CountChocula
Keeper of the Watch
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/12/best-games-2011/?utm_source=UniBul+Blog&pid=2338
I think there was room for improvement in terms of specific player choices and consequences for some quests.
However, the degree of freedom, to be able to completely blow off the main quest, or to pursue your own narrative, joining any one of six major factions, each with a lengthy questline, or by participating in any out of 410 unique marked quests, was exhilarating.
What are your thoughts about freedom of choice in Skyrim?
Much has already been written about the way Bethesda’s open-world role-playing game allows players to direct their own narratives. Skyrim completely lives up to its raison d'être, creating a world so vibrant, it's easy to buy into the illusion that it actually exists. Granted, some of the bugs and glitches are hard to swallow, particularly on the PlayStation 3 version (which we did not review). But you’d be hard pressed to find another game with this many meaningful choices.
Ultimately, when we think about the games that stood out most in 2011, Skyrim will take center stage for both ambition and execution. The game is at its best not during its grandest moments but during the little details that flesh out its world, those bits of environmental storytelling that make every sight worth seeing. From a bustling wizards' college to an abandoned lighthouse filled with corpses, the landmarks in Skyrim are peculiar and unparalleled.
Perhaps the biggest testament to Bethesda’s success is that though I’m over 80 hours in, and even though my shelf is stacked with all sorts of other new games, I just can’t stop playing Skyrim. --Jason Schreier
I think there was room for improvement in terms of specific player choices and consequences for some quests.
However, the degree of freedom, to be able to completely blow off the main quest, or to pursue your own narrative, joining any one of six major factions, each with a lengthy questline, or by participating in any out of 410 unique marked quests, was exhilarating.
What are your thoughts about freedom of choice in Skyrim?