5 Reason why Skyrim will be the Game of The Year

[Mr Companion]

Duel Wielding? Kay whatever.
Also as much as I think it looks great the combat still looks a bit mashey and your blows have no impact upon the enemies movements so hacking away at a bandits nack has no effect on his/her ability to attack an visa versa.

 

[jboking]

Okay! I need to rephrase that! They dont react to it. None. They just patrol, do their scripted events or shoot at you. They dont change their behavior depending if you have pistol or sentry in your arms. They just stupidly charge into their deaths.

Thats your highlight of the great AI? Checking doors that are left open? Good if they even barely made it thru the door way. The AI was very mediocre in its performance.

The game is called Deus Ex:HR. The hardest difficulty is called "Give me Deus Ex". The games selling point was that you could make meaningful choises during the gameplay. There was none. Just sneaking game where you could go rampage.

You may not like the word, but thats the feeling I got from this game. On top that it was overhyped it was very VERY pretentious.

So. Because this game didn't live up to its last installment, it's pretentious. Even if that last installment was over ten years ago. I guess my question here is, would you call Duke Nukem Forever pretentious or just a let down? Also, almost every bit of hype I saw hyped the action, skill trees, and gameplay choices. rarely, if ever, did I see one that suggested there was going to be a ton of choice in the story or even that your gameplay effected the story. What occurred here is that you expected the same game you got ten years ago, even though that isn't exactly what was promised. That is your own high expectations leading to a massive let down. That doesn't mean it is pretentious. It is fine that you want to equate it to that I suppose, you're free to think what you want, but that is not what it was.

Also, no, checking doors is not what I call great AI, it's what I call responsive, which is what you were claiming the AI wasn't. Side note: If you truly felt the AI was unresponsive, then I guarantee you didn't play on "Give me Deus Ex." Even moreso if your enemies just came running at you while you were holding a turret.

I'm fine with this conversation being over. I'll let you misuse words, or rather just ignore you misusing them from now on.

 

[Cridhe]

I'm going to rent it, but only because of GODDAMN DRAGONS!

You know there are dragons in at least 1-metric fuck-ton of other games right?

Yeah, but besides Spyro (and I've played every main Spyro game), none others have THIS MANY GODDAMN DRAGONS!
IMO, Skyrim should've been named Dragon Age.

I'm pretty sure I fought about 10 bajillion dragonlings in DA2 in the battle against the High Dragon

 

[ultimateownage]

I didn't like oblivion. So ten times better is still 'I don't give a fuck' levels.

I take it you're a BF3 fan then?

In all seriousness though MW3 is looking way more entertaining then BF3.

What the hell did any of that have to do with BF3? Way to try to start a flame war. High five!

Because only Battlefags will take every opportunity to flame CoD.

And only CoD fans invent a name like fucking 'Battlefags'. You're not ten fucking years old, dude.

Well the who the fuck invented "CoD kiddies"?

People who played CoD and couldn't stand all the kids. Like all those kids who go around shouting racial slurs and homophobic insults.

 

[Popido]

So. Because this game didn't live up to its last installment, it's pretentious.

No. Read what I said to you. The Icarus trailer, document films, eBooks etc. The story was shit and was just acting deep. And it wasnt humor!

What occurred here is that you expected the same game you got ten years ago, even though that isn't exactly what was promised. That is your own high expectations leading to a massive let down.

No! I knew it would be a let down. I told you it never impressed me!

Also, no, checking doors is not what I call great AI, it's what I call responsive, which is what you were claiming the AI wasn't. Side note: If you truly felt the AI was unresponsive, then I guarantee you didn't play on "Give me Deus Ex."

R-res..RESPONSIVE!?!? No! I claimed that the interaction was shitty! Why would I give you an example and then "claim" it nonexisting!? What the hell, man? "Great? Oh no, no. Its Responsive!" Whats with the saleman speech? I hardly doubt you can make me like this game.

I'm fine with this conversation being over. I'll let you misuse words, or rather just ignore you misusing them from now on.

Gah! Just go! Marry it if you love it so much! Enough with twisting my words! Live long happy life and have pretentious kids together.

 

[omicron1]

all we need is 1 reason. 1 reason why it won't be GOTY? That reason came today. Gears of War 3.

Last of a ragged house long bereft of lordship.

No, seriously. Generally speaking, the Game of the Year is not just going to be GOOD, but also DIFFERENT. GoW3 may be the best game in the world for all I know (although such interesting games as Portal 2, Uncharted 3, and Deus Ex might make that claim difficult to hold, and Skyrim promises to be, at least on first playthrough and before the amazement of "OMG Grafix" has worn off, at least as good), but it's yet another linear shooter full of gruff macho marine-types, in a genre and a year already stuffed full of similar games. Some best-on-system or best-in-genre awards, it will certainly garner, but game of the year?

Compare it to Skyrim. If Skyrim manages to match the hype at launch (I do not speak of five years down the road!), it will likely be in a class all of its own, with its sole nearby competitor The Witcher 2. And even then...
200-hour open-world RPGs are games that only come along once every couple of years, and that happens to be just the right time-scale. Skyrim is releasing just as people are becoming seriously bored with the competition, and are ready to once again LIVE in a virtual world. Not just go on sidequests, not just follow a linear story, not just slay monsters or loot or gain levels... but to escape to a place outside our reality. Skyrim handily fills that gap in a way nothing really has since Fallout: New Vegas, and for a setting unpopulated by this genre for just about six years. It is water in the desert, a diamond in a dirtpile. Short of truly sucking, there is no way on Earth that Skyrim is going to lose GOTY status to Gears of War or anything like it. That's just the way things are.

