Anybody here who played both? What are the strengths and weaknesses when you compare them? E.g. wich one has the better character creator, fighitng mechanic, etcetera.

DDDA has the better combat.

Character Creator.. depends: DDDA offers only human but are highly customizable while in Skyrim you have different races.

Skyrim offers more exploration and lore than DDDA.

In Skyrim you may have 1 companion(that doesnt talk much) while you can have 0-3 in DDDA that speak quite a lot(and you can shut them up from the options menu).

Inventory Management in both games is sort of hellish.

Personally enjoyed the progression in both games(in terms of level up and items).

But in general you either go for exploration in Skyrim or gameplay in DDDA.

Oh, and DDDA has only 3rd person camera while Skyrim has 1s and 3rd person camera.

Combat in DD is better than Skyrim.

DD's story is a bit lame, but Skyrim's story lasts about 5 minutes if you play it straigh through - always been an issue in ES games.

Dragons in DD feel threatening, in Skyrim you can bring them down with a well placed toothpick.

Skyrim has far more mods than DD, for instance making the dragons far more difficult.

Characters, you get the base 3 - thief, warrior, mage - in DD and can jump between them as you want (more or less). In Skyrim you get more racial choices, Cat, lizard, etc. DD only human. Your more tied to your character class in Skyrim.

World wise, Skyrim is bigger, how much I don't have exact figures.

DD you can climb on beasties!

Skyrim has more lore/history.

Both are very good, if slightly different. But as Skyrim isn't on here DRM free there is only DD.

Thanks for the info. I had the opportunity to play Skyrim, but to be honest it became rather boring after a few hours.The dungeons look very similar. Outside of the towns you see only snow and ice and rocks. Even with a massively modded game it felt kinda stale. No offense, just my opinion.

Played them both on XBox.

Skyrim is "pretty," more "real" and just feels like a better game.

BUT Dragon's Dogma has a great combat system that's tons of fun and always feels dangerous on long journeys. Plus I like the character skill progression a lot. Basically you level a "class" at a time (and there are quite a few classes). Each class has a few active attack type skills and some passive skills, along with utility skills. As you level the class, you unlock these skills.

You're then free to swap to OTHER classes as you see fit AND (the best part!) you can slot previously unlocked skills from other classes. It's a really fun system and lets you play around with a very hybrid character. And it's all fairly free of charge so you're not penalized for say, spending a bit of time as an archer when you REALLY want to play a mage (but the archer has a sweet passive you want to unlock).

Really, I feel like I'm "obligated" to say how great Skyrim is - but when push comes to shove I think I'd insist you pick up Dragon's Dogma.

Damn - did I just talk myself into grabbing it for a replay... I never did finish it and boy does it look pretty on PC compared to those grainy Xbox visuals...

Yep, got that as well. It started in Oblivion, generic levelling, repeated ruins, same old beasts, dull short lived story line. You could try the new mod from the Nehrim team (Nehrim is a popular mod for Oblivion and completely changes story and everything), called Enderal - you can get it off Moddb.
I can't play Oblivion without Oscuros overhaul, but I couldn't find anything similar for Skyrim.

I love Oblivion. And to a certain degree I love Skyrim too. I only hope that it comes to Gog at the same time when the Beyond Skyrim- project reaches a playable state. ;)

Actually, the Skyrim speedrun time is actually just under 30 minutes (with load times removed), so the main story is a lot longer than 5 minutes.

(Morrowind, on the other hand, *can* be beaten in under 5 minutes, as can Oblivion, though those runs still skip most of the main quest.)

Edit: For comparison, a quick look at Youtube gives a speedrun time of around 80 minutes for Dragon's Dogma.

I haven't played Skyrim (nor do I want to at this point), but I have played the other games in the Elder Scrolls series. They were pretty boring in retrospect, both in terms of the action, story and general atmosphere.

I'll say that Dragon's Dogma will fit the bill if you like your action. I put quite a bit of time in it and I don't regret a single minute because there wasn't much in the way of down time. I was constantly busy fightin' and I mean the interesting kind. Combat is sort of like what you get in the Souls or Monster Hunter series (the Japanese like their swordplay to be involving, but smooth and precise) and you can climb on top of the big monsters similar to Shadow of the Colossus (very nice indeed). The world is also not big and empty like it is in the Elder Scroll games (big minus for me). I had many moments in Oblivion where I could have sworn that I had passed the exact same field or cave or whatever 5 minutes earlier (a lot of copying and pasting, eh Mr Map Designer?). Perhaps Bethesda changed things up a little in Skyrim, but I didn't care to find out since old habits die hard (looking at the developers' previous attempts) and it was probably impossible to create the big world that they needed for boasting purposes at E3, which isn't sorely lacking in detail.

Besides that, Skyrim is mostly about people using it for their porn fantasies now. What do you think all those mods are for? Immersive, swash-buckling fantasy adventure? Haha, come on now, what you see on Youtube only tells half the story.

Dragon's Dogma is an action-adventure with little roleplay. You can't give your character much character and can decide things. There are just a few moments there you can that. It's not an rpg, as many say. The developers also said that it isn't a rpg. Also you don't really have something to discover. It's more about the fighting and the skill system. It has one of the greatest fighting systems.

Skyrim has a pretty bad fighting system compared to Dragon's Dogma, especially when you are playing a melee character. But Skyrim is a rpg, so fighting isn't the main feature. You have much exploring, speaking with npcs and do quests. The story of the TES games aren't that great, but still better than the story of DD. Especially some side- and faction-quests are really interesting.
Character editor is also better, because you can choose from different species.

So you can't really compare them because they are a different genre, so if you want action go for DD, if you want exploring and roleplay go for Skyrim.

Well, I never actually timed it. Let's say, by the title me you start it, its over. Don't get me wrong, am big fan of ES games, but they tend to be shells for mods to go into.
DD on the other hands, average storyline goes on for 10s of hours minimum.

Skyrim has nudemods. 'nuff said?

That along with some Waifu mods and a few others and you can leave that game called Dragons Dogma (and your life) in the trash bin. Would link some youtube vids of what some of those Waifu mods look like but there are a bit NSFW.

Skyrim has so many mods available for it, that you can pretty much turn it into the game of your dreams. You can't do the same for Dragon's Dogma.

This thread made me want to get Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.