The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition

To be honest I wasn't all that impressed with Skyrim. I played the original game for hours struggling not be bored enough with the repetitive dungeons, poor story line and general blandness of the game so as not to just quit playing. Short story is that I finally just dressed it up with some mods to in order to breath some life into it. My advice would be, if you own the original game, to Mod it and just hard pass on this BS. If you've never played Skyrim and have a desperate need to form your own opinion, then dive in and purchase this now while it's on sale. By the way I'm pretty sure that this review will most likely end up hidden in the last pages with the rest of the honest reviews. Hint...if you want to know what people really think of any game on GOG click on the last page, as the first ones will mostly always be five stars hmmm???

Maybe there's something I'm missing, maybe if I had played Morrowind and/or Oblivion first, I'd feel different, but there's nothing getting me to care. NPCs are well voice-acted, but most of the dialogue reminds me of when I was in like 2nd or 3rd grade English class and had to write something for an assignment while meeting a specific word count. It's just filler and most of what I hear isn't necessary to get a quest done. That's even before you see the game will put a marker showing exactly where I need to go as if my attention span can't handle exploring a specific location for more than 60 seconds. The game doesn't hinder me in any way, let alone offer a challenge, even at higher difficulties when it comes to exploring the world. All upping the difficulty does is make enemies more of a tank that hit harder, but I can still see a marker showing me exactly where I need to go to complete a quest as if I have keys jingling right in front of me to keep me entertained. Combat, at first glance, seems a bit more varied and strategic given you have melee weapons, magic, and can use a bow with arrows. But then you realize combat is dead easy when you horde a ton of health potions and no other type of potion because soon nothing else will matter, only get up close and melee enemies, and when needed, use a health potion because you'll end up with like 50 on you and it'll take a bit for you to run low. And with a player improving their melee damage instead of magic or use of bows, it won't take long for wacking an enemy to deal more damage than magic or a bow. Could I decide to play differently so the game isn't a boring slogfest? Yes. Would it be any fun to deal with the limited amount of magika or arrows I have when swinging a melee weapon is just pressing mouse 1? No. No wonder my peers liked this game when I was a pre-teen. It was so easy they didn't have to bother thinking and could shut their brains off after school. Still doesn't mean the game is good.

I baught this game like 5 times already. First owned it on XBOX 360, then Skyrim, then Special Edition, then Anniversary Edition and finally GOG Anniversary Edition. Modding is a breeze once you concentrate and know things properly. This game was the very first that braught me into RPG gaming and up to today, with the mods, it's my top favorite. If this is your first buy, then go for it, if this is your 2nd, 3rd or nth buy, then wait for the special but nothing feels better than owning a game for real without the need of internet access. I loved the good old times we could have DVD and CD games. Worth every penny I spent! Thank you GOG!!!

Well morrowind is probably the best one but this i played the longest. Look witcher and cyberpunk this is how a rpg should look like. Giving players full agency over their character and if they can do whatever they want. Witcher is a great action adventure tho and cyberpunk is a decent shooter so look and learn cdpr

I don't think this price is correct for a very old game. The game is good but I can wait for a price drop before buy. Please adjust price for Brazil.