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Award: Editor’s Choice November 2011
November 2011
 
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The editors liked

  • Vast
  • Vast world to explore
  • Dungeons and caves are wonderfully differentiated
  • Graphics and sound are for the most part incredible to behold
  • It's Skyrim
  • In VR
  • Most mods for the base game still work
  • Well written plot
  • Highly interactive world
  • Detailed role-playing
  • Superb visuals
  • Voice acting
  • Soundtrack
  • Enormous
  • Highly interactive game world
  • Provides almost limitless options for playing
  • Replaying
  • A revamped leveling system allows for more streamlined play
  • The graphics are out of this world for an Elder Scrolls game
  • And for any game of this type
  • The narrative is top of the line
  • And easily puts this in my GotY list
  • Incredible amount of content
  • World feels alive
  • More than enough improvements to the Bethesda RPG formula
  • Engaging quests
  • Great new leveling and combat system
  • Did we mention the content?
  • Mayhem and wonder can lurk behind every bend
  • Every hill
  • And every mountain
  • Main quest line is an improvement from Oblivion
  • Dualwielding and Shouts make combat more fun
  • Enchanting
  • Making potions
  • And crafting weapons is easy
  • And for some
  • Likely quite enjoyable.
  • Immense world stuffed with varied tasks to perform
  • Dragon battles are a blast
  • Lovely art design capped by some beautiful
  • Atmospheric touches
  • Enjoyable battles that you can approach in a variety of ways
  • Lots of compelling
  • Selfcontained stories to experience in addition to the main one.
  • Multiple control schemes for all comfort levels
  • Unofficial mod support works well
  • No VR game is larger or more complete than this
  • Freedom of an Elder Scrolls game
  • But in VR
  • Immersion and scale is pretty impressive

The editors didn't like

  • Combat isn’t very visceral
  • And victories and losses feel unearned
  • Menus and interface are terrible
  • While the world is wide open
  • Most quests and dungeons are very linear
  • Bugs abound
  • Especially with physics
  • Carries over a lot of baggage from its non-VR roots
  • Uses the original 2011 visuals
  • Not the remaster's
  • Awkward controls
  • Outdated graphics
  • Some bugs
  • Quirky interfaces sometimes frustrating
  • No multiplayer mode
  • The combat mechanics can be somewhat off – especially when fighting brain dead AI
  • Your followers are just a brain dead as the enemies
  • Skills need to be weighted differently to make it more of an enjoyable experience
  • Interface is gamepad friendly
  • Does little to take advantage of the PC platform besides the improved visuals
  • Companions are still dumb as a bag of rocks.
  • Technical issues could ruin moments for some players
  • It's too easy to go into "sneak" mode when backing up with the control stick. I've been playing the PC version of The Elder Scrolls V
  • Skyrim on my home PC
  • Which has an Intel i7 950 processor running at 3.07 GHz with 6GB of RAM and two HD 5770 videocards running in Crossfire. After 34 hours of playing Skyrim
  • I've noticed a number of things
  • Glitches and bugs frequently disrupt the immersion
  • Friendly AI is often more of a hindrance than a help.
  • Menus are pancake versions floating in space
  • Interaction elements (conversations
  • Objects) are button presses
  • Some ugly textures without mods
  • The usual Skyrim level of bugs

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  Published: 2011-11-20, Author: Devin , review by: techcrunch.com

  • vast, vast world to explore, dungeons and caves are wonderfully differentiated, graphics and sound are for the most part incredible to behold,
  • Combat isn’t very visceral, and victories and losses feel unearned, Menus and interface are terrible, While the world is wide open, most quests and dungeons are very linear, Bugs abound, especially with physics
  • Despite the serious faults in many of the game mechanics, Skyrim is a triumph because what it succeeds in outweighs those flaws (which may be fixed by patches and mods) by an enormous amount. The world is the richest and most lovingly created that I’ve...

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  Published: 2011-11-20, review by: gameplaymonthly.com

  • Abstract:  The game places you in humble beginnings. You are, to no surprise for people familiar with the Elder Scrolls series, a prisoner when the game begins. Events unfold, a dragon tries to eat you, and suddenly you are a prisoner no more. This is where pla...

 
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  Published: 2011-11-20, review by: gameobserver.com

  • Yet overall, Skyrim does deliver a profound experience. The main storyline is interesting enough to make you want to see it through to the end, and the sometimes random encounters you will have with dragons will keep things exciting and bursting out o...

 
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  Published: 2011-11-18, Author: Staff , review by: gadgetreview.com

  • A revamped leveling system allows for more streamlined play, The graphics are out of this world for an Elder Scrolls game, and for any game of this type, The narrative is top of the line, and easily puts this in my GotY list
  • The combat mechanics can be somewhat off – especially when fighting brain dead AI, Your followers are just a brain dead as the enemies, Skills need to be weighted differently to make it more of an enjoyable experience
  • For RPG fans, this is definitely Game of the Year material – especially if you're a fan of the Elde...

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  Published: 2011-11-11, review by: cheatcc.com

  • Abstract:  As incredible as The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was in 2006, it hasn't aged well. While it's still capable of hooking players into tens of hours of questing, it looks terrible, it crashes periodically, its load times are excruciating, and its combat is...

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  Published: 2011-11-11, review by: armchairempire.com

  • Abstract:  With other Bethesda role-playing games I've often fallen into the trap of pursuing side quests to buff up my character and to help fill-out the universe in my own mind. What often happens then is that I suddenly have what feels like too many quests i...

 
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  Published: 2011-11-10, review by: pcmag.com

  • Superb visuals, voice acting, soundtrack, Enormous, highly interactive game world, Provides almost limitless options for playing, replaying,
  • Some bugs, Quirky interfaces sometimes frustrating, No multiplayer mode,
  • Building on the advances of the previous games in the landmark Elder Scrolls series, the latest chapter, Skyrim, is the most detailed, immersive, and engrossing yet. ...

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  Published: 2011-11-10, Author: Mike , review by: gamespy.com

  • Incredible amount of content; world feels alive; more than enough improvements to the Bethesda RPG formula; engaging quests; great new leveling and combat system; did we mention the content?
  • Interface is gamepad friendly; does little to take advantage of the PC platform besides the improved visuals; companions are still dumb as a bag of rocks.
  • It's great to hear that Skyrim has lived up to all of its potential and more. Personally, I can't wait for the mod community to get their hands on the game and start crafting out even more content. This is a great time to be a PC gamer for sure...

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  Published: 2011-11-10, review by: gamezone.com

  • Abstract:  Yes. Taking place about 200 years after the events of Oblivion, players are now thrust into the lands of Skyrim. On the verge of meeting their doom, players soon find out that Dragons are no longer just beasts of myth, and the player isn't just anothe...

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  Published: 2011-11-10, Author: Kevin , review by: cnet.com

  • Abstract:  The province of Skyrim might be frigid, but the role-playing game that takes place within it burns with a fire few games possess. In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you take up arms against dragons, and your encounters with them are invariably exciting--...

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