Why Skyrim Should Have Been Delayed: An Argument in Pictures

[Eccentric Lich]

Let me preface this by saying that I went into Skyrim expecting to like it, not expecting it to be the perfect game. I know the typical argument of "A game this big will have bugs that aren't caught." The pictures I present are of bugs that I have encountered multiple times. I overlooked things that I've only seen once (like when Hod walked out of his house in Riverwood and flew across the village) and things that I can't show in pictures (like not being able to exit a conversation or a quest not updating). But god damn! It's like the game wasn't even play tested.

Below are my experiences and attempts to roleplay through them in order to stay immersed.
EDIT: I'd also like to note that this is entirely unmodded vanilla Skyrim.

With his dying breath, my reptillian foe has cursed the trees of Skyrim by turning them all to crystal!

The rare albino dragon guards a faded word wall.

It appears that some sort of daedric craft has descended from the sky and is attacking Windhelm!

Despite their reputation, blood dragons are actually very cowardly. Though their ability to survive in the stratosphere is impressive. (If you can't see him, look at the "B" in blood dragon and move your gaze down. He vanished into space shortly after I took this screenshot)

Don't drink too many different potions at once. It may look pretty, but it burns coming up.

Skooma's a hell of a drug.

 

[Ranorak]

Obviously I know nothing of the machine you run this on.
But did the idea occur to you that your machine might have something to do with these graphical glitches?

 

[Phlakes]

...Yeah, you're a pretty isolated case here. I've run into a couple purple textures but those wen't away when I left the cell.

And still, it's a Bethesda game. You should know what you're paying for.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

That is completely wild!

Suffice to say I haven't had anything near that drastic. Although a couple of them are pretty cool, shit son!

 

[Handbag1992]

Oh look, you have encountered bugs. Now, I'm unsure about the etiquette here, am I supposed to pretend to care?

 

[Eccentric Lich]

Obviously I know nothing of the machine you run this on.
But did the idea occur to you that your machine might have something to do with these graphical glitches?

It did not. My machine is a brand new Alienware (two months old) and runs other games without incident. I play Skyrim with no lag too.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

I can't speak for your experience, but I haven't encounter anything like that. A few disappearing walls, but nothing worse then that. Which is a hell of a lot better then what I had to work with in Oblivion. And that was still a damn awesome game.

 

[distortedreality]

Welcome to PC gaming.

I thought this would be a thread about the low-res textures, which would make more sense as an argument.

Oh well.

 

[Kreett]

Its not a glitch its a feature

 

[Eccentric Lich]

Oh look, you have encountered bugs. Now, I'm unsure about the etiquette here, am I supposed to pretend to care?

Am I supposed to care if you care?

 

[Zerazar]

Oh look, you have encountered bugs. Now, I'm unsure about the etiquette here, am I supposed to pretend to care?

Go easy on him. He's new to vidya and the internet.

 

[Ranorak]

Obviously I know nothing of the machine you run this on.
But did the idea occur to you that your machine might have something to do with these graphical glitches?

It did not. My machine is a brand new Alienware (two months old) and runs other games without incident. I play Skyrim with no lag too.

Not saying your machine is bad, just that with a huge amount of hardware, software and set-up variables, the chances of something providing anything but a 100% compatibility is rather high.

 

[distortedreality]

Obviously I know nothing of the machine you run this on.
But did the idea occur to you that your machine might have something to do with these graphical glitches?

It did not. My machine is a brand new Alienware (two months old) and runs other games without incident. I play Skyrim with no lag too.

Buying an Alienware machine proves you know almost nothing about hardware.

Enjoy your overpriced Dell.

 

[Eccentric Lich]

Obviously I know nothing of the machine you run this on.
But did the idea occur to you that your machine might have something to do with these graphical glitches?

It did not. My machine is a brand new Alienware (two months old) and runs other games without incident. I play Skyrim with no lag too.

Not saying your machine is bad, just that with a huge amount of hardware, software and set-up variables, the chances of something providing anything but a 100% compatibility is rather high.

