I'm disappointed the main quest is so meh.

Good game though.

 

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I like Skyrim.

But I too agree ratings are skewed.

If we are going by a school grading scale where F is fail, D is passing but not good, C is average, B is good, and A is awesome.

then the average game needs to be getting a C 70-79, the good games get Bs 80-89, and the awesome games get As 90-99. which is what it looks like they are doing, but grading it like that is stupid. why even have a score less then 50?

it should be 50 is average. that would give you a more detail graph to spread out the games.

I liked fall out new vegas and skyrim. the main quests did kinda suck but then I never really finished the main quests I stick to the open world exploration and so on so forth. bugs in new vegas bugged me too, I would have given it the score it received of 84. I liked skyrim too, but again bugs and lag issues due to large save files hurt it, I would have given it an 84 maybe an 85. it would have been a 90 if not for the bugs and the lag I encountered when my save file had over 30 hours in it. before 30 hours the game was bug free basically.

 

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When they said 95% they didn't mean 95% good, they meant 95% the same as Bethesdas other games.

 

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What would a game need to score 99?

Are there any games that score that high?

 

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I think 95% is fair and I've got issues with the game personally. But the truth is Skyrim is not my first video game. So I'm not a very good judge. I have 26 years of gaming baggage including very high expectations.


Not to mention, Skyrim has put a lot of effort into making all their hard work yours for the manipulating. I'm having more fun with the mods out there than I did with the play through.

 

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Both of the above games get a Nostalgia rating of 99%!

 

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Here is the problem.. Either they have to retroactively knockpoints off of older titles or they need to keep raising the grade.

The original pac man was awesome at the time it came out, its worth a 10 on todays scale... But if pac man is still on the site with a 90 score then it skews everything because this new game is better.

In other words the game ratings are useless.

I'm sorry for you young people but you just had to be there. I can't understand the joys of pinball but my parents would rate pinball in the 90s.

 

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I am 100% sure that 0% of all games in the Yukiverse deserve a 95% rating.

 

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If you still have Morrowind, I ran across a mod on another forum that updates the graphics to Oblivion-like quality. Obviously not as good as Skyrim but vastly improved over the original graphics.

http://morroblivion.com/ (ETA: You have to have Oblivion installed and iirc all the expansions as well in order to use this mod)

And about the only advantage Morrowind has over Skyrim is the UI. Morrowind's UI isn't spectacular but it was done right, whereas apparently the Skyrim devs thought that the only place Skyrim would ever be played is on a console.

 

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