Bethesda is Evil

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It will be interesting to see how the MS/Beth combination works out. Money just became a LOT less of an issue..... they will certainly have the resources they need to put out a good game. Whether they will or not, remains to be seen. If they follow their latest trend of 'dumbing down' the games to 'appeal to a wider audience' though, I am not going to be a happy camper. Morrowind was a great RPG, granted, it had some interesting bugs, but, most of those were solved by the modding community. It says a lot that folks are STILL modding morrowind...... With Oblivion, they went WAY overboard with the level scaling..... and the game just wasn't fun. Leveling up was actually counter-productive. I played for maybe an hour, then set it aside for a couple years, until I found FCOM. THAT made the game FAR more interesting. Skyrim was better, as far as level scaling, but, too many of the RPG elements were removed, and it became an action/adventure game with "some rpg elements"...... They did the same to Fallout 4..... (though I still enjoy playing FO4..... with mods..... :smile: )

 

Skyrim though, In my latest playthrough, I am around level 70, and got to Solstheim, and discovered I can play for about 5 minutes, then the game locks up, and I have to restart my computer, as I can't get task manager to show up, so I can kill skyrim. (even if I leave it open in the background, I can't alt-tab to it.....) I have tried every fix I found online..... (resetting ugrids back to 5, nuking every instance of the MG07 quest scripts, turning off autosaves, etc.) and no soap. Even around Fort Frostmoth, it will freeze solid, and I am done. Really wish I could solve that one....... Didn't have those issues on the mainland.... ran great.

 

 

Typically Enough (Because we're talking about Bethesda), Bethesda Games are WHY I have a two monitor setup.

 

The monitor on my right has the Task Manager opened 24/7, along with a CMD window run as Admin (in case Steam decides to crash and take Explorer and the entire system with it, by not letting me kill the Steam.exe because it says "Access Denied"), and for recovering from other stupid things that Bethesda games are fond of doing.

 

This was brought about because I was sick of Oblivion doing a full screen graphics lock, where I couldn't get to my desktop to shut it down, so I added a second monitor

Now all the tools to stop a runaway Bethesda game sit on my right monitor while I play the game on my main monitor.

 

I mean, Bethesda games are so bad at that, that some modders made a utility to hit three combination keys to open their systray utility to allow you to close down Oblivion, Fallout 3 etc

 

I believe they still exist on the nexus game pages, I just can't remember the names of them.

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It will be interesting to see how the MS/Beth combination works out. Money just became a LOT less of an issue..... they will certainly have the resources they need to put out a good game. Whether they will or not, remains to be seen. If they follow their latest trend of 'dumbing down' the games to 'appeal to a wider audience' though, I am not going to be a happy camper. Morrowind was a great RPG, granted, it had some interesting bugs, but, most of those were solved by the modding community. It says a lot that folks are STILL modding morrowind...... With Oblivion, they went WAY overboard with the level scaling..... and the game just wasn't fun. Leveling up was actually counter-productive. I played for maybe an hour, then set it aside for a couple years, until I found FCOM. THAT made the game FAR more interesting. Skyrim was better, as far as level scaling, but, too many of the RPG elements were removed, and it became an action/adventure game with "some rpg elements"...... They did the same to Fallout 4..... (though I still enjoy playing FO4..... with mods..... :smile: )

 

Skyrim though, In my latest playthrough, I am around level 70, and got to Solstheim, and discovered I can play for about 5 minutes, then the game locks up, and I have to restart my computer, as I can't get task manager to show up, so I can kill skyrim. (even if I leave it open in the background, I can't alt-tab to it.....) I have tried every fix I found online..... (resetting ugrids back to 5, nuking every instance of the MG07 quest scripts, turning off autosaves, etc.) and no soap. Even around Fort Frostmoth, it will freeze solid, and I am done. Really wish I could solve that one....... Didn't have those issues on the mainland.... ran great.

 

 

Typically Enough (Because we're talking about Bethesda), Bethesda Games are WHY I have a two monitor setup.

 

The monitor on my right has the Task Manager opened 24/7, along with a CMD window run as Admin (in case Steam decides to crash and take Explorer and the entire system with it, by not letting me kill the Steam.exe because it says "Access Denied"), and for recovering from other stupid things that Bethesda games are fond of doing.

 

This was brought about because I was sick of Oblivion doing a full screen graphics lock, where I couldn't get to my desktop to shut it down, so I added a second monitor

Now all the tools to stop a runaway Bethesda game sit on my right monitor while I play the game on my main monitor.

 

I mean, Bethesda games are so bad at that, that some modders made a utility to hit three combination keys to open their systray utility to allow you to close down Oblivion, Fallout 3 etc

 

I believe they still exist on the nexus game pages, I just can't remember the names of them.

 

Actually, they are both good ideas. :) But, I need a bigger desk before I can set up another monitor...... May go lookin' for those tools though. That sounds doable.

 

It is a sad state of affairs that this kind of thing is even necessary....... and its also one of the reasons I generally give beth games six months to a year, before I will buy them..... (on sale.....)