PC figures will always be meaningless until Steam's factored in...
Does anyone know if they factor in sales from online retailers such as Amazon and Play yet? I remember it not being the case a few years ago.

:edit: It's nice to see a decent game doing so well, though. As opposed to a Call of Duty.



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anyone else heard how the PS3 version is pretty much shit ?!

[www.inentertainment.co.uk]

after like 35 hours or so apparently you get unbearable lag

gaaira posted:

anyone else heard how the PS3 version is pretty much shit ?!

[www.inentertainment.co.uk]

after like 35 hours or so apparently you get unbearable lag

I'd like to mention, that I have it for ps3 and so far I have not experienced this. I have experienced lag but I wouldn't call it unbearable. It has frozen on me a few times when I first started playing but it doesn't happen anymore. And i've played up to around 20 hours approximately and so far I am thoroughly enjoying it , my cousin has played 40 apparently and he has had no problems either. I imagine this is only with some ps3's.

lol i love that XD. Btw, i have the ps3 version and its not as bad as everyone says. i've seen it played on the xbox(mainly cause i have it for both systems) and its just as bad. You eventually get past the lag.

dont play it anymore though. i used to play skyrim. Theni took an arrow to the knee. XD

i noticed it was labeled as one of the worse games of 2011, at some ps3 forum, cause of its tech problems. first rage now this, wtf is up with Bethesda ?

Didn't know whether to post this in here or the other forum on Skyrim, but ah well. Basically this has caused rumours to fly around the net as to possible Skyrim DLC. I for one, believe that this does have some signifance and may be a clue as to what Dlc will be and where it will be set. Another rumour is that they may just continue with massive DLC and stop making games. Who knows, but regardless, it is interesting to speculate.

[www.geek.com] you remember when gamers started playing Rage and discovered the Easter eggs from earlier id games? They included areas from Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake and went down well with long-time id Software fans.

It seems Bethesda had a similar idea, but not in the form of an Easter egg, and on a much larger scale than Rage’s room and level hidden gems. Either for fun or profit, the Skyrim team has included the environments for both Morrowind and Cyrodiil in an inaccessible part of the world.

The location was discovered by 19-year-old Jesse from Finland who posted his findings on his PPSh-41 Tumblr blog. The area is inaccessible unless you use console commands (No-clip) to bypass the collision block Bethesda put across an otherwise open archway. You can see the archway below:



Its location is in the most south-eastern area of the Skyrim map called Stendarr’s Beacon. Travel north east of the Beacon and you will locate a path between two mountains that leads to the archway above.

Traveling through the archway presents the player with foliage that starts to decrease the further you venture into the unknown territory. Jesse started looking around for anything recognizable and realized he could see Red Mountain in Vvardenfell, which is a part of Morrowind. Further investigation found that the landmass for all of Morrowind and Cyrodiil are present, if unfinished.



The question to ask now is why are these locations present? The fact they can’t be traveled to in-game means Bethesda could be planning to open them up in the future, or they were test areas when Skyrim was being created and the level designers needed some practice with the tools.

I’m sure gamers are hoping Bethesda has plans for these areas and some big DLC content is coming our way that includes them. It seems a bit of a waste otherwise to have included so much additional landmass, doesn’t it?

Read more at PPSh-41, via Destructoid

Just finished the main quest line a couple days ago, with WELL over 100 hours of playtime. I fully intend to complete both the Assassin's guild and the Companions (which I've only just started). To say nothing of the Thieve's guild, which I haven't even TOUCHED yet.

I'm not sure if I'm doing this because I enjoy it so much, or just so by finishing most of it my all consuming obsession with it will finally start to subside, and i can at last put it behind me and move on to something else.



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hey gamers, hope somebody wouldn't mind letting me know about this game...as in is it extremely violent? i have a 10 year old who has been begging for this for awhile, i told him if he has a really successful day at school today i will rent it for his xbox for a week...now i know it is bad to be asking after the horse has the left the barn, so to speak, but is this game bad? is there some aspect of creating in this or is it all destruction? really appreciate anyone letting me know if i earned a simple "fail" or an "epic fail" on making this deal of desperation. thank you. oh, and yes i could look online and read about it but i tried that when he was on his minecraft kick and i STILL don't totally understand what the hell it means...i am immune to understanding video games in any way shape or form. lol.

gaaira posted:

this game has 18+ and Mature ratings

and in all seriousness i cant understand parents letting their kids even 15 yo play games like god of war and GTA, a kid needs their parents to be parents not friends

gaaira, are you saying that you think it is inappropriate then? i am speaking of skyrim.
he doesn't play god of war or gta or call of duty. i would prefer he not play video games at all, to be honest, but he is a gamer. i also don't necessarily agree that just because it is 18+ means it shouldn't be played by anyone under that age..my main concern is the degree of violence within a game, whether the focus is destruction or construction or what the ratio of the two within the game is and what is in the scenery. he has halo, his dad was ok with this. i have to rely on him somewhat, as i don't play video games, but i certainly trust that he isn't going to let him play something disgusting (from what i have heard gta is disgusting.).

anyway, back to my original question. i am not sure if your answer was the first line of your response (rating m), or not.

anyone else want to weigh in? i am honestly looking to know from people who play it whether or not it is high in violence and destruction.
thank you.



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usually when it comes to games that are simply violent the age is 15+. when the rating is 18+ or mature, they usually involve various adult themes and i think you just trust the rating most of the time

personally, i wouldn't give Skyrim to a 10 year old in a million years, no matter what his friends play