What made Skyrim so good?

[Kael Arawn]

Bethesda make Skyrim awesome because there a super experience developer working in a field that they have dominated FOR A NEAR ETERNITY NOW


So yeah developer applying magic coding sauce makes skyrim good because they made it

 

[superpandasauras]

I thought Skyrim was the best thing ever, it was like I was in a trance, and then Dawngaurd came out and I noticed pretty much all of the flaws at once. Haven't played it since.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

Someone will hate me for this, but it showed off just how good Fallout 4 can look and how easy the modding should be for it this time around. I simply cannot get immersed in Skyrim with the NPCs that populate it and a few other factors at play. I'm still shocked that the same company made Fallout 3 (might be 2 different teams). Regardless of appropriateness, there's nobody in Skyrim that's as memorable to me as Moira is. I have a feeling that the NPCs and the lore is actually quite awesome if that's the kind of thing you're into. Combat was boring to me, especially bringing with me the 100+ hours of Demon's Souls. I think Bethesda should look at Zeno Clash, you can have melee/brawling in the first person and have some weight and..."oomph" to it.

 

[lordmardok]

Skyrim is good because of its scope. The epic scale of the world and that you can literally go anywhere. It's the kind of thing that gamers will forgive a lot of mistakes for. That said, I'm of the opinion that it's only really playable on the PC thanks to mods. The reason it's playable on Consoles despite lacking the mod capability is because, let's be honest, it's a good deal better than most of the tripe you end up with on the console.

 

[happyninja42]

I've had the game a little over a month, completely unpatched (because I have no internet at home). Completely unpatched, the game can be very painful to play through. The game is incomplete, and I know that of course its not completely finished because they go gold and then release a day-one patch - I mean this game needed at least half a year to be finished. In just about every single aspect of the game there is incompletion, brokenness, or both. I have to doubt how much of beta playtesting feedback they actually applied to the game by the time it went gold, because it looks like none at all to me. Besides all of that, the game is still dated and feels like in a lot of things it tries to replicate the recent Fallout games while managing to somehow take a few steps backwards in functionality. A lot of smaller features that were touted by some fellow gamers seem very gimmicky to me, like marriage for example, which is basically "Hey, you're decent in combat, wanna stay on call at my house? Oh, free apple pie, gold, and you're a vendor who will buy my stuff at 3AM? Sweet."

I imagine that post-patch, the game is about an 8.5/10 - quite enjoyable, worth playing, and is a good value. Unpatched, as it is now, probably a 6.5/10

See, for me, that's another thing that's cool about Skyrim. The fact that even though the game isn't perfect, the developers provided the fanbase with a toolset to try and fix issues. And to include other content that they just didn't have the time/resources/imagination to think of. Sure it's not perfect, and neither are some of the "fixes" that players make with the Creation Kit, but it's an ever changing experience, building and correcting the issues from before, to make something even better. Most games won't give you permission to do that, much less hand you the toolkit to attempt it.

 

[Wolfhowl the shadow lurker]

Best game i ever played when i got it and i still love it, i love how you can do whatever you like, i like how you can mix whatever you like and still play, i like how you can walk around aimlessly in its world and still find things to do, i like how well the music fits, i like how you never need to do quests to enjoy it and i like how you will never run out of quests, i like how its DLC adds to it and just makes it better, i like how cool going underground looks.

To me thats what made skyrim the best game i have ever played,

also i think morrowind is very overrated COME AND GET ME