Its clear Skyrim is a great game. What DON'T we like about it?

Mainecolbs · 3 months

Too hard to play a true "good guy"

Wraith1985 · 3 months

The anti-climax to pretty much every quest line

bone_the_flesheater · 3 months

I wish the dark brotherhood questline had more varied assassinations like in oblivion.I mean what ever happend to kiling someone a certian way to get a bonus.

SlothOfDoom · 3 months

The horrible, clunky, unoptimized console-port bullshit UI.

It's like handing someone the keys to a brand new Ferrari, but when they get in they have a 3" chunk of driftwood to change gears with, the pedals are made of splintered glass and the steering wheel is just an old shoe attached to a couple of chunks of string.

erock0546 · 3 months

After I played Skyrim, I played Red Dead Redemption again after a long time. Red Dead Redemption is also an awesome game, and I think that after playing it the horses in Skyrim are terrible. It feels like you are just moving faster, not riding a horse ( a big difference )

SketchyLogic · 3 months

I don't think I've seen it mentioned...

The combat feels a little "light". Even with a heavy sword, it can still feel like I'm lightly slapping through an opponent, rather than smashing them with an enormous piece of steel. The normal hits are not "meaty" enough.

tastes_of_vanilla · 3 months

Hm. Ah yes.

All the frickin' bugs. Not the ones crawling on tree stumps but all that faulty/broken code in the PS3 version.

Ragnrok · 3 months

The fact that I spend about 75% of my time underground.

CreeDorofl · 3 months

All the mechanics are in place for some interesting puzzles, but they didn't bother making any. In fact they're kind of dumbed down. Example: you can remove an item from a pressure plate to trigger a trap, which is always right next to the plate. Why not have a locked door, with a pressure plate on the other side... and you must use a shout to knock it off the plate to open the door?

There's exactly one situation custom-made for your whirlwind sprint shout, and they made it really different and obvious. Why not more doors that close too fast without using the shout?

There's exactly one situation where you can shoot an arrow at a target to drop down a bridge, and it's completely optional, and they spell it out exactly what you must do. Why not more arrow targets that trigger useful events?

And why not less rotate-the-pillar-to-match-the-picture-sitting-right-next-to-it...

UI glitches drive me nuts... I'm buying or selling something and the highlighted item randomly leaps to something else. I just sold something accidentally and now I gotta reload or buy it back for triple what it's worth. I want to grab the bandit's gold but I grab his Heavy War Axe of Poor Weight-to-Value Ratio. I want to place a marker exactly where I am, but for some reason that's forbidden. I want to click on a town on the map but quest arrows get in the way.
Everything needs multiple clicks and confirmations... fast travel, smelting ore, making leather, crafting a weapon, it seems like I have to click twice for most dialogue options too. The time I waste if I click the wrong thing without confirmation... is so much smaller than the time I waste having to confirm every little thing.

Fhwqhgads · 3 months

Stop putting stuff labeled "steal" right in freakin front of the merchant!

Also, how do guards know what I stole if nobody caught me stealing it?

What's the point of leveling Speech if I can very rarely use the persuade/intimidate options?

People can survive an arrow to the face.

Delphine is a bitch.

Chelss · 3 months

Also, I wish they wouldn't have made the button to pick up things the same button that takes objects.

Chelss · 3 months

They should have let you bring more people into the torture chamber at the end of the DB questline. They could have made it an unending quest that every time you kill the four people in it, you can go and capture more people. It could have had different ways to do it aswell, for example, when they go to sleep you can sneak into their house and capture them without waking them up, so they wake up in the torture chamber. Or they could have made it so you can lure them into a secluded place and capture them there. They could have also made it so, at the end, all of the quests they give you aren't just to kill one person after another. You could recruit more members, or even make new sanctuaries sometimes. Bethesda could have done so much more with the DB than they did.

theshakinghand · 3 months

The fact that no one except the guards seem to notice what you do in the game. If I'm Archmage of the college, my reputation should precede me, even if the response is just seething hatred since Nords hate magic. If I'm a thane in every hold and harbinger of the companions, Nazeem should have to find another way of being a dick to me other than, "Do you get to the cloud district very often?" I guess in general, I wish your accomplishments affected your interactions with the world more.

