6/10
Keeping the mods aside, I have to say Skyrim is an average game at best. Feels bizarre and wrong to say, because when you look at it, vanilla Skyrim is bad at nearly everything. Writing is horrible, the main story is horrible, the factions quests are horrible, the combat is horrible, the dungeons all feel the same, the level up system is disgusting, the animations are horrible even for 2011 and the RPG element of it is poor or sometimes nonexistent. Yet here we are, 14 years later still playing it. That's 'Bethesda Magic' for you, release a game and wait until modders make it good. Vanilla Skyrim is an extremely overrated average game that is somehow in the conversation of being one of the all time best, when in reality it's not even close. If you're going to play it, be prepared to download a few gigabytes of mods in order to make the game playable and enjoyable.

[h1]Vanilla Skyrim Is Overrated[/h1] [u]6/10[/u] Keeping the mods aside, I have to say Skyrim is an average game at best. Feels bizarre and wrong to say, because when you look at it, vanilla Skyrim is bad at nearly everything. Writing is horrible, the main story is horrible, the factions quests are horrible, the combat is horrible, the dungeons all feel the same, the level up system is disgusting, the animations are horrible even for 2011 and the RPG element of it is poor or sometimes nonexistent. Yet here we are, 14 years later still playing it. That's 'Bethesda Magic' for you, release a game and wait until modders make it good. Vanilla Skyrim is an extremely overrated average game that is somehow in the conversation of being one of the all time best, when in reality it's not even close. If you're going to play it, be prepared to download a few gigabytes of mods in order to make the game playable and enjoyable.