If Skyrim Game = Shit

It's obvious that Skyrim is shit by today's standards but I did enjoy it for a full playthrough in 2011. Was Skyrim a good game by 2011s standards?

No. I completed it within 2 weeks of buying it, and shortly after realized it was a gold dusted turd.

Yes and it still is. Fuck contrarian Sup Forums

There isn't a single Bethesda game that's good by its time's standards. They're only good by the standards of seven years before them.

Normies still consider it to be the greatest RPG ever made alongside with Witcher 3.

what am I looking at?

it was good enough to play, like all bethesda games(besides FO4) it had more than enough quests to get lost in but barely any good writing. but after TW3 its hard to go back to games like this that are just as big but feel horribly shallow (in terms of production value, cos obv TES has more character building stuff) and lifeless.

A power orb. Eating it will grant you unimaginable powers.

Quite literally a polished turd.

It's a polished turd

2011 was only 7 years ago, standards weren’t that different than they are now.

It was a pretty good game. Still is, honestly. The main reason for the hate it gets is that it could have been so much better had Bethesda actually cared.
Just hire a fucking writer and have them write a plot for you. This isn't brain surgery, Todd.

It's a great game by any standard. Nothing else comes close if you're in the mood for a wandering sandbox RPG. Yeah the writing and characters are shit but that's not why anyone plays it. Complex characters and intricate plotlines would just get in the way of the player's wanderlust.

Nah not really.

>PC is a supergod who can become the master of everything
>choices have no weight to them
>can't even be bothered to give more than 2 or 3 NPCs a unique voice
>combat is really, really, REALLY bad, somehow manages to be worse than oblivion

Skyrim is and always has been shit.

gunplay was decent for its time but the main problem was being large as an ocean but as deep as a puddle. Both the main and secondary questlines are dull, and your decisions hardly matter in the end. I hate to be that guy but new vegas came out a year earlier and it had more "RPG" in it than skyrim and fallout 4 put together.

List of the things skyrim did decently for its time
>archery
>weaponry
>landscaping and overall setting
>magic
>OST
>immersion

It was shit then and shit now.
Bethesdas incompetence and casual pandering should not be ignored because it didnt happen yesterday.
In fact its still very prelevant with Fallou 4 being what it is and the fact their still putting Skyrim and only Skyrim on newer consoles.

no, apparently you just developed some taste in the past few years. to make sure that's the case here's a test.

did you enjoy botw more than your average open world game? if yes you're still just a homo who buys into hype. if no you have actually developed taste, congratulations

>It's obvious that Skyrim is shit by today's standards
No, It's still an enjoyable game, better than some of today's sacred cows

autists say it's a polished turd but it really is hashish

>5X Rolled-Up Dung

No, if anything elder scrolls games get better over time because there's more unofficial patches fixing the broken shit in them. Also there's more mods which is the only thing they're really good for

Dark Messiah came out 5 years earlier

anyone who isn't an autists liked it

ive never seen a kind of hashish you could make something like that out of

just google hashish balls
small time traffickers make haishish into balls to eat it and shit it out
bigger ones make bricks and ship them

hashish is fucking gross thank god i vastly prefer weed

Many better games trying to do the same things came out before Skyrim.

skyrim has the inbred retarded uncle of combat systems

>take the sponginess, spamminess, and lack of hit feedback from more arcady rpgs
>but make all of the movements and attacks slow and weighty

No. It was only good near the beginning where you didn't know how limited the game would ultimately be.

most of the ppl do but europe is flooded with cheap hash

>mods and patches fixes the horrible writing and general game design of the base game

based brainletposter

Skyrim was a fun world to explore and there were good mods. Bethesda then proceeded to squeeze as much money as possible out of it by making special editions and ports for several years instead of starting production on TES6. They came out with a new port six years after initial release, they could have made a new TES game in that time.

Then you got shit hash m8.
Why do you think it's gross? I prefer it to weed because it's cheaper and mellows me out a lot more. Weed's alright too but it makes me do a lot more retarded shit.

>If Skyrim Game = Shit
The fuck is this, feminist coding?

are you autistic

sounds like you smoke exclusive sativa, which im jealous of because its really rare here

>writing
Not broken, its shit but it works as intended
>game design
yes actually

It truly is a blessing

What're you some kinda switch fag?

no because new vegas was still way better than it.

I always pull for the Dutch in soccer. Dunno why, maybe that's one of the reasons.

gonna have to go with the autists on this one, a polished turn from mythbusted, some asshole tv show

No. It's a shit game even by 1996 standards.

Though it does have incredibly good graphics for a 1996 game.

It's 6 years later and we are still talking about it.

it's not close to as good as dark souls, especially because of the budget difference

it's still pretty good

Don't get me wrong man, i love dark souls too. Gameplay, story and artstyle wise it's loads better than Skyrim. But there's something about the Elder Scrolls universe and its lore that i just love so much.

Morrowind has both, Skyrim is only more popular because it's extremely casual and dumbed down.

it was shit from release date we were just blinded by hype

No. It was bad on all regards. Graphics were shit, story was shit, quests were shit, dungeons were shit, it was riddled of bugs and it doesn't ran great on top of that. But the worst offender of them all ? The combats. Dark Messiah was already old as tits when Skyrim came out. For reference.

It was a terrible RPG in 2011

>bad combat
>shallow world
>choices don't matter

I felt mixed about the game back then and still do now. It's not a good game in my eyes, but also not unplayable garbage. It's worse than the previous titles and a terrible RPG. However, I still had my fun with it but i can't see myself ever playing this game again(except with mods, which seems to apply to every bethesda game except morrowind). The quests are garbage, the guilds a joke, the antoganist is disappointing, the combat is terrible and most dungeons are just bland. Yet i still had some fun with it, probably because of the world and lore or something.

What's a good, recent open world fantasy RPG (or even JRPG) with customizable characters? I've played Elder Scrolls III, IV and V to death and want some new open world fantasy fun with a customizable character.
I was playing MH World when I realised I was jonesing for something similar, just open world and more, I dunno, adventurous? It's hard to describe. It's a specific video game itch I've been wanting to scratch for ages now. Pure escapism where it truly feels like you're on your very own adventure.
In desperation, I even ended up resorting to MMOs, but they did nothing for me.

Be it 2011 or 2018, Skyrim is only good for the mods.

Why would you post a polished turd, when Skyrim isn't even polished, it's just a turd