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Review: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (TheGamingReview.com)

TGR take on the great outdoors, the nasty indoors and the fearsome dragons to take a trek around Bethesda's latest adventure. And by God, it's a good'n.

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Avernus4532d ago

I love Skyrim, but it's nowhere near a perfect game. Reviews aren't suppose to be an opinion of the reviewer.

PoisonedMonkey4532d ago

That's EXACTLY what they should be. Saying whether something is any good or not is always going to be an opinion. The guy who reviewed this clearly loved the game and his passion comes through in the review.

Would you rather a review just stated a load of facts and didn't really give you an opinion? Is a game only worthy of a high score if it ticks certain boxes in a pre-written set of criteria?

If everyone reviewed like that, then they wouldn't be worth reading.

D3mons0ul4532d ago

Actually, if reviews were based strictly in the realm of objective, you'd know if a game works or not.

They would review games based on mechanics and functionality, bugs, etc.

In many ways, a world of reviewers like that would be a better one because you wouldnt have obnoxious punks taking shots at games for things they don't like strictly because they don't like them.

Artstyle is subjective

How much you like the story of a game or certain characters, subjective.

Everything outside of whether or not a game actually works is subjective.

Avernus4532d ago (Edited 4532d ago )

No, I rather a reviewer tell me the facts about a game. Opinions, differ, while facts are facts.

The fact is the PS3 version sucks. Framerate issues, and inferior graphics. Someone with a different opinion to mine might disagree, but it is simply a fact.

@D3mons0ul...I didn't mean to reply to you...actually I agree with what you said.

FCOLitsjustagame4532d ago (Edited 4532d ago )

What is "broke" to one person may not be "broke" to another so its hard do define "facts" even to that point. I mean sure there maybe an objectivly broken quest but some people will say the hand to hand combat is broken or the pathfinding is broken (there was an article that actually complained about this) while others will think they are perfectly fine.

Reviews are opinions. As much as you would like to believe there can be fully facted based reviews that is simply not reality. Preferences will always creep in. Even if its the prefernce of the xbox or PS3 or PC controls.

PoisonedMonkey4532d ago

So a review should just be whether there are any bugs? How can gameplay, sound, music, controls, characterisation or any of that be reviewed without it being an opinion?

I know what you're getting at, but it's just not realistic and wouldn't make an enjoyable review to read in my opinion.

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ssb31734532d ago

great game that is worthy of this score, nice

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I'm Replaying Skyrim (again), and So Should You

Replaying Skyrim after 13 years is a reminder of the progress made in western RPGs over the last decade, but also what's been lost.

anast13d ago

I tried, but it's a poorly made game that insults its customers.

lucian22913d ago

nah, only mods make it decent, and even then it's bad, and this is after i modded for at least 3 years

Nittdarko13d ago

Funnily enough, I'm about to play it for the first time in VR with 1000 mods to make the game playable, as is the Bethesda way

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The 7 Best Western RPGs: Immersive Adventures

RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.

SimpleSlave14d ago

"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!

How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera

And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

DustMan14d ago

Loved Alpha Protocol in all it's glorious jank. Great game.

SimpleSlave13d ago (Edited 13d ago )

Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.

Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.

Pity.

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Nintendo starts Partner Spotlight Sale on the Switch eShop

A new Partner Spotlight Sale is now live on the Switch eShop, including Skyrim, lowest price ever for Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, and more.

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