So, after quite a few hours invested in what is easily one of the best games I have played, I have to shelve Skyrim before I could possibly complete it. Lag isn't the only problem. Yes, I did do everything I could to minimize it, such as turning off the autosave. But lo, I got so immersed in the game I forget to save from time to time and I die. Then I have to replay the quest I was on. Many times it is my own fault. But once, I fell two feet off a porch and died inexplicably.
This coincided with two other glitches that really pissed me off:
1) The Ritual Stone, that I was using to great effect has disappeared from my Powers. Where did it go? Will it come back?
2) My shouts were all darkened (hell, 3 of them are darkened all the time as if waiting to recharge) and I hadn't used them in days.
Then there is the Fallout 3 lag. Yes. We had this problem with Fallout 3. The EXACT same Lag problem. How hard can it be to fix that. And here I was playing along ignoring the In My Time of Need quest that inexplicably can't be beat because I killed the main antagonist while his stamina was drained. His dead body wants me to talk to it.
So I sit here, with arguably one of the best RPGs in years, and it is unplayable. Goodbye, Skyrim, hopefully for a brief time, but probably much, much longer... I hardly knew ye.
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I'm sorry to hear that. I guess your only options are to wait for a massive update to fix the issues or play it on an Xbox 360 or a PC.
I have it on PS3 and know exactly what you mean. The shouts that don't work even though you should be able to use them, the massive lag, the inability to create a new character without creating multiple save files for the first one because of the unavoidable autosave at the beginning that will overwrite your original file (there's actually two unavoidable autosaves, one is on a mission).
There is that one mission where you go to get the Helm of Winterhold or something and as soon as you enter the cave everything goes black and you can't do anything unless you make a save in that cave and reload. There's also the quests that never finish due to glitches such as the one in the college where you have to find the Archmage but when you do nothing happens and everyone acts like normal.
Honestly, how did this get released? I know the 360 and PC fanboys will try to come and say "well we have no problems" but that's B.S. because I can link you to sites that show that there are problems across the board. And still, what legitimate excuse could be made to say that it's the PS3's fault and not Bethesda's when Fallout 3 has the same problems?
Don't get me wrong, I love Skyrim. Any RPG where I can sneak up and one-hit kill an enemy is a damn good game to me. But the sheer multitude of glitches that won't get fixed (if you're to believe Bethesda's history with such things) is just wrong. Why did this console gen have to go the "release it and fix it later" route?
Ok because I did some research on the matter:
a)there IS as a matter of fact a way to "bypass the lag".I have a save of roughly 11mb and the game starts lagging after around 4.5 hours of continuous gameplay. On the first hick up it has save quit the game from the xmb and reenter. Voila another 4.5 hours of continuous lag free play. It works like a charm for me so it should work for you.
b)The active effects not showing up is a well known glitch across all 3 platforms. Despite them not showing up they are as a matter of fact still active so don't let that bother you too much.
c)The dragon shouts not working properly is also one of those glitches but unfortunately I don't know any fix for this one.
Here visit this site for any help you might need
http://elderscrolls.wikia.c...
and let me know if it helped.
I have the game on PS3 and I'm 36 hours in. Where DO you guys find these problems?
Disappointed with this console generation. Skyrim ruined it for me. I used to defend this generation when people bash it, I just can't anymore. It's shit. Video games are going down the same toilet with movies. Everything nowadays just suck. They're made for the lowest common denominator of gamers, and the games that are actually meaningful it's broken and virtually unplayable. Sad.