Elders Scrolls V Skyrim

[syston_fox]

Just realised why these games annoy me. Spent the last 10 minutes trying to walk up a snow covered mountain and in that time I only spotted one wolf. Well and truly lost my way and ended up falling off the side. Grrrr!

[Finnegan]

If you want a challenge, go climb Everest.

Games are meant to be fun. Having to fight the same boss seven thousand times because the game punishes the tiniest mistakes isn't "fun." There's a reason "extreme" games (Ikaruga shits all over Dark Souls in terms of challenge) are cult, minority games for a few people - people don't want to be pulling their hair out.

Dark Souls isn't a "better game" you just like it more because it suits your tastes.

[Yojoe36]

I tried to climb Mount Everest, but then I....

[Charl91]

Regretting getting this already. I'm playing it on the Xbox, but the lag/freezing is awful!

[Yojoe36]

Regretting getting this already. I'm playing it on the Xbox, but the lag/freezing is awful!

What? I've played it for 46 hours, and I've not had one freeze. Even pre-patch

[Charl91]

What? I've played it for 46 hours, and I've not had one freeze. Even pre-patch

Really? I'm only 2 hours in, and it has frozen for more then 5 seconds at least 7 or 8 times, from the tutorial onwards. Once it crashed for about 30 secs. Have you installed yours to hard drive? Maybe it's something to do with memory, because I'm using the 4gb slim one without an external hard drive.

[Legend_in_blue]

Really? I'm only 2 hours in, and it has frozen for more then 5 seconds at least 7 or 8 times, from the tutorial onwards. Once it crashed for about 30 secs. Have you installed yours to hard drive? Maybe it's something to do with memory, because I'm using the 4gb slim one without an external hard drive.

It crashed on me tonight while I was completing the siege of Windhelm - the final quest on the Imperial Legion storyline. There was lots going on - probably a memory issue. That's the only in-game crash I've had. The other crashes were on load screens - nothing happened and eventually the screen went black. I haven't had any framerate issues at all either and I still haven't downloaded the patch.

[Yojoe36]

Really? I'm only 2 hours in, and it has frozen for more then 5 seconds at least 7 or 8 times, from the tutorial onwards. Once it crashed for about 30 secs. Have you installed yours to hard drive? Maybe it's something to do with memory, because I'm using the 4gb slim one without an external hard drive.

Mine's installed to a 120gb HDD

[Charl91]

Maybe I'l just have to buy an external and install it then.

[GLC]

I've had no problems after yesterday's patch, played for 4 hours,

Just going through all my quests so i can get rid of a few

[MrSpaM]

Do you realise that Skyrim is the 5th game in the Elder Scrolls series, hence the roman numeral "V"

Hands up i'm a dumbass, . I thought you meant 'Elder scrolls Vs Skyrim'

My bad

[Manwell Pablo]

What a surprise. Never saw it coming.

No, Dark Souls is a better game because it forces you to play at a high difficulty. There is no margin for error, no quick fix. Eventually Skyrim becomes nothing more than a game where you constantly strive to keep the quest log down to a minimum. There are so many quests that after a few hours worth of play, it's quite easy to forget how you got half of the quests in the first place and what you're meant to do with them. Fast tracking from one area to the next becomes commonplace. When completing a quest one enemy is quite often more difficult than the rest and the game constantly reminds you that the difficulty can be adjusted in combat situations. As a result, in order to tick off another quest, the temptation to water down the difficulty becomes too hard to resist.

Ok so it may be my fault that I am adjusting the game to make it easier, but the fact that it's possible is it's major flaw. The challenge isn't there.

It's a pretty game, it's decent, I like it, but it's too open and too big. It's Oblivion with all the trimings added.

Finding the right balance is difficult. The major flaw in FFXIII, for example, was that it was too damn linear. The flaw with this is that it's too open. The right balance isn't there imo.

Found this. Although biased, some good points are made...

http://www.eurogamer...k-souls-article

lol

You CANNOT make forced difficulty a reason for it being a better game. I have no temptatation to lower the difficulty at any point if I can't do a bit I go away and try and do something else, which given there is so much to do is easy, and then I come back when I think I have the means to deal with the previously too difficult scenario. If you lowering difficulty to make things easier for yourself then you are to blame not the game, there is no flaw there whatsoever.

That article has a few decent points but like most of the people who commented on it, I really do disagree with most of it. The two big arguement just does not cut it with me I think the game has all the detail of DS, from what I've seen of it anyway, and there is a huge amout of very varied and well thought out content.

[Yojoe36]

Maybe I'l just have to buy an external and install it then.

Oh wait, I think I know what you mean. Does it freeze up when you go into your item menu and/or your quick menu?Thi

Just press the guide button, then close it. Should work.

[Legend_in_blue]

I've only got the thieves, mage and daedric quests to complete along with a few main quests. Apart from fetch and carry that's it.

Surprised to have spent 50 hours on this now. But once these quests are complete, what next?

Where does the 200+hours gameplay figure come from? Load of nonsense.

[GLC]

Well you can find the daedra artifacts, become thanes of all the holds, find all the mysterious jewels and loads more, it's easy to get over 2 hours

[GLC]

Oh and the companions

[Frank_mckenzie]

Objective: equip a spoon and go dragon hunting, it can be quite amusing

[Yojoe36]

Objective: equip a spoon and go dragon hunting, it can be quite amusing

Are you serious?

[Frank_mckenzie]

So far I've taken down two at level 48 on normal difficulty because me daedric greatsword has 350 damage and dragons were dying in 30 seconds so thought would try it

[Legend_in_blue]

I have now finished all main faction quests. Lvl 30.

Main quest to do.

Preferred the thieves guild quests out of all of them. Imperial Legion was boring.

[Manwell Pablo]

I have now finished all main faction quests. Lvl 30.

Main quest to do.

Preferred the thieves guild quests out of all of them. Imperial Legion was boring.

It is rather boring, although the sword the general gives you at the end is the muts. Rapes anything if you keep it charged.

[Legend_in_blue]

It is rather boring, although the sword the general gives you at the end is the muts. Rapes anything if you keep it charged.

Which sword is this called? I put everything I don't use in the chest in the house I got but I must have over 100 objects in it by now.

I'm over 50 hours into this game and I still haven't visited the town of Falkreath.

Edited 21 December 2011 by Legend_in_blue

[Manwell Pablo]

Elven sword of leeching, poor damage, but if it's charged it absorbs 20 points of health at the same time which more than doubles the damage and given that your absorbing all that health makes killing you nigh on impossible.

[James18]

Which sword is this called? I put everything I don't use in the chest in the house I got but I must have over 100 objects in it by now.

I'm over 50 hours into this game and I still haven't visited the town of Falkreath.

40 hours and same. Riften and Whiterun are my most visited.

[GLC]

I think it took me 80 odd hours to visit Falkreath