Why is Skyrim so popular?

Reptylus · 2時間前

It's so expansive and huge but doesn't seem to help the player much.

Precisely. The Elder Scrolls just drops you into a world and let's you explore, so that you can find your own purpose. For players who need direction it provides a storyline to follow, but it forces no one to do anything. That is what makes this series as popular as it is.

inmatarian · 2時間前

You have to like wandering. The quick-travel feature is something that you shouldn't really be using. You can if you want, since its a game that lets you play how you want, but to get the full effect of the game, avoid using it. One good style of play is to frequent the taverns, always rent a room to sleep until morning (for the 10% experience gain bonus), if you need to get between cities either hoof it, or use a carriage. While you're in a region, do the quests that are closest before moving on to another region.

What starts to happen when you play this way is that you become intimate with the setting. Because you're taking in more of the world, you start to notice the fine details everywhere, and how instead of being one big story, Skyrim is a vast collection of lots of little stories.

Intelligensaur · 2時間前

Why is Skyrim so popular? Because nobody else makes games quite like the Elder Scrolls series.

Huge, open worlds where everything that isn't nailed down can be picked up, sold, or used to deck out your home. Tons of quests/missions/tasks available to point the player somewhere while still being secondary to them deciding their overall path and story. Abilities that improve through practice instead of a list.

Even with each successive game making changes to better appeal to a mass audience, Skyrim isn't for everybody. But it's perfect for certain people, like Counter Strike or League of Legends, and those people will gladly spend hundreds of hours in it.

SriX23 · 1時間前

As someone currently playing Skyrim for the first time, with no prior TES experience and just a little RPG experience, Skyrim does a great job of providing a massive, intricate world, greatly enhanced by really interesting lore. The way the lore is developed makes me feel like I really am part of a whole new world, with its own customs and established history.

I'm about 70 hours through, and didn't even finish the main quest until the 60 hour mark just because I was having so much fun just exploring the different areas of the world and doing sidequests.

Of course, since this is one of my first full-on RPGS (I've only played hybrids before like Deus Ex/Borderlands, and Pokemon), Skyrim itself feels like a whole new experience. But TES feels like a more complete fantasy world than any other fantasy series I've played/watched before.

boopaboopa · 2時間前

While there's not much cerebral going on under the hood in an Elder Scrolls game anymore, there aren't games like Skyrim or any other Elder Scrolls on the market (and by extension.. like Fallout 3, NV, and 4) that allows as much freedom to do whatever you absolutely want to (within reason).

That being said, I find Skyrim to be obnoxious with how much it (by default) guides you.

FIipFIop · 2時間前

If what drew you into the Witcher was the purpose the world and story gave you, my advice to you in Skyrim is to follow the main story line very, very closely. Get some mods to make the UI better. Definitely get the unofficial patch.

I'd like to say that the reason people typically love the Elder Scrolls is that the massive world doesn't give you a purpose, and you get to define that for yourself. If you're not that type of game you probably won't enjoy the Elder Scrolls.

vryheid · 1時間前

TES: Skyrim is a masterpiece of open world design, dumping the player in an expansive world with little to no artificial boundaries and tons of interesting cities and landmarks to encounter and explore. And while the graphics look a bit dated by modern standards, the natural environment and architecture is still gorgeous to look at. It's rare that an RPG can make players feel immersed in a fantasy world while avoiding the handholding that treats players like they're too stupid to make their own moral decisions (Witcher 3 not allowing Geralt to kill random townspeople, for instance). I don't think Skyrim is perfect by any means- the unbalanced combat on higher difficulties and the shallow NPC companion personalities are particularly irksome points for me- but I can't deny that the game has a charm and sense of wonder to it that no other game has managed to fully replicate.

