To play off of my review of Fallout 3 a bit, the weapons are unresponsive and the quests are LAUGHABLY bad. Fallout 3's side quests aren't amazing but compared to Skyrim they may as well be the holy grail. The only game I've played with worse quests than this is Maplestory. If you've ever seen someone joke about "Oh Boy, Another Draugr Dungeon," there's a reason. The biggest failure of this being an RPG game is how you're an every-man in this game. There's no forced specialization as you might see in a game like Fallout 1, which is fundamental to roleplaying games across the board, in fact it's a key-definer. I can't exaggerate how poorly executed a lot of this game is in terms of actual gameplay. Some of the quests can be interesting in writing SORT OF, but not in how you go about completing them. The biggest compliment I can give this game is that the atmosphere and world is superb. Sure, it's fairly empty, but I would much preferred exploring in this game than Fallout 3. There's just a lot of caves and what not to discover and while it's not much, it's something. I can't knock it too hard for this, though, due to most open world games I've played having this problem. Graphically, musically, sound design outside of that, and the whole general world is well done and on that alone it exceeds being total garbage. But it is garbage.

To play off of my review of Fallout 3 a bit, the weapons are unresponsive and the quests are LAUGHABLY bad. Fallout 3's side quests aren't amazing but compared to Skyrim they may as well be the holy grail. The only game I've played with worse quests than this is Maplestory. If you've ever seen someone joke about "Oh Boy, Another Draugr Dungeon," there's a reason. The biggest failure of this being an RPG game is how you're an every-man in this game. There's no forced specialization as you might see in a game like Fallout 1, which is fundamental to roleplaying games across the board, in fact it's a key-definer. I can't exaggerate how poorly executed a lot of this game is in terms of actual gameplay. Some of the quests can be interesting in writing SORT OF, but not in how you go about completing them. The biggest compliment I can give this game is that the atmosphere and world is superb. Sure, it's fairly empty, but I would much preferred exploring in this game than Fallout 3. There's just a lot of caves and what not to discover and while it's not much, it's something. I can't knock it too hard for this, though, due to most open world games I've played having this problem. Graphically, musically, sound design outside of that, and the whole general world is well done and on that alone it exceeds being total garbage. But it is garbage.