Why is this game praised?

[TheFibrewire]

This is such a mediocre game, the content is just copy paste, the enemies are crap and it's just same enemies over and over. Why is this game critically acclaimed and why is this game till date praised?

I know there is modding, but without modding what good inherent quality this game has?

[Grumpy Old Dude]

Originally posted by TheFibrewire:

This is such a mediocre game, the content is just copy paste, the enemies are crap and it's just same enemies over and over....

Little unable to put yourself into a game eh? Sounds more like a "you" problem, than the games problem.

[Senor Cinco]

For me, its about character perspective. Create a character who's personality is predefined and play them according to that profile structure. Only do things 'they' would do.

Think of it like an interactive movie. Then, you can replay with an endless amount of characters with each having a different experience. ie... head canon

[Rattlesnake8]

Originally posted by TheFibrewire:

This is such a mediocre game, the content is just copy paste, the enemies are crap and it's just same enemies over and over. Why is this game critically acclaimed and why is this game till date praised?

I know there is modding, but without modding what good inherent quality this game has?

You have almost 700 hours in the game but call it mediocre? Doesn't make much sense.

[Halcyform]

Like most Betathesda games, the vast amount of praise their games get is stolen valor. The actual source of that valor is from the modding community.

Are Betathesda games really bad? On release, yeah, usually. Wait a couple years and their base games will be pretty good. They'll provide some bug fixes and steal a bunch of ideas from the modding community and then it'll be a pretty good game. Also included in that two year wait will be a bunch of other mods that take the game to an entirely new level.

[Arondil]

Originally posted by Rattlesnake8:

Originally posted by TheFibrewire:

This is such a mediocre game, the content is just copy paste, the enemies are crap and it's just same enemies over and over. Why is this game critically acclaimed and why is this game till date praised?

I know there is modding, but without modding what good inherent quality this game has?

You have almost 700 hours in the game but call it mediocre? Doesn't make much sense.

Well, at least no-one can claim that they write about something with which they are unfamiliar.

@OP: Different people like this game for different reasons. For me, it's because I play this as a casual game to wind down after a busy day. It does not require much thinking or planning. I can just fire it up and play for half an hour without worrying where I have to pick up from (I mostly ignore quests).

[Fear2288]

Part of it is because that even 12 years later there hasn’t been a game quite like it.

There’s been many RPGs, many open world games, and many open world RPGs since 2011, but none of them have that undefinable X factor that Skyrim has. FO4 is maybe the closest one, but even that doesn’t quite have it the way Skyrim does.

[Sep]

Cause it is old game..

Like playing Maze War in 2023 and say the gameplay is mediocre..

[Freeman]

OP, did you really play 700 hours of a game you consider to be mediocre?

[Aegyssus]

Originally posted by TheFibrewire:

This is such a mediocre game, the content is just copy paste, the enemies are crap and it's just same enemies over and over. Why is this game critically acclaimed and why is this game till date praised?

I know there is modding, but without modding what good inherent quality this game has?

Pitiful troll with 700 hours of a "mediocre" game: what that makes you ?

[alexander_dougherty]

Originally posted by TheFibrewire:

This is such a mediocre game, the content is just copy paste, the enemies are crap and it's just same enemies over and over. Why is this game critically acclaimed and why is this game till date praised?

I know there is modding, but without modding what good inherent quality this game has?

Find an RPG that doesn't reuse enemies and structure repeatedly?
seriously find one....

And if you do find one, can you explore a map anywhere near the size of Skyrim?

Heaven knows this game has enough issues as it is, but complaining about that, and in a game that is essentially over 15 years old......

[UsernameTaken666]

it’s praised because it’s great at what it offers. if you don’t like it then play something else. pretty easy.

[George Droid]

mods.

[Fear2288]

Also, to give some context about the environment within which Skyrim released:

- it was still the PS3/Xbox 360 generation

- FromSoftware was still a niche game developer that no one cared about except masochistic edge-lords

- BioWare had just shattered the illusion they were infallible RPG makers with Dragon Age 2 and the mountain of negative reception it got

- MMORPGs were still the “the thing”

- the original Modern Warfare, Uncharted, Ezio-centric Assassins Creed, Gears of War, and Mass Effect trilogies were still on-going or had just released/were soon to release their final installments

- people were still trying to figure out if Grand Theft Auto V was being developed and still had to wait another 2 years for it to launch

- the “open world everything, even if it doesn’t fit the genre” craze hadn’t started yet

- The Witcher 2 had only released for the PC six months previously and consoles had to wait another year

- Ubisoft and Infinity Ward were still respected developers and their games were considered to be of top-shelf quality

- MineCraft released

- playing video games was still considered to be the hobby of children and neck-beard-having adult men who lived with their parents and cuddled an anime girl body pillow at night


Maybe that can help give some perspective to why Skyrim was considered “ground breaking” and praised so heavily in 2011.

[Siddha]

The game is praised because loads of people like it and enjoy playing it
It's been a top played game on Steam since it released in 2011
It's probably just not your kind of game... a different strokes & folks thing

[Wizard]

Originally posted by TheFibrewire:

Why is this game praised?

It has dragons.