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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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  • Skyrim reimagines the open-world fantasy epic, pushing the game play and technology of a virtual world to new heights
  • Play any type of character you can imagine, and do whatever you want; the legendary freedom of choice, storytelling
  • Skyrim's new game engine brings to life a complete virtual world with rolling clouds, rugged mountains, bustling cities, lush fields.
  • Choose from hundreds of weapons, spells, and abilities; the new character system allows you to play any way you want

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Platform: PLAYSTATION 3 | Edition: Standard
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  • ASIN: B004HYK8Y8
  • Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches ; 5.4 ounces
  • Media: Video Game
  • Release Date: November 11, 2011
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (935 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #160 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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Platform: PLAYSTATION 3 | Edition: Standard

From the Manufacturer

The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.

Skyrim

PUBLISHER: Bethesda Softworks
DEVELOPER: Bethesda Game Studios
RELEASE DATE: 11/11/11
PLATFORMS: Xbox 360™ / PLAYSTATION®3 /
Games for Windows
GENRE: Role-Playing

Story:
The Empire of Tamriel is on the edge. The High King of Skyrim has been murdered. Alliances form as claims to the throne are made. In the midst of this conflict, a far more dangerous, ancient evil is awakened. Dragons, long lost to the passages of the Elder Scrolls, have returned to Tamriel. The future of Skyrim, even the Empire itself, hangs in the balance as they wait for the prophesized Dragonborn to come; a hero born with the power of The Voice, and the only one who can stand amongst the dragons.

KEY FEATURES:

  • Epic Fantasy Reborn.
    Skyrim reimagines the open-world fantasy epic, pushing the gameplay and technology of a virtual world to new heights.

  • Live another life, in another world.
    Play any type of character you can imagine, and do whatever you want; the legendary freedom of choice, storytelling, and adventure of The Elder Scrolls is realized like never before.

  • All New Graphics and Gameplay Engine.
    Skyrim's new game engine brings to life a complete virtual world with rolling clouds, rugged mountains, bustling cities, lush fields, and ancient dungeons.

  • You Are What You Play.
    Choose from hundreds of weapons, spells, and abilities. The new character system allows you to play any way you want and define yourself through your actions.

  • Dragons Return.
    Battle ancient dragons like you've never seen. As Dragonborn, learn their secrets and harness their power for yourself.
images and screenshots © 2011 ZeniMax Media Inc. All Rights Reserved.
About Bethesda Softworks
About Bethesda Softworks: Bethesda Softworks, part of the ZeniMax Media Inc. family of companies, is a premier developer and worldwide publisher of interactive entertainment software. Titles from five of the world’s top development studios – Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, Arkane Studios, Tango Gameworks, and MachineGames – are featured under the Bethesda Softworks label and include such blockbuster franchises as DOOM®, QUAKE®, The Elder Scrolls®, Fallout®, Wolfenstein® and RAGE®. For more information on Bethesda Softworks’ products, visit www.bethsoft.com.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the next installment in the award-winning Elder Scrolls series. Skyrim is the follow up to the 2006 Game of the Year, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and the next game from Bethesda Game Studios, creators of the 2008 Game of the Year, Fallout 3.

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Skyrim is one of the best games I have ever played. M  |  170 reviewers made a similar statement
There have been two patches to this game for the PS3 and the lag issues have not been fixed. C. Leone  |  184 reviewers made a similar statement
It is so good, I've played for over 100 hours, finishing the game completely. Chaos  |  80 reviewers made a similar statement
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399 of 475 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars After the patches... November 11, 2011
Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3|Edition:Standard
Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   
**update, March 16th, 2012**
So, I recently began playing this game again because, for all its problems, I still love it. My ps3 downloaded the latest 1.4 patch which seems to have fixed the game. After eighty hours of play with no lag it seems like the latest patch has made the game playable even after the save file is 8mb. Only twice did the game freeze on me and a glitch seems to be preventing me from finishing the Forbidden Legend mission which is really annoying. Other than that, the game plays beautifully, even after hours of continuous play. I decided to upgrade my rating back to the original five because, for all the problems the ps3 version had, this game deserves it.

