Video & PC Game Discussion

I'm loving it so far, I'm definitely gonna give it a few more playthroughs. Fantastic game.

So the Skyrim patch just dropped for PS3 and the Bethesda forums are reporting equal amounts of people saying it fixes everything, people saying it fixes nothing, and people saying it fixes the lag but breaks the game in tons of other places, etc.

Downloaded the patch, will try it out tomorrow. Not really feeling optimistic though.

^Indeed. I'd love for a new version with live motion capture.

Also, even though the graphics aren't fantastic the animations still aren't bad at all. Some of the weather effects are pretty cool too.

Skyrim patch did basically nothing for me. Reduced my save-file size by 2mb although I still have unplayable lag in basically any city/wooded area.

Gonna try to return the game methinks. Not even remotely enjoying the game anymore.

Just called EB Games and they said its too late for a return, which is fair enough methinks since they got ripped off by getting crap inventory the same way I did. Gonna send Toddy H a nice email and see if I can get my money back.

So I installed HL2, and after all the complaints I have posted in this thread you may be surprised to hear I am really enjoying it. I still think they made some really dumb design decisions (which if my memory is correct I will probably be more annoyed about in the future), but it makes a big difference when you are playing it on a computer that can actually run it. On my old laptop the draw distance was so low because of the sh*tty Intel integrated graphics card if I stood at the back of Dr Vance's lab, the other end had fog...I disabled the fog, which made the game actually playable, but when so much of HL is atmosphere, completely crippling the graphics has a huge impact. Instead of getting angry, the physics "puzzles" (which are really just tasks since even a five year old would not have difficulty figuring them out) are just making me nostalgic for 2003 when having separate objects like that was the coolest f**king thing. I even liked Alyx instead of finding her annoying, I must be getting lonely.

I also played some TF2, and while in principle I agree with Colin's complaints, in practice I did not find myself being killed by any weapons that seemed to have absurd bonuses. And apparently I played it as a scout on Jan 1, 2008, so I get the grizzled veteran badge. I remember trying to get it working, but I don't remember doing that. And jesus christ it has been four years since then what the f**k has happened to my life