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It is my new obsession, well has been all year. Modding mostly and learning the tools is more of a headache then anything else and keeping my focus on it.

Skyrim should be a must play for most gamers. The only bad thing is the traveling, I always find myself trying climb a mountain instead of circling around it that ends up being 3 miles long, it turns out I'm not supposed to climb it  :shout:

I played Skyrim for a bit... then I took an arrow to the knee and lost interest in finishing it.

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Didn't finish it either.

Eh, it's not a bad time killer, about the same as other recent Bethesda games like Oblivion and Fallout 3.

Don't know if it's worthy of rabid fanboyism though.

For my tastes, Morrowind is still the best experience in the series. I absolutely hated Oblivion, and while Skyrim does a lot of things right, it just doesn't have the spark that Morrowind did.

I find that a bit interesting because I hated Morrowind so much that it made me skip over Oblivion entirely. It even took a bit of egging for me to give Skyrim a try. :)

I'm sorry but for me Morrowind feels like I need a pickaxe to get into it, I don't like the invisible die rolls that determine if I hit or not.

Pity too since Morrowind looks like it's a pretty good game otherwise.

That is an agreeable downside. It's not a big deal if you have any sort of background with pen & paper RPGs, but it can be a bit of a disconnect in a video games. When you hit something your your sword, you expect to hit it... not make an accuracy roll.

TES in general, and Skyrim in particular now, are an ongoing evolution that tends to be a mixed bag.

Morrowind was beautiful because of the sheer level of personal customization players had. Oblivion and Skyrim have both reduced that, but with that reduction they've been granted more artistic freedom and fewer programming headaches.. Morrowind had scripting issues all over the place, and the new Daedric and faction quests in skyrim show off some of the major growth they've had. Not to mention FINALLY adding procedural quests.

I drastically miss the item-by-item equipment, and the stats-based enchanting.. But I'm also rather enamored of some of the changes to the skills and combat system..

The increasing reduction of enchantable gear is pretty sad as well..

I love the addition of crafting from scratch, and I'd like to see the variety from Morrowind make a return.. I miss asymetrical equpment.. :(

I believe I've seen mods that add morrowind equipment, or at least weapons to skyrim on the steam workshop thing...

Say ANYTHING you want about the TES series but you gotta admit, it's got a hell of a fanbase and modding community.

Well at first i just ran thru skyrim did the main quests then stopped, but now i gave it another spin and did faction quest n so on i must say i enjoy them! Thought i believe the crafting system is utterly boring why even spend time doing it? :S besides gear overall in skyrim is abit...boring.

So addicted here. I had to take a break from it to get in some other games lol... The combat seems solid, the map is quite large and doesn't seem to have that "attack roll" combat. Plus with the DLC, vampire lords... oh yeah  :doom_love: but that's if that is your thing. I've always wanted a 1st person RPG that let me do my thing and not the developers thing and this one is it. Although finishing the main quest is a plus. It does help a lot. It is still one of my all time favs next to my classic games and pen and paper games in other posts.  :doom_love:

All I know about Skyrim is this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Z4UVyZp-U) and this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldLxCYJhIPs).

What more do you need to know?

Maybe this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9JjmZq11d8) or this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9zbVYVdkak&playnext=1&list=PL318968E3E2A2EBA6&feature=results_video).

Unfortunately I play it on the 360 and don't have console commands  :( But that stuff would be funny as anything to do with npc's lol  :D

You miss out on the mods sadly.

Ya but I have the expansion though  :doom_love: ... Yet I still wonder why it's taking sooooo long for it to come out on PC and PS3 though. As far as I know it should have been out long before now.

Plus a lot of the mods from the PC are being implemented into the console versions through patches. Which is fine by me... I hated the pain of modding Oblivion. What a pain.  :wall:

Uh... the expansion is out on the PC. It has been for quite a while now, in fact. Installing mods has always been simple and pleasurable in TES games. The plugin system makes it very straight-forward. No like some Q3A mods, for example.

Bethesda games are so heavily dependent upon the mod community that it's really not even worth having the game with them. Not for anywhere near full price at least. Nevermind those terrible gamepad controls. :P

Hmm, someone at work told me that it wasn't out for the PC yet and had a TBA release date.  :doom_?: I might need to tell him to check again.

As for the modding of the PC versions. The pain I always had was getting the load order right. I'd DL one and it breaks another. Come to find out that one needs to load before this one, which needs to load before this one, but after this other one etc... that drove me nuts  :wall: but I finally got it with my Oblivion set up. It's still quite enjoyable to play though. I hope Skyrim for the PC is much easier to do than that. Although my PC is a dinosaur and could never run it  O_o