User blog comment:Kirbycollin1/S.A.D - Skyrim Addiction Disease/@comment-1745925-20120112010002

Right, this may be a long rant.

As for why I don't like Skyrim, there's a lot of reasons for that.

The first and foremost is that the dragons don't live up to what they were promised to be. We were promised epic battles with dragons, but all we got is a JRPG-style creature that you just hit until it dies (or if melee, wait until it lands then hit it until it dies) while avoiding using magic or weapon enhancements it resists. No complicated strategy, no intelligent decisions on the part of the dragon (like "stay out of the way of the guy with the big hammer" and perform flyby attacks), just the same old hit until it dies and stay out of the way of its attacks. At a suitably high level of character optimisation, you don't even need to do that. I like games that reward you for making intelligent combat decisions.

Second, the storyline. It's impressive in the telling, but the combats leave much to be decided (don't even get me started on the civil war storyline - the sieges could only have worked by supreme idiocy on both sides of the conflict, the "armies" you face during sieges number thirty at most and that's if they don't decide to run in stupid directions or focus all their attacks on one NPC, which is again stupid)

Thirdly, the armour. It's improved since the earlier titles, but it it still looking like the high-end armourers in TES believe that if your armour is fancy enough it will prevent your enemies from attacking you as they will be in awe of your glittery might. Everything above Steel looks like it came from a generic JRPG. This goes for weapons too. Don't get me started on Dwarven stuff.

The arrows. Aside from making the obvious joke, at least in Oblivion they had the arrows that would hit you in the face stick out of some other section of your character (unless they were fatal shots). Not anymore. My chatacter had three arrows to the face while running around a dungeon. I used to be alive like you, then I took three arrows to the face?

The redeeming factors about the game are the inclusion of Sheogorath again (been a fan of him since his quest in Oblivion) and the graphics. I finished the main quest, so I know the final mission and how well it was made (I suspect so much as mentioning the location is a massive spoiler) and the Dweomer place.