Skyrim

[Guest Aaron]

Is anyone else playing Skyrim?

 

I got it a few weeks ago and after an hour I got a PS3 YLOD! Managed to get my disc back out and have played a few hours of it.... it's been so long since Oblivion that I forgot how large these games are!

 

Anyway. Stuck in my head all days every day right now seems to be... "I took an arrow to the knee".

Arrow in the Knee vid: http://uk.ign.com/videos/2011/12/05/skyrim-took-an-arrow-in-the-knee?objectid=14267318

 

If Arrow to the knee isn't your thing, there's this: Dan Bull Skyrim rap:

 

:)

[Paul 584]

Great game, the only thing stopping it from being GOAT is the damned glitches and bugs, I mean Oblivion and the Fallout games had some, but Skyrim is riddled worse than Paris Hiltons fanny.

[Guest Jamster26]

I had to stop playing. I'd like my weekends to last as long as possible...

[BRM 220]

half price i Gamestation at the moment.

 

http://www.gamestation.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/HubArticleView?hubId=143834&articleId=143835&catalogId=10202&langId=45&storeId=10651&cm_sp=Christmas-_-KeyFeature-_-Skyrim

[Guest Dave7g]

I've had maybe one glitch ever. Did you not get the patch?

[Paul 584]

I had to do a patch the day it came out! Not at home so I cant check if a new one needs doing. But the skyrim wiki says they are still active bugs.

[Guest Olblueyes]

I ****ing love skyrim.

[Guest Dante Spears]

I don't want to play this. I always hate how much time I waste with these games once I've stopped playing them.

[Guest Aaron]

Some of the glitches are terrible. I went down some hole and there was a puzzle to get back out. It turned out I couldn't do the puzzle because some glitch had prevented the puzzle from loading correctly!

 

Also got a YLOD (not Bethesda's fault but still grrrr!) and have had a couple of crashes (like Oblivion)

 

The designers there are amazing. Shame that the develoeprs can't keep up!

 

I did just lose pretty much my whole weekend to Skyrim! I will lose many more because being Dragonborn is awesome.

 

:)

[Guest Jamster26]

Some of the glitches are terrible. I went down some hole and there was a puzzle to get back out. It turned out I couldn't do the puzzle because some glitch had prevented the puzzle from loading correctly!

 

Just had that exact same problem. Note to self: save regularly.

[etz 78]

Also got a YLOD (not Bethesda's fault but still grrrr!) and have had a couple of crashes (like Oblivion)

 

 

You know, I think it might be their fault. Fallout 3 murdered my PS3, and then WET tried it on with the replacement... a definite trend developing.

[Guest Saz]

I've had little issue with Skyrim, but I have the PC version, so Steam keeps updating it while I snooze, having said that I am on a quest to find where the hell my packmul... er housecarl has gotten to... Here lydia lydia!

[ViciousPrism 177]

I got the game for £23 new at Game yesterday. This is the most I've done so far.

 

[video=youtube;S9L6MWcfMLw]

 

(And yeah, I found out after the video that a dog doesn't have knees at the front. I fail canine anatomy.)

[Guest Jamster26]

It's hard being a bad guy at the start. I can never seem to avoid the bounty.

[Guest Saz]

You just have to make sure that no one sees you Jamster, so stay in sneak mode and don't nick anything when the eye is open, or in fact get the hell out of the house when the eye starts to open.

[Guest Dave7g]

Kill all witnesses if you can.

[Guest Aaron]

Last week (maybe the week before) I spent too much time saying "arrow in the knee". Check out the virals on youtube for that... all the guards have the same stories to tell.

 

This week though I've been watching videso by a YouTuber calling himself The King of Sweden. His videos are funny. In one he plays Skyrim using nothing but his fists. He seems like a dodgy nutcase though, funny as he is.

 

I'd include the links here but can't peruse media at work :(

 

(BTW, the YLOD is caused by solder melting on the motherboard near the heatpads. Games like this do a lot of hot-swapping so may cause it in a way but the hardware should withstand it better. It's not something developers can test for. If you get YLOD, you can get your disc back by holding the eject button down - for as long as it takes - whilst switching the PS3 on. Otherwise you'll need a solder iron and need to re-flow the board or something)

[etz 78]

Alternatively, a towel and a hairdryer (on hottest setting) are enough to correct any dry joints or breaks if it won't turn on at all. Crappy hardware...

[Guest Saz]

Been having a riot in sneak mode, taking out people with one shot of my bow, there is something satisfying about waiting for a bandit to walk past your firing line and taking them out without anyone else noticing.

 

Even better is now I am a hell of a lot better with bow, I have eagle eye and eagle eye slowdown, so now I can take out dots on the horizon, such as guards patrolling old castles.

 

I'm not ure how they've done it, but Skyrim is keeping my interest a lot better than Oblivion did.

[Guest Jamster26]

This game is ridiculous; never played anything like it.

 

I've had to quit four different saved games and start a fresh one, and I'm not annoyed in the slightest. Usually I'd be throwing the controllers around the room, but because of how interesting the Skyrim world is, I'm almost happy to try a different character, with a different adventure / route.