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Ok so I rented Skyrim today.
Blackrayn
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And I'm really trying to figure out what is so great about this game? I put a solid 9 hours in on it today and have really been forcing myself to keep playing for atleast the last couple hours. I'm not here to hate or say it's a horrible game by any means. It's like all games, it has it's up's and down's. But, nothing about it was earth shattering to me.
Maybe I just have ToR running in the blood atm, I dunno? Maybe I'm being a tad biased cause of that. But, I really don't think so. Cause with so much hype that it has been getting, I went into it with the full mindset of a single player game. And maybe something to keep me busy for a couple days. But, it's not gonna happen, I'm gonna return it tomorrow on time lol.
I dunno. Maybe I should try a different toon, or just keep trying. But, the dark elf magic caster just isn't cutting it for me. Maybe I've just gotten to old to appreciate this type of game. Maybe it was the fact it was console, I dunno? I just can't sit here and say that there is anything overly great about it, nor will I say there is anything terribly wrong with it. I just find it I guess average, a 5 on the 10 scale, possibly a 6. Graphics are nothing superb, there was nothing overly entrhalling about the story and I was still going from point A to point B to retrieve something for a certain NPC.
I was really wanting to pay atleast a 5 day late fee for the game. But, I think I'm gonna have to try the new Assassin's Creed or the new Uncharted out to get me by I think. I know my amount of time was not a lot, but 9 hours in any game you should be loving it by then right?
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wrong forum? wrong website? i dunno heh.
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Oh wow, yes it is. Lol I thought I was in the regular genral disucssion not the ToR forum. So good call, yes my fault on that one.
To me Skyrim is about playing a Nord Warrior. I also can't believe you when you say the graphics aren't anything great because the game makes such beautiful screenshots.
This isn't a link to a screenshot but these paintings contain what Skyrim means to me.
http://thenextgreatgame.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/skyrim_environment_1920x12001.jpghttp://www.tesfan.com/upfiles/misc/wallpaper/skyrim_wallpaper_1700x1247.jpg
Pulled them out of google image searches.
You and I are entirely different types of gamers, than, because for me, there's no way in hell I'd be able to sit for nine hours straight playing a game I wasn't enjoying. The Elder Scrolls series is usually at its best when treated like the big sandbox that it is. If you went in looking for structured questing and a story that is engrossing from the very beginning, there are definitely better examples of that elsewhere. It's like the single-player equivilent of older sandbox MMOs, in which, even though it may give you a primary goal and a destination in mind before you leave town and head out into the wilderness, players who are eager to explore and create their own adventures along the way are probably more likely to enjoy it.
I've seen other people over the years ask "What's the point of the game?" after playing an Elder Scrolls game for a little while, and honestly the only reasonable answer I could give was that if they were the types of players who needed their games to spell out their goals rather than the types of gamers who enjoy creating their own goals, than the series really isn't targeted at them.
No offense but it sounds like you enjoy being told what to do, how to do it, and where to go, basically you're a themepark fan. Some of us see games such as TES and especially the Skyrim as the ultimate expression of freedom i na game, sure Ican follow the story but its not what the game is built for. Skyrim is best enjoyed if you love the adventure, the exploration and the unknown. Nothing is more enjoyable then going into unknown and not knowing what I'll find or discover. This is the heart of Skyrim and for the most part what is at heart in a good sandbox MMO.
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Well, SWToR is an entirely different type of game. If you are jazzed on that then it might be hard to get into Skyrim.
Having said that, I know that with an elderscrolls game, you either like it or don't.
I have 128 hours into skyrim and I "just" started the meat of the main quest. And I intend to do whatever I can on this character before I start on an entirely different character and play style.
But a game like skyrim is my type of game.
SWToR is my type of game as well but it's an entirely different type of game. Besides being an mmo it's more like Bioware's other story centric games.
Try another character that is not a pure mage. It seems that you have to get some nice perks with the mage before they are really badass. Also, using staves is part of it as well as summoning. I started a pure mage and I find it's harder also more fun as I have to think about things more. Even use the enviroment a bit more.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
I have played several hours of Skyrim between SWTOR builds and varios downtimes. I am enjoying it a lot. One thing, Skyrim and SWTOR are just different games. I enjoy each but in different ways. The beauty of Skyrim is like the beauty of SWTOR, you can play a different class or race or faction and the game is just that much different each time. Out of all the "Morrowind" games I have played, Skyrim has to be right up there with the best of them. With all the SW games I have played, SWTOR is so far the best of the lot. So, for me, Skyrim and SWTOR are just fun.
Let's party like it is 1863!
Please close this thread...
OP is comparing apples to oranges. Two completely different games and no debate can confuse the two.
If it's your opinion that you enjoy SWTOR as an MMO, hey that's great, but to try and compare it to Skyrim, ummm, no way.
Also if you don't think Skyrim has great graphics, either A.) you don't have a computer to run it or B.) your just "trolling"
Either way not the right format or argument will work here.
I can almost do whatever the heck I want, go wherever I want to go, be whoever I want to be. Freedom.
To list the things I've done so far in my short time playing it would be to spoil the fun for someone else. Discovery.
If you want to be led by the nose then it's best you take the game back and play something more linear. There's no shame in that.
