Not that this really matters, but I wouldn't say Skyrim surpassed every game in 2011. Like, at all. I love the game and all, but it had lots of problems that held it back from being what it should have been. I'd easily place SS and Portal 2 over it. (Not sure about Batman. Didn't purchase that one.)
That's an interesting way to look at it, but it's definitely not how I view it. A Zelda game to me is a game that has Zelda in the title (excluding the CD-i's) and uses the core values along with original ideas to create a tremendous adventure experience. (Seriously, that's it. Same with any...
Actually, it kinda does. HD stands for "high definition", which I'm sure you know. It's kinda self-explanatory. Now, Skyrim's graphics definitely aren't the best in the HD realm, but they're not bad, either.
I'm...not. All I'm saying is that any video game when viewed up-close is not going to...
Skyrim is most definitely an HD game. Otherwise the back of the casing wouldn't say it has 1080p, the highest quality HD available.
Of course the classic ones did. I just personally find atmospheric music capable of doing it better. But to each his own. Music is one of the most opinionated...
That goes for any game with realistic textures, even HD ones. Anything up-close in a video game looks unimpressive. This happened many times when I played through The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, sometimes to the point where things up-close looked like N64 grahpics. These were corners of the game...
Eh, I can understand why some people say it, but I personally don't agree with it. It was pretty unoriginal as a Zelda game, but not too unoriginal to not be considered a great Zelda game imo. 9.5 as an overall game, 8.5 as a Zelda game.