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Originally posted by Seravin

Kinda hard not to notice a glitch like a dragon flying backwards and all over the place at the speed of sound while shrieking and breathing fire.

I like the dragons though (pre patch 1.02 anyway) and they are being fixed next week. Definitely pick it up after the patch or now and wait til after the patch to play.

The lag on the PS3 can be pretty brutal, again a glitch like not being able to talk to NPCs or interact with merchants because the lag is so bad is hard not to notice, whether you "go looking for it" or not.

The game is great but please don't assume people who are having bug issues are nitpicking. The code is severely buggy (but will be fixed with patches and user mods when the creator kit comes out!)

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Originally posted by Imp

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Originally posted by entreri3478

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Originally posted by Imp

To see if there are any?

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Skyrim is too massive to spend time looking for programming glitches. I see the occasional glitch and it usualy makes me laugh

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Some explore the world.
Some immerse themselves into the story.
Some enjoy the fighting.
Some look for glitches.

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Originally posted by Seravin

Xbox version definitely seems like it got the most love. As proof, they are getting DLC 30 days earlier than the PS3 and the PC, and their version is the least buggy of the 3. Although resistances are broken on all 3 versions right now.

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Originally posted by Chosen of Asmodeus

So what kind of character has everyone gone with? Race, skill focus, that sort of thing. And what side of the rebellion have you joined, if any?

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Originally posted by Quale
The war was disappointing, I found out too late that a treaty is possible.

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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis

*SPOILER ALERT!!*

That comes later in the main quest line, where you get to have both sides plus the Thalmors sit down togehter to sign a treaty.


I'm playing the 360 version, and so far the only glitches I've seen involve the occasional animal getting caught on scenery, water not appearing in certain stretches of rivers, and I had a problem with the corpse of the first magor draugr warlord in Bleak Falls Barrow (the one you find your fisrt shout in) not being able to be activated (no message to open the corspe and take his stuff.) It took me five tries to open it and get the dragonstone- but that was with my second PC. The first time through, I did not have that problem.

My main PC so far is a dark elf bard (dual-wielding one-hand, restoration, speechcraft, lockpicking, alchemy, sneak, and light armor). I must say the only real complaint I have had was with the general appearance of the elves. Most of them do not look as good as they did in Oblivion. The facial morphs were just to "ugly" for an elf, if you know what I mean. Especially the dark elves. They end up looking too old, gaunt, and "hard" IMO.

My other PC is a high elf female "blade-singer", mostly destruction, light armor, one-handed, alchemy, restoration, alteration, and archery. Fortunately, the morphs on them are better, so she did not look as weird as my other one, but I'm still a bit disappointed with the elves appearances overall. Thinking of playing a kahjit next. THEY look awesome! (Character creation is one thing I really look for- does it LOOK like you want it to be?"

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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis

Agreed. I have actually sat with the camera panned up just to watch the auroras that show up at night on occasion. Or followed a stream just to see where it goes. And then there was a spriggan cave that a friend was exploring with his character yesterday. It was gorgeous!!

So far, my biggest problem seems to be the difficulty scale of some creatures. I can kill a dragon in the wild ALONE, but throw a saber-tooth at me and I'm cat-chow??!

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Originally posted by Kilvan

That sums it up

http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/11/09

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Originally posted by Seravin

Good lord, we're discussing a game that has a graphic beheading in the opening scene and you're modding out a modified mispelled s word in my post done only for humour. American prudishness is so weird.

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Originally posted by Quale
The war was disappointing, I found out too late that a treaty is possible.

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It is? I just joined the Stormcloacks and helped them take Solitude, I never saw an opportunity for peace.

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Originally posted by entreri3478

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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis

*SPOILER ALERT!!*

That comes later in the main quest line, where you get to have both sides plus the Thalmors sit down togehter to sign a treaty.


I'm playing the 360 version, and so far the only glitches I've seen involve the occasional animal getting caught on scenery, water not appearing in certain stretches of rivers, and I had a problem with the corpse of the first magor draugr warlord in Bleak Falls Barrow (the one you find your fisrt shout in) not being able to be activated (no message to open the corspe and take his stuff.) It took me five tries to open it and get the dragonstone- but that was with my second PC. The first time through, I did not have that problem.