Also, I've never seen this bug mentioned before, but since I really wanted my first character to be a conjurer, it killed me. I found that conjuring anything from a familiar to a dremora lord only works like every five or six times. It still drains magicka but nothing appears. It's the most annoying fucking thing, especially in the middle of combat - it basically makes the conjuration school unplayable. My game is fully updated but it still happens. Does it happen for anyone else?

MilkTrain · 3 months

I hate how at the beginning of the game, I forgot to pick a fucking blessing stone because my RPG senses told me to go exploring rather than follow the dude that got me out of Helgen Keep.

IAMGodAMA · 3 months

Okay, so I'm going to go see the Jarl of whiterun.

I guess I'd better go fast travel to Dragonsreach (loading screen)

Open door to dragonsreach (loading screen)

It's night so everyone's sleeping- have to go to Jarl's quarters (loading screen)

okay I talked to him better go (loading screen)

out the front door to whiterun (loading screen)

fast travel to wherever I was going (loading screen)

edit: it's brutal switching from one spell set to the other, then switching to melee gear after your magicka is depleted mid battle.

Turin_The_Mormegil · 3 months

The PC's dialogue choices (most feel like placeholder dialogue), the minuscule cities compared to Oblivion and Morrowind, the utter brevity of the guild questlines, the dearth of guilds, lack of karma system, LACK OF INTER-GUILD INTERACTION, massively simplified quest structure (even if some of the quests are brilliant).

And I can't kill Maven Black-Briar. For the good of the Thieve's Guild.

LinuxBoi · 3 months

The main quest, I was like - is that it!?!?!?!?

OutlawGrrl · 3 months

The glitches, though sometimes hilarious, have a huge impact on gameplay, making some quests impossible to complete without console commands.
Making money is too easy and there aren't enough cash sinks to justify it.
There aren't enough factions. Instead of hundreds of little quests, I'd prefer an expansion on the following factions, including option to join: Foresworn, Thalmor, Vigilants of Stendarr, Orc Strongholds and the Bard's College. Hopefully we'll get to see some of this in DLC.
The fact that you can't manually rotate objects you pick up. This would make decorating my house 1000x easier. It's such a small thing and I can't figure out why it wasn't included.
Your race has very little impact on game play. A few race specific quests would be nice.
Much of the armor you can craft is boring or ugly. This may be a minor pet peeve, but it's something I feel could be fixed by creating more than one race specific set of armor. It would be possible to learn recipes for other racial variants simply by talking to blacksmiths.

Th3JestersWine · 3 months

NO RUN JUMP! I wish i could catch serious air when parkouring around Markarth...

GravCat · 3 months

I hate how they made Khajiits and Argonians look really good, but you don't see them often in towns and stuff.

EEAtheist · 3 months

I wanted to be able to join the Vigilants of Stendarr and wipe out the Thieves Guild.

And while I could get same-sex married, why were there no other same-sex couples? And why were all the opposite-sex couples vicious harpies to each other?

drugrug · 3 months

That I can never go to Markarth and the quest with the dead lady in the graveyard in Solitude bugged out. I also think its too dark

zesk · 3 months

You can't become jarl of a hold

domelife · 3 months

The fucking UI. Why cant I sort how I want.

Only 2 hot button?!?! This shit takes me out of a fight and out of the game all the time.

Quest bugs. Bard's is fucked for me, White Phile is too.

The magic is pretty weak IMO, other might not agree.

The stupid map. Why are you covered in clouds. You are a map.

And most of all the fact that they lied about the game. Watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic6dKnv3WdU from E3.

They upsold many of the features in the game and when I went searching to do these things, I was very disappointed.

