[Requiem]

Thoughts?

[NiGHTS Noob]

I'm not sure whether or not Morrowind or Skyrim is top in my heart for Elder Scrolls games. I just love dual casting so damn much, but the game really feels more like it's trying to be mainstream or simple. While I'm all for easy understanding there's just so much you can do in Morrowind and so much freedom to do whatever you want. Skyrim still gives you a lot of free reign, but just not to the same degree as the 4 before it, or at least it feels that way.

I feel it's a great Bethesda game though. Like all Bethesda games it somehow overcomes it's many, many flaws and glitches to be an engaging experience that you'll pour hours into having fun.

[Kvitne]

I'm going to be completely honest here, this is the first Elder Scrolls game that has truly captured my attention for more than 5 hours, and honestly the first non-MMO to ever take up an entire day without once feeling somewhat tiring to me. The world is just so perfectly massive and I love the leveling system so goddamn much and not having to pick a class was so perfect. I really can't get over how above and beyond this game stood above all others for me last year. Not only did I play it more than any other game, but it quickly shot to being my most played game on my 360 ever.

The immersion, the combat, the graphics, the fact that I could look at an NPC without laughing at their face. It's really hard to find anything all that wrong about the game. Sure there are bugs, but with the sheer immensity of what Bethesda's crafted here, I think that's unavoidable by any company's standards.

[Shock]

After having played this myself for 250+ hours, I'll give my brief opinion on things. (Hope you don't mind me reviving this topic.)

It's really great, and a wonderful addition to the Elder Scrolls series, in my opinion. But it really feels like it got dumbed down in a bunch of different areas, and the world feels..smaller. I know it still has about the same amount of quests as Oblivion, but in Oblivion it seems like I ran across more interesting and unique quests more often. It's difficult to explain. It may just be because Oblivion was my 1st ES game (I went back and played MW after, though.) so it feels like the best.

The game has more things that you can run into whilst adventuring than Oblivion did. In Oblivion, there was a whole lot of nothing you had to walk through (Or fast travel through.) before you came across something. In Skyrim, it seems I can always find something to do, even if it doesn't interest me that much.

I know my post isn't very organized, but what the hell. I don't usually put numbers on games because I feel that the quality of them is relative, but I'll make an exception. I'd give it a 8.23/10. The .23 is because they gave PC gamers such as myself a High-Res texture pack shortly after release