I've played Skyrim for 100-150 hours or so and just now starting to find it getting slightly boring at times. lol
It's got a great story, great gameplay, great graphics, and the music is amazing. If it had even a small online component it might keep me busy for months... but alas.
I played skyrim for about 40 hours. I though it was a great game. But I just wanted to finish the last 10 hours. I'm happy for people who are enjoying it for 150 hours but I get bored eventually if its not an MMO because my character "ends".
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Funny thing is I am in the same boat, I never got into it and I don't know why. Maybe it being single player just bores me. Thank god I didn't pay for my copy of it. I have put in about 40 hours into it but I don't think I will finish it
Holy cow, dude!
The game went live on 11/11 and if you already have 100-150 hours into it, means you averaged about 4.8 hours a day, everyday?
No wonder why you got bored so quickly, lol... Enjoy some sunlight and sleep will ya.
I wouldn't say they are completely different...there are definitely things each game can learn from the other.
After playing Skyrim for a few days, jumping into SWTOR during the last weekend beta was quite an interesting experiencing. The world in SWTOR seems incredibly lifeless and dead after playing Skyrim. When you play one right after the other you realize how amazingly immersive Skyrim is, which is something SWTOR could have done, and still maintained its themepark elements. The NPCs just stand there, they have no life. There are very few creatures in the wildlife etc...During the second weekend I played it I took a character to Talos (I believe that's the n ame, I forget...it's a planet after Coruscant) and while the scenery was cool looking it was sooooo empty and lifeless.
Though to be fair I like the storylines in SWTOR more than Skyrim...and for me the Scifi setting is slightly more enjoyable. I Just wish they put more into the worlds to make them convincing...it would have made the stories that much more compelling.
It's very possible that it's simply not "up your alley" in terms of gameplay.
There are tons of games out there where people look at me like I have 3 eyeballs when I tell them I haven't played, didn't like, or am simply not interested in. TOR is one of them, incidentally. Seems everyone I know is gung-ho over MineCraft.. I have zero interest in it. Call of Duty? No interest.. Gears of War? Never even tried them. There's nothing wrong with them. I hear nothing but good about them (probably how you hear almost nothing but good about Skyrim). They're just not the kind of games I enjoy or am interested in playing.
Hell, even the Elder Scrolls games are hit-or-miss for me. I enjoyed Arena a lot back when I played it. Never got very far in Daggerfall before my interest waned. I love Morrowind (still my favorite overall, even with how much I love Skyrim). I tried and gave it my best effort several times, but just couldn't get drawn into Oblivion... Seems to be an on-again, off-again relationship I have with TES games lol.
If in your case with Skyrim you find you can't get into it, then that's probably all it is.
Doesn't mean you're "missing" anything, or that there's anything wrong with you, or with the game, etc... It just ain't your thang, mang.
Nothing wrong with that.
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I don't know whats all the fuzz about SKyrim, its a nice game, but the witcher 2 was much better.
Best MMO experiences : EQ(PvE), DAoC(PvP), WoW(total package) LOTRO (worldfeel) GW2 (Artstyle and animations and worlddesign) SWTOR (Story immersion) TSW (story) ESO (character advancement)
People were expecting to pick up SWTOR and be in DA2 or Skyrim time RPG and got something else. They expected far more sand box elements and got the definition of a themepark. <--that is confusing because Bioware made it very clear.
I never once compared anything. And I openly admitted my mistake by posting it in ToR general instead of the main general forum. So again I'm sorry for that faux pas. And I said I played it on console, not PC. So I already new it was on a lesser curve for the graphics, but still not great on the PS3.
Thank you for not tearing me up to the rest of you. And giving me your thoughts on how you feel. I will give it a whirl on a different toon tomorrow see if it goes better for me.
Imagine that, folks having a different taste in games.
Iam playing Skyrim at the moment aswell, but the problem is that important mods dont exist currently. And like it was for Oblivion and aswell for Fallout 3, without modifications the vanilla games were not that great....with mods, especially Fallout 3, is just amazing and on of the best in the last ten years.
Morrowind is probably still the best of the elder scrolls series. They have a very nice graphic mod and thousands of other modifications. Fallout 3 did suck me in the most, it was just that surreal and more realisim integrated into the gameplay alone without modifications.
Thats what I miss in Sykrim: the need to eat, to drink to sleep, or too look for shelter in the snowy mountain areas...and of course removing the silly instant travelling, adding more life into the world and so on...so many possibilities like for the other games.
Iam sure in a while some very nice mods will pop up which make the gameplay a lot more satisfying.
/facepalm
You can still rent games?
I think the last time I rented anything was back in 2007.
@OP
i think maybe you just dont like single player Open World RPGs? ... ive never player other Elder Scroll games, but i find Skyrim to be the best single player Open World RPG to date (including non elder scroll rpgs)..... just my opinion. I gotta return my xbox copy of skyrim and get it for PC
The Elder Scrolls is really not recommanded to play on a console, the game series main strenght besides their vanilla version are the thousands of community mods. Dont play this on a console, you would miss so much...well to early for skyrim but you will see there will pop up massive numbers of mods.
Go this place, go that place, ect.
That's why it's great. You can go a lot of places. That and it's way better than oblivion.