Out of Pod Experience

Go back and play in 6 months, probably have most of the bugs fixed by then.
I'm waiting to waste $60 till then :) I'm burned out on the genre, but it looks like a good game for the most part.

Probably something along the lines of:

Turn god mode off and stop staring at the "animations" that you don't notice when you actually play the game. All of the kids and people who have 100 smithing and all those BS stats basically cheated the game and cheated themselves out of an epic experience in the game.

Stop using fast travel and go off the beaten path, explore and find things. Don't focus on the story of the game, focus on what YOU want to do in this world.

Walk everywhere you go, if you haven't ran into assassins, hired goons, thieves, vampires, or other monsters on the roadways or in wilderness - you obviously haven't been playing it correctly.

The point of skyrim and TES games isn't "fast travel from objective to objective finishing quests as fast as possible"

It's more a long the lines of "Hmm, where do I want to go, ah let's go check out riften" Then you head out there on foot and explore the surrounding areas a long the way. It's called Adventuring and unfortunately the kids that have grown up in the "Linear hand holding cookie cutter game" era don't know how to play games unless the game is hand-holding them all the way to the end. There is even roleplaying, where you act as if your character was really in the world - thus sleeping at night, eating and drinking, etc etc. Some people play hardcore and if their characters ever die they make a new one.

The point of skyrim is to Exist in the world and make your own story and your own quests, not to Beat the world and rage quit because you don't know how to immerse yourself. Don't try to spamfest a skill until it's level 100, try only using it when you really want to, or need to.

My smithing is only around 30-40 and anyone who has 100 smithing either cheated or didn't take the time to enjoy the game the way they should.

TL:DR: Play the game in a manner that you immerse yourself and you take the time to delve into and enjoy everything the game has to offer, at an honest pace. Turn your god mode off, stop using the console to cheat, and return to how the game should be then you won't rage about such stupid things that you don't even notice when you just PLAY.
Stupid dumbass kids.

For example, I have been making it a point not to visit every city until I am ready to go to said town, even if I have quests there. IT'S CALLED ENJOYING THE GAME. You don't have to do everything and know everything the first week you play the game, I have read forums and basically the kids ruined the game for themselves by wanting to be "godly" right at the beginning so they cheated their characters and they ruined their own experience.

Needs more varied dialogue.

Edit: I appreciate all the books though.

We should make all these new generations of gamers go back and play stuff like Zork, Kings Quest, Space Quest, Ultima etc so they can learn an appreciation for what they have now, damn whippersnappers.

Payed master, board and sword, hide armor(cause its damn cool).

You either have a oddly paraphilic foot/paw/claw fetish or you just be trollin' consolerro friend.

If FIRST, then I believe, like a lot of people out here with quite some years behind their backs playing, that you just missing the point so completely, that no matter of argument will even remotely be close to giving you even a small insight, it's a simple psychological process of never ending spiritual void regarding satisfaction.

Most of the games you proposed as being awesome animated I found DULL to the extreme. I totally hate single path hand holding rpgs since for the record I grew up with in the land of THE BARDS TALE and the SSI GOLD BOX Era of rpg gaming. And to avoid confusing this with "In my time, we walked uphill naked in snowstorm" cliches, what I'm trying to imply is that the current gen of gaming focuses so much on eye candy, your bar for quality is so diff to the type of gamer Bethesda aims to cater with TES.

Even to this day for me Daggerfall and Morrowind were much better than Oblivion (which saw a new generation of gamers attracted to ole' Beth plus Fallout 3 junkies).

I have managed to simply veer from Skyrim, since I know in a year, it will come full GOTY with all DLC packs plus the crapload of mods from www.skyrimnexus.com that I will be able to enjoy it the way it should be for cheap off steam.

Whole point being, that if clumsy animated feet distract from your fun and you need proper foot/paw motions to be in effect to achieve mental arousal, the game is not to blame, the one to blame here ... IS YOU.

See? the same line I give to people with erectile dysfunction works here too. Knowing WHERE the problem lies is the biggest part of trekking the road to Healing and well being.

