Skyrim places its players in a curious position by giving them the freedom to do anything and everything possible. This makes for a wonderfully immersive gaming experience at its best, but it’s also strangely hollow at times. Although the narrative hails you as the hero that fate has chosen to change the course of history, much of what you do in Skyrim has very little lasting effect on the world around you.
Questlines are often completed and villains defeated without much notice from most passers-by, except for an occasional comment from a guard or townsperson. Other questlines that may have seemed related are typically left untouched by your actions. This is a weird feeling.
Completing the game’s central storyline, which involves ridding the world of the urgent threat of the dragons, does not actually change the world or quests in a dramatic way. Dragons still fly around and attack you on sight. It can often seem a bit like you are an enormously powerful hero that no one is paying any attention to, despite your best efforts.
A new Skyrim Switch 2 update delivers major visual upgrades, surpassing some console settings, but locks the game to 30fps and introduces noticeable input lag.
That's ridiculous, lol. I'm waiting for the guy that says its too cpu-intensive for the Switch 2. This game is old af and has been released like 17 times.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith explains that the game's bucket stealth was an unintended feature of the game.
Lordbound is finally here.
A solid well-thought out piece that takes a thoughtful approach to how we play and what motivates us when we play. What makes Skyrim great is that it is so open, however the main quest seems to short and weak and the whole game would have been improved if the main quest couldn't be achieved until you had significantly affected the world by succeeding in other quests. Good stuff.
Skyrim only obtained GOTY due to its scope and ambition but in terms of substance it leaves a lot to desire and in terms of programming it's one of the worst coded games of the generation.
On the Elder Scrolls series the consequences of a game are usually seen on the next title (usually a century or so later)
Take Oblivion as an example, in that one you close the oblivion gates and that seems to be all, world is saved and everyone keep with their lives. But in the next years the world of the Elder Scrolls changed drastically due to those events: the empire weakened, the high elves rose to power, the provinces start rebelling... And we see on Skyrim the consequences of that.
I think that's part of the appeal of the series, changes take time (decades or more).