I did not enjoy Skyrim AT ALL.

Mods are what will change your experience and make it more enjoyable!
What are you playing on? PC, PS3 or Xbox 360. If your on console then your out of Luck :(

I personally love the game as I have all of them since Daggerfall, (still haven't gotten to play Arena yet) but they are my kind of game.
If your on the PC version, go to steam and look for combat Mods or any that will interest you to fix the Problems that are out there. Also check out skyrimnexus.
I have the PS3 version and PC and find the PC far more enjoyable as I can mod and cheat as required, the PS3 is for my vanilla game play experience.

I hope you get a chance to look at the mods to see if it can change your outlook on the game as I think it has a great story.

Cheers!

I enjoyed the game enough, but it was shallow, no personality characters, to many fedex quests and writing is the usual token Bethesda quality. But in the end especially with mods the game is a good deal of fun just to screw around in.

So you play 3 hours of a 200+ hour game and you conclude that you didn't have any fun? No (Sh)*t, you haven't even learned the ropes yet. You don't "have" to make any decisions. You don't have to fight anything or anyone that you don't want to. You can do what you want, when you want. Skyrim can be played like dragon age. Just pick a guest and do it. If you are worried about the stories of the side quests or need some focus just do the main quests. Then do it again and again. If you you have too much anxiety about the size and scope of the game that's a problem you have, it doesn't mean skyrim is a bad game. Bethesda didn't "ruin" anything. You have no right to be mad because apparently you have never played a TES game before because your complaints are the same things that have been said since arena came out. If you were a life long fan then maybe you could be mad. If your inadequate don't take it out on the game. Why would you even post this? There is no value in your post at all. All I got from this is that you need a linear game and no freedom because you have anxiety that is apparently unmedicated and you can't handle being able to do what you want when you want. How are you ever going to handle life if you can't handle alittle freedom in a game? Mommy and daddy aren't going to be there to guide you forever. This was a rant about how I'm tired of good games getting put down because people are too stupid to comprehend them.

I prefer Morrowind. but I had quite a lot of fun with Skyrim.Allicrombie

Comparing Dragon Age Origins (a party based, story driven old school RPG) to Skyrim (a first person sandbox game) is by far the unfairest comparison you could ever make, they are the oposite side of the RPG espectrum, and doing it in 3 hours it is even worse. I guess there are games for everybody, I happen to enjoy both game enourmusly but for very different reason; one tells me a great story and the other allows me to amke a story of my own....Id suggest giving Skyrim another shot, try some mods for the things you do not like, if not I guess you might be out of luck since while the Beth games get better with each release Bioware (since beign bought by EA) get worse and worse...

For ther ecord I believe Dragon Age Origins to be the BEST RPG of all time...

Comparing Dragon Age Origins (a party based, story driven old school RPG) to Skyrim (a first person sandbox game) is by far the unfairest comparison you could ever make, they are the oposite side of the RPG espectrum, and doing it in 3 hours it is even worse. I guess there are games for everybody, I happen to enjoy both game enourmusly but for very different reason; one tells me a great story and the other allows me to amke a story of my own....Id suggest giving Skyrim another shot, try some mods for the things you do not like, if not I guess you might be out of luck since while the Beth games get better with each release Bioware (since beign bought by EA) get worse and worse...

For ther ecord I believe Dragon Age Origins to be the BEST RPG of all time...

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So there you go man, try some mods for the things you dont like, if you dont like the fighting was is i you dont like, you rather play a sneakiy bastard, try some stealth mods, you rather have a extra crispy spider, try midas magic, or if you dont like the arcade like nature of fighting istead of simulated dice rolls...then you are out of luck...try Bioshock instead, it might get you to become a believer in the FPS RPG

How are you ever going to handle life if you can't handle alittle freedom in a game? Mommy and daddy aren't going to be there to guide you forever. This was a rant about how I'm tired of good games getting put down because people are too stupid to comprehend them.

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I enjoyed Skyrim but I also recognize some of the flaws you mentioned. Combat doesn't really feel very satisfying, especially since i playd Skyrim at the same time as playing Dark Souls. The combat in Dark Souls is extremely statisfying. Another thing I noticed is that when you level up a lot in Skyrim, you still never really feel like you're getting all that more powerful because of how the enemies tend to level up somewhat along with you. This isn't true for Dark Souls. When you level up a lot you feel a whole lot more powerful. Even though I like Dark Souls better I still think Skyrim is a great game.

I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only person in the entire world that didn't like Skyrim. The only thing that will make me boot that game up again is when the Middle Earth Role Playing mod releases for it.

