Skyrim = Overhyped?

[Athinira]

Coming from someone who in general never liked the Elder Scrolls series, Skyrim is the first of their games that have positively surprised me.

Overrated? I'd say yes, since some people (including here on the escapist) seems to hold it up as some form of manifestation of Christ.

However, it's still a very good game, and above all else, it's much more competently executed than all the Elder Scrolls games before it. It's the first time i don't regret a purchase of a game from that series (and i even got the earlier titles at bargain bin price compared to the full price i paid here).

 

[Corey Porter]

I LOVE this game. If anything it wasn't hyped enough. As someone who enjoyed Fallout 3 more than Oblivion, I think this is the best game I've played in a very long time... if not ever.

 

[EternalFacepalm]

Spoiler: Spoilered to save space. Bad grammar and ortography is highlighted.

Excuse me, but did you even read your comment before you hit "Post"? It looks like you hit the keys with your elbows until there was about a paragraph of whiny ***** and spit on the screen. Then you wiped the cheeto crumbs off your shirt and felt like you contributed to the internet, you whiny troll! If you don't like the game, don't keep playing it! But no one wants to hear you ***** about a game that you don't like but hundreds of other people do! And, if I may quote, "burtalishly"? Congradulations, for you have just won the award for Most Fucked-Up Incorrectly-Spelled Made-Up Word of the Century! Let's take a look at it, seeing as how I have to teach you how to spell liek your English teacher. (Highlighted because I don't know what you're trying to say.) the word you were looking for was brutally. So in short, you should probably learn how to spell before you ramble on like your opinion is going to matter to anyone, you annoying selfish twat!!!

First off, please don't adress me so ambiguously. I'm not a dude, I'm a girl. I am not mad at you for that, however. I'm merely stating it for future reference. And also, how exactly is my grammer not very good? No, I'm not a college graduate majoring in the English language, but my grammar is, as far as I know, perfect. (This makes you seem like an annoying, selfish twat.) Or at least close to perfect. I do tend to drag some sentences out a bit, but that's just the way I type. My brutallity stems from the fact that I would sell everything I own to get my hands on anything Elder Scrolls related. I could have been a lot meaner, but I used self-control. (You probably should have used more of it.) And to quote your response: "Chill out, dude, or your stay on this website won't last a lot longer..." Excuse me, but is that a threat? Am I expected to fear you and run away soiling myself and begging forgiveness? As Yahtzee said, HARDY HARDY HAR......

There you go. That's your perfect grammar and ortography, right there.

OT: It wasn't overhyped, it just wasn't your "thing". That's all I have to say about the matter. Also, you might want to spell check your post.

 

[Vivi22]

''Dont juge the game before the 20 hour mark'' or somting like that

I haven't played it so I really have no opinion on how good Skyrim is or isn't. But I wanted to comment on this type of statement, simply because I ignore anyone who ever says anything like this because it may be the dumbest thing you could possibly say in defense of a game.

I could understand the first hour of a game being a bit slow as you learn to play it, get past the tutorial sections and all of that jazz, but anyone who says you have to wait 5 hours or more for a game to get really good is an idiot. I don't care if at the 20 hour mark Tricia Helfer shows up at my door and gives me a blowjob, it is not worth it.

Well, ok, it might actually be worth it for that, but anything shy of that probably isn't.

 

[killer12480]

I've removed this comment.

 

[MadBlueWinnie]

I didn't like the Elder Scrolls series before Skyrim, but my only exposure was through Oblivion. I barely knew what Skyrim was, but after some recommendations through word of mouth I looked into it before launch and decided to buy it. LOVE it and will be trying out Morrowind down the track.
Was it Overhyped? Surprisingly for a Triple-A game, no. I saw a few well designed advertisements and mainly had to explore the concept of the game by myself in order to learn more, instead of it being shoved down my throat....Call of Duty.

