Customer Reviews

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

5 star:		(16)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

This was my first experience with an Elder Scrolls game, and I love it! It'll be interesting to see if it can still interest me once Star Wars: The Old Republic is out, but for now, I'm totally obsessed with it. If you like RPGs, you'll love Skyrim.

Everyone who says this game is anything but awesome is doing it wrong. You should buy this game right now, for everyone on your list, regardless of their age or interests.

If you like any of the other Elder Scrolls games you will love this. They truly didn't change much at all.. just better graphics. I have played over 24hrs and I have barely scratched the surface.

I just finished Skyrim. I played for 180 hours, joined every guild, got my character to level 54 and got every trophy including the platinum and I did it on the PS3. Enough said.

I waited until I played close to 100 hours before writing a review on this game. For what is worth, I played the vanilla version (I did not get any of the patches or obtained latest PS3 firmware update). My experience has been similar to those who have installed all patches so far. The game does not deserve more than 1 star for the following reasons:

1. During my game play I experienced 5 crashes (3 hard ones - had to turn off/reboot my system and 2 soft ones - was able to get to XMB menu). The last crash was a hard one and for a moment I thought it fried (YLOD) my console. On Bethesda's forum some players have reported that indeed their PS3 console did fry while playing this game. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. This on its own would have made the game a 1/5, but read on.

2. Lagging has been more of a nuisance. While I only play 3-4 hours at a time several days a week, the lagging was noticeable. I reduced it by turning off all auto saves and resting in-game often.

3. To the 100 hours of game play, and another, say 15 hours or so, of looking at loading screens. Because I shut off the auto save (to improve game performance), I am forced to save every 10-15 minutes of game play (takes close to 1 minute when it saves). You will look at loading screens for some time when fast traveling to locations, entering cities, entering houses, entering caves ... well you get the idea.

4. Broken quests: I have been unable to complete some quests, as the game does not acknowledge when I have all required tasks. In other cases, after completing the quest, the quest still remains in the menu as not finished.

5. BORING QUESTS: maybe I'm missing something, but I found a number of quests to be boring - they felt like a chore: go get this helmet from cave X, go gather the ingredients required to make Y; go kill this person/dragon/monster at location Z, force the different factions to come to a mutual agreement, etc.

6. No noticeable point to playing a good character or on any hard levels. Your actions don't appear to have any negative aspect on you (like Fallout 3 or Red Dead Redemption did). Whether you steal, kill innocent people, or whatever, as long as you are not killing a NPC, game doesn't care. Furthermore, given the bugs listed above, it makes little sense to play on any other level save the easiest.

7. I didn't bother getting companions, a horse, or learning magic. From reading other players' complaints, it seems when you fast travel to certain locations companions don't always teleport and many issues have been reported about using magic.

8. Graphics are not great, acceptable at best. Some areas reminded me of the early versions of Doom (remember that game?) where the walls were these tiny colored squares - yup, they're in Skyrim too!

The things I did like about Skyrim? It has a great music soundtrack, it has the ability to create an amazing atmosphere and being able to customize your character was a nice touch too.

Conclusion: Others have reported fewer issues on the XBOX360 and the PC versions. Yet again PS3 owners get the cold shoulder. Worse, there's a chance the game may fry your system. Not impressed at all. Feel free to disagree, but for all the great things Skyrim has to offer (and which would have made it a perfect game), they pale in comparison to the bugs, glitches, broken quests, game-breaking freezes and frustration encountered. 1/5 stars.

well..apparently this is a really great game...i personally haven't played but i have completely lost my boyfriend to this game, so im glad that he really seems to be enjoying it. it came right on time for christmas (about a week before) & there was no issue with shipping. the only thing i didn't like about ordering it from this producer was that i was not given a tracking number so i could check where it was in canada post. other than that, wonderful

After finally getting this game in the mail from Amazon, I was very disappointed to see that the packaging was defective. Normally, the game-case should have the paper on the outside that has the cover art for the game. The item I received, however, had the paper not attached to the case, and the game manual was outside of the plastic game case.