Skyrim released today! woot! woot!
 

Just picked it up, standard DVD edition comes with an awesome map made in some awesome type of map paper. AWESOME!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R97Ao5e3m5E

I got to 1:02!

Does it get any better?

Cheers!

Fantastic game. GOTY infact! i must be about 14 hours in on the 360 version so far and sad to have to do the responsible thing regards appropriating time. i could spend all day in Skyrim. for me its the first seriously tidy role playing game that has succesfully managed to loose the clunky nature that goes along with the genre whilst not thrusting the mathematical nature of numbers in my face.

please no spoilers !

I feel 100% just the way you do about the game and I haven't even played for an hour yet! I actually played Elder Scrolls 3 back in 2003 I think it was but never finished it, same story with Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion. Most awesome so far, dual wielding! magic fireballs from left hand, sharp sword in other! Playing on the PC.

You need to mod Oblivion to get a respectable game, it can be pretty awesome but it's hard to do.

I had 94 mods (Including three major overhauls and elements of two others combined with FCOM running through Wryebash) and it made Oblivion waaaay better than the stock version which was pretty dull.

Skyrim does look like the business though, can't wait to upgrade so I can play it.

Oh yeah, funny thing, Skyrim (released today) is a 2011 game with a HUGE beautiful world and I'm running high/ultra settings on my modest rig, no problems. This is how a game is supposed to be released.

it also has a much bigger development budget and market than ClOD, and I bet you that bugs 'will' be found.

Of course it has a bigger budget, I reckon the voice acting budget alone is twice as high as the whole budget of CloD ;). Of course there are bugs but I haven't had to disable any anti-epilepsy filter at least ;).

It has FSAA.:)

Does it have that dx11 api thing? AoA will be so pleased... ;)