Still a great game (Im 100 hours in) but I cant help thinking that it is an oblivion upgrade with awesome graphics.

canada1289 · 3 months

I don't like how if you want to start a new character, you have to sit through the intro cutscene, and escape from helgan each freaking time.

In oblivion you could save right before you left the first dungeon, and it would ask you right before you leave if you want to change you stats. Wish that had done that in this game.

MrCamilla · 3 months

Too many Darugrs
Guild quests too short
You cant play the good guy
All the robes are ugly
You cant really choose a side to take in a quest. You just do what you are told.

anonymousanger · 3 months

Everything involving verbal interactions is absolute shit. If you want to feel worse, play Bethesda's last title, Fallout 3, and realize how much fun you're having just talking to NPCs, than compare that to Skyrim.

CSec064 · 3 months

This could just be me not understanding the mechanics but sometimes jumping and shout keys just... don't work. I can't tell you how many times I've died by a bear randomly rushing me and I try to shout it but... nothing. Bar is full, nothing is preventing me from shouting but I cant.

Seems like I can't jump sometimes when I REALLY need to be able to. For instance, I try to jump up onto a short level in a tomb to avoid getting killed because I have about 10% health... clearly a one hit death but it just doesn't respond. I thought for a while if your stamina bar was empty you couldn't jump but thats not true, so I don't know what the hell causes these problems.

WarriorMouse · 3 months

Dragons would be a more fun to fight if their bones didn't way a fuck ton.

And the bugs of course, the quest breaking bugs. I can't join the Dark Brotherhood because of a quest bug on ps3.

madestro · 3 months

I don't like the fact that I can't pay someone to craft, enchant and make potions for me. I have to waste perks into that even though I'm a thief assassin that wants his perks for something else.

Iceman303 · 3 months

How shorts the guilds were, how boring dragon fights become and how there is so much Draugr fighting.

oli704 · 3 months

Well you know, at high level in sneaking its really stupid to try to rob someone, have you seen the AI? you crouch and no one sees you even if you tea-bag them

kmpage · 3 months

I wish that the dragonborn's race had any effect on gameplay. It'd be tough to make a separate quest line for each race, since there are so few members of each minority in Skyrim, but it'd be nice to have at least a few to explain how your character even got to Skyrim.

I also wish there were more armor sets... mostly for aesthetic purposes. I use daedric armor because it's the strongest, but it makes you look evil. I also wish the Companions quest line came with some better armor.

username-rage · 3 months

I'm personally quite annoyed at the vender system. It was much better in fallout due to the fact you could sell back to the vendor until they were in the whole and use their debt to buy their merchandise all in the same transaction.

This wouldn't be so bad if all the vendors weren't so poor.

BeardToast · 3 months

As a console gamer two words. Loading screens.

Zakerias · 3 months

I really like Skyrim, but...

almost no secrets or very hard to reach places (like Mundane Grotto, Eltonbrand, Fin Gleam, Dive Rock, Tukushapal)
no new recipes for cooking (i was really expecting this)
unable to craft/enchant arrows
unable to craft falmer armor or any faction armor (no armor recipes)
no house with a forge
leveling smithing is broken
perks in lockpicking are not worth it
final thieves guild quests should not be in a random city (vex/delvin missions)
difficult object control
no 'unlock' spell for alteration
unable to bash locks
finishing guilds quests have little impact on the world
UI is horrible, containers don't sort armor and weapons alphabetically (thankfully there is SkyUI)
no carriages in smaller cities
no fighter/thief stronghold
book cabinets are too few and don't display books properly
stolen/found horses return to their spawn
many items respawn to their original location (very annoying inside house)
becoming thane doesn't really give you any privileges
unable to remove follower base equipment
master locked chests should always contain master loot
enemy AI/FOV is hilarious when sneaking
you can't make Balgruuf side with the Stormcloaks (this is why i hate the Stormcloaks.)
quest items shouldn't appear before accepting a fetch quest
no visible borders (like a little sign that says 'you are now entering The Pale')