*Original review with updates*
Before I begin, I should point that I'm still a recent convert to Elder Scrolls fandom, having never played Morrowind, let alone the two before that. In fact, I only played Oblivion for the first time this year. Oblivion was the first open-world RPG I'd ever played and was also the only one that took me months and months to get tired of, having little patience for RPGs longer than 60+ hours. Once I was hooked, I wanted Skyrim as badly as anyone else because I knew that even if it was only better than Oblivion by a factor of 1.1 it'd still be a godly masterpiece.

With that said, this will mostly compare the two, Oblivion and Skyrim.

For starters, the character creation is more stream-lined and simpler than Oblivion's while still giving nearly infinite choices. I admit the character creation in Oblivion was a bit of a joke since none of the races looked very appealing in the first place and looked more like rejects from a low budget CGI movie. The Dark Elves didn't look menacing, they looked like red-eyed Keebler elves; the Argonians looked like anthropomorphic iguanas and everyone else looked like dolls.
Skyrim's character's look real and beautiful this time, and fine-tuning their features is easier since all the slider bars go from 1-5 or 1-10 instead of a mind-numbing 1-50. Coloring your Argonian is no longer a chore that involves fighting with the color sliders every step of the way. If you want a rainbow colored Argonian you can do it. Eyes are no longer off limits either, nor are scaring or face-paint if so desired.

One big thing that may disappoint some is that they took out the birth-signs. However, it's still possible to have different astrological effects added to your character via stones that are scattered across Skyrim's landscape, much like the one's in Oblivion that could grant your character another greater power.

The number of skills has been reduced from 21 to 18. At first glance this may seem like they dumbed it down but they really didn't. Each skill has a number of perks that can be unlocked with every level gained. Such perks include reduced magicka cost on different schools of spells or the ability to zoom in on targets in archery. There are more than 200 different perks to be unlocked. However, since you can only unlock one perk per level and go as high as level 80 it's impossible to unlock them all. This will make deciding what kind of character you want to be all the more challenging since you can only specialize in so many things, unlike in Oblivion where you could make a cheap, jack-of-all trades character.

You level up as you increase your skills, just like in Oblivion, but unlike Oblivion you don't have to senselessly grind other skills to make a balanced character. At level up, you decide which attribute you want to raise, Health, Magicka or Stamina. Speed, strength and endurance no longer factor in, every thing is more simplified. Some may not like this, but I say less is more. You can focus more on game play and less on tedious grinding to raise all your stats like someone with OCD.

Here are a few example of how the new skill perks work.
One-handed affects both bladed, axe and mace weaponry. Again, this may seemed dumbed down but the unlockable perks in the One-handed category include skills like increased critical hits with blades or more bleeding damage with axes or the ability to ignore armor rating when using a mace. This way, you won't end up with a character that has high attack power with a sword but low attack power with an axe like in Oblivion. That seemed dumb! You can specialize in one type if you like and still fight effectively with the other type.
Want to do more damage with fire magic? Unlock a perk in Destruction that increases the power of fire spells. Other perk exist for Frost and Shock as well. Be a fire mage, or a Frost mage, or even unlock them all if you want! Just keep in mind that perks aren't free; what you specialize in effects how you play.
Unlock a perk in archery that slow down time while zoom in on a target. Bullet-time, anyone?

Smithing is also fun. This time around, equipment doesn't break down in the field. This may seem unrealistic but no more so than reparing your equipment without a forge! Seriously, being able to repair equipment everywhere in Oblivion, even in a cave, was silly. It's much more gratifying in Skyrim. Smithing includes smelting, for melting down ore into the raw materials needed for crafting; tanning for turning your pelts, the spoils of so many killed animals, into leather for armor; and forging, for creating your own weapons and armor. Lastly, you can also super-improve your gear and you don't have to have level 75 Smithing to do so. The higher your smithing the more you can super-improve weapons and armor, making continual upgrades throughout the game so a piece need never go obsolete, at least until you get the ability to make better equpiment.

