360 v 1.3.5.0; Level 33 Nord.

1. A goal is to clear all quests--not to do all quests, but to clear all that have been started. Near the end of the game's end will unfinished or broken quests be cleared off and/or listed below the closed quest line?

2. Is the marriage bug with Lydia going to be fixed and/or released in the very near future on the X360?

PS on 2 above. I know Bethesda is not responsible for what Microsoft or Sony is doing but why can't you at least help us track what is going on with console patches we are _all_ waiting for and needing? Is the industry such jerks that they won't even communicate with you? Isn't it in your best interests too that the console software gets repaired?

3. After reaching level 33 I'm avoiding bounties and quests to pick up n-number of things and have worked off all 'miscellaneous' quests. But I still picked up early on a Barenziah Stone and now I have 5 of them with 19 still to find--and they don't stack. Two stacked for some reason but the other 3 are listed separate. Anyway to get them all to stack? Anyway to store them somewhere else until I get all 24? These are good ideas aren't they? But I'll likely be done with Skyrim in another 2 or 3 weeks.

Thanks

1. If a quest is unfinished, the game just reads it as started, but not done. If it is broken, it is stuck with the game thinking that. So they won't just disappear from the quest list.

2. I'm assuming you mean how she is in the marriage faction, but not "in" the marriage faction? They haven't said anything on it yet, although it seems like an easy fix.

2 Notes: The time between a patch going on Steam to then it goes on consoles is only about a week. They likely don't get too much communication, just a notification when it is improved. But it isn't too long of a wait.

3. Items with the same name have been notorious for not stacking since at LEAST Oblivion. Not much you can do there. And as it is a quest item, you can't drop or store it either. Why you aren't allowed to put them down in a player owned cell or chest is beyond me, but that's just how it goes.

Personal Opinion: How can you just be about done with Skyrim? Is that Nord your only character, or have you made thieve's, mages, assassins, and other things as well?

I play on the 360. I have 11 stones and mine are stacked. I'm level 38 Breton, and the only quest problem so far is the flute you have to find. I found it before the quest was given and can't give it to her now.

the console version of skyrim is a joke, if, you're talking abougt getting it fixed.

actors and drama is useless anyways. thank god i don't adhere.

Since the PC version can only play through Steam... the console versions play a great advantage in that if you rent or buy used and get disgusted with quest bugs and the like you aren't out $50 or $60 but only for whatever you rented it for or the difference you sell it used for. Some are waiting around for fixes on the PC version too so I think all three are a joke in your sense if you were expecting a game from Bethesda to be trouble free through and through.

I hope they fix the issues with starting "No One Escapes Cihdna Mine" and "The Pursuit" in the next patch (PS3). The latter is practically gamebreaking for me, as I roll an assassin.

Maybe I'll have luck with Finn's Lute and can skip the 'flute' quest. Wonder what I did right/wrong to get two stones to stack and three not to stack? I expect to finish the game with a number of broken quests and/or ones I just don't want to spend the time to finish. After 216 hours of in-game play things are starting to wear on me... I don't accept bounties or what seem like trivial quests. Some NPC's are disappointed when I turn down hunting all over creation for things.

1. Too bad... I like to see a clean slate of what's still open to do and ignore the broken or finished quest list below the line.

2. Yes, I mean in the software bug sense--not the STDs sense.

3. Why can't/won't Bethesda fix this?

I'm not about done but I'm tiring out on some things. I've played it about daily for several weeks now and may have several weeks still to go and so far it has amounted to ~216 gaming hours. The Nord is my only character and there is nothing driving me to play any other characters. I've reached the point now that I only pick up 'meaningful' items and still have so much stuff to sell stored in the Whiterun house where Lydia just sits now. The problem there is that the shops there don't carry enough gold and right now I'm not needing anything I can't find searching through the dungeons, etc., that I pick up for free. I review items all the time and seldom see something I could pick up better then what I've got. If it is green the chances are it isn't equipped or it doesn't have any magic associated with it and isn't far off damage wise. So far many baddies can go down with one poisoned hit from the battleaxe.

