My copy on PS3 functions well actually, aside from the occasional bug, which in most cases I have been able to work around in some way or another. That said, I AM upgrading to PC in the New Year, simply because I am tired of watching amazing mods in action from the sidelines so to speak. I want Skyrim how it was meant to be played, and from what I have gathered, that is with community mods.

Granted, it is a good forum to hear people's first-hand experiences on video games and the like, but lately it succumbed to the spammers as every website does eventually. Also, I'd like to clear up your last sentence. As with any other Bethesda game on the system, it runs admirably, maybe even better then the 360 (system v. system comparisons seem to prove this). But there is a memory leak based on how Bethesda stores memory on the split core, which causes framerate issues and crashing that increase over time as the save file grows in size. So you can start your adventure in Helgen and have the game run like a dream, but you can end up watching a slideshow at Level 80. That's why PS3 players didn't complain immediately, because they were still playing through the game.


Sadly, yes. I don't like the way Metacritic asses reviews. Long story short (because I am rather sleepy), if a reviewer rates a game 3 out of 4 stars, then it is considered a 75% score. And it is commonly known that 3/4 stars isn't really 75%.

If Skyrim is a result of Bethesda's doing "all they can" then I guess they're just bad at making videogames.

seriously are we still fighting about the PS3's outdated hardware? heres the thing, if the game is broken then point out 1 jiust 1 spot that will ALWAYS make u lagg stutter or freeze the screen. The problem with the PS3 is that its system saves EVERYTHING in ur game saves instead of filtering the "needed" data and the "temporary" data.

u can experience anythign and every single event on the PS3, its when u have played over 40 to 60 hours, ur PS3 has saved sooo much useless junk on ur game files that it causes ur system to lagg or stutter. so if u can experience every single situation experience BUT its after the PS3 saves every single useless data into ur game file that makes it lagg and stutter.........ow ya GOTTA be the Games fault! not the fact my console that i love so much is 5 years old,t heres no way its stiull top of the line and ablke to handle EVERYTHING

Also its been said most of the game breaking PS3's game saves are from the first and second generation consoles. It seems alot of the newer generation PS3 arent having as big a problem.

3 of 4 stars is 3 quarters which translates to 75%, the standard metacritic go by. But 3 of fours stars is really more of a reflection of saying "less then perfect" or "not great, not bad" It can't really be assumes that 3 of 4 is only a score of 75 out of a hundred.


Blame the hardware? Hang on my boat sank let me go give a lashing to the printing company who done the lettering (not a great comparison but just as ridiculous.
Giving and charity had nothing to do with bethesdas goals.
Ungrateful kids for using thier voice in the best way they can when modern consumer right screws them over, grow up what you do is slander, what they do is speak up and is infinately more positive in attitude then your "group", you're the unbearable attitude to put up with that never contributes to anything, those whiners have some excellent ideas that are minor changes not massive demands that could make a better game.

That's like some reviews on Amazon. Someone will give something a low rating because it wasn't delivered on time and that has nothing to do with the actual product, which is what the review *should* be about. I sometimes look at Metacritic for the reviewers opinion but I don't buy that many games and the user reviews are seriously suspect when there's a big difference from the pro reviewers. If you read them, you can tell what's up with it.

Bethesda screwed up on the PS3 version, they deserve the backlash. PS3 people are tired of being screwed over.

Well, I play my Bethesda games on PS3 and people are totally overreacting. The problem should be fixed, but I don't think that it is a catastropy that ruins the experience. And if you didn't expect it after playing Oblivion, FO3, and New Vegas, then I may understand why you feel like you were screwed over. I still think about my first character on Fallout 3, stuck in Point Lookoutwith nothing to do but crash.

They probably will have to fix this problem across both consoles;

Given any DLC at this point will only cause consoles versions to crash faster, memory lacking and all.

I thought People were overreacting also until I went on my 10+ mb save you know that 1 second of lag you get, it doesn't stop your stuck having it lag continuously, sure you can restart your ps3 but it starts up again after 30 minutes

I'm not surprised considering the state of Skyrim on the PS3.

Yeah, you definitely play on PS3.

What's funny is that every so often you see people posting things like, "There are too many computers out there with different equipment in them, so it's near impossible to get a good working game," or similar statements.

My reply to that erroneous statement is, that Blizzard sold more copies across 3 different genres, and upward of 11-12 million of WoW alone, and their player base doesn't seem to have as many problems as Bethesda does. Not saying they don't have their problems, but after 5 years of playing WoW, I have to say there was a lot less complaining.

The way I see it, is that Bethesda developed a successful formula for a game/genre a number of years ago, and has stuck with it since then. I think the word was 7 million copies of Sky sold in the first 3 weeks. Why screw with success, damn the end result.

It's still all about the money.

PS3 version has some hiccups, to be sure, but they are blown WAY out of proportion.

AND

The day game developers start listening to internet critics (trolls) is the day we all play games on the iPad.

You're right I don't play on the PS3, but to me it seems that there are more problems with Bethesda games on the PS3 then the 360 or PC.

Yes.I think that Skyrik has a horrible UI on PC and sone how that makes an elitist. No. It means that it has awful UI and is screwed up on the ps3.A problem that is easily noticable by simply playing the game, which beth obviously didn't do.

Metacritic could really do to divide their scores over different consoles... a good game could suffer from a bad port, and while here that's not quite true (Bethesda put Skyrim on all 3 consoles) it'd be really unfair if one console got its game ported over by a different dev and the score for the whole game was brought down.

the score should be into the negatives. better yet, even attempting to view the meta page should cause people's PC to blackscreen, give them a little taste of what's in store for them.

Well, bug-wise the versions are equal, with PS3 having bugs that are not on 360 and vice-versa. But yes, the memory leak is what sets the PS3 from the others. Otherwise each version plays identically, except of course the prescence of the console on PC.

My ps3 copy of skyrim has the typical TERRIBLE frames, lag etc. Especially around white run.

Anything is relevant until it says anything negative about Skyrim, then it becomes anathema on these forums.

Metacritic scores you need to take with a grain of salt since sometimes you will get the 0 scores or whatever for having DRM or some other issue that is not related to the quality of the game though it may effect your purchase. The actual player reviews are worthwhile though. You can read of an issue and think that wont bother me, or I hate when games do that, or read about something someone liked and think to yourself awesome or god that is lame how could anyone like that etc. Once you get to the why's of the scores you get pretty good information even if the person exaggerated the score by giving it a 10 or a 1. That is of course assuming you have had life experiences and learned form then so you have a grasp of your own likes and dislikes. From what I could tell from this forum before launch that is a unusual trait, most people have never experienced anything and need to experience the kick in the balls to know it will hurt.

You sir are confused, the ps3 doesn't decide what data to save the game tells thee ps3 what data to save and pc users have shown some flaws in the game code that allow save files to bloat unnecessarily. Not the ps3's fault dude

What size is your save file, if I may ask?

Ask him if he's still using the same pre 1.2 character as well.