Convince me to buy Skyrim instead of something else.

[Bosque]

Psychonauts, 10-15 hours
Just Cause 2, 20-40 hours
Skyrim, all of your free time from now till summer, maybe longer.
Even at $60 plus tax's, you are spending pennies per hour on your entertainment for the rest of winter.
Don't buy Skyrim. The investment of Earth time is too high.

 

[Shavon513]

Buy Skyrim, eventually, even if you opt for other games right now. Skyrim is pretty awesome, it has hundreds of hours waiting for you in sheer fun, adventruring, and dragon slaying. There is so much freedom and variability in the game, it's ridiculous.

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

Don't bother. Come to the Dark (Souls) side.

 

[AyreonMaiden]

No.

I bought Skyrim day 1 after getting caught in the hype. Here I am, 17 hours later and with no desire to play at all.

Play it when you want to and no sooner. If you need convincing, it means you don't want to play it right now, so don't waste your money.

 

[DRes82]

I hate threads that say "convince me to do something"

How about i go play Skyrim and you make up your own damn mind!

Sorry about misquoting you earlier, here's my actual response:

Did you just spend time posting on my thread to tell me how much of a waste of time my thread was?

I'm going to spend the 20 seconds in between my 150th hour of Skyrim and going to eat dinner to tell you that

1. your thread is a waste of time.
2. People who tell you skyrim sucks are trolling.
3. make up your own damned mind.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

Personally, having played both, I would buy Dark Souls rather than Skyrim but they're both good. I'd go in to it further but I don't have time right now >.<.

 

[Sangreal Gothcraft]

make your own decision! I will just take my arrows to the knees else where! But yeah get it...it's pretty fun.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Spoiler: All the convincing you need

I am currently on hour 100 of my first and only character--I started him the night the game came out. I haven't seen half the non-quest related content. I still have two questlines left and a ton of random quest and objectives left. If you play on PC version, then you can turn on No-clipping and fly over all of Tamerial, so a massive amount of DLC is planned.

The questlines themselves leave something to be desired though, so take your time on them.

 

[brainslurper]

Just cause 2 gets boring after 15 hours. According to my probably wrong calculations, in order for Just Cause 2 (or any other 15 hour game) to be worth it when compared to skyrim, you would have to buy it for $1.50

 

[brainslurper]

No.

I bought Skyrim day 1 after getting caught in the hype. Here I am, 17 hours later and with no desire to play at all.

Play it when you want to and no sooner. If you need convincing, it means you don't want to play it right now, so don't waste your money.

In other news, you have no soul.

 

[Danceofmasks]

Skyrim is a good game, but I wouldn't say it's a must buy.

There's a fair bit about it that annoys me, the less-than-amazing combat being right up there.
Sure, being able to use your hands for this or that is a step up from oblivion, but this is still a game where you can do everything from "hotkey potions and mash attack to win" to "stealth archery breaks game."

Followers. They are stupid, they are squishy, and the only way they even work at all is by making them invincible (except to the player, or poison, or collateral damage from AoEs).

Bugs. Lots and lots of bugs. At least on PC you can deal with a fair number of them by typing in some codes.

The UI. @#$%! the UI. Especially dialogue and inventory menu, where you click on the thing you want to say or otherwise select, and it fails to register 'cos some other item is highlighted. Sure, it's fixable by ... using a controller ... or a mod ... but damnit Bethesda, this could not have been unnoticed in playtest. Patch plz.

Also, defaulting hotkeys to certain hands is annoying. Why can't I put my destruction spell in my right hand when I press 3?! Is it too much to ask for my right hand to be my attacking hand (sword or fireball), and my left hand for defense (healing or shield)?
I have to press hotkeys like a madman in order to switch to the configuration I want in realtime ... which then exposes another bug. The right hand goes missing (it's just invisible, you can cast your spell just fine) if you switch too quickly out of weapon into dual wielding spell.

Unscripted dragon AI is nice in theory, but then you get some really silly scenarios.
Ancient Dragon turns up in town during the day, and it's going to breathe all over the townsfolk repeatedly. A few will probably die.
Same ancient dragon turns out in the wilderness, and because there are available open spaces, it will land for no particular reason ... and will die in seconds from getting hacked with a sword.

But, despite all this crap, I keep playing it ... how many games do you know where you can say, "oh yeah. The gameplay is shit, the UI is shit, the AI is shit, it's full of annoying shitty bugs, but it's still a good game?!"
Skyrim, that's how many.

 

[Beach_Sided]

No.

I bought Skyrim day 1 after getting caught in the hype. Here I am, 17 hours later and with no desire to play at all.

Play it when you want to and no sooner. If you need convincing, it means you don't want to play it right now, so don't waste your money.

