10 Perfect Video Games With One Glaring Flaw

3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Asset Overuse

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Now more far-reaching than the Bible, Bethesda's latest entry in its Elder Scrolls series continues to enjoy dominance of every video game platform known to man and it doesn't take a PhD to discern why. Sprawling dungeons, a massive open world, heaps of quests (and quest givers) and, of course, dragons - on the surface, Skyrim has a lot to offer, but in reality, it's a matter ripe for debate.

Conquering your first draugr tomb, slaying your first dragon, overhearing ambient NPC dialogue: Skyrim's series of firsts release doses of dopamine higher than Skyrim's mountaintops, but when those core activities repeat themselves ten, twenty, thirty times in a manner similar enough to trigger deja vu, fatigue sets in and the veil of immersion begins to dissolve before your very eyes.

Scouring the landscape for Daedric artefacts, spelunking into wholly unique environments, joining a country-spanning civil war or choosing to follow the path of lycanthropy, these are the unique moments that make Skyrim the gargantuan success that it is, not a by-the-numbers rematch with the same dragon you fought on day one, only with a different skin colour and more potent breath.

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