| forest-spirit said: Wow, I'm glad I'm not one of those stuck with a PS3 version. I'd never be able to handle that kind of brokiness no matter how great the game is. I've played the PC version for about 60 hours and at first the bugs didn't annoy me much. I had a few cases with disappearing textures and CTD's but I could handle it. But now it's starting to annoy me. The third quest given by Arniel were you have to heat up the warped soul broke, and I had to manually set the quest variables to be able to finih it...I also had to restart after finishing Arniel's fourth quest because I never got the Keening (?). When I played earlier today I was out in the wild picking flowers when a bounty hunter suddenly appeared and said he was after me because of crimes I had comitted in the Falkreath hold. I haven't been there yet! And the bounty was 0 gold. >_> So I payed him zero gold and then he started attacking me, he and his buddy who flew around in circles with his superhorse, 20 feet above my head. Had to reload, and the bounty hunter appeared again but this time he didn't attack me after getting his 0 gold. Now I'm kinda scared to go to Falkreath because of all the imaginary crimes they might accuse me of... Now I can take a few texture failures, some CTD's and even getting stuck in a rock now and then while being chased by two giants and their pet mammuts. But enough is enough. Bugs that breaks the game are unacceptable. I should not have to manually set game variables to be able to finish quests. I really like this game and that's why it's so sad that there is so much to complain about that really shouldn't be there. Take away all the BS and you have a masterpiece. Skyrim is a gem, but as it is now it's a flawed one. |
I'm stuck with the ps3 version but even before it started acting up it was clear that the game is very rough around the edges. For starters the interface took about 30 hours to get used to. NPC interactions are all very mediocre, repeating the same lines, talking over eachother, and saying things out of order. Pathing is plain weird and followers keep getting in the way. In the beginning you don't mind since there is so much to discover and at first you kinda laugh at all the glitches, hearing the same voices in each town and seeing the exact same interiors.
But now after restarting it starts to get really annoying. Wait for them to shuffle into place and start reciting their lines without any emotion. Then they repeat their standard line again after you just talked to them, and they keep repeating it every time you come near. Makes me miss the dialogue options and banter between characters from Dragon age: Origins.
I have had plenty of glitches with guards too, not letting me surrender and running away not resetting the enemies are near flag, all for 40 gold bounty. Just today I was busy fighting a dragon with a new character, the courier runs up, the game turns me around and makes me listen to the courier while the dragon is killing me, ffs. Can't even cancel the delivery, just stand there and die.
A beautiful world to explore, but after the addiction wears off there turns out to be quite a rough game underneath. I should not have waited to do the main quest, now I'm struggling to keep interest to finish the story. (Well ps3 version is to blame for that too, since my 14mb lvl 53 char has a half-life of 15 minutes before the system freezes)
