Oh my, I've been reading the reviews and I'm wetting myself it looks that good (I'm a week or so from finishing Oblivion, so it's coming for Christmas).

But I don't know whether to buy PC or XBox

I guess I'd better check what it'll look like (W7 64, Intel i5 2500, 8GB Ram, NVidia 450GTS), with the gfx being the bottleneck....

I've been saving a few bucks per check just for this game for months, as I wanted the experience of buying a brand new game rather than picking up something from the bargain bin. However, I've got a project that is in crunch mode, so I wouldn't have time for it anyway. Hoping to get it soon though.

It's the same maneuver they did with Oblivion/Fallout 3 reviews.

Oblivion: 10/10 GOTY

Skyrim: Remember all the things that were wrong with Oblivion? They're fixed in Skyrim. 10/10!

Ok, that's a bit of hyperbole, but you can see my point. The scoring is meaningless, as they seem to happily ignore all the flaws until the next game comes around.

I've yet to play it myself tho, but considering the pc version, I would give the article on gamasutra a read.

Skyrim, or How Not to Make a PC Game

EDIT: Bambam, go to skyrimnexus.com and search for the nudie mods I guess.

It is very boring. The first 5-10 minutes or so the whole game is that you sit in a wagon and all you can do is look around. It's also not skippable. If I hadn't paid for it I'd have thrown the game away already.

After that it just continues to be ridiculously easy. About one or two hours in, I'm level 2 or 3, a dragon appears, I shoot some arrows into the air... the next moment it falls down dead. I don't think it would have been possible for me to die at all at any time.

Also the story awareness of the NPCs is done poorly. E.g. after that dragon fell down dead the townspeople made me a Thane and told me I'm a hero for killing a dragon - but they still refused to drop my bounty or reduce the price of buying a house And some quests are outright broken with quest-important people dieing, so now I'm never sure if I reloaded often enough when it happened or someone will be missing later :/

The only good things I can say is graphics and sound, I'm playing in Wine on lowest settings but it still looks really beautiful. Makes me want to keep playing on for a bit, even if just for walking around enjoying the landscape

It was pretty linear in the beginning, but now that I've been released into the world it feels pretty open. That said, I did find my first interaction with a quest NPC to be rather clumsy. For one thing, the dialog prompts forced me to talk about the guy that I was supposed to meet there. Truth be told, I hadn't even seen him yet and didn't know that he was there. Apparently he was behind me. Also, it continued to prompt me even when there was only one option... It could certainly be better, but I think it will be enough to power my imagination.

I've never played any other games in the series. In fact, I don't think I've even played a game by Bethesda before. I so far view the game as something like a first-person Final Fantasy, which I personally think is awesome. That's what SquareEnix should be doing instead of what they did with FFXIII (I still haven't really played that game; I enjoy the FMV sequences, but everything else about it sucks...).

A friend yesterday asked me what Skyrim is. I died a little inside.

Anyway, should I play through Oblivion first, or is it ok to just jump straight to Skyrim?

I don't even know what Skyrim is. The first three letters are the same as in Skype, but I doubt that means anything.

It seems like the buggiest games get the most sales. Everyone bought Mindcraft. Everyone bought Oblivion. Now everyone's gonna buy Skyrim, in the series that has a history for loads of bugs (and I hear that Skyrim is no exception).

You can buy a Bethesda game when it releases and get some of it, or you can wait a year and get the entire game when the inevitable GOTY edition arrives. Hmmm....

But seriously, Bethesda makes incredibly bland games. New Vegas, rough around the edges though it certainly was, had more raw creativity, inspiration, and heart to it than Fallout 3. That's what you get when you let Obsidian take a crack at things.

Also, bugs.

It was bitter sweet to let Obsidian do it to be honest. Obsidian is made up of most of the original team that made the first Fallout game. Some of the FO3 bugs I liked was the random kill freak out that happened once in a while.

A) You can overclock it, I've that same thing with stock cooler with Core Clock being 920Mhz, Shader Clock 1840 & Memory at 2120.

B) AFAIK the GPU is still by far "faster" than any console out there. Perhaps with exception of something really new I'm not aware about.

Yeah, I've not played many of Bethesda's games, but want to get more of them. God, this next line I tried to figure a way to say it without coming out bad, but I don't know if there is a way so.... I wanted to get Wet when it came out and still plan to get it. I own the entire Fallout series on PC (Fallout Trilogy, Fallout 3, New Vegas) and trying to get the TES sceries.

This game? O_o