 

[jboking]

So. Because this game didn't live up to its last installment, it's pretentious.

No. Read what I said to you. The Icarus trailer, document films, eBooks etc. The story was shit and was just acting deep. And it wasnt humor!

Honeslty didn't feel any of that overhyped it too much or made me think I was actually going to have a major effect on the story, which is part of what your problem with the game was.

What occurred here is that you expected the same game you got ten years ago, even though that isn't exactly what was promised. That is your own high expectations leading to a massive let down.

No! I knew it would be a let down. I told you it never impressed me![/quote]
Oh no, you totally said it didn't impress you but that you were feeling hyped going in. Really. It was black and white in your last post. I can't believe you don't read the things you write.

how dare you

Also, no, checking doors is not what I call great AI, it's what I call responsive, which is what you were claiming the AI wasn't. Side note: If you truly felt the AI was unresponsive, then I guarantee you didn't play on "Give me Deus Ex."

R-res..RESPONSIVE!?!? No! I claimed that the interaction was shitty! Why would I give you an example and then "claim" it nonexisting!? What the hell, man? "Great? Oh no, no. Its Responsive!" Whats with the saleman speech? I hardly doubt you can make me like this game.[/quote]
Part of the problem in your plast post was that the AI was "shit" and that they didn't respond to the character well. That's where the whole "I HELDZ UP DIS FRIDGE, DEY DID NOTIN'!" thing came from. I was just saying they are responsive and do act accordingly.

P.s. my goal wasn't to make you like this game. I don't care if you like it or not, I was just saying that the AI does respond appropriately. Also, I didn't say you claimed it was nonexistant, just that it wasn't good and didn't respond to the player well.

I'm fine with this conversation being over. I'll let you misuse words, or rather just ignore you misusing them from now on.

Gah! Just go! Marry it if you love it so much! Enough with twisting my words! Live long happy life and have pretentious kids together.

Go marry what, exactly? Deus Ex:HR? Nah, I don't really like it enough. For example, I don't think it'll beat skyrim for GOTY. Also, I didn't twist your words, I perfer to corkscrew them. Oh, and I will live a long and happy life, but my kids won't be pretentious, they'll be Epic.

Side note: Calm the fuck down, son.

 

[Popido]

Why is this site so full of trolls...

 

[Continuity]

As for in what way Deus ex HR is pretentious, and bear in mind

This is not an insult, but that misspelling made me just imagine two bears high-fiving in your head. It was glorious.

Um, I've been known to be wrong but I don't actually think that is a misspelling:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bear+in+mind

 

[jboking]

As for in what way Deus ex HR is pretentious, and bear in mind

This is not an insult, but that misspelling made me just imagine two bears high-fiving in your head. It was glorious.

Um, I've been known to be wrong but I don't actually think that is a misspelling:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bear+in+mind

even better

Now I get to think this every time anyone says this idiom.

 

[Stale_Milk]

"Go there. Kill those. Fetch that."
CHARACTERS can make menial tasks more interesting if you can make the task any more interesting on its own. And Bethesda just doesn't do characters very well at all.

You've obviously never played Daggerfall or Morrowind. Oblivion had some simple and boring quests here and there, but I can name quite a few of them that had great characters and a decent plot

Can't wait for the AI to futz around wandering into walls and glitch-break-dancing up stairs again.

Oblivion may have had some bad bugs, but an AI system of that nature is kind of difficult to get a complete hold onto. Not every game's AI is perfect

 

[Atmos Duality]

You've obviously never played Daggerfall or Morrowind. Oblivion had some simple and boring quests here and there, but I can name quite a few of them that had great characters and a decent plot

I own Morrowind. It's lightyears ahead of Oblivion in terms of character.

Cassius Curio. Pimp Daddy of House Hlaalu.

 

[justnotcricket]

Oh for goodness sake!

I am so sick of Skyrim!!!

I actually have nothing against it as a game, and yeah, I'm sure it'll be great, but for goodness sake - just let it rest for a bit! I'm not sure there's anything left in the speculative praise bucket for Skyrim - it's all already been plastered over the internet by hyperactive fans.
/rant

Sorry. To all Skyrim fans, I understand that you can't wait for Skyrim - there are a fair few games I'm looking forward to myself. Skyrim may be one of them. But I'm so sick of all the hype that it's starting to have a negative effect on my impression of the game...

I need to spend less time on the internet. =P

 

[Izaac Newell]

skyrim will win game of the year. I think most people don't realize that the entire huge environment was made by hand, taking 5 years. every single individual phrase for every thousand (probably more, i don't know) characters in the game hand written in. hell, bethesda created an entire language from scratch, alphabet an all, for the game. it's even possible to translate what dragons say into english. hundreds of hours of gameplay. combat and graphics upgraded incredibly from oblivion, most realistic character creation ever, in depth skill trees. both morrowind and oblivion won game of the year. both were revolutionary. we already know skyrim is revolutionary, chances are it will also win game of the year.

although, other contenders would probably include arkham city, not MW3 and not BF3