Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Dog Pants]

I started to write a whole diatribe about placebos and customer perception, but it got too complicated. But basically I don't disagree with you, but it's something out of Amazon's hands so they can only charge and provide a service for what the Post Office claim is the case.

I don't have it on pre-order anyway. I'm hoping I can hold out a little while for it to either come down in price or for someone who felt the same about Oblivion/Fallout 3 as I did to proclaim it brilliant. You know, I had such expectations for those games I actually dreamt about them. I suppose you're bound to be disappointed with that kind of anticipation.

[Roman Totale]

I suppose you're bound to be disappointed with that kind of anticipation.

Like your first gang bang.

[Dog Pants]

I suppose you're bound to be disappointed with that kind of anticipation.

Like your first gang bang.

I never thought I'd be so sore at the end of that.

[Legoshoes]

I suppose you're bound to be disappointed with that kind of anticipation.

Like your first gang bang.

It's a shame none of the women showed up.

[Roman Totale]

Hmm, the button that said 'pre-load' appears to have been replaced by one that says 'play'. Intriguing...

[mrbobbins]

Delivery status: Fully Despatched

At last, still, I'm Glad they posted it today and that I had it sent to work so I definitely wont get it till next week.

[mrbobbins]

OMFG It just arrived!. How did they do this?!, it must have been delivered by dragons, it's the only answer.

THANKYOU

[spoodie]

Was this how you reacted when you got your delivery?

[mrbobbins]

More like this

Where I'm the old lady and the man is our post room guy.

[Roman Totale]

Since this afternoon I've been plauged with crashes

[Roman Totale]

Since this afternoon I've been plauged with crashes

Running it as administrator seems to stop the crashes, but now I've got missing textures all over the place. Bah!

[Joose]

Ive only had one crash so far. Annoyingly though, it was as I lay a killing blow on a dragon. Damnit.

[Dog Pants]

Don't like spiders? Replace them with Pedobears!

[spoodie]

I'm messing about in Whiterun and had about 10-15 crashes so far. Fairly annoying but as my middle name is "Quicksave" it's not often a real problem. Also the game is fucking amazing, so I can put up with it. Running the exe as Administrator does nothing but give me another thing to click before I can get into the game.

[Roman Totale]

I'm messing about in Whiterun and had about 10-15 crashes so far. Fairly annoying but as my middle name is "Quicksave" it's not often a real problem. Also the game is fucking amazing, so I can put up with it. Running the exe as Administrator does nothing but give me another thing to click before I can get into the game.

I've fixed my constant crashes by turning off Xfire and also making sure Firefox isn't open in the background - it's worked marvels so far. Also as soon as the game has started, open task manager and set Skyrim as high priority.

[Dog Pants]

The crashes have only caused me minor, if slightly frustrating inconveniences, such are the frequencies of the auto-saves. It's only really when I'm exploring the wilderness and forget to save that it gets me. Doesn't happen that often anyway.

I'm really very pleasantly surprised with the game. I'm doing the College arc at the moment and keep finding myself thinking it's the main quest line. Every dungeon I've encountered has been different, and I keep finding new monsters. Stuff I was fighting at the beginning of the game crumples in seconds when faced by my lightning bolts, but I still keep finding things that batter the living crap out of me. Also, by way of punishing them, bosses get stripped naked and made my zombie for a bit. I'm mean like that.

[FatherJack]

Stuff I was fighting at the beginning of the game crumples in seconds when faced by my lightning bolts, but I still keep finding things that batter the living crap out of me.

This is something I also like about this game. While my horse can kick the crap out of a wolf or skeleton without me even helping, and I took down a dragon by punching it in the face, despite my friend who was visting today advising that standing in front of its mouth might not be the best strategy, there are still things that are too much for my mighty fists.

The giants seem not to take kindly to a cat prancing around them on a horse and pretty much one-shot us, and I stumbled upon a little vampire coven which didn't end well. Rather more pleasing were my victories against what at first seemed impossibly hard enemies. I eventually took out a hagraven which got a bit confused as I sniped it from behind a window, and an unexpectedly hard bandit leader finally fell after she chased me right around her keep not less than four times, with me priming her own bear traps on each circuit for her to stumble into.

