it takes me less than 8 hours to make a crossbow (and I am not a profeesional). and voice acting takes more than just speaking into a microphone, and the point was about them finding a voice actor to say that line it was that they could have just left out that line about crossbows and they would have more money to redirect to putting in man hours to developing more weapons. I am not singling you out or any thing, and I get that you are not against crossbows. my ire is directed at the devs not you. you may think my logic is faulted, but my statement is not based on opinion but on from my own personal experience as a modder.

I am one guy and it takes me about a day to make a crossbow from scratch, they have an experienced team of developers. the fact that they could have put in crossbows without any difficulty is not at contest, they simply chose not too and who knows why.

2. Learn to use punctuation in a not eye-stabby kind of way.

I would literally yell, "BETHESDA!!!!!!" to the skies if they put in references like that. Then I would laugh.

How about a random encounter that you can get that includes: some random guy running around with what would appear to be a spear; said guy getting one-hit-killed by a random animal; and the spear model you pick up has no attack animation and does 0 damage. Oh, and everyone would point and laugh at you whenever you have it equipped, saying, "What is that supposed to be? A weapon? Haha, loser, get a real weopn, like a sword!"

not every one is native english speaker, which is why grammar policing is against forum rules.

well your doubts don't make a difference because they could, if I can make my own in the time its takes them to hire a voice actor, record the snide comment (would take more than just one take), edit and pay the guy they could have made at least several more crossbows than I can make. keep in mind the money they could have redirected into their budget for adding more weapons. its all irelevent but the point is they made a diliberate choice to not put in crossbows when they could have and decided to be lazy thinking no one would notice that the only ranged weapons in the game were bows. thats just one weapon, what if the only melee weapon in the game were warhammers?

"If only we had a hand-held weapon that we could use to fight these dragon's from a distance..."

"I saw a really fat Spears the other day. Nasty things. Brittney has really let herself go."

Maybe a Monty Python reference (Self-Defense Against Fresh Fruit) mixed with the spear reference when some recruits are being trained in martial combat.

"What if someone attacks with a point-ed stick?"

"Pointed sticks? We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Well when you're walking home tonight and done homicidal maniac comes at you with a handaxe, don't come crying to me!"

You mean like.. a bow?

"M'aiq had a Spear once but a Dragon burned it after I poke him with it".

"The Gods are not kind to M'aiq, they took his Spear away and I've been searching for it ever since".

"M'aiq had a Spear once but a Dragon burned it after I poke him with it".

"The Gods are not kind to M'aiq, they took his Spear away and I've been searching for it ever since".

No, I mean like...a spear.

Maybe a Monty Python reference (Self-Defense Against Fresh Fruit) mixed with the spear reference when some recruits are being trained in martial combat.

"What if someone attacks with a point-ed stick?"

"Pointed sticks? We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Well when you're walking home tonight and some homicidal maniac comes at you with a handaxe, don't come crying to me!"

"M'aiq had a Spear once but a Dragon burned it after I poke him with it".

"The Gods are not kind to M'aiq, they took his Spear away and I've been searching for it ever since".