What can be done better
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I hate how sometimes the people I talk to say
the same thing twice. It’s like if someone has to tell you the joke twice, it
ruins the moment.
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I hate that I have to watch my character mine
ore. Why can’t I do it? When you pick a lock you get to control the picking
with the control sticks. So why can’t I do the work with another mini game? I
know Bethesda is going for realism but still I don’t want to sit for ten second
watching my character swing a pick. Better still, let me cast a spell to make
the pick work without me. I summon creatures from the pits of hell, why can’t I
cast a spell that makes my life easier?
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I hate the loading in this game. Why is there a
loading time from exiting or entering a small house? The house has three bedrooms,
it shouldn’t take this long to load a small house. And I know that the loading
times aren’t that bad. But when you explore a lot you see that loading screen a
lot more then you would ever want to, trust me.
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I hate the long loading times. There are short
loading times where just fog comes from the bottom of the screen and then there
are longer ones which, while they do let you look at some cool in-game items
with some helpful tips, it’s still ten seconds long. The worst part is that as
you progress in the game the load times get longer. Ugh, it’s like the game is
trying to remember all the quests I’ve done.
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I hate the weapon types. There’s one handed and
two handed type weapons and there are only a few of each type. For one handed
we got maces, daggers, war axes and swords. For two handed we got warhammers,
battleaxes and longswords. Now, can you imagine how boring it gets when all you
see is your character swinging the same way all the time? Each category swings
the same way! There needs to be a difference in swings so it doesn’t look the
same. And for that matter, where’s the morning stars or spears. How could you
not include spears? There must be hundreds of weapons they could add that could
be used to fight differently. You think you swing a scimitar the same way you
swing a double-edged sword? No you do not. It’s similar but there’s specific
fighting styles that go with the weapons.
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I hate the ranged weapons. I got a bow and three
types of magic, fire, ice and lightning. That’s it! What about blow guns, or
sling shots or throwing daggers? Or shuriken, how about some freakin’ shuriken.
You know, throwing stars? They may not have had guns way back then, and yes I
know this is a fictional history that takes place in a different world, but
common, there needs to be more variety. What about launching wind spells that
cut through enemies or earth spells that come up from the ground? You get sick
of your spells pretty fast. Keep in mind that this game has 300 hours of gameplay.
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I hate hearing people say the same things. You
know how many times I’ve heard a guard say “I used to be an adventurer like
you. ‘Till I took an arrow in the knee.” Apparently I’m not the only one.
There’s remixes on YouTube about this phrase.
And two bucks says you’ll hear someone who sounds VERY familiar in the
same town. That’s because there’s only about ten voice actors and about several
thousand people in the game. And then there are specific species. The Orc and
the Argonian people, lizard people, (I shouldn’t have to explain what an Orc
is) all sound the same. The only difference is the male and female voices.
Sometimes they might have a different voice but that’s only if you talk to a
character important to a specific quest. I spend more time listening to random
people talk than important characters.
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I hate the stealth in this game. How on earth do
people know that I killed their friend? If an arrow killed the person next to
you, would you know instinctively where the killer was? No! You might be
suspicious if a guy with a bow comes up to you but if I kill someone with a
long ranged attack and I’m definitely hidden (the game has a stealth mode)
there’s no way you would know it was me. And speaking of stupid AI…
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I hate my partner. You get to choose a partner
in the game to carry your stuff and fight with you. But their all as dumb as
the next. Let me give you an example: I visited a dungeon today, inside are
floor traps. If you set foot on a wire it’ll release a spring-loaded gate with
spikes that swings at you. Now I easily jump over the wire easily right? But my
partner trips the wire which sends the spiked door at me killing me instantly.
Is it too hard to make a competent partner?!? And that’s not all; I’ll give you
another example. There are lots of mountains that you can jump from ledge to ledge
to get safely down. But my stupid partner has to run around half the mountain
to get to me, making me wait for her. So what do I do? I hit the select button
which brings up the wait time (you can choose to wait in the game to switch
from night to day and wait for people). I select how long I want to wait,
usually an hour. Then I have to wait for the stupid game to register that I’ve
waited. And finally, hopefully, my partner is there. If not, I’ll have to wait
even more.
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For that matter, I hate the stealth options. In
a good stealth game like Metal Gear you can do hundreds of things to get rid of
enemies. Use sleep darts, use guns, mines, sleep gas, poison, chloroform, etc.
You can even change your camouflage. In Skyrim you can shoot arrows, poison
enemies, turn invisible and throw your voice. There needs to be A LOT more
stealth options to keep it fresh.
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And that what it really comes down to, variety
of options and get rid of the bugs.
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I hate that the game freezes. Today is 6/17/13.
I’ve had my game freeze about six times. Now that might not seem like such a
bad thing but when I’ve just finished a quest and the stupid game freezes
before I can save I’ve gotta do the quest all over again! Why am I mentioning
the date today? Because the stupid game froze twice today!! And it’s not just
this game. All of the open world games I’ve played from Bethesda (the
developer) do the same thing. I even had a game that caused my system to
shutdown. And Bethesda has been quoted saying that they build their games from
the ground up to start afresh. No they don’t. If they did then I wouldn’t have
the same stupid problem for each game. Bethesda has released three open world
games for this generation of consoles: Elderscrolls: Oblivion, Fallout 3, and
Elderscrolls: Skyrim. (Fallout: New Vegas was done by a different company) How
can three games have the exact same bugs in each entry? And I’m not the only
one who’s complained about this. Every review I’ve seen about these games says
the same thing!
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I really, really hate the save feature. I’ve
played Skyrim three times: once on the PS3 and twice on the Xbox 360. Why twice
on the 360? Because the save feature ruined my game. Here’s what happened: I
saved over my old game every time I saved. I get to a point in the game where I
finish a quest, the next quest is supposed to start up right after I finished
the old one. I get to where I’m supposed to go but the quest doesn’t start. I
try reloading, I try talking to the guy who’s supposed to give me the quest and
nothing happens. I called Bethesda and they said that the save memory is kind
of like a napkin. They said it’s like what happens when you draw a circle on
the napkin over and over, it wears out. So now I got to start the game all over
to continue the game. I don’t remember that warning being in the manual! I don’t
remember anyone telling me that I need to save to a new file every time!
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