RubSomeFunkOnIt · 3 months

too few giants, too many annoying dragons, some shouts really suck. I thought I was going to be some super badass when I started a 2-handed character, cleaving people in twain and crushing skulls and shit. Turns out I'm just knocking on people's shields about 10 times waiting for them to die. And blocking with a 2-handed weapon is bullshit. The bash animation takes forever, bashing rarely works, it takes a long time to get into the block position, it takes a long time to recover from the bashing position so the enemy just puts their fucking shield back up.

Hopefully this'll get better now that I got The Longhammer and Elemental Fury.

SaiyanKirby · 3 months

My biggest nitpick with the game is the fact that I can't fast travel when enemies are around. I can quite easily just run the fuck away, so why is the game treating me like I have no legs as soon as a mudcrab walks by me? Even the fastest enemies are easy to evade.

Planet_Rewind · 3 months

I dont really have a list of dislikes but I have a list of what I want in skyrim

new shouts
more spells and better balancing, I want to be a fucking mage, dual wield lightning and own people, not carry around a sword for up close area's.mgic is energy, energy is strong, so magic should be stronger? (coming from a conjuration build mage)
more daedric quests, I love them
the ring of hircine should not be unequipped when you are a werewolf, so you dont have to reequip it and select the power
EVEN MORE VOICE ACTORS, skyrim really needs more voices, while it is a vast improvement over oblivion, its akward having two people talk to each other in the same voice 6.Dragons need to be MUCH harder, and even more rare, I want to feel like OH SHIT A DRAGON not meh ok its a dragon ill get it n a sec.
I want to be recognized, if im the fucking arch mage I dont want farengar telling me to sign up for the college of winterhold
it seems like every cave or catacomb is filled with dragurs, there should be a bit more diversity to the dungeons (werewolves? giant snakes? a twisted version of your spirit that cant be killed until you find the end o the dungeon? maybe? i dont know)
expanded guild quests, they all need to be as long as the main quest (the main quest should be three times longer
more area's (bigger towns, other countries, etc) I would love to go to cyrodil and see how they are doing after all those years ago with mehrunes dagon and all that, maybe even high rock, and see my old immortal friends, hell it would be cool as hell to be able to go to each daedra's (and aedra's) realms just to hang out, it would be amazing.

brunchman12 · 3 months

very little weapon/armor variety and customization

Octopudding · 3 months

I really wish we had a crippling system like Fallout. I shot you in the leg, how are you still running at me?
Why can't we make arrows? :c
My armour broadcasts that I'm an assassin.
No new recipes. (Mainly I just wish I could level up cooking.)
I wish your race played a part in something.

Edited for more complaints, haha.

BillyBadBuns · 3 months

The tips at the loading screen, one says "Bears are strong opponents, but often only attack when provoked." Bullshit! When i was level 4 them fuckers were hunting me down, and out for blood.

ghostskwid · 3 months

If you're not playing with mods and tweaks, you're not playing at all. Vanilla skyrim is unplayable to me, leveling is broken, many textures are incredible low resolution, you run way too fast walk too slow stealth walk too fast stealth walk too slow, sprint way too fast(i.e. enemies ice skating towards you), stealth is a joke (arrows to the face get minimal reaction), stamina/weapon dmg/combat needs tweaking (can't wait for the CK to really make a dent). AI is horrible and needs tweaking. Dragons are way too easy. Compass/Quest Markers/Stealth Indicators/ Arguably Crosshairs should be removed.

For personal pet peeves: Weapons should be more realistically designed imo (right now I'm using a crafted ancient nordic axe that has the same design vikings used. and a small hunting/survival knife as my offhand), armor is also a bit ridiculous (i.e. nightingale armor broadcasting to the whole world that you are in fact a badass assassin) so I used mods for armor and such. Guild questlines award you too much too fast. I wish horses could back up and could not climb mountains.

