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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not great for PC – beware
I am not saying that this game is bad. It is fun to play but as an pc player that enjoys RPG's this game was a bit of a letdown. The same old thing: "streamlining", "trimming the fat" same as old dumping down and this is the real term. RPG it is not, more like shooter with RPG elements.
Things that I miss are:
More stats, not the endurance etc. , but how my standing and rep is with the world and fractions.
A bestiarium and better info screen about the things encountered.
Better menus
A graphic rep of my character with movable icons in inventory, instead of just scrolling down text menus.
Equipment, that gets worn down with usage.
This is a good game in many ways, and fun to play. But for pc it could have been a lot better. I thought that it was going to be like fallout in a fantasy world, but this game feel like 2 steps back from that and that game is 3 years old! This game feels more like World of Warcraft 2005.

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12-11-2011
Enos
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Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not great for PC – beware
Equipment does not degrade after usage and this is the reason that there is no armored repairing? There is a bunch of frigging whiners. I have it on PC and absolutely love it. It looks gorgeous on Ultra and the menus/controls aren't enough of a nuisance to ruin the experience.

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12-11-2011
Shikamaru Nara
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Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not great for PC – beware
If you play it on the setting it is meant to be played, the difficulty is great. At that point it is not just shoot and move. You need to get armor to increase stats, build your stats and abilities wisely (putting points on main focus and not to many) and create a character based on play desire. This means from the point you get to the college, you will need better gear to win better gear for certain fights (not main story dragons either) You will have to enchant items with potent abilities as mediocre will not cut it.

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12-11-2011
Badmannah
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Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not great for PC – beware
I agree with this. The TES series hasn't moved on in many ways while graphics improved somewhat (still looks quite lifeless at times). There are a lot of things stayed where they were fringing 5 years ago:
Wooden character animations (Trademark of Bethesda)
horrible menu system, even worse than Oblivion (i didn't think they could beat it)
mouse movement still feels very stiff and somewhat choppy
vsync still can't be disabled in the menu, same with mouse acceleration (seriously?)
It feels like Bethesda didn't learn anything in the past. I just hope they improved the game play. I am not that far yet. But it's disappointing to see the exact same annoyances again that I already encountered in Oblivion.

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12-11-2011
DevenderD
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Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not great for PC – beware
I am absolutely agreed with the opinion that Oblivion and Skyrim combined cannot even begin to compare to Morowind. Skyrim may be a god game and it may have a good story but its a console game and most PC users will hate it for it. Bethesda, please, when u make a game like this for PC at least make an effort to make a point and click menu for PC users not some console clone crap.

#6
12-11-2011
Halle
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Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not great for PC – beware
There are a few of the complaints are merited but when they deliberately ignore how Skyrim has improved over Oblivion I realize I have no common ground with them. Truth be told, most of the time they are comparing vanilla Skyrim to modded-Oblvion, not vanilla Oblivion. But I found that there is the best RPG created. Below is some more detail about this:
No Lag
Runs SMOOTHER than oblivion on my pc
See far far far into the distance
Details everywhere
This is what obivion should have been.

#7
12-11-2011
Daksha90
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Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not great for PC – beware
Here is my opinion of the game. I don’t understand why I have to be attacked for that? I am not hating the game, only giving constructive crit. I have been playing RPG's for 25 years that is the reason that I have a good idea of what I am talking about. The goofy key-mapping and interface do sound irritating, but I'm sure I can get over it. The rest of what you said is insignificant rambling about mechanical changes we've all known about for a VERY long time now.

#8
12-11-2011
Chakradevroy
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Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not great for PC – beware
I think that this is the best RPG game ever. Yet you don't mention any RPG elements to backup your argument. The OP is talking about RPG elements, not about "gorgeous graphics". One has nothing to do with the other. Maybe you should learn to read the OP and understand the points being made before replying. This is just because you have low standards doesn't much us whiners. It means we were expecting an RPG and got an action game with 6 year old graphics and console controls.

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12-11-2011
GaganGang
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Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not great for PC – beware
These kinds of complaints regarding the game to be more similar to the pen and pencil D&D that are totally stupid I agree. But why would you defend Bethesda's completely cashing it in on the PC? This is ridiculous. I understand that Personal Computers are going to be replaced with brain implants etc etc but come on right now a mouse and keyboard simply gives you more interface with any game than a console controller can and this is the reason thus if you are making a game for that controller, of course the game is going to be limited, and yes the Witcher 2 was horrible, but not because it has as many controls as microsoft flight simulator.

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12-11-2011
MACALL
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Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not great for PC – beware
I think that fallout 3 had more RPG elements. There are more information about the world and how to influence it. More things to manage and "worry about" that console people seem not to like. There is a deeper and more complex experience that "streamlined" games do not offer.

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12-11-2011
Irene-I
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Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not great for PC – beware
I think that it is regarding about time developers have stopped hyping lousy games or there will come a time when we just don’t expect them to release anything but this standard. You can consider this but I like games with depth and this one has as much depth as your average fps.

#12
15-11-2011
PhoebeM
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Re: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is not great for PC – beware
I think that the system you are using is not having the configuration that is required for the game to run and this is the reason that you are facing the issues like this. So what you can do is check for that with the minimum specifications required for the game.