and Altmer sounds snobbish English guys.
Right now I can't see the difference.
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I did not beat the game but the game has beaten me. I guess I did about 120 hours (i'd hit tab and go for dinner I think that probably still logs hours). Can't quibble about the value. Things just starting to feel 'samey'. Acually not played for a week but tempted to go back until SWTOR.