First off, I want to make this very clear: I like Skyrim. I do. It has succesfully succeeded Dragon Age as my rpg fix and for good reason. It's expansive, epic and, above all, entertaining. Every game has its flaws, however. Whether that be in story, gameplay or whatever. Skyrim is no exception.
Therefore, I present to you...
My Criticisms:
1) The companions... and I don't mean the mercenary group. One thing I adore about rpgs are the relationships and interactions between you and your teammates. Bioware games in particular excel at this. In Skyrim, there is absolutely no grounds what-so-ever for establishing any kind of relationship with your companions other than the lore you create in your head outside of the game. I hate having a souless piece of meat with an axe follow me around without any potential means of atleast driving some kind of sub-plot.
2) Ugly character creation options. I'm incredibly vain when it comes to character creation... if it's a human, he must look somehwat like me... and if not, then he has to look how I would look if I were that race. It's simply hang up I have, I don't know why... probably because I'm obsessed with myself. Anyway, I've made atleast three characters so far, all Elves (a Dark Elf, a Wood Elf and most recently a High Elf) and now matter what I do, they all look ugly as sin. And before you say that's because that's how Elves are supposed to look in Elder Scroll you can stop right in your tracks because I have seen many an attractive npc Elf in Skyrim, and I have had no problem making one in Oblivion. So why haven't I just gone with a human race, like a Nord or an Imperial? Well, while it may be true I have yet to make a human character that doesn't mean that I haven't messed around with creating one before. All ugly as fuck. Maybe I'll just make a cat-man...
More to come...
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