My main PC so far is a dark elf bard (dual-wielding one-hand, restoration, speechcraft, lockpicking, alchemy, sneak, and light armor). I must say the only real complaint I have had was with the general appearance of the elves. Most of them do not look as good as they did in Oblivion. The facial morphs were just to "ugly" for an elf, if you know what I mean. Especially the dark elves. They end up looking too old, gaunt, and "hard" IMO.

My other PC is a high elf female "blade-singer", mostly destruction, light armor, one-handed, alchemy, restoration, alteration, and archery. Fortunately, the morphs on them are better, so she did not look as weird as my other one, but I'm still a bit disappointed with the elves appearances overall. Thinking of playing a kahjit next. THEY look awesome! (Character creation is one thing I really look for- does it LOOK like you want it to be?"

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I agree 100%. The elves looked great in Oblivion and in Skyrim they look strange to me. The khajit and argonians are awesome however!

I wish there was more customization avaiable when making your character though. I feel a little limited in how i can make them look. Also, i would love the ability be able to change your hair style or add/subtract war paint at any point in the game.

The level of detail in the landscapes and underground levels is truly amazing. It takes me forever to finish a "dungeon" because i spend so much time fully enjoying the setting.

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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis

Really? Elves are SUPPOSED to look "pretty". Well, you know what I mean. I liked how they looked in Oblivion, as it was more true to how they are usually viewed/portrayed in most fantasy games/books/etc. The new "alien" look for them just didn't do it for me. Too much like the orcs, to be honest. And who needs another version of an orc? I'd rather keep the graceful,noble look of the elves from Oblivion- and I found that making them look really great was relatively easy in that game. Making them look even half-way decent in Skyrim was far more difficult. Not to mention there were so few choices in some parts of the charater generation that I was left feeling cheated in that respect. Couldn't even make a decent FR dark elf..... *sigh*

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Originally posted by Quale

In the beginning the first few dragons are not difficult, but later if you don't have Dragonrend they never land and are hard to hit. Depends on the difficulty, but I'd rather attack three mammoths and two giants, they're more predictable.

I liked the College of Winterhold and the Dark Brotherhood quests the most, then the Nightingale and a few of the Daedric ones. Most of the main quest, and the Skalds and Companions were not impressive. Overall the rewards are poor. I killed the most important people in that world and over 3000 other, but nothing changes, the jarls and guards remain the same.

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The war was disappointing, I found out too late that a treaty is possible.

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It is? I just joined the Stormcloacks and helped them take Solitude, I never saw an opportunity for peace.

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If you complete most of the main quest first there's an option of negotiations, but both sides must gain something

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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis

Guess you must have different ideas about what constitutes a "good" elf in Skyrim/Oblivion/etc. "Eldrich" has NOTHING to do with Lovecraft. Elves have been around in folklore- and usually as tall, graceful, beautiful-appearing folk- for centuries. There's a REASON that Tolkien and his successors to the fantasy genre have depicted them that way. but the ones in Skyrim were a far cry from anything I'd consider "attractive" by any human standard. They had, generally speaking, the same sort of rough, hard, and cold or "mean" appearance as I'd expect from the orcs. I like elves to actually look "fey", not like a half-orc with really good hygeine... Heck some of the dark elf facial presets looked like they were on a perma-PMS bender. And fiddling with it for an HOUR left me with something that was only partially satisfying as far as creating the character I wanted. Oblivion, by contrast, gave me a PC who was (with the exception of eye-color) almost a PERFECT likeness for my D&D (N)PC! Not so thrying to re-create the same character in Skyrim. He ended up looking old, gaunt, and sinister. Not what I wanted. Even without any wrinkles or what-not, he still looked like he'd been around for at least seven hundred years. The high elf female I made was better, but still had a very alien and hard-cut look, like someone literally carved her out of a chunk of stone, without bothering to chisel off the edges..... May try a kahjit next- they seem to have better morphs than many of the humanoid races.

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