Skyrim along with all other TES games is non-linear in the truest sense. Once you get out of the shackles and escape, where you go is up to you. Its no one elses fault but your own that you dont know how to do what you want in a game and you rely on quest markers and linear story arcs. Skyrim is a technical juggernaut of a game, even if the combat feels like your swinging at nothing. I have multiple different characters on my 360 all leveled out to around 30-50 and not one of them is the same, and you want to know why that is I did what I wanted. You can get on the carriage and head to any hold you want to, you can do the theives guild first, or the mages guild, or if you just want to craft you can find ore and pelts and max out you blacksmithing or not, its up to you. If you hate Skyrim and don't have fun playing it then don't, but there is plenty of substance that you are missing.

What's with all these PC-losers suggesting mods? Vanilla Skyrim (and every other TES game) is great. Why ruin it with your stupid nude patches.NiKva

Because of mods like this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=19 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3863 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3829 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=607 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=13641 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=14037 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9694

You realize you're basically asking why people want to improve the game, right?

[QUOTE="NiKva"]What's with all these PC-losers suggesting mods? Vanilla Skyrim (and every other TES game) is great. Why ruin it with your stupid nude patches.Yundex

Because of mods like this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=19 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3863 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3829 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=607 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=13641 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=14037 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9694

You realize you're basically asking why people want to improve the game, right?

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[QUOTE="NiKva"]What's with all these PC-losers suggesting mods? Vanilla Skyrim (and every other TES game) is great. Why ruin it with your stupid nude patches.NiKva

Because of mods like this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=19 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3863 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3829 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=607 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=13641 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=14037 and this: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9694

You realize you're basically asking why people want to improve the game, right?

I didn't like Skyrim much either.

Not sure what I was expecting considering I only played Oblivion for the mods, I always found the story to be lackluster...Same with most Bethesda games, to be honest.

Then again I enjoyed the hell out of ME3, till the ending.

I got bored after searching like a hundred dungeons with the same insides and pretty much the same goals.

[QUOTE="Allicrombie"]I prefer Morrowind. but I had quite a lot of fun with Skyrim.fishdingo5

Morrowind is a PC port as well, if you do recall.

The porting has nothing to do with it, it's the nerfed main quests that are the problem. Bethesda dropped the depth and scope for a more cinematic feel complimented by an insane number of sidequests to make up for the small front-end. This has nothing to do with the media it's played in so much as the attitudes of the people directing the games - they want RPG n00bs to get into it more...They already made their mark with Morrowind, they didn't have to dumb it down, especially since breaking the game is half the fun.

That's my rant :P

Anyway, the reason to get back into Skyrim is to try another character build. I had a great run with my first combat build because I put focus not only into fighting, but actually making stuff. At least Skyrim greatly expands on the things you can do outside of questing as far as personal tasking goes, and that at least is one of the many saving graces of the game.

I couldnt immerse in it. Was too sterile and bland. Oblivion was good and morrowind had atmosphere.

Enjoying it atm, only have a couple of mods running.

same as me friend. let me say it this way: I played fallout 3 before the release of skyrim the game had karma system and the VATS system was awesome I was hopping Skyrim changes over oblivion would include these stuff. and with the Dragon Age series where you make stunning choices the publishers of TES would realize they should make the impact of choices very huge. but when the time came and I bought the game I just realized that you cant even refuse to accept the givings of others and this is the smallest choice you couldn't make. not to mention that your character had no personality in dialogs your answers were simple YES or NO. this is the reason I accuse reviewers of not realizing what this game COULD offer and what it HAS offered. in skyrim you can do different things like magic smiting sword-fighting archery horse riding but it is not important unless they all have depth and they didn't

Skyrim is the latest addition to the Elder Scrolls saga, and as in each game, has it's own unique style of art and gameplay. As with each game, has it's admirers and detractors. Still, I think Bethesda did a pretty good job, all-in-all.

Elder Scrolls is doing quite well being Elder Scrolls, and it's millions of fans--with few exceptions--wouldn't want it to be anything else. It's not Final Fantasy, it's not Demon/Dark Souls, It's not The Witcher, and I, personally, am glad for that. I don't want an endless stream of over-the-top enemies and boss battles, flung at me incessantly, in Tamriel. I don't want some dark dystopian future, masquerading as fantasy, intruding on a fictional universe I have come to love. I don't want cuddly plush-toy monsters and uber-bunnies ruining my day in the Colovian Highlands. I Really don't need fantasy females with bunnie ears and fluffy tails, dressed in Japanese school girl attire, roaming the marshes and fens of Black Marsh, to titillate my suppressed manhood. I don't desire a "modern fantasy" remake, thank you very much, with it's endless recapitulations of Lord of the Rings, Conan the Barbarian, or whatever older and better fantasy fiction, delighted it's authors as children. The Elder Scrolls are quite a piece of work, imperfect in very many ways, as is all art, But better this, than allow a disaffected minority to change them in any way.

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What's with all these PC-losers suggesting mods? Vanilla Skyrim (and every other TES game) is great. Why ruin it with your stupid nude patches.NiKva

I'm not real experienced with RPG games so I liked Skyrim myself.... when I could play it. But do you have any recommendations that you would consider BETTER? StayMetal4Ever