Sounds like I'm bitching, but I spent the 1st month relentlessly tweaking every aspect of the game until it fit a very difficult play style and looked less like fantasy land and much more realistic. But that's just my style.

chowder138 · 3 months

The lag/slowness. Loading screens now take several minutes and it takes about 10 seconds for any menu to load. I've gone back to Fallout New Vegas for a while until 1.4.

DerpMatt · 3 months

Poor Xbox interface, and "dumbed down" feeling. The AI is not all that they promised (again), The combat is still pretty much the same as Oblivion.

REALITY_CHECK_BITCH · 3 months

I'd say that the game is way too easy. It's fun the first 25ish levels but then there are very few challenges and it gets boring.

I play what I call "hard mode": master difficulty, no enchanting/smithing, only using items I find or get during quests, no HP leveling (only magika and stamina), saving the game only at the beginning/end of a quest, no abusing of the AI etc.. it gets more interesting but it's sad that you have to create your own set of rules to keep the game entertaining.

mixedchops · 3 months

Lack of variety in enemies and dungeons... Every dungeon has either draugr, dwemer machines, or bandits and all of the dungeons look pretty much the same(as in all dwemer ruins look the same, all nord crypts look the same, etc)

gringogrande33 · 3 months

all this stuff is true and valid, but all I want are some badass minotaurs to fight and maybe an arena to duel in.

Wernerslug · 3 months

i absolutely HATED the dark brotherhood quest where

you hide in the coffin with the night mother. TWICE!

nuclear_cheese · 3 months

Needs more weird shit. For a mystical fantasy province, it's really lacking in mushrooms.

Ragefacesoflucy · 3 months

Don't shoot me for saying this, but I started playing Dragon Age and I haven't play skyrim since. I miss it though.

it's just.. in Dragon Age, you have the choice to choose sides, fin romance, you have a background, you can communicate with your followers. Yeah, the graphics in Skyrim are better. But in DA, you can choose Mage, rogue etc, and can only use those weapons and you are treated by the kind of person you are. Like being a Mage in DA2 , you get respect from other mages and it opens up numerous speech options. In skyrim, you have no background, yeah you can marry but you cant speak to them like in DA2.

again, don't show me.

mus0u · 3 months

Jump attacks. I can't believe you couldn't come crashing down on somebody's head with an Axe in Skyrim when you could do that in Fallout.

Vigoda_X · 3 months

I don't like how, like Oblivion, every race has the ability to cast the same two spells. There should be at least one race that gets an anti-magic bonus.

ricovargas · 3 months

i hate selecting spells, even if u favorite them it still takes a while to get the spells u want

Bob_Sled · 3 months

I dislike the perk system in general

DarkEpsilon · 3 months

More types of enemies in dungeons.

logarythm · 3 months

I wanna ride a Dragon. That's all.

smilestheunicorn · 3 months

Fucking loading screens! And why does the marker ALWAYS try to get me to take the longest route!?

Beyondthelimit · 3 months

LOADING TIME

Xenxe · 3 months

The underwhelming thieving experience. Sure the scripted thieves guild quests are fun. But the radiant quests are pretty meh.

I can seriously just walk into someones house and take all their shit behind their back without them caring. Why no "WTF GET OUT OF MY HOUSE RANDOM STRANGER!!!!". You should have to befriend them first to get access to their house without a trespass penalty or sneak in when nobody can see you or guards come to take you out of the house (not arrest you just kick you out).

Then there's the whole I can just walk into the Jarls bedroom passing by the guards with a wave then promptly take all of the Jarls belongings.

But I hope mods can fix this by making trespassing zones you can't be seen in or you get thrown out. Maybe a blackjack or magic powder to knock out guards. And of course there needs to be more ways to sneak around for this to work. Maybe climbing in windows or something. Ropes and stuff like that.

