Review IGN's Skyrim Second Opinions

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Tags: Bethesda Softworks; Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

<p>Feel like reading some second opinions on Skyrim? <a href="http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/121/1213281p1.html" target="_blank">Here you go</a>:</p>
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<p>Like all Bethesda titles, Skyrim is a game with two faces. Sometimes it's a game with unparalleled depth and immersiveness. Tugging on one tiny, seemingly insignificant string can uncover a gigantic tangle of quests and adventures. But other times it's a game where your entire head disappears, mammoths fall from the sky, or NPCs don't react when you put a bucket on their head.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>I'm absolutely enamored with Skyrim at the moment, but it struck me during one of my methodical dungeon dives last night that many gamers, myself included, are inclined to give Bethesda games a pass for their high level of "jankiness." In a dungeon I hit a bandit in the face with an arrow, and he decided the correct response would be to stand up and go stare at a wall.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>In a strange way, Skyrim's bugs and the holes in its simulation can actually be endearing. You know you're playing a Bethesda game when you can harvest butterfly wings, and distill them into no less than 15 different potions, but you can also put a bucket on a shopkeeper's head and then rob him blind. When you can marry over 60 unique NPCs, but you can also get into a bar fight with someone and then have a completely normal conversation with them just seconds later.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>In the back of my mind I know these bugs and this silliness should bother me more, but what can I say? Adventure awaits! I've got dragons to slay.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>In Bethesda games, bugs are actually endearing.&nbsp;</p>
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[Black]

In a strange way, Skyrim's bugs and the holes in its simulation can actually be endearing.

How sweet But only if it's bethesda's bugs in a bethesda game.

 

[Peter]

In a strange way, Skyrim's bugs and the holes in its simulation can actually be endearing.

How sweet But only if it's bethesda's bugs in a bethesda game.

Yeah man, Bethesda's bugs are so hilarious!

Obsidian, however, should die in a fire for their buggy games (all of which run fine on my PC, but if so many people say they have game-breaking glitches in their games, it must be true!).

 

[Mozgoëbstvo]

So, second opinions are not about "we cooled down from our retardo enthusiasm, we'll now expand our criticism objectively". It's an extension of what was already written in the mainstream reviews (ITZ BUGGY BUT ITZ SO OMFGLOLFUKINAWSUM).

So it's another retroactive layer of defense.

 

[Overweight Manatee]

Bethesda doesn't make bugs, they make features. Endearing features.

 

[meh]

In a strange way, Skyrim's bugs and the holes in its simulation can actually be endearing.

How sweet But only if it's bethesda's bugs in a bethesda game.

Yeah man, Bethesda's bugs are so hilarious!

Obsidian, however, should die in a fire for their buggy games (all of which run fine on my PC, but if so many people say they have game-breaking glitches in their games, it must be true!).

Too true.

 

[DraQ]

In a dungeon I hit a bandit in the face with an arrow, and he decided the correct response would be to stand up and go stare at a wall. 

Sounds like brain damage to me.

 

[saenz]

And when Obsidian uses their buggy ass engine, they get reamed for it right off the bat. Double standard anyone?

 

[Eyeball]

I actually agree - the crappy engine being really unfit for a lot of what they tried to do with Skyrim makes for some sometimes downright hilarious situations, such as you fly 300 foot skywards when being clobbered by a giant or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf2ol-PUS1k or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt5aUdijAN8

I appreciate these stupid glitches. They're really the best thing to come out of the clunky Oblivion engine.

 

[Davaris]

I watched my nephew play this game on PS3 from the start. He almost got his head chopped off, the dragon attacked, then he ran through a cave system and when he got outside, he went down a steep incline and got stuck in a rock.

 

[revealer]

Endearing is the new majestic!

 

[20 Eyes]

IGN's Skyrim Things We Can Say Now That The Check Went Through

ftfy

 

[ZeniBot]

IGN's Skyrim Things We Can Say Now That The Check Went Through

ZING lol

 

[Achilles]

Huh. The backpedalling started early this year.

 

[Mister Arkham]

Synopsis:

"So hey guise, you know how reviewers give Bethesda games a free pass when they're buggy? Well guess what I'm gonna do!"

Really now, what ridiculous shit. I haven't had any problems with bugs in Skyrim, and I actually tend to like Bethesda titles more than I don't...but these reviewers flat out ass-fucked New Vegas for being buggy when it had all of the same problems that the oh-so-dreamy Fallout 3 had. You can have a double standard, and you can have a journalistic or payoff-based bias, and yes that completely blows but it's also a part of the industry. YOU DO NOT CALL ATTENTION TO IT, THOUGH. AND YOU DO NOT TRY TO EXCUSE IT WITH A PITIABLE ATTEMPT AT SELF DEPRECATION. Unless you're going to do something about it, you sit down and you shut up and you keep up the laughable facade of integrity.

 

[Jaesun]

Is this the first time IGN found bugs in a Bethesda Developed game?

 

[deuxhero]

Nah, Bethesda did the QA and engine design for NV.

 

[Melcar]

They have short memory spans.

 

[commie]

So how endearing is Descent to Undermountain then?

 

[RoboHobo]

IGN's Skyrim Things We Can Say Now That The Check Went Through

ftfy

All they've done is point out some shortcomings in Skyrim's AI and physics, while continuing to profess their love for the game. It's not criticism, although it is something you'd hope to see in a fair review. If this is meant to be a critical article, then all it does is reveal how afraid IGN is to identify flaws in the games it reviews.

If you're hoping for something that is actually critical of Skyrim and Bethesda, you're better off waiting for IGN's range of fawning TES VI preview articles in 2015, listing flaws that they hope the next game will fix.

 

[mindx2]

You gotta love some of the comments

in my view i saw that oblivion was much funner than skyrim, now wait i didn't say its better but funner for one reason. oblivion concentration was focused to the hardcore RPG gamers. However, skyrim was focused more to appeal this generations audience, example: durability, in oblivion when a weapon is used often it brakes so it should be repaired. In skyrim however there is no durability which sucks cause you don't feel that realistic mood that sucks you in the game which oblivion had. there is so much things i can mention but what i would just like to say is in every game the little things can really make a game extraordinary.

people are so captivated by the strict story lines in previous games that when they experience the freedom of skyrim, were they actually have to think for themselves to get trough the game, they get insecure and scared. so they crawl back to their cages and lock their experience to a minimum, rather than embracing their freedom in an exceptional game. this game is a living organism, not a predetermined fossil.

 

[waywardOne]

Hardcore vs Scared.

 

[Dire Roach]

When you can marry over 60 unique NPCs, but you can also get into a bar fight with someone and then have a completely normal conversation with them just seconds later. 

People get into brawls and then become best friends all the time IRL. The AI is realistic.

 

[turul]

* Companions can sometimes get stuck in certain positions, eg the death/lying down position - but continue to follow you around. So you can have what looks like a snake-person sliding around following you everywhere.

http://forums.bethsoft.com/index.php?/t ... __19464500


Just one of those funny Bethesda bugs which is really almost a feature.

 

[SCO]

The only game that deserves the phrase "endearing bugs" is thief.

Bunny hopping, SHAS, rope rocket death, crate climbing, jump 100 meters, drop something before landing and be perfectly ok.

Genius!