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Thoughts on Skyrim.

Game of the year and beyond! 34 41.98%
 
I used to like it, but th... 13 16.05%
 
Dem bugs 26 32.10%
 
So where's my DLC? 7 8.64%
 
Total:80

 

That's right, it's back! (to many people's dismay I'm sure ) Me and trasharmdsister12 will be co-hosting the ranking game.

All you have to do is put what score you think the game below deserves, and write a brief explanation as to why it deserves that score, hell you can even just write your opinion of the game and not add a score if you want to (which we won't add to the total of course)

Voting is open for a 1 week period, after 1 week I will count up all the scores and get the average of the game. 

Rules

1. You had to have played at least enough of the game to form an honest opinion about it

2. If you score a game over or under 4 points of what it's at on Metacritic you must go into great detail for your review.

3. If you put more than 1 score per thread none of your scores will be counted.

4. A game must have at least 10 people that gave it a score to be counted.

5. Users with less than 50 posts cannot participate unless they have been a member on this site for more than a year.

Last game was _ _ and it got a _ _

Highest score was _ _, lowest was _ _

Vgchartz score 8.06 / GamrReview score -- 9.7 / Metacritic score -- 94

Vgchartz top 15

Place

Game

Score

1

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

9.65

2

Super Mario Galaxy 2

9.50

3

Super Mario Galaxy

9.49

4

Metal Gear Solid 4

9.36

5

The Orange Box

9.35

6

LittleBigPlanet 2

9.34

7

Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty

9.27

8

Halo Reach

9.23

9

Donkey Kong Country Returns

9.23

10

Monster Hunter Tri

9.19

11

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

9.18

12

Gears of War 2

9.17

13

Halo 3

9.13

14

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

9.13

15

Mass Effect 2

9.12

 

Next game: Uncharted 3

To view a list of all games from every game ranking thread click here.

Thanks to Blacksaber for the awesome ranking game logo and thanks to everyone who participated. And remember...




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8.5

I gave Morrowind a 9.5, and Oblivion an 8.5

I played the PC Version

The dungeon design was significantly was improved as was the animations. The combat was better too by a little bit. Still dark soul's and demon soul's is better in this department.

-The interface is terrible. The hot keys aren't there. The menu system is obviously taken from consoles. It's probably better than the oblivion console version. But on PC, it has become very unintuitive.
-The amount of skills were less
-The story is as good as the other ones which is okay.
-The persuasion was not as apparent.
-Character Creation was worse.
-This really isn't that significant like some PC gamers might suggest. But the textures were low res. I don't dock it any points for this. But still my inner PC elitist goes. URGHHHH
-I was a hot chick.


Generally a lot of things streamlined some for the better some for the worse. I think the mods will push it in the 9.0 range for me. Like it did with oblivion.

It's a fun great game with a ton of content. Not quite the epiphany many describe for me. But a great game nonetheless.



9.8/10

Mediocre combat

Often times laughable animations

Forgetable Main Quest

Problamatic glitches

and yet I had more fun with this game then anything else in recent years. The game just makes you care about your character. Most of the guilds are enjoyable, some of the side quests are incredibly interesting. And the world is just so vast. Its perfect for shaping the game into your own personal experience. The game has many many problems yes, but it is just on a different level then all the other "triple A" games to come out this year. It will be a scary day when bethesda finally manages to include good combat mechanics in an elder scrolls game. When that happens there won't be any reason for me to play any other game.



I will be creating a new image/banner(though not really a banner) for you it will be much nicer, the length will be the same the height will double and many many more characters in it..I will rate Skyrim when it's done.



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Blacksaber said:
I will be creating a new image/banner(though not really a banner) for you it will be much nicer, the length will be the same the height will double and many many more characters in it..I will rate Skyrim when it's done.

Very awesome

Look forward to it.



8.0
+lots to do
+gorgeous at times
-dungeons look to much alike
-skill trees aren't very unique in what they give
- /+combat is so so.... good, but archaic
-/+story is average
-Major side quests all end with you ruling the guild this is repetitive in a conclusion sense.
-too many glitches
The developers are talented, but then again they seem to suck at certain things. Their scenes during certain events were so stiff and it was just ridiculous at times. Still I Like the game alot solid 8.



Best RPG by a country mile. Best game this generation and simply keeps you hooked.
Bethesda are pure geniuses. Apart from a few glitches, it runs real smooth to.
10/10. Only Alan wake has got a 10 from me this gen. 2 games with 10's. Can American nightmare or halo 4 garner that score? We will see.



8/10 (PC version)

After having played ~30-40 hours I would probably have given it a 9 or even a 10, but then I took an...then the game's faults started to shine really bright. I can live with minor glitches but even smaller ones like disappearing textures became annoying after a while. As I dug deeper into the game I unveiled bigger bugs that just shouldn't be in a "complete" version of a game. Some quests got messed up and there are things that I will never be able to complete because of bugs. That's just inexcusable, and I went from extremely long and fun playsessions exploring the huge world of Skyrim to barely wanting to turn the game on, mostly because of fear of what questbreaking bugs I might find next. They just took the pleasure out of it.
Another fault with the game is the not so varied caves. Again, I didn't mind them in the beginning but later it just felt repetitive and reminded me of Neverwinter Nights' Aurora. I understand that you can't make that many unique caves but they could atleast have made a few more parts to use in their level editor.
My third problem with the game is the awful inventory system. Once again, it didn't bother me in the beginning when I didn't have that many items and skills, but when I have magic, lots of potions, a few weapons, some staffs and a couple of shouts it becomes a huge pain in the butt to switch to another magic/item/weapon/shout. Instead of trying new things out I just stuck with a few skills and items so that I wouldn't have to use the Favourite list from Hell.
My fourth complain isn't very trivial unless you're an alchemist. Why couldn't they have come up with a system where you can access recipes while you mix potions? I love mixing potions, but I curse them too!

That's the only big complains I have but they are so major that it greatly drags the game down. Skyrim is really great with a huge world, lots of locations to find, many different ways to play the game and numerous great quests. It's so sad that they messed things up so badly. If I had to quess I'd say that 80% of the staff behind the game are experts but the remaining 20% are made up of monkeys. That's my only explanation to how you can make something so excellent so damn flawed.



The kind of game where I can wonder off doing nothing significant and exploring the world for hours. It has a few bugs and the button layout for pc keyboards is very unintuitive, which made me play it with a controller instead.
Nonetheless this is the best game in years.

Since I like rating on a 10 point scale only I will give this a 10/10. There are 3 other games this gen I think deserve so.