Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Zik]

The only major-bug I had on this game was with the Revealing the Unseen quest for the college of winterhold. I was unable to move the lens toward the end, so I could never progress in this questline. I had some other minor bugs but nothing game breaking.

[Booboo]

Yeah? Well, I'm still waiting for Betathesda to fix their shit with update 1.04 and if that doesn't work that I'll gladly trade this in. It's shameful to release a broken piece of trash, and I feel kinda bummed not only because I've spent actual money on it, but also for playing it.

[Tooker]

Broken piece of trash?  Seriously?  Hooray for hyperbole!  You know why you should be bummed?  You should be bummed because you take yourself too seriously.  This game is fine.  Is it perfect?  No.  But I've put a lot of hours into it, and I have yet to find anything that is flat out broken.

[Eusis]

I have yet to find anything that is flat out broken.

I'm guessing you're not playing on PS3, because apparently that version gets ridiculous performance hits the longer you play. Too much data in the game world for the game to track, so it starts hitching and having the frame rate drop the further you're. This isn't an issue on 360/PC, probably because the 360's got unified RAM and for PCs... I find it hard to imagine anyone who'd be playing this that doesn't have at least 2GB in this day and age.

Of course if this ISN'T PS3 then it's the same old "how dare they release a game this buggy" crap that ignores the game's scope making it a pain to get nearly bug free QA for.

[neogalahad]

Just got all the achievements for this! Now to move on to Reckoning!

[Tooker]

I'm guessing you're not playing on PS3, because apparently that version gets ridiculous performance hits the longer you play.

Well that does suck.  I'm playing on PC.

[Lard]

I don't get the hate for Oblivion.

Is it because they like Morrowind and Skyrim better? Or because of the horse armour?

[Eusis]

It's a pretty repetitive game. Once you reach a certain point it's hard to stomach any more of it. Nevermind the screwy difficulty scaling and whatnot, which sucks some of the thrill out since each new place is always for your level... but if your build's off enough then it'll be hell without nerfing the difficulty severely.

[Fyle]

The PS3 version made Skyrim unplayable for me too.

Sold it... Wasn't 100% done with it but, got all the main quests done except for the Dark Brotherhood.

Skyrim would rock with mods anyway. Gotta get a PC for this one. I still like Morrowind the best in the series and best of all for that matter. There was something about that game world that had a feel all it's own.

I also like how the beast races felt more like beasts and it had in armored and spear which never made a return. =(

[Lard]

I would just like to say:

Todd Howard of Bethesda is completely full of shit.

http://kotaku.com/5885358/why-skyrim-didnt-play-nice-with-the-ps3

"We did a ton more testing this time around, so the game is definitely our most solid release regardless of platform,"

"Tons" more testing yet the game was broken for a month and a half.

[Fyle]

I would just like to say:

Todd Howard of Bethesda is completely full of shit.

http://kotaku.com/5885358/why-skyrim-didnt-play-nice-with-the-ps3

"We did a ton more testing this time around, so the game is definitely our most solid release regardless of platform,"

Many people who have responded to this claim the 1.4 patch was a success.

It's too late for me now with the regular version but, I'm wondering if the GOTY will have issues. Not gonna run out and buy it on release date at this point.

Also not getting it unless they up variety in spells, weapons and armor big time.

I have respect for Todd Howard but, ya, he smudges the truth. It's not all his fault, what he says is being monitored by the PR people and what not.

[ZeronHitaro]

Went out and finally bought me a copy; PS3 of course. Been having fun although I hate the fact that Bethesda rubs your nose in it if you're living below the poverty line. ~.~ What, too much trouble to program a screen resize feature so the corner text doesn't constantly get chopped off and become unreadable because I only own a tiny TV? **** heads.

*coughs* Aside from that little nitpick I'm quite enjoying it. Although playing it side by side with New Vegas really makes me wonder how Skyrim got as much praise as it has. Fallout's VATS is far more user friendly than swing and pray for us non FP-Gamers; not to mention the main story in both games sinks its hooks into you far, far sooner. To it's credit though Skyrim has a better sub-quest system, less glitchy terrain traversing, and oh thank you by everything holy I actually have map markers for 'mini quests' rather than having to dig through 500+ Pip-Boy notes to remember what I needed to do three towns ago.

Currently I have a love/hate relationship with the leveling system. It seems good for some things like armor and attack proficiencies but outright redundant and boring for things like stealth. How epic, I'm staring at this guard's posterior and having him call me a milkdrinker over and over again every five seconds because the stealth skill doesn't work for beans until about 30-35ish; can't remember exactly where it finally clicked in.