 

[Aiden Raine]

massively overhyped. but it was mostly by the internet fanboys. anyone who says otherwise is most likely one of said internet fanboys.

 

[Dr Druza]

The word "hype" is kind of relative. Its a culmination of peoples expectations, which really can't be measured, can it? So each persons view of the "hype" will be different, and thus each persons view on whether or not it was "over hyped". So, there's no way anyone can be right or wrong about it. Its their opinion. You can't argue or prove someone off of their opinion. Only facts can be discussed in a such a way.

But to answer the OP's question, no. I think its a great game and it is enjoyable to play. I think it has lived up to the hype of being such.

P.S. Google Chrome has a built in spell check

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

First off, please don't adress me so ambiguously. I'm not a dude, I'm a girl. I am not mad at you for that, however. I'm merely stating it for future reference. And also, how exactly is my grammer not very good? No, I'm not a college graduate majoring in the English language, but my grammar is, as far as I know, perfect. Or at least close to perfect. I do tend to drag some sentences out a bit, but that's just the way I type. My brutallity stems from the fact that I would sell everything I own to get my hands on anything Elder Scrolls related. I could have been a lot meaner, but I used self-control. And to quote your response: "Chill out, dude, or your stay on this website won't last a lot longer..." Excuse me, but is that a threat? Am I expected to fear you and run away soiling myself and begging forgiveness? As Yahtzee said, HARDY HARDY HAR......

I'm bored so here's some stuff.

Only people who haven't been here for very long quote Yahtzee, after a while you're gonna realise you sound like an annoying fangirl.

Furthermore, you got probated for that post, so lets call it friendly advice more than a threat.

Also, you massively overreacted to what I can only assume was a trolling post to begin with, that is, one that is deliberately designed and structured to bring out barely coherent, frothing at the mouth, childish anger.

Finally, because you seem so pre-occupied with grammar and spelling, brutality*

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

Hype is the product of over-excitable fans, if you felt it was undeserved then you should maybe occasionally take a cynical view of things, and not come complaining to us that BethSoft "made" you too excited for a game.

 

[Jacob Haggarty]

Personally, it's delivered everything i was hoping for and more. I won't say it's PERFECT, i recently realised that they bragged on and on about how equiping something to each hand lends so much more creativity to how you play the game. Not so. This only seems to apply to spell casting. It in fact REDUCES from oblivion, where in which you could have THREE things equiped (sword/axe, shield AND a spell) which was very handy in a tight spot because you didnt have to pause, menu, unequip, equip... etc.

And hotkeys... i miss hotkeys. Although im not ENTIRELY sure if they aren't in skyrim and i just havn't realised.

It's also a bit easier than oblivion. Ive already made it to level 12, a feat that in oblivion would have taken at least an entire day of solid grinding. As well as this, the leveling seems very random; i have managed to get to about 34 (or something) in the lockpicking skill tree, and i can count the amount of locks ive opened in two hands... and a foot maybe. BUT, ive had heavy armour on from the word go, and THAT skill is only at 27 (or something).

Those are my only two (or three) gripes with it, but theyre dwemered (dwarfed, GET IT! i think i spelled it wrong) by the things that make it such a good game. I can now say ive found a game that is stunningly beautiful. The first time i saw the auroura borealis, i was still for about 2 minutes... before i got savaged by wolves. It was so unexpected and so good looking.

IN MY OPINION LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

 

[Keava]

Every single AAA title is overhyped. That's the reality. That's what hyping is about. That's what marketing is about. To make a product seem better than it is.

As for Skyrim itself - it suffers from plenty of technical issues but the gameplay seems solid enough to make it enjoyable after the modding community get's their toys eventually and fixes all those silly design decisions and shortcomings.

That's how Bethesda's RPGs work... they get better with time because smart, bored people, fix stuff at their homes and share it with the rest of us, lazy bastards.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

I've been enjoying it immensely. I was worried that it would be a little too generic like Oblivion (as compared to Morrowind, which, while mechanically inferior, had a much more compelling story and setting to my mind).

