I wouldn't normally post, I would just toss the game and move on, but I did like this game (even with all it's faults, and there are many). Wasting my time removing the vampirism curse/desease however was the last straw. srsly, a frustrating time sink for a lousy bit of game play that someone at Bethesda thought would be entertaining? When a player comes up against something that they don't like in a game, they should be able to reset or bypass without any penalty. It should just be a zero sum event. don't want to do something? fine, the game will remove it and you can continue enjoying yourself. Instead, we are forced, forced to run the maze, and they are almost always frustrating and absolutely no fun. When a game becomes NO FUN, that's when the creators have failed. And the people who created Skyrim FAILED. I will never buy another title with Bethesda on the cover box. I spent a lot of time with this game, and I could get around most of the annoying nonsense, but the time I've spent trying to get rid of the vampirism curse is utter BS.

I realize a single person doesn't matter in the grand scheme of profit driven gaming, but to not be able to bypass a game element (it doesn't matter the reason the player/end user doesn't want to play through) is something that every gaming studio needs to look into and find a solution for. And I don't really care about the so called "hardcoe" gamers either. I still have my original Atari 2600 that I recieved for Xmas in 1977. But I don't have enough free time to be wasting it on somehting as trivial (and I had to go to walk through or I wouldn't even know what was happening to me or how to correct it (and there's only one way, are you fricking kiddding me!!) as removing the vampire infection/curse. what a wast of time.......and they wonder why people are abandoning gaming consoles.

That's where a lot of people will disagree with you. This is an adventure game, or even a roleplaying game. There is no adventure or roleplaying in pressing a button to make everything perfect. If that's the kind of thing you want, then adventure or roleplaying games aren't for you, and your decision to avoid Bethesda in future is probably a wise one.

I also reject the idea that liking the fact I have to correct mis-steps myself makes me a 'hardcoe gamer.' It's actually part of playing the game as-intended - surely you'd need to do more than just play the game to count as hardcoe?

They don't. They know it's dollar apps. This casual v. hardcoe war doesn't actually exist on balance sheets, it's all in the self-righteous psyches of Internet forums.

You can bypass Vampirism if you don't like it. You have plenty of time to get your hands on a Potion of Cure Disease before Vampirism kicks in. Simple. This is an RP Game. Not an action. You can't just hit restart. But then again, in a way, you can. They give you 3 auto-save points. Choose one before you get the disease. What are you complaining about?

You're telling me you are completely discrediting Bethesda and refuse to buy another game with their name on it because you don't know how to avoid getting Vampirism? I'm going to need you to sit all the way down.

So, does this guy still get a fishystick?

People have forgotten the good and noble art of fishystick.

It's a very delicate state of mind.

Say Whaaaaat?

I just... I just..... No! How can you want to make the game worse by removing one of the few consequences in the game.

"I hate bethesda because I got vampirism. I hate that I can't click something to remove vampirism instantly."
You had 4 ingame days to drink a potion of cure disease or use a shrine of *insert name of a god*.

0/10

Vampirism removal is a lot easier than it is in IV (and even III when I think about it). Seriously, all it takes is a certain item, which can be grab as loot even, and then done/cured. Or find another path and face a different fate, yet that not difficult to cure either, though requires some time to cure.

Seriously, is the cure the problem or how you contract it?

Yeah, if you pay attention to the notifications/fact that everyone's telling you you look ill, you have four in-game days to go to a shrine (which are in every city and a few other locations) and literally just press the activate button, and you're cured. If you miss that, once Fallion tells you what to do, you can basically complete that in about ten minutes if you don't need to feed, slightly longer if you do.

Three sir, three. Not 4 or 5, but 3. Honestly, my avi threw that grenade AT YOU!

I digress, it is three days to cure yourself. Otherwise, it is not THAT difficult to cure yourself versus other TES games (when you played them)

*Grrr. valandril, you better hope for a Holy Hand Grenade otherwise.... sorry mods, I will not speak of it as you folks truly hold that bloody thing

Aren't you that guy who complain about the game then toss your username and create new username then complain again and so on.

I've got over 2000 hours invested in playing the game five times and in all those hours my Dragonborn was infected only once and quickly cured at the Talos Shrine.

You simply need to be more religious. It isn't hard to stop by a shrine while divesting oneself of loot, especially when exposed to vampyres.

Or if you have a cure potion, or made up one through alchemy as well. At the end, if one contracted that disease and become one, the process is nowhere as difficult in previous games, hence the confusion.

Ah that was a good laugh. Moving on then.

Oops, mea culpa! How many was it again?

T-H-R-E-E You bloody fool, 3. 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 . Not 4 or 5, but 3.

*Just realized I have self destruct AGAIN, may the Easter Bunny welcome my avi in his realm*

** valandril **

Two?

Hevnoraak had trouble with someone named V, as my avi now... You will get yours valandril... not sure by whom or what is, but it will happen... do you have a neck?

I might, but as I'm currently wearing this, good luck damaging it... http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/21228/?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmu5sRIizdw

Aww, sorry, bunny, you seem to have broken your teeth...

It'll grow back, always does., perhaps better than one can imagine... no gun powder... no grenade in Skyrim... be AFRAID! RUN AWAY!

*better stop, or else topic derails and my sister yells at me once again (I honestly fear that one more than a grenade) *

Problem is, this is exactly the kind of person Beth will listen to when making the next game. Catering to the ADHD kids has sorta become their policy.

"I dont have enough free time to be wasting it on something trivial"


Seems like this rant is trivial.

Sorry to have to say it, but that's when you should probably try playing another game.

Skyrim is in the top 20 bestselling games of all time [http://time.com/1875/at-20-million-copies-sold-skyrim-is-in-the-top-20-bestselling-games-of-all-time/].