Interesting. Why?

What has happened, or not happened, that has turned you off the game?

 

[The Austin]

Don't buy Skyrim. Buy a good game instead.

.... A game like Skyrim?

 

[SoulSalmon]

Don't get Psychonauts if the cash isn't expendable...
It was great when first released, but it hasn't aged as well as a lot of other 'great' games.

On the other hand I played my first character for maybe... 20 hours tops? and didn't touch the game again for a few months.
Gotten back into it recently with a new character but I can already feel the "Time to go into a dungeon with the same 'everything' again... yay..." creeping up.
Also the fact that you're told to save constantly isn't because you might die, but because the game could blow up at any second and leave you trapped in some nameless void, or leave an NPC or item trapped, or maybe you'll murder an NPC because the physics fucked up and you kick a cart into them at top speed.

The UI also has various amounts of fail depending on who you ask, the most infuriating part of said UI on my mage was the fact that it was literally impossible to change the spell on my right hand without equipping a one handed weapon to my right hand first, making switching spells in combat with hotkeys impossible, and still tedious with the menu.

Also if you're thinking "Haha I love glitches" like I first was, don't. The glitches in Skyrim aren't the kind that have no adverse effects and make you laugh, they just break the game so that your current/next quest is impossible and force you to find an earlier save file or skip that quest chain.

It's quite same-y to boot, once you've cleared the two/three different types of dungeon you've pretty much cleared all of them. And although the voice acting is a lot better then Oblivions, it still doesn't take long to stop hearing new voices/phrases aside from the quest related phrases.

There's no doubting that it's infinitely better then Oblivion, so if you liked Oblivion you'll like Skyrim without much doubt, but it's not worth any of it's hype, it's just another good-ish game that you may or may not enjoy.

One last note, if you're not buying it on PC, don't bother, you need the console and mods to sort out a lot of the bugs the game throws at you.
That and the game is apparently BUGGIER on consoles, but I haven't seen the console versions first-hand so I can't say with certainty.

2. People who tell you skyrim sucks are trolling.

Or they could be the people who don't like Skyrim? a shocking thought I know, but how many people would say "Oh it's the buggiest game ever made but that's ok" if it wasn't Bethesda or Elder Scrolls? maybe about 1% of the people who are saying it now.

 

[Triforceformer]

If you are looking for an exciting, well-presented and engaging tale of heroism and sacrifice that properly addresses the problem of racism in a world filled so many unique creatures, not sure if you'll get much out of Skyrim. If you like crawling through dungeons that all look the same, fighting zombies (and mages and bandits) that all look the same, killing INCREDIBLE HOLY FUCK WE'RE WE ARE SO GONNA DIE GUYS dragons that look the same in 2 minutes flat without much trouble, and taking sidequests from the person whom you are convinced is a close relative of the last 5 people you took sidequests from based on their voice, look no further than Skyrim. You can also get MARRIED, which basically amounts to your wife or husband (Despite all assumed racism, no one cares if a female Nord is wed to a female Dark Elf whatsoever)living in your house, calling you "Love", giving you money now and again, and being willing to tank the damage from the Dragon Priest while I spam firebolts and gorge on health potions.

 

[nokori3byo]

I wish I'd bough Skyrim *instead of* something else. Actually, I bought Skyrim *and something else*, and in the intervening 2 months, that "something else" hasn't left its shrink wrap. After 185 hours, I'm still discovering cool shit I had no idea existed in that world. It's not perfect by any means, but it is massive and deep.

 

[DarkRyter]

Skyrim has the highest DPH in any game ever.

 

[Danceofmasks]

That and the game is apparently BUGGIER on consoles, but I haven't seen the console versions first-hand so I can't say with certainty.

Well, they're patching the PC version more frequently, so that helps with bugs.

But strangely, some of the bugs behave differently on the platforms.

For example, the "item value & enchanting" bug:
For some weird reason, enchanted item value is calculated in reverse ... the higher your skill, the lower the value.

On PC: When you go to vendor the items, their value seems to be very low. Save/Quit/Reload and the prices seem to go unnaturally high.
On PS3: If you load a game, the prices seem to be low. Using an enchanting table and selecting a soul gem, then leaving the table, seems to increase the prices at the vendors.

The whole sordid thing is screwy, and I'm not sure which of the 3 different prices is the "correct" price for an item, especially when the initial price is incorrect to begin with.

 

[Mr. Omega]

I won't. Get something else. The game is buggy as all hell and there will be DLC coming for it. Wait for the GotY edition, or if you're gaming on a PS3, just never it. Period. It's a good game. But Pshychonauts deserves to be played a million times more.