Even so, the frequency at which I encounter these bugs is really absurd for any big name title. Especially one that has been patched twice. I've not encountered this many bugs this frequently in any other game.

Obviously I know nothing of the machine you run this on.
But did the idea occur to you that your machine might have something to do with these graphical glitches?

It did not. My machine is a brand new Alienware (two months old) and runs other games without incident. I play Skyrim with no lag too.

Buying an Alienware machine proves you know almost nothing about hardware.

Enjoy your overpriced Dell.

First of all, it was free. Second, you're right! I don't claim to be a PC expert. I do know how to install and play a game though.

I have been enjoying it a lot though, thank you.

 

[Jadak]

Two things,

First, as others have pointed out yours isn't exactly the standard case. Sure, plenty of people have some pretty game breaking bugs, but the game on average is well within the range of acceptable as far as actually functioning properly goes. The few people around claiming it's been bug free for them are likely full of it, but for most, it holds together just fine.

Second, come on now, this is a Bethesda game. Do you really think them delaying it would make a difference? You'd just be making this same thread at a later date. As with every other game they've made, it'll be down to years worth of work by modders to sort out the issues.

 

[Ranorak]

Obviously I know nothing of the machine you run this on.
But did the idea occur to you that your machine might have something to do with these graphical glitches?

It did not. My machine is a brand new Alienware (two months old) and runs other games without incident. I play Skyrim with no lag too.

Not saying your machine is bad, just that with a huge amount of hardware, software and set-up variables, the chances of something providing anything but a 100% compatibility is rather high.

Even so, the frequency at which I encounter these bugs is really absurd for any big name title. Especially one that has been patched twice. I've not encountered this many bugs this frequently in any other game.

That might have something to do with the fact that other games aren't a huge open world game with literally thousands of manipulatable items, character, locations and objects.

 

[Eccentric Lich]

Obviously I know nothing of the machine you run this on.
But did the idea occur to you that your machine might have something to do with these graphical glitches?

It did not. My machine is a brand new Alienware (two months old) and runs other games without incident. I play Skyrim with no lag too.

Not saying your machine is bad, just that with a huge amount of hardware, software and set-up variables, the chances of something providing anything but a 100% compatibility is rather high.

Even so, the frequency at which I encounter these bugs is really absurd for any big name title. Especially one that has been patched twice. I've not encountered this many bugs this frequently in any other game.

That might have something to do with the fact that other games aren't a huge open world game with literally thousands of manipulatable items, character, locations and objects.

Oblivion is.

 

[Sam17]

Some of them might be down to the RAM issue, Skyrim only uses up to 2GB of RAM which caused similar problems for me graphics-wise with textures not loading etc, I fixed it and it now runs like butter because I downloaded the mod below

Easy to install, and improved my performance drastically, I now no longer get random CTDs

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1013

 

[Ranorak]

Obviously I know nothing of the machine you run this on.
But did the idea occur to you that your machine might have something to do with these graphical glitches?

It did not. My machine is a brand new Alienware (two months old) and runs other games without incident. I play Skyrim with no lag too.

Not saying your machine is bad, just that with a huge amount of hardware, software and set-up variables, the chances of something providing anything but a 100% compatibility is rather high.

Even so, the frequency at which I encounter these bugs is really absurd for any big name title. Especially one that has been patched twice. I've not encountered this many bugs this frequently in any other game.

That might have something to do with the fact that other games aren't a huge open world game with literally thousands of manipulatable items, character, locations and objects.

Oblivion is.

Now I'm sure you're not implying that Oblivion, a game from 2006, demands the same computing powers as Skyrim.

Besides the dragon being inspired from that one Core from Portal 2 to explore SPAAAAACE, these are all graphical glitches.

 

[EHKOS]

I only saw one purple dragon. It moved fine. The purple melted away when I killed it. Your shit is fucked up. If you installed from disc, or your steam connection is shit, it might have corrupted something. Because everyone who played Skyrim has these glitches. Not even Bethesda would let it release with that major a problem.