Skyrim Special Edition First Impressions

The locations in Skyrim have been a huge disapointment. THey look interesting from the outside, but they are way to small to be even called villages. The last time I had the feeling like I explored a "town" in any Beth game, was with Vivec in Morrowind.
 
Listen up you dirty hater mob, sit down, play Fallout 3 and eat some Buenos and wait for Bethesda's dedicated modders to fix this beautiful reimagining of the greatest RPG of all time.

Let's be c00l about this, other people have always fixed Bethesda's mistakes.
 
Crni Vuk said:
The locations in Skyrim have been a huge disapointment. THey look interesting from the outside, but they are way to small to be even called villages. The last time I had the feeling like I explored a "town" in any Beth game, was with Vivec in Morrowind.
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The only 'city' that get the right feel is markath, if you couldn't do it with the scales; verticality and resettlement of abandoned ruin will do it
 
Yeah, Markath looked ok, for a Bethesda game. But still, if it should be believable, Markath should have been the castle of a town.

I mean just a few more structures, can add already a lot to the 'immersion' here. However ... it also becomes so obvoius how incredibly limited the Gamebyro engine is by now.



I am so glad, that even died hard Beth fans are slowly asking for Beth to use a 'new' engine. I know that all the modders start already to cry ... but seriously? How long do they want to use that fucked up and outdated version of Gamebyro that Beth developed? From Morrowind to Skyrim and now Fallout 4 it all feels like the 'same', shitty animations, faces, and the same old glitches.
 
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Seems the Bethesdrones are at hard at work. The ratings are up to 61% and I'm not sure if my own negative review will help stem the tide of stupidity at work.

Here's a few gems of denial and stupidity I found from browsing through the other 'positive' reviews on the front page:
I don't really get all the negative reviews on this. The graphics look much better, it runs well (I'm getting 80-100 fps on ultra with mods with a gtx 780), it's 64 bit now (yay for mod support!), and it was free if you owned the game/dlc already. It's also $25 cheaper than the original game+all dlc if you don't already own legacy Skyrim. Mods are rolling out extremely fast, and a lot of legacy Skyrim mods will work with some (if any) tweaking. No, there's no addition content, but Bethesda never claimed there would be, and this is a remaster, not a new TES game. It's also treated as a separate install, which means you can have both Skyrim editions installed simultaneously, so you can keep your old modded game (or maybe do one of the many overhauls like Enderal). Please stop complaining..
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I absolute love The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim And when i saw that Bethesda was releasing a Special edition i was really hyped
And also when i read that everyone who have The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Legendary Edition whould get this for free, i didn't know where to put myself. And now that the game is finally here i have to admit, it wasn't like i hoped it would be.

But Don't get me wrong! The remaster looks absolutely amazing then the original. But aside from that there was nothing else. No Quests, No Features, No Dialouge, No Weapons and No new character customizations, Everything from the Original is still there but nothing else besides the new graphics.

But i won't give it a Not Recommended, I still recommend this to everyone. And if you have a powerfull enough PC for this you should go for it. (If you really like better graphics) But if you have a more older PC and still want to play this masterpiece, just buy the original and wait to buy this when it's on sale.
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I don't understand the complaints here. There are two situations you'd likely be in if you have this game:
-You received the game for free because you already owned the game.
-You bought the game for the first time, where the regular price of this edition is lower than the regular price of the original with all DLC.

In both cases, having a slightly better version doesn't really hurt anyone.

Sure, many bugs aren't fixed and you can't really play above 60 fps still, but this edition contains no new issues from the original(as far as I could tell) and has a few added bonuses to the graphics. The most important improvement is that the game is now 64-bit, which will definitely help modding in the long run.

I don't really keep my expectations too high for remasters, as they typically don't contain many improvements, so I don't feel let down here(although I probably would if I had to buy this despite having the original).
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Maybe I'm in the minority but besides the Dwarven architecture and the kind of cool secret passageway located within the prison place, I found that place boring and never had a reason to go back besides a couple of quests that required you to go there.

CerberusGate said:
Seems the Bethesdrones are at hard at work. The ratings are up to 61% and I'm not sure if my own negative review will help stem the tide of stupidity at work.

