Sorry, why do they throw some idiot who knows nothing about TES to review this game? It's his own fault for not curing himself from the disease when he had the chance.

Because he has a different opinion? He'd be a crappy journalist for giving false information or for lacking writing skills, not for his personal taste.

I happen to agree Fallout 3 is superior to New Vegas in atmosphere and lasting appeal. Although I'd probably give NV a higher score. But it's something very subjective and somewhat personal.

Anyway, back to the topic, why are you bashing this guy before we have any background info whatsoever. He obviously played Oblivion, so maybe the game doesn't make it clear enough you have contracted a disease this time around. Maybe he didn't even know he had fought a vampire in first place. Let's wait for more info before passing judgement. Now he's just annoyed he screw up, I would be too, if I were stuck and it's not like you search the internet for guidance.

He was complaining about hand holding in games before QQing because he was so silly he didn't cure a disease after 3 days and became a vampire.

My guess is that, since he's a reviewer he wanted to find out as much as he could during his playthrough. Maybe join a guild and explore the AI and the landscape. Now, however he is completely isolated from the simple gameplay he wanted done. He has to take special precautions so he will be able to do the things he wanted from the start. Why didn't he just do a save beforehand? I'm sure he made one, or that the game quicksaved, but he simply didn't bother at the time. I'm sure he was pretty excited about it at first, but then he realised that you have to feed and simply can't walk during the day as easily.

I'm sure you will be able to do certain things as a vampire later on, though. I'm sure there are some nice finishing moves and things which will make vampirism useful and not a complete drawback. Because what would be the point if it only had major drawbacks? Vampirism isnt an STD.

To have it reviewed only by hardcoe TES fans presumes that Skyrim will only be played by returning players. The press members that were given access to the demo were evenly composed of journalists familiar with TES and newcomers, which should more accurately represent the audience.

And this is not even the case, he's clearly objecting the return of Oblivion's vampirism in one of his tweets.

Quite amazing, isn't it? He's also whining about it being hard to find the cure. Maybe he needs a quest marker telling him where to go as soon as infected, as well as a pop up window reminding him to cure the disease before three days pass. That's surely not hand-holding, of course.

10 November 2011 - Gamestop Skyrim Reivew.

I became a vampire. Didn't know how to get rid of it by using common sense so it took its full affect after 3 days. I whined.

4.5/10.

What did he expect? Did he want vampires to glitter under sunlight? He is fine if he feeds once a day, can't be that hard. Easy vampirism would have been silly, advantages with no drawbacks.

So going to the temple's altar no longer cures diseases?

The fact is he give's games that don't deserve high scores well high scores and he give's all the real good games such as new vegas really low scores and gamespot is one of the most visited gaming sites so a low score and bad review will make the simpletons think a good game is bad thanks to this guy you should have seen all the simpletons commenting a few days before new vegas was released saying OH MAH GAWD THIS GAME IS CRAP NOT BIYUING IOT NOWD.Thanks to his review.

He just told me to calm down even though I was actually being nice to him!
I even said I was glad he's back on track

No clue. It's confirmed that a Cure Disease Potion does though.

Well, common sense would tell to go visit a temple to seek help. Seems to be the most obvious location to seek help, even for someone who's never played the game. If it works and he's missed that, he can only blame himself.

You guys are whining more than he does.

He is a pretty cool guy, he said he wont let it blind him from seeing what the game has to offer.

And the benefits it does have are backward. I realize it's correct in the lore, but getting stronger the less you feed makes no sense at all.

The more blood in you the more 'human' it can keep you, if you start letting that run dry, the curse takes over and corrupts your body in till you can get more blood in you to stem back the curse, makes sense to me

I know it's kinda stupid for me to say... But I really wish that you could become a vampire again after you have been cured of vampirism... I change my mind a lot

Still backwards. You would become a vampire so you can to vampire-y things (have wicked abilities, feed on people, etc), but when you act like a vampire, you become less like a vampire... what? Would be better if not feeding makes you more human and weaker (and hungrier), while feeding more makes you stronger and more horrific.

Clavicus Vile is responsible.

The question is...how is feeding to get weaker any fun? I mean, if I'm playing a vampire, I want to be able to drink blood...and becoming weaker just ruins the experience.

He is whining a hell of a lot about his mistake. Probably will review it with a sense of rage over his own noobish moves but still I wasn't very upset with the system in oblivion, I was however not greatly happy with it either but oh well :\. I've wanted to be a werewolf for a long time now .

Just forget this guy, He already sounds like a [censored], Just void his opinion and anything he says.

see it's crap like this that bugs me. People complain cuz they don't know how to play vamps, or they were to lazy to cure it... I mean come on you had three days to do that.

With that said most of the fault lies with the devs. They never properly explain the mechanics of being a vamp in TES so most people end up dying from sunlight when they can easily avoid that. Thing is they don't know how...

Indeed it does. I don't know why so many people have a problem with it.

Anyone who's ever seen Intreview With The Vampire would know that being a vampire, well...svcks. I understand people want to be/feel more powerful, but I think maybe the devs WANT it to be kind of bad thing, to have more negatives than positives. Like another user said, it's a CURSE, it's not really supposed to be something you want to get.