It's the bugs and silliness that make this fun, if the hardasses had behaved "properly" and not forgotten about me after I'd turned a few corners, then I'd never have beaten them and would have had to come back later - feeling that you're tricking the game a little bit, but not really cheating reminds me of the feelings I got from the first Portal game's advanced chambers.

Most impressive is that despite me choosing fists as my main weapon (bow as secondary) only light armour and only a few very basic spells for use in emergencies, and there being no (that I've found) explicit way to improve my hand-to-hand skills either by training skills or items/fist weapons - it's still perfectly playable. I don't feel like I've stupidly nerfed myself, in fact I briefly feel a sense of being a mighty warrior...until getting my face smashed in by getting too cocky with a guard.

I've had some hilarious oddities with the physics, but unfortunately have not been able to replicate them "on camera" after reloading with a capture program running, but haven't been plagued with crashes. I get the odd silent CTD, but even having played for probably 24 hours can safely count them on one hand.

One thing that annoyed, but I now have a workaround for is when you minimise the game and it won't switch back. With two screens, I get this a lot - the mouse cursor appearing on the second screen and minimising the game when I right-click. I turned off desktop compositing, as I regularly do for all games, but the fix is this: When it minimises, click the taskbar icon to make it reappear. You see a sort of empty window, with your desktop still visible. Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to bring up the task manager, then close it straight away by clicking the X. You may have to do a bit of hunting as the mouse cursor sometimes only shows when it's over the task manager window, but the game should restore and allow you to carry on.

[Dog Pants]

One thing that annoyed, but I now have a workaround for is when you minimise the game and it won't switch back. With two screens, I get this a lot - the mouse cursor appearing on the second screen and minimising the game when I right-click. I turned off desktop compositing, as I regularly do for all games, but the fix is this: When it minimises, click the taskbar icon to make it reappear. You see a sort of empty window, with your desktop still visible. Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to bring up the task manager, then close it straight away by clicking the X. You may have to do a bit of hunting as the mouse cursor sometimes only shows when it's over the task manager window, but the game should restore and allow you to carry on.

I get that. When I start the game I can see my cursor flitting across my other monitor, and occasionally I'll click on something and cause it to minimise. I solve it by ALT+TABbing around to the game again, which causes it to window, then doing it again, which brings the game back without the desktop cursor. It's still there, because I see my Steam friends highlighted occasionally, but I don't seem to click on anything out there so no more minimising.

Your bandit tale reminded me. I encountered some bandits in some ruins. Me and my horse beat up the first one. Rounding a corner I found another dead in her own trap. The leader I killed by taunting her from below until she slipped and fell to her death from the platform she was on. A fitting end to the most inept band of brigands I've met so far.

Does anyone else keep accidentally electrocuting their horse?

[Roman Totale]

One thing that annoyed, but I now have a workaround for is when you minimise the game and it won't switch back. With two screens, I get this a lot - the mouse cursor appearing on the second screen and minimising the game when I right-click. I turned off desktop compositing, as I regularly do for all games, but the fix is this: When it minimises, click the taskbar icon to make it reappear. You see a sort of empty window, with your desktop still visible. Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to bring up the task manager, then close it straight away by clicking the X. You may have to do a bit of hunting as the mouse cursor sometimes only shows when it's over the task manager window, but the game should restore and allow you to carry on.

I've found that alt-tabbing twice tends to fix the "empty screen" thing, and just pressing Esc to go to the menu clears the ghost mouse.

Most amusing bug I've seen was a mammoth that, apropos of nothing, shot vertically upwards about a 100m and hovered momentarily before gravity remembered what is was supposed to be doing. Result, one dead mammoth at my feet with no effort.

Similar and slightly scarier bug, I was leaving a city when the skeleton of a dragon I'd killed earlier plummeted to earth right at my feet. I jumped.

[Roman Totale]

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