Here's a few gems of denial and stupidity I found from browsing through the other 'positive' reviews on the front page:
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Good old damage control at work. Funny as I'm hearing how the game not only barely changed in terms of looks but runs even worse then the original game did. I would like to know how a game that still looks like shit by 2011 standards requires beefy equipment to run and it doesn't look all that different from the original game.
 
Crni Vuk said:
In 2 years we will get the remaster, of the remastered version. It will be the Ultramastered version of Skyrim.
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nice idea, remastered version for new 2016 pro console of 8th gen (ps neo and xbox scorpio)! /s
 
Crni Vuk said:
In 2 years we will get the remaster, of the remastered version. It will be the Ultramastered version of Skyrim.
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Maybe...and this might seem crazy...instead they'll abandon it if they can't get all of the mods reworked from the ground up to support the Mentally Retarded Edition and realize it's just not worth all the trouble they have to put up with.
 
I didn't played Skyrim because... well, fantasy and dragons are really not my thing.
And yes, I'm not a huge fan of Tolkien also.
On the other hand I really dig at the sci-fi genre, wich is considered a childish effort by most critics.

But to hell with them, old Nikola would fry them with Telas coils.
And I hear you C&C. :silly:

I'm currently waiting for Cyberpunk 2077 and today I received a alert from GoG about Tyranny.
Didn't knew about the game and the setting seems interesting, even in a fantasy world.
I think I will bite the bullet and buy.

But my issue here is: finally games are on the level with the so called "7th art, the movies".
That's it, the game industry is getting the same mediocre and awfull pattern of rebooting and repackaging the same material.
I get it, we are living in a hard economic era and this means studios and artists will make the safe bet concerning the return of their money.

But for fuck's sake. Doom reboot, Bioshock Remaster, Skyrim Remaster, endless AC that look all the same.
Heck, they even FUCKED my favorite frenchise, Star Trek (but after 'Enterprise' I losted all faith. "Hey Braga we have a problem with the setting, how we will solve it? Easy, just make a trip back in time" :facepalm:).
Even the Marvel's movies are getting the same pattern over and over, is the same type of story, only the set and wardrobe change.

And why when we talk about space everything needs to be like Star Wars?
At least Battlestar Galactica tried something different, even in the space fantasy genre.
 
In all honesty, I'm surprised that Bethesda remastered Skyrim as that dialogue system wasn't a wheel and it was more complex than Fallout 4's.
How will the fans cope?
Will someone please think of the children?
 
brfritos said:
I'm currently waiting for Cyberpunk 2077 and today I received a alert from GoG about Tyranny.
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Gotta say, with extensive modding support, Cyberpunk 2077 will bury F4 and Skyrim. The Witcher 2 kinda had that, but not on the same scale, since in terms of modding and game structure, it's closer to Deus Ex, another heavily modded game, but linear as a pile.
 
What is sad is that I expected to get a better frame rate from this since it was 64-bit game now but whatever the heck they did to the engine just majorly killed the frames on my machine. On the 32-bit Vanilla game I at least got 60+ frames and my machine isn't that powerful either. On this so-called "(un)Special Edition" my computer struggles to even maintain 20 fps. On top of that, Bethdrones say its more stable than vanilla! Blasphemy I say! It already crashed on me 5 times within 3 hours of playing it.. It's a waste of time. Just like FO4 imo.
 
Supermarauder said:
What is sad is that I expected to get a better frame rate from this since it was 64-bit game now but whatever the heck they did to the engine just majorly killed the frames on my machine. On the 32-bit Vanilla game I at least got 60+ frames and my machine isn't that powerful either. On this so-called "(un)Special Edition" my computer struggles to even maintain 20 fps. On top of that, Bethdrones say its more stable than vanilla! Blasphemy I say! It already crashed on me 5 times within 3 hours of playing it.. It's a waste of time. Just like FO4 imo.
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How DARE you disagree with Gopher! He has never been wrong before. When I grow up, Imma be just like him.
 
Heh, Metacritic scores.

Xbox, 6.4 user
PS, 6.5 user
PC, 5.1 user

Meanwhile the critics are
xbox, 84
PS, 80
PC, N/A (only three reviews, one at 90, one at 73, last at 60)

Surprisingly, there is a disparity between user and critic reception of a triple a title.
 
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