Thankfully, I was wrong. The hype was apparently deserved. It's a great step up from previous TES games in terms of mechanics and the setting, tone, and story are back up to the quality I was hoping for. I especially like the return of more mature explorations of imperialism and its implications. That was always one of my favorite parts of Morrowind.

Last night, I walked into the mage's college to find a dragon circling above - half of the college came out to help fight it, it died very quickly, then two of them encouraged me to drink it's soul. After the fight, they all gathered around the skeleton and discussed how they couldn't have believed the dragons were really back, but now they've seen one. Things like this have happened a few times in different places now and show what a great job they did with the NPC reactions this time around.

And then I got to the quest that takes you through Blackreach. Holy fuck.

Edit: They're right that you have to put some time into it though. The mechanics mean that you start out as something of a jack-of-all-trades, so it takes time to chisel out a character concept. Also, the idea of a slow, somewhat peaceful beginning period (sometimes following an actiony sort of cold open) is sort of par for the course in RPGs. And it's not at all a bad idea - it gives you something to compare yourself to after your meteoric rise to power.

 

[killer12480]

I've removed this comment.

 

[Klagermeister]

I'd say it took Morrowind and Oblivion, removed the crap from both, and that's how Skyrim was born.

It has a great storyline, engaging combat, beautiful scenery, and its skills are user friendly.

It deserved the hype.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

Personally, it's delivered everything i was hoping for and more. I won't say it's PERFECT, i recently realised that they bragged on and on about how equiping something to each hand lends so much more creativity to how you play the game. Not so. This only seems to apply to spell casting. It in fact REDUCES from oblivion, where in which you could have THREE things equiped (sword/axe, shield AND a spell) which was very handy in a tight spot because you didnt have to pause, menu, unequip, equip... etc.

And hotkeys... i miss hotkeys. Although im not ENTIRELY sure if they aren't in skyrim and i just havn't realised.

It's also a bit easier than oblivion. Ive already made it to level 12, a feat that in oblivion would have taken at least an entire day of solid grinding. As well as this, the leveling seems very random; i have managed to get to about 34 (or something) in the lockpicking skill tree, and i can count the amount of locks ive opened in two hands... and a foot maybe. BUT, ive had heavy armour on from the word go, and THAT skill is only at 27 (or something).

Those are my only two (or three) gripes with it, but theyre dwemered (dwarfed, GET IT! i think i spelled it wrong) by the things that make it such a good game. I can now say ive found a game that is stunningly beautiful. The first time i saw the auroura borealis, i was still for about 2 minutes... before i got savaged by wolves. It was so unexpected and so good looking.

IN MY OPINION LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

The hotkeys are very well hidden. You press F in the menu to set an item or spell as a favorite. Then you press Q to bring up favorites. While you're in the favorites menu, you can press any number while hovering over an item to set it as to that key. The only real problem I've seen is that there's no good way to use this system to equip two weapons unless they're they're stackable (you're dual-wielding the same type of weapon). With spells, you can just get whatever you want into your right hand by pressing the hotkey twice, and then pressing whatever you want in your left hand once.

 

[MetalMagpie]

I personally didn't think it was over-hyped. All the promotion I saw for it was the same cinematic trailer played ad-infinitum on gaming sites like this. No gameplay footage. No story teasers. Nothing to promote the game at all beyond saying it existed!

It felt like a game that was marketed purely to fans of the series, without any attempt to hook possible newcomers.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

To me and about 99% of the people who've gotten this game and had a decent idea of what they were getting into, no, it's not overhyped.

It passed my expectations with the combat actually being good. It's the very definition of how streamlining a game can actually make it better.

 

[Lejsen]

Underhyped if anything, i've been hurt by overhyped games in the past and have always been skeptic of exciting new games, but Skyrim has simply just blown me away.