As a guy that has put a lot of hours into Skyrim, this is seriously disappointing from Bethesda.
I own the PC version and while the game is fun(up to a point), here is my first experience with skyrim(pc version):
-it crashes in the main menu.
Have to look online for the sound fix and this is a VERY COMMON problem. WTF Bethesda ?!
-after playing for a while I fast travel to Riften. Crashes every single time. I get slowdown in outside areas with everything maxed and I have a system with quad core at 3 gigs, 8 GB of ram and a nvidia 560. And the graphics unmodded look mediocre. How is this possible, I was wondering to myself, running witcher 2 at a high resolution with max details(except ubersampling) but skyrim is giving me problems?
So again, I look online and I see that that skyrim has problems with more than 2 cores and it only uses 2 gb ram. 2 GB of ram used in an era when 4gb is considered standard in many gaming computers(not to mention the fact that ram is dirt cheap anyway).I consider myself a calm person but I literally wanted to smash my copy at that moment because Bethesda really pissed on PC gamers and apparently PS3 owners as well. Luckily the community fixed a lot of these problems but how can Bethesda get away with this s**t? As someone said, it's like buying a car with a f**ked up engine that breaks after a couple of miles.
Oh, and the 1.2 patch broke the game for many people, you can see the hilarity online. And don't get me started on the interface for the pc.
I really like Skyrim but a game with this many technical issues shouldn't be anywhere near the title of BEST RPG/GAME EVAR.
Since buying this game I had to rely on the skyrimnexus community to give me:
-better skins
-better graphics overall.
-better shaders.
-a solution to fix the memory leak.
-a solution to enabling/disabling vsync, ambient occlussion, other graphical options that don't exist in the main menu(and we're talking basic options here like enabling shadows on trees and landscape).
-a better interface(they are still working on some mods to improve the inventory even more).
It is really embarrassing for Bethesda when the community has to fix your game. Not just improve your game but FIX IT.