Einarth

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Yes, I'm ignoring Skyrim... no, too late, I already bought it, damn... finally a bug (the game didn't start anymore) made me uninstall it and I went back playing Oblivion. Skyrim was really boring for me, I don't recommend it unless you like Fallout better than previous TES games. I described some of my reasons here.

Oh great, now Skyrim won't start anymore... but that useless Steam garbage runs perfectly. Damn you Bethesda! Guess it's time for me to uninstall this game (AND STEAM) and go back playing Oblivion. Anyone wants a Skyrim DVD, for free? Huh, on second though... never mind, I had to register and validate the game on Steam as part of the installation. Now the DVD is practically useless and I can't even transfer my account as per Valve's TOS. I'm done with Bethesda and their future products. /rant off

There are plenty of copy protection methods available - cd check, serial, drm, dongles, keys generated based on hardware profiles, etc. - and none work. They could have chosen a less invasive solution (any non-drm protection) and spent more time paying attention to their Dostoyevskyian bugs list instead.

That's ironic, coming from you :whistling: but points for style for trolling and then calling everyone else trolls...

Just what we needed... multiplayer TES games :sick: Hey wait, now I understand why I have this Steam thing installed on my pc! :rolleyes:

Granted, but there were ruins of the past in Oblivion too. And deserts (using the Elsweyr mod), snowy mountains, swamps, forests, lakes, shores, etc. IMO walking somewhere in Oblivion was nice, in Skyrim and Fallout it's... depressing. Decadent beauty, eh? As I said, matter of taste.

"Intensely depressing and unattractive setting" (I'm quoting Brittainy). Does that phrase ring a bell? But then again I guess it's a matter of taste. You said you love the fact that in Skyrim there are no lush forests and castles and that it's more like Morrowind (very focused on mountains, grey and nasty deserted places). The exact opposite applies to me and to others.

^ Wow, you summed up what I think about this issue completely.

Someone here is on Valve's payroll :whistling: And who gives a fork about clans and social networks? I bought a single-player game. Sin-gle-pla-yer. This. I'm sure users of pirated copies (not me) are glad they didn't spend a single cent. Day-one delivery and no Steam, all free.

You can still create a mountainous region without having to fill the map with unreachable places - especially since it's meant to be played, not explored by scientists using satellite shots. Remember how Skyrim's regions were supposed to be hand crafted vs Oblivion's randomly generated areas? I wonder......

Geography. Can't stand the giant snow globe with those huge unusable mountain areas. Other than that, what Abaris said (not reacting npc world and lack of impact of questlines). Couldn't care less about textures.

Unless you patch it to be LAA (large addres aware) Skyrim never uses more than 2 GB RAM even on 64 bit systems. So much for modern gaming technology, eh Bethesda? And yes, there are PC users who meet the requirements and still experience minor to major difficulties. Some can be solved by tweaking graphics options (e.g. in-game vsync, ATI Catalyst, etc.), others are probably just bugs.

As I said in another thread, I prefer a thousand times vanilla Oblivion to vanilla Skyrim. In fact I recently played Oblivion again (without mods, having deleted my mods collection in anticipation of Skyrim's release) and I still think it's much better than Skyrim - playability-wise of course, because it's a 6 years old game so you can't compare its graphics to a recent game. And don't forget the "amazing features" many of you love in Skyrim are nothing more than ports of the best mods we had in Oblivion.

I felt the same way. Behold the mighty dragonborn, trapped in a giant snow globe. He killed Alduin, saved the damn world... and yet nobody gives a damn, with guards constantly telling him to go cast his fancy magic someplace else. Nice.