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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 5817456" data-attributes="member: 56189">I didn't say it was 'meh', I said it wasn't terrible and that it wasn't worthy of the praise it's getting from reviewers.I'd put it squarely at a 7/10.As a comparison, I put Dragon Age at 5/10, Dragon Age II at 6/10 (yes, I thought it was better), Mass Effect at 8.5/10 (the Mako lost it 0.5 points) and Mass Effect II at 9/10.It has some great aspects to it, but it also has many, many, many flaws that pull those great aspects down significantly. If it was more polished with fewer bugs, greater roleplaying opportunities (hell, it has less roleplaying aspects to it than the extremely linear ME series, your choices are to either do the quest or not do the quest), better combat, more interesting levelling options (most of the trees are pretty goddamn boring and instead of increasing power and options, only really keep you in line with the power curve), less breakable quests (the thieve's guild chain wasn't the only quest I've broken so far and had to either go back to a previous save to fix or just accept that I'm never going to be able to do that quest chain), then I could see it getting up to a 9 out of 10, but as is, it's just not as great as the 'buzz' claims it to be.The developers could learn a lot from the devs of ME. ME keeps things pretty simple and straightforward so often gets accused of lacking dimensionality, but what it does do, it does very well. Skyrim is trying to be all things to all people and in doing so, falls behind in a lot of areas. This is most visible in the skill trees where some are really good, and others may as well not exist, which is applicable to almost all of the spell trees with only a few notable exceptions. When you're getting nothing but vanilla power boosts that don't even put you ahead of the power curve, you know they just gave up at that point and put it in the 'too hard' basket.</blockquote>

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