Grievances about Skyrim

[KAPTAINmORGANnWo4life]

It kinda ruins the mood for me when almost every institution in the whole game is nearly falling apart at the start, only for you to come along and fix everything. The only two significant groups that are doing well are the Thalmor and the Companions, and only one is joinable, and even that one still has unity issues.

 

[The3rdEye]

I had hoped that with the new engine they would try to push their character animation, but NPCs and the PC still seem stiff and awkward. Outside of combat no one's hands ever raise above their navel. I know there's an aspect of style to be considered, yet I had expected the characters to look less like mannequins and have more full body displays of emotion.

Nothing made you feel like a bad-ass or the town hero in Fable 3 like having people clapping and cheering you on with arms raised, or cowering in fear and running away as the case may be.

 

[Sagacious Zhu]

The leveling system is wonky. I still don't know how a Forsword savage in rag and fur armor can go toe to toe with the guy armored in the remains of slain dragons and wielding weapons forged with the heart's blood of daedra. By all rights, their weapons should shatter against me and my Legendary Daedric Greatsword enchanted to suck health should turn them into chunky salsa

 

[neonsword13-ops]

Frost trolls being harder to kill than dragons.

True that.

I was fighting a dragon today on a mountain, but during the fight, it flew away to fight some troll on the bottom of the mountain.

The troll put up a hell of a fight. The dragon got decimated in 20 second flat. Yes, I counted.

 

[IzisviAziria]

URGH!!!!! I now have one to add. The saving system needs revision. I took 20 minutes out to make a new character, just so I could dink around with two-handed weapons a bit and I have LOST my previous character! I was up to level 36 with my previous character. Had devoted over 45 hours to it. I created a character, overwrote 3 autosaves, and made the fatal error of quicksaving. I did this on a whim, I wasn't planning on it, so I made no extra saves of my other character. Now, it's gone.

Yes, I realize a couple backups should have been made. Yes this is mostly my fault. But by god, to simply start a new character and LOSE the previous one off a whim... Yikes!

 

[Zack1501]

the only thing that really bothers me is the NPC bugging out. i saw an guy siting there stuck in a door reepeting the same thing over and over very quickly. also people just say the same thing a lot but thats not too bad.

 

[The3rdEye]

The leveling system is wonky. I still don't know how a Forsword savage in rag and fur armor can go toe to toe with the guy armored in the remains of slain dragons and wielding weapons forged with the heart's blood of daedra. By all rights, their weapons should shatter against me and my Legendary Daedric Greatsword enchanted to suck health should turn them into chunky salsa

There is a certain method to the madness of Bethesda's level scaling imo. To become and remain a great warrior, everything you do has to feed back into your combat style. I myself ended up spending an excessive amount of time on one of my non combat skills, sending my level up but my archery and light armor were static. When I finally went out hunting again I was getting smacked around by critters and bandits who I used to kill as an afterthought. My character had become a highly proficient blacksmith, but by an overall comparison had slipped to only a fair archer.

It also keeps enemies challenging. True you don't normally get to go around thrashing foes that levels ago were the "Big Bad" of the moment, but at the same time it keeps every fight interesting. That's my 2 septims anyway.

URGH!!!!! I now have one to add. The saving system needs revision. I took 20 minutes out to make a new character, just so I could dink around with two-handed weapons a bit and I have LOST my previous character! I was up to level 36 with my previous character. Had devoted over 45 hours to it. I created a character, overwrote 3 autosaves, and made the fatal error of quicksaving. I did this on a whim, I wasn't planning on it, so I made no extra saves of my other character. Now, it's gone.

Yes, I realize a couple backups should have been made. Yes this is mostly my fault. But by god, to simply start a new character and LOSE the previous one off a whim... Yikes!

I did something similar, so I share your pain (although admittedly, my case is not nearly as severe, so a "That sucks >..<

 

[Kahldris71]

I play on the PC and Skyrim is one of the best games I?ve played in a long time, not counting classics. But something that?s really buttered my toast, is the lack of creativity in the dark brotherhood quests, I won?t go into detail for not wanting to spoil. But it just didn?t feel the same, as oblivion the over-arching quest line wasn?t as moving, the murders weren't as well thought out and the bonuses were so laughably easy to obtain. Not once was I required to change my style of play to suit what the client wanted, never once did I have to make it look like an accident, or do anything interesting. The most interesting part was hiding a body and that was bloody optional.

I have not advanced in the main quest at all, so perhaps that is where the creativity will render me speechless. None the less i still enjoy the game enough to have put over 60 hours into my character so far

 

[ArbiterX13]

Had a couple of times where the game refused to allow me to use shouts or attack. Thank you so much, Shadow Warrior perk. You and the sprint function are my two best friends in this game.

