Skyrim: Final Thoughts

Bethesda knew about PS3 issues before launch

So it's been about four months or so since this game released and it still is not functioning on the playstation3 normally. Several patch attempts have been released to correct these errors but ultimately the game is still running terribly with large save files. I am officially ending my opinions on this game with this final blog on it.

I understand there will always be potential problems with a large game like this designed for PC and ported to a console but after Mr Howard's response about Skyrims PS3 issues, it all sounds like a bunch of bullshit. Bethesda knows that this game is not going to be fixed and now its time to own up to their big mess up. I was not a fan of this series going in, and I do think Skyrim is a great game, when it works anyway. I know that delaying the playstation release would have pissed off alot of playstation fans but they are already pissed off as it is now. Bethesda, you fucked up, end of story. You should have tested this game completely. You should have had at least two or three people on each console playing, exploring the map to 100% and completeing all the missions to see how the save files would hold up with such a large amount of information stored, but in the end, you were lazy and didn't care. I know people will still run out to the stores like their ass is catching fire to grab Elder Scrolls VI, if it ever comes, but I will not be one of them. This was inexcusable in my opinion. You make take credit for a great looking and fun playing game, but in the end, when it has problems running, shame on you.

In the words of Colin Moriarity, "Don't make excuses, make video games." If you can't port such a large game properly, then don't do it. Or maybe seperate the maps like Kingdoms of Amalur. Reckoning has a large map, but it's divided more than skyrim. It doesn't look as beautiful as skyrim does, but the fucking game plays. I've been involved with Amalur for two weeks now and I haven't even noticed the game even studder. I load Skyrim and if I play for more than two hours without lag or a slight freeze in the game, it'd be a fucking miracle. So PC, XBOX, fans can defend Bethesda all you want. What it comes down to in the end is if the game works great, and it does not. You don't see vehicle manufacturers selling poor running vehicles do you? Get your shit together.

The Elder Scrolls V: GLITCHrim

Oh man, have I complained about this game so much on facebook. But Seriously, such a highly praised game, and at the same time, what a piece of shit. I understand this game isn't compatible with the OS or whatever on the playstation, but then don't release it! I don't care if I would have missed out on such an addicting game. It puts me through hell more often than I have fun playing, and now I am locked in a fierce one on one battle with this pile of garbage thats trying to deny me my second platinum PSN trophy, but I will prevail, oh yes I will. Now, to the point. Let me take you on the journey I have gone through..................

So I begin the game totally new to this series with no clue where to go, or what my map compass at the top of the screen is telling me. At this point all I know is this may not be the most beautifully crafted world but it is pretty damn amazing. Before long I am kicking bandits out of mines, forts, and caverns. Hell I even crossed spiders, bears, wolves, dragons and Vampires. I contracted the disease without knowing what happened. Before long I go into my newly purchased whiterun home to dump loot off. I step backoutside and all of a sudden this lady walking by starts trying to the kill me! What the hell did I do? I sheath my weapons in surrender, but no, the sons of bitches kill me. (thank you auto save). I figure out now that I am a vampire, and naturally people want to kill me. Busting out my trusty Iphone I search the IGN guides on skyrim vampirism. Apparently I have been diseased for days and now I am so far gone people attack me on site. I searched how to cure it, went on quite an adventure, and finally pulled it off. Now I learned my lesson, use the strategy guides on the net! So I decide to start quest lines next.

I finished the college quests, the theives guild, and I begin the Civil War quest. I get through the rebellion pretty far and now I go to this camp and receive orders to attack this fort from the General. Meet some comrades outside of the fort, so I follow to the, now familiar, big white arrow on my map and compass. I arrive to a big empty green hill and about five feet above the ground floats the white arrow way marker. Not a person in site. So I go to the fort. Easy enough, I can take this fort myself. So I bust on through and what happens? A nice message appears on the top of my screen: MISSION FAILED (kill all remaining soldiers 100%) This simply means I did not meet up with my comrades but I can still take the fort. One problem. Remember when I did my early plundering? I must have raided this fort on my journey to see the world. Now the game is glitched saying there are 100% of the enemy in the fort, when the place is empty and quiet. Now for the first time Skyrim has spun me into a new demension of pissed off. I had just let my "7 day" return policy at gamestop pass me by because the game freezing up only happened once in a while, but now this? Oh so you have the balls to call this a "massive open-world" game? I think it needs renamed. "Massive open-world game but you cannot explore unless you do the proper missions" What a bunch of bull shit.

So the days drag on, the game freezes constantly making me want to throw it through a wall. It seems it would freeze right when I was diving in and getting really hooked on my current mission. Bethesda releases their first patch and it makes the game even worse. NO, you can't delete the patch if you have already played and saved your game with it, I tried. Anyway they next put out a memo saying to turn off auto save and what do you know, this actually works. Problem is I have to save every 5 min because I might die, or the game might freeze still. Motherfucking assenine bullshit.

So I push on, my character is strong as hell and I realize that I am gonna get this platinum trophy, I am almost there. Though I glitched the civil war mission, I just decided to start a new game and play a different race and just get that one trophy, and then back to my original game. BIG MISTAKE. This saved over my original. Oh now I am pissed. The strategy guide I bought took the full force of my madness. It's limping now but its a tough little soldier. So now I am stuck with this bogus character I dont care about as much. I am just powering through now to gather the rest of the trophies now (10 side missions) (15 artifacts) and then I am done. I wont touch this nightmarish piece of garbage until its patched over, and then I can do whatever I want since I wont care about failed mission glitches. I might even slaughter every killable NPC in it and declare myself ruler of all, fuck it. I hate this game. I am still addicted to it though. Bullshit.