P.S., When many battles get heated the NPCs get decapitated and you can watch the heads roll around like a bowling ball. I once chased an apple rolling down a trail to see just what would stop it. Fun with physics. Not so fun...or not fun at all is getting stuck in the rocks some where. I have saved over ~850 times but delete all the old saved games down to just the last few.

Also of little fun is crouching to get under something thinking that that will make a difference or stepping over a board that blocks your path. Crouching to get under something is a very interesting programming problem that the industry should address next. If you come up to a structure that is clear underneath and you crouch and can see your way through it makes no difference. Or if you get stuck in some space with your head and you crouch you should be able to crawl out and away from the obstruction. In either case crouching makes a difference with the graphics view but makes no difference at all with the physics involved.

I got to ask something that i don't understand yet...I already asked it on other places around here, but no answer, so: after the patch 1.4 the missions that are already broken will stay this way? Or this quests will be able to complete? I mean, there's a quest that a already started (boethiah's calling), but it's stuck, and a can't go on. And other one not even starts (blood on the ice, and i didn't finish Dark brotherhood contracts). I'll be able to complete this 2 or i'll have to start all over again my precious character? =/

someone know?

Similar to why I only play EA games on consoles.
It is truly a sad thing when companies screw their own customers over by riddling their programs with DRM... and come down like Big Brother on anyone so much as thinking of disapproving.
Shame I'll never be able to play the PC version... but I don't allow DRM on my computer where I can help it. It just screws everything up.

Why is playing a game other then EA a problem on the consoles? Doesn't EA have a policy, even on the PC, where you can install and play the game several times before the key code runs out? Buy the third used sale the price should be getting pretty darn low and worth it even if you chuck it at some point (under ~$20 for me).

When I started this topic I wasn't expecting to see all the questions end up as bug issues of various sort. Let's hope this doesn't get much worse for me before I finish the game. I won't be waiting around for that first DLC or next patch.

... Uh... what?
No. Nononono... I mean I don't play EA games on the PC. If I play any EA games, it is only console versions.
I mean c'mon... Do try not to interpret things in the most bizarrely awkward way possible, please?


EA have many policies, none of which I much like....
But primary among them have been their tendency to ruin perfectly good gaming companies (Bioware is dying as we speak) AND to riddle everything they can with the most pointlessly self-destructive DRM.
The last time I tried installing something DRM-riddled on my PC, it was so screwed up my anti-virus software stopped it installing!

I admit I haven't played any EA game for some time--Mass Effect 2 was probably the last. It was very sad when developers were forced into giving up doing their own publishing. On this point Steam is great. I just think the industry needs to figure out a viable way to resell used PC software through Steam. Talking to Bethesda I seem to get the impression that they and Steam consider piracy a HUGE PC issue still. Sigh...

"Piracy" doesn't hurt anyone half as much as the media would like us to think.
All these companies buy into the absurd delusion that the money they're not getting from pirated copies of the data is money they would be getting otherwise. The fact is, however, that it isn't. Those who buy games continue to buy games. Those who pirate games, if denied the ability to do so, will just not have the games. Amazingly NO difference in the distribution of cash whatsoever.
In fact, the only difference is that the rest of us have to put up with deliberately defective software to cater to the paranoia of idiots.

OK so by your way of thinking IF ALL games were so secure that they could not be stolen, Then the people that are commiting Piracy of games would not play any games at all? HA! ok dude if you think so. Yes I know hackers will alway's find a way, why the companies are so paranoid, why make it easy. JMO

and by not playing I mean not buying cause they can' steal it anymore.

It doesn't make any sense at all. Why would any game publisher make gaming so difficult to the point of preventing 'resale used' value to a legitimate gamer if 'p' wasn't still a real 'out of control' issue? I don't believe what you say. I think that if 'p' was impossible then a significant number would buy these games. If 'p' was not an issue then the PC could enjoy not only a wider used game market but also renting too! There are a lot of things that are 'too bad' about this world.

This can't be discussed further here--I ask a moderator to lock the topic please.