Skyrim Review

You can choose to be a Nord, Wood Elf, High Elf( or Thalmor), Redguard, Orc, Khajiit, Imperial, Dark Elf, Argonian or a Bretone.

You also are able to customize everything from your characters  weight and gender to how much dirt is in his face(im not even kidding). Each race brings a special ability along. For example; Nords have 50% frost-resistance, Dark Elfs can summon a ring of fire around them once a day and Argonians can breath underwater, which is the best thing since woopidy-fucking-doo-da.
The race you choose to play as even effects how NPC's talk to you or if they like or hate you. For example: You are a Dark Elf, a race which is frowned upon and hated by the Stormcloakes, and you are in Windhelm, the main province of the rebellion. You will get insulted and most people will express their hate towards you. Another rather cool addition is that your ingame race influences your skills as well. Redguards are the best warriors, so their fighting skill have a higher level by default. High Elfs are brilliant mages, so their magical skills have a higher level by default. That doesn't mean you have to play as a mage when you are a High Elf, it only means your magical abilities are a bit higher than the ones of the other races. The skill level difference doesn't matter in the later game.




There are 3 groups in which you can split up the 18 skill-trees Skyrim offers you; Thief(Stealth), Warrior(Combat), Mage(Magic).



The skills alocated to this group are Alchemy, Light Armor, Lockpicking, Pickpocket, Sneak and Speech.



The skills alocated to this group are Archery, Block, Heavy Armor, One-Handed, Two-Handed and Smithing.





The skills alocated to this group are Alteration, Conjuration, Destrucion, illusion, Restoration and Enchanting.

Each skill determines how well various tasks can be performed. As skills are used, their level increases, which increases your characters overall level. This means, that you don't have to waste a precious skillpoint to actually perform one of the skills. You can do everything from scratch. As you progress through the skill-levels, you get new perks. Perks are a new addition to the Elder Scrolls series. I find most of them pretty useless to be honest, but some are just plain awesome. There is the generic "This increases damage by 10%" or " You are 15% harder to spot while crouching", but there also is "You now have a chance to behead an enemy when you use a heavy attack while standing still". For every awesome perk there are 5 generic and boring ones. This does not matter. To me atleast. I find the new perks to be a cool addition and the skill system is complex, but reaaaally varied and fun to dig through.


Though graphics do not matter to me, I'll show you some screenshots.

I took this screenshot in Riften while investigating.


Well, shit.


This looks like out of a trailer, doesn't it? :p Actually taken during a mission in Falkreath.


Just a cool shot from a cave infested by vampires.^^



The most important part of any game is obviously the gameplay though. Many developers try to make their games replayable, varied and all in all; a huge load of fun *cough* except EA and DICE *cough* . An awful lot fail, but Bethesda hit the Bullseye. Skyrim is the game I find myself revisiting the most out of all of my games. The controls are good. The fighting, oh the fighting, it is boring as fuck, if you choose to be a warrior. Skyrim turns into a button-masher and you loose motivation quite fast. However, playing as a mage or thief or heavy armor assassin, who conjures fire-demons and mixes potions after he married a Dark Elf is reaaally amusing. Again, referring to the freedom of choice. As I've mentioned before Bugthesda kind of screwed up fixing all of the bugs Skyrim has. When I played the Dragonborn DLC, I had to learn a shout, but had no dragonsouls to do so. Logically, I went on to smack the living hell out of the next dragon I saw. To my suprise, Miraak, the main villian of the Dragonborn DLC, steals the soul like 


I then realised, after going badshit crazy and completely eradicating every dragon I came across, I was at a point in the story, where this nitwit steals every soul I could get. I had to start the DLC aaaalll over again, because my savefile was fucked...

Because Bethesda didn't gain enough money off of Skyrim, they released 3 DLC; Dragonborn, Hearthfire and Dawnguard

In Dragonborn an old Dovahkin rises and enslaves nearly every citizen of Solstheim with the help of the daedric god Hermaeus Mora. New armor, quests, spells, weaponry and shouts await you. You even can ride dragons!

In Hearthfire you can build your own house in Falkreath, Morthal and Dawnstar. Have your own library or garden. Adopt a child or turn your house into a forge.

In Dawnguard the vampires are getting more and more aggressive and the Dawnguard, an ancient group of vamipre-hunters, is reassembling. Save the world and discover things, no human, elf or orc has seen in centuries.


All in all the DLC's bring a nice amount of new gameplay with them and add exciting new things to an already really good game.^^




Skyrim is huge in scale, offers a fuckload of sidequests, epic music, appealing graphics, sometimes mindnumbing, but mostly fun gameplay and actually well made DLC's. I know the graphics can't keep up with the expectations and sometimes look muddy and quite crappy, but most of the time they look really nice. The often long walks from quest to quest might get exhausting, but you stumble upon so much random stuff, that the journey will always keep you observant and full of anticipation of what will happen next. You always have something to do; reaching from saving the world to cleaning up those messy chests you keep your stuff in. The skill system is well thought-through and the idea, that there are no classes you have to choose from the beginning is something I adore.

+long                                                                                                              - many bugs and glitches
+great replayability                                                                                       - pretty generic story
+variety in skills, armor and weaponry
+gorgeous scenery
+epic music
+always stuff to do







My Advice: If you are into offline RPG's, you should buy Skyrim.







Skyrim    

PC: 29€


XBox: 37€


PS: 34€

Skyrim: Legendary Edition( With all DLC's)

PC: 29€

XBox: 40€

PS: 35€












                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Nice Job dude! Skyrim is really a gr8 game and i cant w8 make is going to become online too!

Never played ot never will but nice review though :>

Piratebay the DLC's

Nice review man
Got the same thoughts, except I don't play it that much anymore after I finished + the graphics could've been better. Nonetheless, fun game

Lund wrote:Piratebay the DLC's

Because useful comment is useful.

oh yeah in skyrim there are 2 options of finishing the game:
1st:Get bored easily so you will not reach it more than level 15-20
2nd:Finish it and start killing every1 in there 




Regards
Nikolai

Nice and fucking long review

Thanks for all the nice words :> Put a lot of efford in this^^

Effort well put I should say mon <3

Well described review, with your own thoughts and all. One thing that made me interested in this game from your review was that you describe the bugs as charming, reminds me of GTA San Andreas with it's easter eggs and funny bugs :DWe love those kind of bugs, don't we? :333
 
Maybe Ill download (and if I love it, buy) Skyrim during the christmas holidays. Wish I had more time to play PC games nowdays

Does one have to play all the other Elder Scrolls games to have fun with this game? And meh, who needs top graphics when one have awesome gameplay? ) <3

Well, Morrowind was a brilliant game, so, if you want to get an epic Elder Scrolls experience, you should get it :>

The best part in Skyrim is to delete your character which you have played over 80hours

Skyrim is a good game, but if you allow me to be an elitist prick, Morrowmind is better

Agreed.