Skyrim is worse than Oblivion in every way

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Let me correct myself: not procedurally generated but copied and pasted by hand. That makes it much better, right?

At least DA2's interface worked.

OMG skyway is this true? You own an Xbox360. You're playing Skyrim. Possibly even ON YOUR XBOX360! You probably even BOUGHT it too dear god this isn't happening... My world is shattered. I had the greatest respect and admiration for your extensive knowledge of computer games and insights into the world of IT but now I feel nothing but shame when I look at my "卐 Wir müssen die Konsoletarden ausrotten 卐" tattoo.

And lol @ fucking newfag shills. ( Skyrim > Oblivion ) ≠ ( Skyrim = good game).

Skyway's right: Oblivion had zodiac signs and not Skyrim. So Oblivion's obviously superior. Don't forget that Libra is now coming into the Scorpio's house in Skyway's sky: therefore he's always right.

And there's also the ultimate truth as told in the ancient prophecies:
Skyway's Arma2 Gameplay>Yours
So
Oblivion>Skyrim

BRO SKYWAY ISNT SMART ENOUGH TO PLAY PC GAMES SO HE POSTS ABOUT KOTOR AND OBLIVION AND SHIT

BRO I MAY BE A CONSOLETARD BUT I AM SMART ENOUGH NOT TO WORY ABOUT THIS GAME I JUST LAUGH AT PCTARDS GOING ALL HOMO ABOUT IT

All this means is you need to stop casting for a moment every few seconds while running around aforementioned table.

Fighting enemies on Expert as a pure Mage with no fast Mana Regen would be impossible (unless you have infinte Mana Potions in your inventory) on the beginning of the game. Just saying, since I'm playing as a pure mage and having a really hard time on Expert.

One thing about the AI is that if they cannot reach you and you are blasting them with spells/arrows, they will attempt to lose line of sight. Meaning if you are camping a giant from a cliff and he cannot get to you, he'll hide behind some pillar or tree or something.
Personally once I had to run away from a draugar ravager (that would one-and-a-half-shot me) and close an iron bar gate, thinking I would blast him with a flamethrower spel through it, but as soon as I started doing it he just walked behind a corner. This is actually more than I can say for most games' AI.
Also the pathfinding works good unless you jump off a ledge, then, even if that was a half a meter drop, the enemy will start circling around to get to you. That's so far the only abuse I run into. I suppose circling a table as mentioned here can also be abused. But this is still head and shoulders above the *standing on a slight elevation, AI going batshit swinging weapons into the ground* from Oblivion, not to mention the attack animations, that allowed you to casually walk backwards, while enemies would attack the air in front of you in slomo.

Now this is the most level headed, informative thing I've read about the game so far and I couldn't agree more. Thanks sea.

Holy shit, is this to much to put in my sig???

Read roll-a-die and bruticis replies on the second page.

Skyway is bashing the game into Oblivion but he is currently starting his 3rd playthrough on his xbawks

i did. was level 8 or 9 on my way to the town before the greaybeards. kicked my ass in 2 seconds flat so i took another way there

My verdict.

Better then Oblivion

Worse then New Vegas.

Played for some five-six hours and Skyrim is hugely superior both to Oblivion and to Morrowind. And I'd say that it's a decent game, as in - fun. Playing on master difficulty, stopped using followers after seeing how OP they are.

- Combat is no longer annoying. I guess they took a page from mods like Oscuro's which shifted the centerpiece of the combat from waving your sword all the time to making properly timed power attacks. And it pains me to admit that they did finishers better than in TW2. They're actually nice and feel dynamic unlike in TW where you were watching a cutscene.

- Finally a levelling scheme that doesn't penalise you for making logical choices. At a level up you choose whether to receive a HP, MP or Stamina increase, then you receive a perk point which you can use to boost one of your skills via a respectable number of perks.

- Writing quality and VA quality hugely improved, nothing to write home about but it's bearable.

- Nice character faces. Not that I care about this sort of stuff usually but it's nice to play a TES game that doesn't make me want to throw up whenever I meet an NPC.

- Quests are improved in design: they usually provide you with rewards and if they don't they're simple errands that don't consume much time and lead to other, more rewarding quests.

- Lorewise inferior to Morrowind but not closely as full of derp as Oblivion. You have a couple of guilds (sufficiently transplanted to Skyrim environments) and there's a civil war on top of it. Also, I call bullshit on those who said that Skyrim has no new books.

The negatives have been talked about already so there isn't much point in me writing about the UI or balance issues. Still, if you're looking for a fun game then go ahead and try it. If you're looking for a 'hardcore RPG' then go ahead and make a few posts on the Codex on how disgruntled you are.

EDIT: I think I might need to explain why I think Skyrim is better than Morrowind. See, while I loved Morrowind for its lore and quest design the core gameplay was simply crap. Skyrim got it much, much better and thus I consider it clearly superior.

Pretty much with Ulminati on this one. It's alright, not really worth all the fuss one way or the other.

Multiple people on the Codex wrote that the game is like Gothic, the combat comes to close DM, it's perfectly playable without any quest compass and there are some actual C&C. So I thought why not - I found Div2 to be OK even without DM-like combat, it's a quick download maybe they are right.

Should've known better.

Of course, having already two XBawks360 emulators with superior hardware and controls I thought why not

I'm playing this at master level and the difficulty seems about right by level 7, first dungeon cleared and I died 4 or 5 times The puzzles seem retarded though, the answers are written in the same fucking room on both occasions I found one of them. Not realy interested in comenting writing quality as this is no Bethesda forte.

Yup. About 20 hours in. Quests are ass, everything else is either tolerable or even well done for the most part.

Yep.

Also it's still obviously Gamebryo.

Got to about level 10, my rating so far: 3/5

It might be a good idea to start a CodexCritic (like Metacritic, except good) section on the site. A lot of people asking about "what does the Hivemind think" would have their curiousity satisfied.

This could actually be kind of fun to have.