phrali

also i forgot to mention that i've gotten stuck in geometry twice already and had to restart.

and why the hell is there no infinite sprint? it's great that there's a huge open world but it would be a lot nicer if i could walk faster than a frekaing turtle for more than 5 seconds

this is my first elder scrolls game. i've been playing for 4 hours and i don't understand how this is such a great game and maybe i'm missing something, but i'm going to list some stuff that is driving me nuts, what am i doing wrong?

1. i spent like 20 minutes customizing my face with cool warpaint and all and now i can't even figure out how to look at my guy in the game. do i ever actually get to see my character again?

2. the combat feels really shoddy and unresponsive. i feel like i'm swinging at thin air and i can't even tell if i'm hitting my target unless i look at their health bar because there doesn't seem to be any response from the enemies. they just stand there and take hits until the bar runs out. also, i can't figure out how far away i have to be from the enemy to not get hit and there doesn't seem to be any dodging mechanic or anything like that. i feel like i'm playing dead island again and that is NOT good.

3. the first dragon i saw in dark souls on the bridge, it was like "holy shit that thing is epic" and it lit me on fire and i was dead. the first dragon i saw in skyrim blew open a wall in that tower. so i stood there and looked at and it breathed fire on me and i didn't even take any damage and i was like "really am i supposed to be intimidated?" and it just seemed really puny compared to that big scary dragon in the commercial.

4. did the executioner really moonwalk over to his victim? that's the first freaking scene! did they test this game and say "oh moonwalking is cool we don't need to fix that" is this 2011? have we not discovered walking animations yet?

5. whenever i open a menu, i find myself mashing buttons because there seems to be a 2 second delay between opening a menu and the game actually accepting input and letting me scroll or choose a menu item.

i don't even know if i want to continue playing this game. the combat is just SO unresponsive and boring and loose. i just stand in front of the bad guy and mash RT until it dies. i don't understand why bethesda thought this was acceptable or how people are saying this is GOTY material. why didn't they just have a turn based random encounter system if they clearly didn't try to make a high quality combat system? i'm not even interested in the story if the combat is this horrible. i could forgive every other flaw i listed if the combat was fun, but it isn't. am i doing something wrong?

wtf am i missing? am i supposed to ignore all this stuff?

i'm really trying to enjoy this game, but i just spent the last 10 minutes murdering everyone in riverwood out of frustration. except for those 2 little invincible fireproof kids that i didn't even know i was wasting my time trying to kill because i forgot that i have to stare at the health bar to tell if i'm actually hitting anything.

there are no builds in this game.

pump vitality and endurance to 40. put enough into str or dex to equip whatever weapon you want to use, then put the rest into vit and end. reinforce your pyro flame for magic. that's all. scaling doesn't matter like it does in demon's souls, the elemental weapons are just too OP and scaling weapons are relatively weak until you're like SL 300.

@Unknown_Pleasures said:

@Dallas_Raines said:

Everyone that willingly enabled him should be suffering the same consequences as him.(Possible life in prison)

...seriously? They deserve to be punished but not to the same degree.....Enabling =/= actually committing the crime....they shouldn't be punished to the same degree and they won't be.

How many of those kids would not have been raped if people like paterno had spoken up and tried to stop him?

motion controls are an annoying gimmick and no one cares about zelda remakes outside japan.

why wasn't this question asked - "when are you going to get a half decent online service?"

what's a man that likes young boys?

nittany lion

i'm watching some gameplay videos and i see a LOT of dialogue and people that won't stfu.

if i just want to go through and murder every person that tries to speak to me, will that work? i don't want to talk to any of them.

haven't played a COD campaign since COD4. no intention to ever do so again.

@Unknown_Pleasures said:

@Axxol said:

@RubberBabyBuggyBumpers said:

i hope sandusky is found in a pool of his own blood. he deserves it. subhuman scumbags like him don't deserve to be apart of society. there is no fixing or rehabilitating pedophiles. they all need to be lined up and systematically disposed of. those who enable it like paterno did, also deserve the same fate.

It's fucked up that these acts weren't reported, but saying that people who remain silent should be disposed of is pushing it.

Paterno didn't even stay completed silent he notified his superiors who did nothing about it....it's his superiors who should be leaving Penn State not Paterno himself.

if i worked with someone that raped kids, and i told my bosses and they didn't do anything about it and expected me to continue working with him, i would shout it from the rooftops until my bosses were fired and the rapist was in jail. paterno said ok i'll keep working with the rapist, it's cool.

i don't care about the achievements, i'm gonna try a punchyfist run instead