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| The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Review by Jeremy |  | | PALGN Review: Once you go in, you're not coming out for a while... | | [View Article] |
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Great review, gotta agree with you on the fact that it would be easy to sit there and rip apart the game on the minute details. But it's kind of missing the point. That said though the save file frame rate glitch for the ps3 version is kind of unforgiveable.
I mean I get glitches are going to happen and to expect a game to be glitch free is a little bit absurd, but a glitch that leaves the game basically unplayable is just fucked.
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Good review. Some may be interested to know the differences and issues between the different platforms; it would have been nice to have a paragraph dedicated to that.
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The menus may be great on the 360 but on the PC it is obvious that no effort was put into it.
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I was experiencing frequent menu lags until i deleted alot of stuff off my 360 hard drive. since then the game has been working well. but i have ruined a few missions by killing the boss before i started a quest. A top game though 
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Great review. I get lost in this game for hours and loving every single minute of it. Best game of the year
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| Cyph wrote: | | Good review. Some may be interested to know the differences and issues between the different platforms; it would have been nice to have a paragraph dedicated to that. |
My 360 runs this game very well. I do have a recent slim model. Not sure if that helpes but frame rate and detail is very good. Also had no game freezes.
I doubt the upcoming patches will make things much different. For the 2 consoles comparison, 360 is better for this game IMO.
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I've bought Skyrim on the PC and I'm rather disappointed with the quality. Heavily 'console-ized' with poor menu's and controls. For a AAA title, Ridiculous. Games like this shouldn't cost so much to play on PC because its not a PC game. It's a 360 game emulated on the PC.
Good work on the 'Experience though' there's nothing quite like skyrim. Hopefully elder scrolls 6 wont look like vomit and require heavy modding to look passable.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 10:42 am Post subject: |
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@Bigboss
I know it isn't ideal but playing with a 360 pad on PC makes the experience much more enjoyable. I don't really need the precision of a mouse for the game so lounging back with a pad works well. That said interface mods should be out soonish. As always, TES modders outdo Bethesda!
As to the game looking like vomit... I think the artistic direction transcends the relatively low res texture work. Much nicer than Oblivion and for some reason I just can't shake flashbacks to LOTR The Two Towers. All that tundra just looks like it needs some Rohirrim.
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| BigBoss wrote: | I've bought Skyrim on the PC and I'm rather disappointed with the quality. Heavily 'console-ized' with poor menu's and controls. For a AAA title, Ridiculous. Games like this shouldn't cost so much to play on PC because its not a PC game. It's a 360 game emulated on the PC.
Good work on the 'Experience though' there's nothing quite like skyrim. Hopefully elder scrolls 6 wont look like vomit and require heavy modding to look passable. |
You're going to need to mod and tweak it to no ends but when you do, it will look like a proper PC game. There are some interface mods but yeh, in general, it sucks.
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Yeh i opted to use a 360 pad to play, just makes it easier. But i just think that its sad that it comes to that.
Got a heap of mods and textures installed, theres a nice texture and mod packs on piratebay that a user put together.
TES modders for the win, they did in 2 days what a major production company like Bethesda won't do cause "it's to hard"
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I'm a big fan of the water textures. I play crysis just to stand in the waterfalls 
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| BigBoss wrote: |
TES modders for the win, they did in 2 days what a major production company like Bethesda won't do cause "it's to hard" |
Or because they don't have the budget to devote doing texture packs for the pc crowd when they're probably in the minority of people playing and then the minority of them again who would actually care about it, where as the modders work for free?
But no no, keep assuming that when a development company doesn't do exactly what you want it's cause they're lazy slackers.
I mean why let rationality get in the way?
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To be honest, I was still quite impressed with Skyrim's overall image quality without mods. Yeah it can be better but I kinda play games to play a game, not gawk at technical stuff and call it a day.
And yeah I was expecting the mod community to do all the cool shit, in which they have considering how batshit insane my game looks now.
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^ From a business perspective... you're right. But some of the textures issues are because they were made (too) low res for the console releases, higher quality textures could be made available out of the box for PC users.
But yeh, guaranteed they knew people would mod it so why bother.
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Its a shame that PC got the raw end is all on launch, must be a Friday, or any other weekday or every other weekend....
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| Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Haha sucked in! PC gets raw end with Skyrim!
Consoles: Forever-vanilla. Low level textures, lighting, draw distance and 30fps framerate. Can't easily take screenshots or record video to share awesome experiences. No fixing various glitches through the console.
PC: Menu that isn't ideal for a keyboard/mouse for a few days until some menu mods have been released.
wait... 
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also someone allready linked to menu mods in the skyrim thread in general gaming.
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