Why Skyrim is better than Oblivion

I think, as mature adults we can all agree on here that TES Oblivion was a load of old ***. Lets be honest. The main story line was ***. The questing, world, caves, monsters, combat was all a load of ***.

And most importantly the oblivion gates was nothing but pure ***. And not Fine ***. But fat ***. That final story mission that big fight, the whole point of you running all over the place like a headless chicken to raise an army only to find out its actually about 5 blokes fighting 5 other blokes? That was a load of old **** and it was at that point i threw that load of rubbish in my bin.

So it's natural for you all to presume Skyrim is a load of old *** too. Well you are mistaken.

Lets address the points i raised earlier and compare;

MAIN STORY LINE; Theres no ******* gates that all look identical that i have to go through. So it wins already. In place of these gates? Dragons. Now a dragon is way **** cooler than a crappy gate. Fact. Theres nothing like walking out your house one morning only to find a dragon laying siege to the town. And it does happen. They can and do fly around at random blowing **** up. Saying that in my 9 hours playtime I've seen exactly one and he buggered off over a mountain and refused to come down and fight me. Coward. It's because i had a badass skull printed on my robe. Like the punisher.

WORLD: Gone is the boring empty fields polluted with ugly oblivion gates. Now we've got a pretty winter wonderland. With dragons flying around. Dragons. I can now also steal anything i **** like and the AI doesn't have the ability to read my mind and just flat out punish me for doing something they had no way of knowing I'd done. Oblivion really was a load of old *** wasn't it?

CAVES: I'm a very easily distracted person. If i see a big hole i usually like to clime down it. In Oblivion that always meant going down a hole, standing in a narrow hall and spending 30 minutes trying to kill a rat because oblivion was a load of old *** and despite the fact you was a hero you couldn't kill **** without dedicating an hour of your time hacking away at boring stupid enemys. What a load of crap that game was. In Skyrim the caves are big and vast, theres interesting puzzles and mad lootz. Unfortunately there are no dragons in caves. At least not that I've seen yet...i did find a wooly mammoth in one however so that's cool.

MONSTERS: What did you have in Oblivion? Bugger all. Boring generic crap. You went into a boringivion gate and met some idiot that took 6 hours to kill then you left again. ZZZZZZZZZZ. What a load of old ***. There are Dragons in Skyrim. And Mammoths. Unfortunately they've kept idiotic races like those giant walking cat people but i make it a point to stab every one of those that i see. I plan to wipe the entire race out because there **** stupid as hell. I believe they was introduced in Oblivion. So unfortunately some of the old **** from that game has carried over into this one but you can ignore it.

COMBAT: Now this was the biggest killer of Oblivion. What a load of old *** the combat was. You'd spend a year hacking away at a rat till it died. Literally hacking awya, running back, healing, hack away REPEAT X9001 fact. this has been fixed somewhat in Skyrim by allowing me to dual wield spells. So now with the ability to shoot fireballs with one hand and zap with the other i am **** OP and able to kill most things fairly quickly. To the point where i very rarely need to heal. I just got done murdering a boss dude + 4-5 of his buddys. This would of been impossible in Oblivion. Remember the last fight? It was total ***. It was a 5v5. Boring as **** but they couldn't add anymore enemys in cause killing 5 dudes would of taken you a couple of months as it is. Now this isn't a problem so you can actually feel like a powerful hero instead of a loser that struggled to kill a rat. Now you can take down and kill dragons. Real fire breathing, flying dragons.

It's a good game. I give it a toe up.



Dragons are cool. Oblivion gates are a load of old ***.

Indeed. Skyrim is a definite improvement over Oblivion. They have actual level designers that made the dungeons and whatnot instead of the art crew. The are way more voice actors and the voiceovers in the game are actually more varied, save for the guards. The guards still tend to say the same line over and over again ("watizit?"). More importantly, the character models don't look absolutely hideous this time around. However, melee combat is still more or less the "hit, backpedal, repeat", but at least the magic has been overhauled. Playing a nearly-pure mage character is actually possible now. Exploding fireballs of doom!

Though really a gripe for people with the PC version (like me), the UI is clunky and inelegant, but it's easy to get used to and it's actually pretty easy to manage if you don't use your mouse at all in the menus.
Also, 8 hotkeys is not nearly enough. I got way too many spells I need flinging at a bandit's face. My favorites menu is getting pretty cluttered. Speaking of cluttered, things in chests aren't sortable by type anymore. It's in a somewhat alphabetical order, so my loot chest in my house is getting harder and harder to sift through.
nine hours of playtime? i got 50




Also the kajiit (the cat people) have been in the Elder Scrolls lore for a bit, same with the argonians (the lizard people).

i'm just going to wait for people to patch it up. still hear it is buggy.

Yeah apart from an annoying menu bug i keep getting the only other bug I've come across is a flying mammoth.

I mean they had so much development time, everyone expected it to better than oblivion. I'm just happy they took time on it and weren't all about money.

Well of course its better. Oblivion came out six years ago. That was standard. You're complaining about things every game has

well this is nice aint it?


THE BUZZ: Bethesda has released a new update for the PC version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim which stops the use of third-party patches that change the executable file.

If you update your copy of Skyrim you will be unable to use third party patches that change the executable file in order to improve graphics and performance etc, such as one patch that allows the game to use more than 2GB of RAM in order to run more performance demanding mods. The update also forces all versions of the game to use Steam in order to prevent piracy so people can no longer circumnavigate the service.

EGM’s TAKE: Nothing major here as Bethesda is just covering its own back, preventing its code from being tampered with.

I've rented Skyrim for my xbox two weeks in a row from the Redbox kiosk. If I had the fund's I will buy it but will have to wait for a pre-owned copy that's cheaper. The game is simply overwhelming, so many places to go and things to do. The graphics are pretty, although I did see quite a few buggy areas, especially with the water, (whole sections of water were missing in the middle of a river). Also did encounter a mammoth who kept getting stuck between a rock and tree, and kept floating up into the air.

Typically on a game like this, I will just start a character, play it for awile, then start a new character once I learn from all the mistakes I made from the first character. For instance when I first started, I was constantly being over encumbered with stuff, so on my second character, I focused on making as much gold as I could so I could buy a house for storage, that way I could keep all the goodies I picked up rather than having to sell it all off for space.

I like to just go out and explore, rather than do quests right away. Usually I get myself into fight's I'm that I can't handle yet. One particularly funny one was when I first encountered a Giant. I started ranging it, just to see if I could do any damage, and before I knew it, it killed me with one hit, sending me flying up into the air head over heals, lol.

I've logged past 100 hours in Skyrim and I haven't even gotten much into the main quest. I mostly do dungeon raiding looking for better equipment and other loot. Armor does not decrease your magic effectiveness like it did in Oblivion, so feel free to use some pieces of armor to give you some defence. Playing like a battlemage is pretty fun too, especially since you won't have the "I'm out of magicka" issue nearly as often. I also wouldn't have that problem if my 350% magicka regen rate worked in combat.