Skyrim's graphics are a great improvement over Oblivion's already great looking graphics. Sparks will fly off in random directions from torches. Shadows, patches of light and reflected fire light will change shape with the ever dancing candle flames. Smoke from fires will be carried off in one direction by the wind, and the snowy gusts on mountains trail will look real enough to make you feel cold just watching. While in a cave, I came across a grotto with a water fall. I had to stop a moment just to look at it, it looked so real...
People in town and the city will get dirt on their faces while working and then later have clean faces when coming down from the day. Dust, snow, water, it all looks good.
While making my way through a cave, a saw the giant shadow of a bandit imposed on the wall as he stood in front of a fire. It wasn't scripted either, it was real time. That's impressive.
There is one annoyance, though. When traipsing about the wilderness, you can still see the grass grow in the distance as a new area is loaded. This is one leftover from Oblivion I could have done without. If anything, it's more noticeable because you're already looking at the gorgeous environments. I bet PC users with lots of ram don't have to deal with that.

People have more interesting things to say. Once, while using healing magic on myself on a bridge a passing Imperial soldier said, "practice your fancy magic somewhere else!" I had to laugh at that. Of course, people will still start talking some random sound byte like autonomatons should get even 3 feet close to them. Also, I was really hoping you could make your character get drunk somehow. What's the fun of having beer and mead if your character can stumble around!

The so called Dovakhin helm is actually just an iron helmet. There's a video on Youtube of "Dovakhin" in a bar but I've seen him, he's not Dovakhin, he's just some random guy wearing an iron helmet. Just thought I'd tell you that.

Fighting dragons is certainly more stimulating than closing an Oblivion gate. While I didn't mind shutting down Oblivion gates I could still understand if somebody told me it was tedious and monotonous. The dragons seem to be anything but. The dragons will fly around in circles for what looks like kilometers while you wait for them to come around for another attack. Sprinting from area to next, desperately trying to catch up with it while painfully aware of your own earthbound limitations really makes you feel like you're fighting a dragon. It usually has the upper hand and sometimes it's all you and the city soldiers can do just to wound it.

The environments in Skyrim are more fun to trek on foot since the world of Cyrodill felt relatively flat with civilization always in walking distance. Skyrim is a lot more rugged, and dangerous.

3rd person mode is a little more improved but you'll still want to stick mostly with 1st person. These games were just designed for 1st person and won't work better any other way. This isn't Dark Souls where 3rd person combat was intense and deep (and I had to make that comparison just to break the ice brought up by haters between both games. They are both great in their own way! They're also too different to compare. Please, compare this to another open world game) Using magic is a lot more fun since you can shoot a stream of magic until your enemy is dead. Shooting ice magic may as well be like spraying liquid nitrogen from your palm. And seeing your character use a finishing move against on opponent makes combat all the more fun. I swear that in those short cinematics I can see my Argonians fangs as he smiles or grimaces or whatever while shoving a sword through a bandit's chest.

The story is more interesting this time around. I praise the Elder Scrolls for creating a universe that is deep, well crafed and genuinely fascinating, but let's face it, the main story in Oblivion boiled down to nothing more than a few fetch quests and other easter egg hunts. Skyrim's story has characters that are remarkably deep, especially with the top-notch voice acting! Read more ›
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701 of 846 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed December 5, 2011
Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3|Edition:Standard
Fun: 1.0 out of 5 stars   
I have never had such a love/hate relationship with a game before in my life. I feel like I could write 10 pages on this topic, but here is the most succinct version I can muster.

- First 40 hours are an incredible, immersive experience. The most complex and comprehensive RPG I've ever played. I wish it could have gone on forever, but...
- At a certain point (varies based on save game file size), the game starts to go horribly, horribly wrong.
- Frame rates drop drastically, making the game unplayable. A system reboot is required every 1-2 hours for this one issue.
- Game locks up the PS3 on loading screens, forcing a hard (and potentially damaging) reset to your console
- Quests do not complete / quest items do not go into the inventory / rewards are not properly assigned
- Enemies exhibit bizarre and unintended behavior that can create problems with quest completion (e.g. Dragon Souls not being absorbed properly)
- Game locks up the PS3 during random conversations with NPCs
- Game locks up the PS3 upon entering or during combat, especially missions with lots of followers

The worst part about all of this has been the response from Bethesda. After being "made aware of the frame rate problem" (assuming you believe they didn't know about this before), Bethesda issued a patch that solved the problem...for 3 days. All this patch does does is delay the onset of the exact same problem as before. What's worse is that it also introduces a huge set of new problems that weren't there before.

