Hey all,

I was wondering if Skyrim was a bit like Fallout NV, in terms of playstyle. What I mean by this is the fact that you were able to do what you want, and the huge amount of different characters you could meet. I loved wandering the wastes in search of something to do. I´ve put many hours in quite a few different characters in NV.

So is Skyrim somewhat similar?

I think you can draw plenty of similarities within the core design but the game setting (fiction, lore) is quite diferent. I haven't play it that much but the UI, Item managment, NPC interaction estructure, open world nature and so on feels like a "polished version" (if you can say so) of previous Bethesda games. I think the new engine did improve over some poor aspects of Fallout 3, FON and Oblivion.

Long story short : It's fucking amazing.

@Thiemen: They're absolutely similar. I think the only real diverging point is core quest philosophy. Generally speaking, Fallout has fewer quests, but more approaches to each quest than The Elder Scrolls series. Surely you know what I mean. You can kill a guy, or you can talk your way out of it, or you can use your engineering skill to defuse the bomb, or lockpicking to break into a house. In TES, you take on a quest and they're all typically completed through puzzle solving and combat. Your approach to combat may differ wildly, and your additional skills (lockpicking) will alter the dungeon run slightly, but the end result and the means to achieve said results are always the same.

That may sound like a massive negative, but the sheer breadth of content in Skyrim feels 2-3 times larger than that in New Vegas. TES also feels a fair bit more like a lighthearted sandbox game as opposed to a game about survival.

Yeah, although Skyrim feels much bigger than F:NV.

It doesn't offer the same freedom of choice during quests that New Vegas offers, but as a game world, its far more open. Lots of named characters, and almost every one in a town is related to one quest or another.

Ok, thanks for the replies. Now I´ll be getting it for sure.