Come into Skyrim with the mindset that you're an adventurer exploring a brave new world, out to discover treasure and survive against a harsh wild, and you'll have a much more enjoyable time than if you expect the kind of heavy handed dialogue-driven drama that games like Witcher 3 dishes out on a regular basis. I'm not saying that Witcher 3 is a better or worse game, but it's simply aiming for a different kind of experience and appeal than TES games are designed to offer.

cerialthriller · 1時間前

I just tried to play this game as an archer and it seems kind of impossible. You don't seem to get any kind of abilities to slow enemies in the beginning and the sneak attacks never seemed to be enough to take a guy down in one shot. Then I played a few hours as a normal sword and board but I jus my didn't have any fun with it

TheG-What · 2時間前

Mods.

The game was so moddable and the mod culture around it is so huge that it kept people invested in it for years.

There's a mod that turns dragons into Macho Man Randy Savage, or give you Luke Skywalker as a companion, or turns the game into a first person shooter.

People are still actively modding Skyrim and it will continue to thrive until Elder Scrolls Six comes out.

YuukiRus · 2時間前

It's just.. a good immersive game. There's no other RPG's that immerse the player like Skyrim does.

The world is amazing to explore and incredibly detailed. Mods have made the scenery around the world even more beautiful than the Witcher 3 at max settings can be and just in general it's a pleasant game. It has crafting, enchanting, blacksmithing and a large enough world to have you have a relaxing trip from city to city. Taking you a bit on horse back as you meet NPC's and see things happen in the world. It's.. just fun really. Every few years I come back to play again with new mods.

I also enjoy the in-game works. The lusty argonian maid is my favorite.

g_squidman · 14分前

I don't blame you for not liking it. It's not for everyone. I've play a lot of Bethesda games, and I didn't come close to finishing any of them besides Fallout 3. Of course, I also don't see the appeal of The Witcher. My experience with both series involve a lot of game breaking bugs.

Pokiarchy · 10分前

Lots of reasons.

Highly anticipated sequel in a long line of fantastic games. That almost automatically puts it in high regard even if it were to flop.

Practically infinite character customization. Giving it a great deal of replay value. You can play the game many different ways and have a very different experience. You can roleplay as a fictional character from a different fictional universe, or you can keep it simple and just play with different combat styles and dialogue. Although I would have been much happier if I could dual wield shields.

Huge world with not much restricting you from going wherever you'd like, save a few tailored story quests with unlockable areas.

Mods and mod stability. Like taking a 2d game and making it 3d, completely changes the game and your experience can be hand tailored by you to be exactly what you want, with a little elbow grease.

Format. For some reason no other company has been able to do this format better than Bethesda yet. Witcher 3 is an incredible game but there isn't much of any character customization or weapon choice, it's more like Zelda where your weapons are pretty much already decided, which is great in it's own way but isn't as open ended in the same sense.

Tons of lore. Metric tons of lore. In and out of the game

Sensory overload. Almost everything can be interacted with in some way. Almost every NPC either has something to say, something to do, or something they want you to do. Further making each playthough more unique. Even if you are the type to always start by turning left at a crossroad, your path can still vary wildly as different things will catch your eye.

Persistence. Something about how each NPC has their own shit to do, or how you can build a house and amass your collections there, or how when you kill a blacksmith, his apprentice will take over, or how you can be arrested for crimes days after you've committed them. Like the Dude's rug it just ties everything together.

roostersupporter · 8分前

Don't forget that Skyrim is almost 5 years old at this point. In 2011, the sales pitch was "see those mountains? You can go there!" <- THAT made people piss themselves with excitement.

Saints Row The Third and Dead Island don't hold up so well either (released in the same year).

erikb85 · 1分前

It's really hard to get started, but after you decided to head out in any random direction you get hooked into hundreds of stories and events. You need to overcome that initial hole but then you can't let it go because of its size.

Reptile449 · 1時間前

To play your own story. Skyrim and the other TES games and non F4 fallouts let you take any conceivable post-apocalyptic or fantasy idea you have and roll with it. The wide range of mods make this even easier and better. These games are to roleplayers as tabletop simulator is to tabletop players.

geoman2k · 56分前

It's a little unfair to compare the Witcher 3 to Skyrim, considering Skyrim is over four years older than it and Witcher clearly took a ton of influences from Skyrim. It's sorta like asking why people like Doom when Half Life is way better.

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