Not perfect, but the hilarious bugs became part of the charm for me. Probably one of my 10 fave games ever. I was straight up living in Skyrim for about 6 weeks there. Also helped that I was unemployed at the time.

Yes, it's probably my favorite game of all time but come on bro. Calling a Bethesda game "perfect" is one of the most inappropriate uses of an adjective I've ever seen.

Skyrim = boring

Kingdoms of Amalur is a better game. FACT.

@oscar__explosion: Kingdoms of Amalur was pretty boring too dude... though at least it had an actual combat system and some ok writing.

I really wanted to like Skyrim. I know that a lot of other people played that game and just fell in love with this huge wonderful world, but I couldn't get the same thing out of it. It might be partly to do with the fact that fantasy settings aren't generally my favourite, but then there are other fantasy games I've played and enjoyed greatly. I just felt like the combat was really bad, and that for a world-driven game none of the characters really drew me in and interactions with them were stilted and awkward. The game was also teeming with glitches, which could sometimes be funny, but even then sort of broke things when the world wasn't trying to be funny, it was trying to be immersive and serious.

I really loved skyrim too and am glad to enjoyed it so much. However, I couldnt call it the best game ive ever played. Probably in top 5 though.

Perfect? You've got a pretty low bar for perfection.

You're ON DUST if you think that Kingdoms of Amalur is anything other than a mediocre slog that gets worse the longer it goes on. I give that game a fun factor of 2! TRUE FAKTZ.

Also I can't tell if this thread is a joke or not. Skyrim is pretty great... but when it comes down to games that came out in 2011, Dark Souls has it beat.

I feel like most people who absolutely fell in love with Skyrim never actually played an Elder Scrolls game before.

This thread's fun factor - %*!#

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Meh.

Not even funny.

not even trying

I disagree wholeheartedly. I don't like any of the elder scrolls games, enjoyed fallout 3 a lot (because vats is there. Combat is terrible otherwise.)

I was mostly kidding ( I enjoyed Amalur's combat more) but I got bored faster in Skyrim then I did Playing Amalur.

To this day, I regret buying Skyrim. It's a pretty bad game, even modded, it was really boring. I gave it a chance, as I loved Oblivion, but Oblivion is SOOO much better than Skyrim.

FANS OF THE GENRE WILL TELL YOU THAT THE FUN FACTOR IS OFF THE CHARTS!

@oscar__explosion: It's always hard to tell with the internet. I got bored of Skyrim after around 50 hours. I got bored with Amalur 20 hours in and then proceeded to play another 15 hours at my own misfortune.

Fun for a while, despite the ridiculous bugs at launch, but pretty quickly got boring. The lack of real loot and the grind to make the best gear ruined it for me. Repetitive dungeons didn't help. Good for a while huge world and all but far from great.

BTW, get a new engine Beth you cheap bastards.

Are you high on drugs? When I think of a "boring" game, there are no many that come to my mind quicker than Kingdoms of Amalur.

EDIT: read your follow up post, still stand by my point. Kingdoms of Amalur is boring as fuck.

Look, I love Skyrim, but it's not perfect and it's not the best game ever. It definitely deserved Game of the Year.

This. I think I enjoy modding the game more than playing it, one thing is certain, I could never play vanilla skyrim as it is a very ugly game to me.

It was kind of fun for a couple of weeks when it was released. But I think TotalBiscuit summed up my thoughts pretty well. "Vast as the ocean, deep as a puddle". Exploring beautiful environments is nice but I like more robust and challenging RPG elements. I know, the TES-games are more in the action RPG genre than hardcore D&D. But even most ARPGs gives you more critical choices to consider than Skyrim. So yeah, it got a bit boring at times.

It's a great game no doubt, but a lot of it's flaws continue to spoil the party for me. That said, on PC the Steam Workshop and Nexus stuff as been outstanding.

Nice try, Brad. I still haven't forgiven you for strong-arming Skyrim in as GotY in 2011. Saints Row deserved that, man...

(Actually Dark Souls deserved it, but only Vinny played that)

Nope. If it were much better balanced, sure - it'd have a shot with me. It's not however. Maybe next time?

20/20

Oblivion is just so much more interesting to explore. Even though the caves and dungeons kinda suck, the cities are all awesome, the world is varied and beautiful, and... well that's it. But apparently it's enough because everytime I think about going back and finishing Skyrim's main quest I think of installing Oblivion instead.

it was okay, 10/10

I don't see how these guys that run the site can give scores and decide GOTY contenders if only one or two played a certain game. I know it's not official or anything, but still, I don't think any decision should be made unless everyone plays the game and gives their own opinion on it, and they go from there.

Once that series has decent combat, I might agree with you.

I really enjoyed skyrim, but at one point it started to feel very repetitive, especially regarding the combat. And man fuck the Falmer. I hadn't seen everything and i hadn't finished the story when I quit playing, but I kinda felt like I had seen it all. the combat wasn't really challenging and instead became kinda cheap as the game went on. And while the lore is quite interesting, your decisions and actions never amount to any real world change.

@Missacre Listen to any of the GotY podcasts and take notice of how Brad's nagging erodes the others' will to defend their picks. ME3 got in 10th place last year because of him ffs!

I didn't know Dragon's Dogma changed it's name to Skyrim!

Eh I don't listen to anything from here at all, so I don't know who Brad is, but he sounds like kind of a jerk.

@markm: My friend finished it. 400 hours. He has nothing left to do. So he's starting over. It can be completed.

It is a great game, but the writing is very flat, both Fallout games have way more personality than Skyrim. I love Bethesda's games for their sense of physical scale and the exploration they offer and I put in 200+hours on Skyrim without finishing the game. But its not perfect by a long way. If you thought this game was good the added power of this next generation should really expand the potential of open-world games.

Skyrim is PERFECT and is the BEST game ever MADE

This thread is perfect and is the best thread ever made.

You convinced me.

lol

It's certainly one of the best. I wouldn't go as far as to call it the best.

I can accept this position.

Best summary of Skyrim yet. You should play Morrowind, you sound like you would like it.

Everyone in this topic is a jerk.