The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition

A lot of things to do in this game, and the mods add even more. The CC content it is a nice touch. Still have some few old bugs, some for quests too.

I just finished my first and only playtrough. I wanted to discover and explore every location, read every book, complete every quest, talk to every character but instead found myself getting more and more annoyed with the UI and the bugs until the game no longer was fun. At that point I'd already sunk over 100 hours so I tried to convince myself to keep playing but couldn't ... maybe because I expected better from a game Bugthesda has been milking for over a decade. One star for the great content (characters, locations, quests, etc.), one more for the awesome community. That's it. Sorry. I lack the time, the patience and the tolerance.

I just brought the game after reading that i could dongrade to version 1.6.659 upon more reading to late at this point i cant downgrade anymore to this version because it has been updated too many times and previous downgrades are removed... I guess ill wait for them to fix it. 158GB Mods ready to go and soo yeah.. Good Times...

Todd has spoken. Skyrim must be released again. It is our sacred duty to buy it again. As many times as is necessary to fund Fallout in Space. Do it. You know you want to. You can't resist your natural instinct to consume media. Do not disappoint us.

Where to start? I'd been pulled in by all the hype - oh the pretty scenery and quests etc. But no wetness and other graphics seem older and buggier compared to FO4. Sure, mods can help, but things like SSEedit doesn't work out-of-the-box with GOG (see forums for how I got it working). Then there's the fighting - oh dear, hack and hope. And don't expect ironsights in 1st person (i.e. you don't look down the arrow/xbow bolt during aiming). Mods can help with the ironsighting but not the hacking. True, FO4 meleeing is only slightly better but then most players are also shooting too and that's done brilliantly compared to Skyrim. Death-shots and animations are buggy - oh yes, I'm sure mods might help but for an Anniversary Edition they should've fixed it. Even FO3 was miles better than this! Dungeons have something to them - the mini-puzzles are def better than Fallout's hacking, but I'm sure after a while that'll get old as the ones I've seen so far haven't differed much between themselves conceptually. I also find the names of places, things and people often silly and seem too forced/made-up, but then sadly that's typical in 95% of fantasy games, films and books that aren't super-deep in lore like say Lord of the Rings. This would be semi-forgiveable if at least the writing style in the books had some effort but sadly the prose is too modern - imagine a kid pretending to write in ye olde English but missing badly most of the time and often not really bothering at all. The quests! Oh the quests - oh no, the quests. Sorry, the smaller side quests are just as simple and hackneyed as Fallout's, and the main quest lines/choices no better really. Maybe if I'd played Skyrim first I'd have been ok with it, but having played FO4 first which is oft-maligned on this score I must say it's better than Skyrim. Sorry. Get the game on sale and mod it up to bearable for some long winter nights if and when you're bored.