Skyrim

I’m very late to the game, but I continue to find a plethora of bugs and glitches in my copy of Skyrim on the 360. When you encounter these kinds of errors, the general consensus is you’re simply supposed to shrug and say, “What are you going to do?” then post a hilarious youtube video. Rallying against the studio would be pointless, as they’re too busy rolling around in a pile of money. Internet users will tell you to get the computer version of the game and then mod it to wipe the glitches, but that’s not my job as a gamer, now is it? They will also call you a fag, because they’re on the internet.

Imagine if you didn’t have an internet connection for one thing, and you were unable to update. Skyrim isn’t an online game, so why are patches being delivered that way post-install? Because fuck you, that’s why.

Mostly, the errors are ridiculous and incomprehensible. I was talking to the Puff-the-Magic Dragon, or whatever his name might be, on top of the Throat of the World, and he suddenly took to the sky. As he’s a dragon with wings, I thought this was suppose to happen. Then I noticed he was flying backwards and his wings weren’t even moving. He was like a leaf caught in a tornado, swirling ever higher until he reached the very stratosphere. Then he began to descend. I had hoped he would stop at my ground level, but he went down past the mountain cliff and probably through the mountain itself. I had to save halfway through because the was about fifteen minutes of pointless dialogue involved, which I couldn’t even hear because he was out of range and I was frozen to the spot. When I came back, he was still out of sight, but then he reset himself to the correct position.

I also finished the quest for the Helm of Winterhold, and was about to turn it in, which apparently isn’t allowed. I was previously hoping to avoid the quest altogether because of yet another glitch. I was doing the chain of quests for the Companions in the hopes I could cure my werewolfism, which turned out not to be as enduringly awesome as I had hoped. Every time I enter their hall the characters are frozen in their mourning states after their leader dies, and it won’t let me continue the quest chain. Looking online told me that I was basically screwed, and that I would be double screwed if I went through with the Winterhold quest, as both quest chains take you to the same location, and doing the one before the other makes it impossible to complete both. I did it anyway, and was prepared to bring the helm back to the Jarl. The map marker took me far from Winterhold, where he was supposed to be sitting on his throne. I instead found him swimming, fully clothed, in the middle of a river, which is just about as unlikely a place to find him as the inside of a volcano. I couldn’t even interact with him, although the screen showed the option of talking to him. I think it was because he was treading water.

So my point is: I’ve already put over 100 hours into the game, and I find out I might not even be able to finish at least two quests because of grievous errors, which also means I can’t get the Achievements associated with them. I could always try starting over, but then there’s no guarantee it wouldn’t happen again. There’s not even a rumour that the studio plans on patching the game anytime soon to help me out, aside from selling more downloadable content. Why would I buy an add-on to the game when I can’t even play the game I have?