I can hardly say anything that hasnt already been mentioned throughout hundreds, if not thousands of posts here and elsewhere on the internet.

I've played 170 hours of Skyrim on my ps3, and the first 100 played like they were no strain for the machine at all. On the old 1.1 patch I first noticed problems when I hit the 13-14 mb range on my savefile, so much that I had to change my playstyle:

- I'm afraid to use magic, as machinegun icespike mages are usually enough to lower the framerate on my game

- Every slowkill is played in such a weird tempo, that i hope they don't show up at all (starts out really slow, then switches to extremely fast, then slow again before the body hits the ground - on the pc and xbox it's much more streamlined) - VATS was equally terrible on FO3 / ps3.

- My shouts are (soundwise) bugged too - One example is whirlwind sprint. it goes like this for me: 'WUUUuuld---- BOOM! ........ Nahkest! (the nahkest part is heard 3 seconds after the sprint, or not heard at all)

- As we all know weapon changing is much slower than the leading platforms, LOL

- Dragons occasionally bugged me before 1.2. Granted they got even worse, but the backwards flying dragon and his magical cousin 'You run, I glitch you to hell' was something I've seen before.

- Load times are atrocious, so much that I avoid Thieves Guild extra quests from Vex, because it requires me to enter Riften -> Thieves Guild Cistern -> The Ragged Flacon and back. When a load screen takes effing 20 seconds and you have to sit through that 5-6 times just to confirm a heist job.. well you know the rest.

My 1.2 problems:

- Same framerate drops

- More dragons. before I had only seen 2 dragons at the same time TWICE. When Alduin resurrected one in the main quest, and once when there were two in opposite directions, the farthest from each other they could possibly be, so I had to choose which one to take down. After the patch, 2 ancient dragons are quite common for me. Usually starts out when I see a huge butt flying towards me, cue battlemusic and then I get toasted from behind by another dragon.

- Every other bug already mentioned.

- My system has never crashed before by playing a game. Skyrim post-patch 1.2 was the first, and it has done so TWICE now.


Because games aren't 'serious business', when stuff like this happens, the companies can just ignore us. NOT ANYMORE. I pre-ordered this game six months before it came out and this is what I get? I'm posting here hopefully to add to the ire against them, when they screw up and take no responsibility. Let your voices be heard if you HATE HATE HATE what happened to this beautiful game on the ps3.

Sincerely,

David