Quote from: Baulderstone;901987I should admit that the leveling is handled much better in Skyrim than it was in Oblivion. I really like Skyrim, so I don't want to come off as overly negative. Most of my bile on the issue is still left over from Oblivion.

No problem, sir, no harm done, nothing to worry about. I don't consider everyone who has a different opinion a hater/fanboy or anything. It's just a different opinion - and a potential basis for a good discussion as far as I'm concerned.

And yeah, Oblivion was a weird game, something inbetween, that unfortunately didn't manage to surpass Morrowind in many aspects. Pity, really. The idea and the setting (the center of the Empire) weren't that bad. Oh well, not the first and not the last game that didn't manage to deliver the expected experience.

I wonder whether the guys behind TES Renewal are gonna accomplish their endeavor of converting Oblivion to Skyrim's engine. It might be quite fun, I think.

Check out the MxR Mods youtube channel.  It goes over all the Skyrim Mods that come out week by week, it's on week 200-something now.  There's some amazing mods to upgrade the textures, flames, water, vegetation etc that will make the game look incredible without changing the gameplay at all.

Something else to consider in the near future is one the mods that let's you skip the Helgen section. It's pretty exciting the first time, but you'll be sick of it before the end of the cart ride when you build subsequent characters.

Coincidentally:

http://imgur.com/gallery/g8Qmc

So, I've been playing Skyrim for a couple months now... on and off but kind of getting more into it the past few weeks.
My interest kicked up a lot when I discovered the abandoned dwarf ruins under one of the Western cities... wilder and weirder... very cool.

One thing I'm noticing though... is that the game really likes to blow smoke up your ass... without much effort I'm thane of several towns, head of the magic college, and the chosen one of a bunch of old sages. The game keeps reminding me of how great and special and capable I am... Maybe it's just hearing it spoken vs. reading a block of text... I dunno... it's just striking me as reaching a level of virtual-handjob I'm not used to. Maybe I should have set the play to a harder level so the praise would seem more fitting...

Otherwise I'm enjoying the game on a very casual level... just playing a bit in the evenings. No sense of urgency to 'finish' like I've sometimes had with other games.