BUT if you just be trollin' ... well, 7/10 to you for making me reuse my erectile dysfunction line in an internet forum of spaceship pew pew where ships circle each other like idiotic flies.

May I suggest you try skyrim in the future, heavily modded and come talk again? I have found I always hate Vanilla games, and Fo3 and now FNV with gigs of modding match my play style perfectly. Same with Skyrim, when the usual troupe of people will add the correct amount of nudity, pornography, anatomically correct butchery, necromancy gone wrong, lewd companions, not PC intercourse scenes and animations, humorous dialogues, "retroneoavantgarde" clothing with matching hats, demonic infested dungeons with VoiceOvers made by high pitched people and probably everything you can imagine that someone somewhere in the world will make when they have free time?

Who knows, perhaps there will be a mod for you where all Paw/Claw/Feet animations will be re rendered into a weird Cumbia-Hardcore Techno trance style so you will be aroused more?

All in all, I wish you well, may your intercourse partners always have and do the proper feet/claw/paw motions in the order you need/want and that your house is well and fruitful, plus Merry Xmas and Happy New Year plus obligatory Fly Safe eve Salute with emoticon!

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Your argument makes no sense because it's completely backwards.

Either you don't even know what you're arguing, are so mad that your comprehension is failing, or you're just trolling.

The games you mentioned actually have MORE story than skyrim, which goes along with the point of being a linear story based game. The main character is the star, and your vessel through which to experience the story. Skyrim's story can be summed up in the short main quest. But beyond that the point of skyrim is to experience the world and write your own story. In order to create a free roaming sandbox there is substantially more coding and debugging involved to make sure quests do not break each other, NPC's continue to act properly wherever you go regardless of when you go there. For the degree of coding involved in ensuring everything functions as close to properly as possible in any situation something has to take a hit because resources are finite. Let's compare this to TW2. The NPC's in Flotsam only matter when playing through the first act. Once you get to Vergen or the Kaedweni camp in act 2, Flotsam no longer matters so they don't even have to touch that code. Similarly in act 2, Roche's path has its own contained set of code that does not interact with Iorveth's path code.

*sigh* Space Quest!

Roger Wilco: Galaxy Janitor Extraordinaire ... that were the days

Its funny how you twisted it, implying i got a thing with feet. I DONT HAVE A THING FOR DRAGONFEET. But as i mentined, i played the game on master with stick and board, studded hide armor, so when i got hit, i GOT hit. So noticed that everytime the dragon lifted its feet while pulling the head back, i needed to block. Everytime it didnt lift its feet and pulled back the head, shield bash, cause then the breath started.

Youre right, i will never say "ok, im wrong there was never anything wrong with the animations", because there is! The game is awsome storywise, BUT thats not all for a game like this! The games story and world is pointing towards fighting, and thats how you progress ingame, but if that one thing as fighting is broken, id say the game is broken, because ONE of the games main element is broken.

And hence my first statement remains true. You are in a point of thought that no matter what you are just reinforcing selectively what you KNOW (or believe to KNOW) to be true. As a Psychologist I find amusing somewhat that people sometimes post stuff just to reinforce their view and use all the replies as proof that what they say is the same no matter what. Thats why I used the examples mentioned before. You could be talking about how Earth is flat and me about how flat surfaces turn you on. When you deconstruct the original statement, I could be ad nauseam replying to you in an endless loop of you just narrowly entrenching yourself in your original statement despite anything that can be construed within.

Fact is If I want to keep deconstructing your OP, if EVERYONE agreed you would have lost any and all kinds of interest on it right away and would have jumped at another angle of Skyrim, it being the focus of your self serving need (which I cannot even begin to fathom or bother to theorize beyond basics) and perhaps we would see another topic on how the way you Swing swords is lame and the combat can be construed in how the npc animation swinging from the left obviously means you can parry with Left Ctrl all the time as you spam 1, then someone like me would say you are aroused by the act of spamming 1 and wish you well in all your future keyboards to be reinforced in key 1.

Just sayin'.

so TLDR:

Game is okish, you have an issue with it that only splashes to the world a personal neurotic quirk of no importance and we all be trollin'