Skyrim a potential disaster

[nurman]

• Not grindy

I beg to differ. Have you tried getting your Conjuration up to 100, or maybe even just 50?

Then compare that to, say, blacksmithing or alchemy where you can achieve max levels in half an hour or so.
They really fumbled the balance here in my opinion.

Btw, guys, what is your take on the dungeons? I think they're actually worse than in Oblivion

[jmervyn]

I beg to differ. Have you tried getting your Conjuration up to 100, or maybe even just 50?

Admittedly, I've not played a complete game (due to the aforementioned graphics issues). I recall some problems getting specific skills up without using exploits from previous games, so I suppose you can consider that 'grindy'. I was recalling slaughter of thousands of those damned mosquito bird things everywhere from a previous game. Since my longest-running previous beautiful game environment was Guild Wars, this is decidedly less grindtastic.

They really fumbled the balance here in my opinion.

Well, sure, but I don't know of a clean release from Beths yet...

Btw, guys, what is your take on the dungeons? I think they're actually worse than in Oblivion

I haven't been in dwarven ruins yet, but the couple I've been in are reminiscent of those from Fallout 3; I don't mind them at all but they're certainly not crawl-like.