Never played an Elder Scrolls game, and I'm about to start Skyrim

Never played an Elder Scrolls game, and I'm about to start Skyrim.

What am I in for

fun

boring

NIGGERS

BAD

NEVER SHOULD HAVE COME HERE

I'm getting mixed messages here

A game that starts out kind of cool, but gets progressively dumber and more repetitious until you start to wonder why you haven't ended it all yet.

An ok time

NEVER SHOULD HAVE COME HERE

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If you want to actually spare people that fall down and ask for mercy, you have to go Imperial and use the race power you get otherwise they'll just keep getting back up and tail your ass halfway across Skyrim.
Either that or download mods but personally I feel mods take away the certain magic that vanilla games have.

Starts out pretty good, and exploring the entire map is pretty fun, but the "story" is piss easy and once you've found all of the collectables and hit a certain level, it becomes tedious and boring.

I love how all 7 voice actors for this game all have lines for average bandits.
I forget which actor but one of them says the "do you like the sight of your own bluuuuud" hilariously.

Garbage main story, pretty good otherwise. Lacks some of the customization and silliness that makes playing the older games worthwhile for a long time.

I'd say play the series backwards, Skyrim is easy to get into, Oblivion a bit less so because it has the old convoluted leveling system, and Morrowind even less so. But each predecessor game let's you dick around more to an extent.

Alright, thanks for the feedback.

fun and there's a ton of content

Mod it with Lover's Lab.

Enjoy the best sex simulator in existence.

It's a Bethesda game. Shit tech, shit story, shit combat and low production value.

High production value, but most of the money went to art direction, and creating a large world. Too bad it ment the large, good looking world (for its time) is filled with counltess drauger crypts and quests that are for the most part, not memorable at all. Also the only quests that ARE memorable are the daedric quests, but even they the quest rewards are shitty equipment that is outclassed by vendors at times.

The thought of the countless number of mods you can install will of course be tantilizing, but it will be completely marred by the boring gameplay and repetive quests that fill skyrim, making Uninstall.exe the best quest you will complete.

The first 10 hours will be fucking orgasmic. No seriously. It will feel like an amazing experience. This will be followed by another 20 hours of wondering why there are so many RPG mechanics missing from the game but begrudgingly playing on.

The last five hours convince you the game is fucking shit and is about as deep as a puddle.

You will repeat this cycle, while modding the game heavily, for another 100 hours or so before finally becoming convinced Bethesda is worse than cancer and Satan combined.

the thing I can't stand the most is the voice actors

>talk to nick valentine
>go to riften and talk to nick valentine
>kill nick valentine and retrieve item
>return to nick valentine
>quest complete

typical AAA game where they put way more polish in thefirst 3 hours of gameplay than the rest of the game.

The background lore is more interesting than any of the events that happen in-game.

>good looking world (for its time)
>released the same year as The Witcher 2

Still better than oblivion

>Nords and orcs have the same voice
>all elves have the same voice and sound like fagets
>all the voice budget went Patrick Stewart to come in and be narrator for trailer and say 6 lines befor dying

>If I die, I have to go before him, and he will ask me, "By what right do you request entry?" If I cannot defeat him, he will cast me out of Sovngarde and laugh at me. That's Tsun, strong on his bridge!

>My god is stronger. It is the everlasting void! Your god lives inside it.

...

Just a really shallow, bland RPG. Enemies and loot that scale to your level and the same cookie cutter dungeons haphazardly scattered across an empty world. The dungeons might as well have been procedurally generated.