Then make the AI a bit smarter. Like in thief 3 the hardest difficulty guards had a chance of noticing when something shiny they saw is gone when they look back there again. Then they would check around and be on alert and possibly alert other guards.

And when an NPC finds a dead (or if this mod ever gets made an unconscious body). Then they should sound the alarm thus making sneaking around much harder.

These AI ideas coupled with the extra ways to sneak around, ideas could make for an amazing experience.

TL;DR FIX THE THIEVING/SNEAKING AROUND ASPECT OF THE GAME!!!

MrOrdinary · 3 months

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progwrx · 3 months

Aside from loading, horses and general ps3 frustration, id like better changes in interaction depending on what youre wearing. Like for example being an imperial and dressing in full stormcloak gear to be able to infiltrate a camp (and vice versa). Or getting caught thieving then changing clothes and helmets or hood while out of sight and be able to evade the bounty

[deleted] · 3 months

Water, Nothing makes me scared to go underwater, giant slaughterfish anyone?

KnightOfTheStupid · 3 months

I think the game needs some more depth, more interactions between different characters and followers like in Mass Effect, sadly this can be very hard in an open world game.

Meepsa · 3 months

Skyrim is kind of a mixed bag of a game

On the one end you can really get into it, and the amount of content in it is almost ridiculous to the point that its insanely time consuming to do -everything-. I'm also a fan of the scaling leveling system so you can go and do whatever you want and create your own path so possibilities are unlimited.

My main complaints have to deal with the combat, I find the game is never really difficult as all it does is throw a bunch of trash at you until you find a fellow who can more or less two shot you. And it feels like the combat in general isn't really that interesting to begin with. Swing, side step, swing for most melee characters, stun locking with magic users. Stealth is somewhat satisfying but you're still unchallenged once you get more points into it to the point you can avoid half of the dungeons trash monsters.

The only fight in the game I've felt somewhat challenged was

that guy in the meadery basement, he scared the ever living shit out of me with that scary lightning

Most of these elements are understandable though, considering how much appeal the game has with the general population, I just wish everything felt more satisfying. But the game makes for great role play, so it balances out for me.

tl;dr combat is boring, but lore is neat enough

Saint-Peer · 3 months

All the technical aspects. First time I played the game, I froze within 10 minutes, meaning I had to restart over again with the unskippable "cutscene". I've learned my lesson in Oblivion and Fallout, so I save religiously. And because I do that, my save file is reaching near 8mb per save. The large save file has made my game become clunky and frequent stuttering. I don't like to travel/explore in the overworld because everything lags. Playing on the PS3 by the way.

Thievishmetal · 3 months

The difficulty scaling. For me the difficulty below adept is WAY too easy, while adept sometimes feel like it spikes to highest difficulty at random.

scrogu · 3 months

Eating 200 potatoes in the middle of a fight.

Sorry to compare, but Dark Souls gets difficulty right. A Skyrim open world with Dark Souls difficulty would be a godly game.

Illuminatesfolly · 3 months

Braith. Fuck that bitch.

stigmate · 3 months

Skyim is a great game and I'm enjoying it, but after reading this thread I am more and more glad that I borrowed it instead of purchasing it.

rasmusdf · 3 months

Too few people in the towns and the country side. Too few spontaneous fights between groups.

I am looking forward to trying the Skyrim Wars mod.

ExodusRex · 3 months

No levitate spell.

Stomo · 3 months

No spell creation+ Skill tree doesnt go full circle.

Tut13 · 3 months

The level 4 vampirism! I spent a good 3-4 hours trying to find a sleeping guy to suck his blood. One that DIDN'T wake up even though I was invisible.

jakeycee · 3 months

Guild questlines all have the same result

uploadcomplete · 3 months

Yes I know theres a beta mod for it, BUT I should have been allowed to by a horse for my follower. I hate having to stop for lydia. Its like going for a jog and having to wait for an 3 year old to catch up to you every 15 seconds.

milkyjoe11 · 3 months

i play on xbox and my game freezes way too much

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