» Sat Jun 02, 2012 11:00 pm
A blacked-out icon shows up on your HUD, so you go to check it out. And the closer you get, the bigger the icon gets. At least, until you're about 6-1/2 inches from the damn thing lighting up as "discovered"...at which point you hit a sheer cliff face that extends for 47 miles in both directions. So you go looking for the single flea's-eyelash-wide goat path that'll take you there. And by the time you've circled what seems like the entire mountain and found it (two entire holds away), the location is now too distant to even register a proximity icon in the HUD, and you're not even sure what direction it's in any more.
SERIOUSLY, Bethesda! I am a HUGE fan, and an ardent defender...But you have GOT to stop DOING this. It's bloody infuriating. It doesn't "encourage exploration" or "reward curiosity." It just makes me want to stab random passersby out of frustration and spite. And I'm not talking about lippy, irritating NPC's. I'm talking about real fleshlings in actual meat-space.
Seriously...Every time I hear some under-informed schmuck on the news bloviating about how "video games encourage violence," I'm forced to grudgingly agree. But not for the reasons they might think. Mowing down cops and hokers in an urban sandboxer doesn't make me want to hurt people. But spending 45 minutes in third-person view, jumping backwards up a 70° rock wall a quarter-inch at a time just to find that the Ruins of Rkund don't even have any decent loot?!? Yes. THERE WILL BE BLOOD.