This game is horrible. Ignore the reviews, and the fake metacritic ratings.. I knew this was coming Bethesda, i knew you'd consolise the [censored] out of your game to flog it on hardware which should be in LANDFILL.
First is the mouse lag, yeah, its software accelerated, it floats and takes an age to be accurate. Then there is the constant re-use of textures and poor effects (game is 5.2GB, smaller than oblivion, and it shows). Im not lying when i say that my first 3 hours of this game after getting into the world were literally in black and white, and it became oppressive very quickly.
Adding to that oppression is the field of fiew, again, designed for consoles with no thought for PC gamers. It must be about 55 Degrees - rather than the 80 or even 90 it should be, so even if the game were pretty, you can't fit it into your screen. And you have to endure motion sickness like playing the game through a port-hole.
Next up, the menus are fiddly as hell. Nothing is made for the mouse, you have to click through the menus with wasd and even then they often bug out. No explanations are given for controls either. 4 hours in and i am still trying to find out how exactly to use my "control animal" spell which i got 30 mins into the game. Its effing cryptic. Again, if it were designed for the PC and not a consoles then they wouldnt have such a backwards system for equipping and using spells/weapons etc.
Fighting? Its awful. Due to the unresponsive mouse and the god awful hit detection and swing times for weapons you may aswell be flailing around trying to tickle them to death with a 3ft feather. Tell me Bethesda, how long does it take to swing a sword? Does it take upwards of two seconds?? NO, IT DOESNT. IT TAKES A FRACTION OF A SECOND. WHY IS THE COMBAT IN SLOWMO??
Just avoid this. Even if you really want to play it, dont buy it, rent it, and youll be glad you didn't buy it. Bethesda have to be shown that us pc gamers WHO MADE THEM will not allow them to lower the standards to cash in on these consoles that shouldve died years ago. Personally i am SICK of it and i am insulted and dismayed when i see them flogging such crap for the PC. The game is a joke bethesda, i knew it would be, months ago, watching a preview and listening to your little minion talk about how beautiful the world is, when i could SEEEEEEEEEEEEE that its ugly as sin. I HATE it when developers/previewers do that, because its BRAINWASHING. It is a CRIME. You think that people wont notice that it looks like dirt, aslong as you pay some chimp to tell the camera 50 times that its "beautiful".
Seriously take a fricking step back Bethesda.
Your job is to make games, and make them as good as you can. ELSE ITS NOT WORTH IT.
No Artist devours their own art to flog it to more people - you devour your own games to flog them to more people, and that is soul-less and sad. It must be heartbreaking to work for such a sell-out company.
Really I am tired of whinners blaming the consoles. Go back to Morrowind and see it was a damn good console game with all the options of a PC game. All those same options can work on consoles, but they streamline these newer games for many reasons. Skyrim is great and if people do not like it, that isn't the consoles fault..........it is your problem. I play both PC and console so I know WTF I am talking about here. Someone also mentioned the other day that nothing was ported. Bethesda took the time to make them all seperate from each other, so be thankful you have a ****** game.
» Wed May 09, 2012 8:26 pm 
So I don't think that has anything to do with it.