 

[Glaive_21842]

Well Bethesda fucked PC users again with the interface...at least they're awesome enough to provide the modding tools needed to make a new one. Also, quest killing glitches. I've run into two instances where something was supposed to happen in a quest that simply didn't happen. Cant go into details cuz spoilers, so yeah.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

You can't marry someone else if you murd-erm. Something bad happens to your wife/husband. That and the Ancient Shrouded Cowl is glitched and doesn't show up at all on my character.

 

[Bobbity]

The main quest, while, in retrospect, not really any shorter than Oblivion's, just felt too brief, if you ask me.

 

[spartan231490]

I'd just like to say first that I LOVE SKYRIM, and this thread is for people who actually DO like Skyrim. If you don't like the game, and don't have anything nice to say, just leave. Don't take this as a free invitation to troll.

Now, on to the topic. What complaints do you have about Skyrim? What are some little (or large) things that, even though you like the game, just get on your nerves? For me, there are a few things. For example, I found my first grievance in the character creation screen when I found I couldn't zoom in and out on my character. I also don't care much for the new third person mode: it works smoother, yes, but again theres no way to zoom in and out on my character and I can't rotate the screen with my weapon out. Another thing, I find it stupid that, even though my character has two hands, I can only wear one ring.

What about you guys?

Agree on the ring thing, and you can zoom in/out in 3rd person. On 360, you hold in right thumbstick and then pull/push the left thumbstick in or out to zoom.

Only other grievance is that there is no perk to block while dual-wielding, truth be told, dual wielding could really use it's own separate perk tree, instead of just being tacked on to the one-handed.

 

[cokeordie]

The fact that since day one 11-11-11 Skyrim has run absolutely perfect on my PC. I've had no problems playing, no screen tearing, no random crashes to the desktop, no jittery NPC animations, no misplaced sound files, nothing.

That is... until today.

What changed you might ask?

I downloaded the first patch.


Fuck off Bethesda.

 

[Russian_Assassin]

Mods, Lifesaving Mods

Once I kill enough Dragons I will unlock this shout, making the game come closer to it's true potential...

Though I'll be honest, my only annoyance so far has to do with how useless being a vampire is compared to being a werewolf. I could complain about the things OP does, but after all these years, a Bethesda game without stiff animation wouldn't feel right...

 

[Edible Avatar]

Dragon Priests. Dear god,DRAGON PRIESTS. Named ones only,though.

Vokun,Morkai,and Krosis were the only ones I fought so far,and they were INSANE! Their staves advertized far less damage than what was being belted out to me with them,and their natural spells were WORSE! And then there's the fact that Krosis and Morkai are partial to summoning tanky Frost Atronachs,while Vokun upped the ante with Storm Atronachs (I was a shock spec destroyer/conjurer). Finally,Krosis and Vokun liked to brainwash my summons.

The kicker? I fought them at level 20-28. I still died at least three times per.

I was at HALF THE FLIPPIN' LEVEL CAP,AND THEY STILL KILLED ME WITH 2 STAFF SHOTS,OR ONE NATURAL SPELL! I realize that they're supposed to be nasty powerful...But that's ridiculous. One slip...And YER DEAD! Resistances be DAMNED!

Yep, the only way i could beat Krosis was by having Shadowmere clobber him into a corner, then i hit him continuously with arrows (It took 38 steel arrows). It helped that Shadowmere is invincible =D

 

[Krantos]

Thought of another one. If you get into combat and your horse is nearby it will run to safety. Problem is, it's next to impossible to find it afterwards.

I don't want to have to fast travel just to find my horse. The reason I got it in the first place was so I wouldn't have to fast travel.

 

[TheXRatedDodo]

Game is bugger than Oblivion was at launch. Hell, Oblivion ran pretty smooth for me at launch. Not much in the way of bugs, no random crashes to desktop, no nothing aside from some bugged animations on occaision.

Skyrim though? oho, no. Crashes to desktop so frequently that I essentially couldn't progress. So I manage to fix it after 4 days of tinkering with a patch that enables the game to use more than 2GB of RAM (Yeah, 2gb? Fuck off Bethesda, this is 2011.) For some people, the only fix for that issue was running the exe outside of steam. For others, it was the RAM patch.
Update tonight and they've disabled the ability to use the exe outside of steam and the RAM patch no-longer works and the game is buggier IN game for me than it was before.

Surely there is some kind of trade law against this?

It really is a shame, the game is fucking fantastic but shit like this just sends a crystal clear message that they don't care in the slightest whether their game works or not, they just want your money. They can call themselves artists and die hard RPG fans all they want, but that shit isn't sliding with me. Game is getting shelved until they patch it into being a functional game. Real, real shame too, because for the first time ever, an Elder Scrolls game has been gripping me and refusing to let go, making the fact that the game outright doesn't fucking work for some people even more of an insult.


Guess I'll go buy Rayman Origins tomorrow instead.