I was one of those people. Turned out to be one of the best games I have ever played. One of the reasons I decided against trading my copy in for cash.

In regards to your comments about the "unnamed person", well he'll stop complaining when Bethesda shows they actually can make a game that isn't broken from launch.

Most reviews I've read say that playing in the  3rd person is improved over Oblivion.

I hope so. I was looking into playing the game in 3rd person. First person for RPGs isn't really my thing.

Nah I'll pass only RPG I could ever handle was FF I didn't like Elder scrolls either that much

the fact alone that pullus made a video to convince people should convince em. :P

Skyrim's awesome! (Though not totally free of issues.. but which game is?)

wow...stuck up snooty fanboy to what exactly? , quite the name calling , and have something worth saying.

It's not name calling when you're acting that way. What's with you people? Post anything remotely negative and you all flip out. The world isn't peaches and rainbows. I posted an article that has evidence behind it. Those are real experiences. The post wasn't meant to deter people away from Skyrim, but rather help them choose what system they should buy it for. I sure as hell don't want to lay down 65 big ones to have an unplayable game 20 hours in.

i got to be one of them.

when Valkyria Chronicles came out, i tried too much to convince people to play it, everyone thought it was a generic shooter, i tried to convince them to try the demo, to see its not a shooter, then people were not satisfied with the demo, then i went all "the demo didn't show much really, its just a small piece of what the game is, and the game is great" , many months later,  and then even sega started getting their attetion on Vghchartz , so they made a "post your story" competition on vgchartz.

when Demon's Souls came out , i kept saying how it was the best game that no one ever played, i bragged on that it was one of the best PS3 games that you should easily buy a PS3 just to play it, i wasn't exaggrating, but people didn't bother, then came a bit of articles about how hard is the game, and i convinced some wimpy people that it is not really that hard if you aren't retarded, and then came that "Game of the year" from gamespot and i convinced a LOT of people to vote for Demon's Souls, and it won it , and then people FINALLY started to buy it... jeez

When Yakuza 3 came out, i made this  thread

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=107783&page=

and was pretty rash about people who knew about it , and own a PS3, but didn't play the game calling them "assholes", of course the thread was locked, but i made other threads to try and convince people to play it, such as how many min games it has and how many stuff you can do, and to this day Xxain is probably the guy who remembers it, but i had an argument with him about how the game isn't a brawler but is a sandbox, kinda like shenmue, he is still to this day not convinced, but i did make a LOT of people play it and enjoy it, and also made Sega release Yakuza 4 and the one coming soon, thats another game from sega, they should seriously hire me xD

now moving on to Deus Ex, a lot of people hated on it because its not Metal Gear or its a Metal Gear Rip off, so i made this thread to convince MGS fans to pick it up, and stated a lot of reasons, of course like always some people just had to be dicks

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=133478

and then after quite a few attempts , i gave up, and went to youtube looking at random videos of deus Ex, and stumbled on the "i never asked for this" video right here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Unl-UZ1Fjg&feature=watch_response_rev

it had pretty little views but i found it funny, so i did this video as a respounse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGBqUGDUmmQ

and then out of nowhere it went viral and everyone started to make a video respounse or a spoof of it, so i went on funnyjunk.com yeah its not really a game site and then posted the meme on a picture of a meme (memeception) , at first they didn't get it , but then it actually became a bigger meme

So now i'm doing the same thing all over again with skyrim, but its really not the game that went under the radar , but some people still shun it because it doesn't look japanese enough or something like that.

phew i typed a lot.

edit:  and yeah before you ask , i actually did work in marketing for about 2 years, but it was for phones not games.

I can second this. I really didn't like Oblivion despite trying multiple times to get into it but Skyrim clicked right from the beginning. It's so much better than Oblivion.

Yeah i actually liked oblivion , but it wasn't as good as morrowind, they focused too much on graphics that they forgot about voice actors, there are only 5 voices in the game, and the battle system is way too basic and easy.