In my opinion, this colossal failure by Bethesda goes beyond incompetence. This was malicious, deceptive, misrepresentation of a product. Prior to the game's release, they withheld PS3 copies of the game from independent game review sites. However same review sites had access to both the XBox 360 and PC versions of the game. The only logical conclusion is that they were aware of the problem, and did not want game reviewers to have enough time with the game to figure it out and raise a flag. In addition, Bethesda negotiated a nice chunk of cash for a timed exclusive for the DLC in favor of Microsoft (PC,XBox 360). After all, the DLC is basically useless to anyone on the unplayable PS3 version, so might as well try to maximize profit by selling it to Microsoft under the guise of a competitive advantage.

Here is my advice:
- Do not under any circumstances buy this game for PS3
- If you own multiple consoles, CAUTIOUSLY spring for the PC or 360 version of the version of the game
- Know however, that there are reports circulating that speculate the XBox 360 version will experience the same problems as the PS3 once the player has racked up enough playing time.
- If you already own the PS3 version, bring it to GameStop for a guaranteed 30 bucks credit before the end of the year. Put the 30 bucks towards another game that actually works (Uncharted 3, MGS HD collection, Batman Arkham City, preorder of Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning)
- In the future, wait at least a couple of months before buying products from Bethesda. Treat this company with extreme caution.
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79 of 93 people found the following review helpful
Platform for Display:PLAYSTATION 3| Edition:Standard|Amazon Verified Purchase
Fun: 1.0 out of 5 stars   
I have to admit that the first 40 hours of the game were the most fun I had in an RPG in a long time. The world is huge and there are many mystery's and quests to discover all over Skyrim. I have completed close to two hundred quests so far, 500 if you include the miscellaneous objectives. But with everything good usually comes the bad. The game simply stops working after awhile. At first the bugs are minor and sometimes funny, but when your game starts stuttering and frames are going by once a minute, the game becomes annoying very quickly. As of writing this review the game is unplayable and getting worse by the minute. I hope to get a full refund from Amazon and if you are reading this review, I would not buy into this product until they fix it. Game companies are getting away with murder lately. In any job, you should be held to a standard. Skyrim was rushed and the problems ignored so they could meet the 11/11/11 release date. There has to be some way to punish corporations that try to get over on consumers. 450 million is what Skyrim grossed in the first week. A nice payday for a scam.
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5.0 out of 5 stars great game
if you played any of the other elder scrolls, you know what's up. great game, huge world, very fun rpg
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Got this for my Daughter and she loves it. Graphics are great, Story line looks interesting. I might play it
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3.0 out of 5 stars Laggy
I notice a big difference from Xbox to Ps3 console. Ps3 seems to have more bugs and lag than anything. I have this game for the 360 and it didn't lag as much as on the Ps3. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Shipped Pretty Fast
It said it would arrive at my house in a week or two, but it came in only 4 days later. The game is pretty interesting to play considering that I only play fps games.
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This game is just pure art. Extremely large sceneries. You have the freedom to do anything that you want. Highly recommended for everybody.
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Worth fighting through the bugs?
i've must be lucky with this game i haven't had any major game breaking glitches and i have at least 250 hours spanning between 7 different characters
Feb 5, 2013 by D. Sousa |  See all 3 posts
Is the PS3 version fixed now?
Patches fixed the game, which as far as I know can only be downloaded when your PS3 is connected online (ie: not on the disc itself). However, some people still report issues. I played on a 320 GB PS3 slim and had tons of free space (I only owned 8 other PS3 games). It was also recommended to... Read more
Dec 18, 2012 by Tyler Durden |  See all 6 posts
Has Skyrim been patched?
The game has been patched 5 times (up to version 1.5). However, people at the official forums are still reporting problems with freezes, bugged quests, graphics glitches, etc. (http://forums.bethsoft.com/forum/182-playstation-3/) I think the patches have generally made the game more... Read more
May 15, 2012 by Andrew C. |  See all 12 posts
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Is this really a 3-star game?
I too was looking to start with Skyrim, but after reading the reviews and customer discussions I'm not sure the game is even worthy of 3 stars. I doesn't matter how breathtaking and immersive a game is if it DOES NOT WORK, which is what seems to be the case for the PS3. Sure it seems to work for... Read more
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