Voted for "Yes, of course". Although I won't pre-order it if they don't plan on releasing a Construction Set. In that case I'll browse forums and reviews until I get a good picture of the good and bad sides of the game. The Construction Set can be used to make the game fit more to your personal needs, so I can overlook some initial flaws.

Well it still has to pass Bethesda QC.

I don't expect any computer program to be perfect (in fact, considering my job I would hope they aren't perfect) and games especially are very complex programs.

Having said that, I find Skyrim to be fairly bug free compared to other games, apart from having to use the console to move the main quest on a bit as it got stuck I haven't found a single issue I consider a problem. As can be guessed, my answer is 'yes, of course'.

Of course I'd buy future bethesda games. Bugs in this game are so minor that they are fixable.

PC isn't so bad because we have 'fans' who do quite a number of fixes via mods, etc.
For the guys on consoles, well, they'd have to get a religion if they don't have one, and start praying that Beth will patch it.

I've had a total of three crashes. Big deal. If you aren't old enough to remember Master of Magic, look it up on Wikipedia. Now that was a buggy game, but it's one of the classics. Of course I'll buy another Bethesda game. I bought Skyrim a couple days after it came out, and it's addictive as hell. Three crashes is not something worth OMG RAAAAAAAGE to me.

optimize, broken quests???

who, what, where?


didn't noticed any bad thing up till now

The funny thing is..dispite the gripes i have with this game (and there are many) It's still a wonderfull game that iv'e played for 150 hours.

I can't wait for the next Elderscrolls game . It will be on the next gen of console and will look (on PC) how Skyrim should of looked.

(it had better be on the next gen console anyway)

Only problems I have had is the occasional crash to desktop.

My hesitation to invest in future Elder Scrolls games has little to do with the technical details of the game (Honestly Skyrim has been the *least* buggy title they've made) and much to do with the direction that the gameplay is going. I will definitely wait a month after TES6 hits, then read reviews and see what I think then. Skyrim isn't especially "bad" exactly, it's simply not the same caliber of roleplay game as previous entries in the series. The focus is sliding more toward action and less toward roleplay. The pointless dialogue "choices", the shrink-wrapped magic system, the non-existent journal and GPS system, the hilarious potion system that lets you boost each and every skill individually while simultaneously removing most sense of "tactical potion use" by making half the effects instant instead of duration-based...

Yeah. Next time, waiting for reviews. If they keep making it more action and less roleplay I won't buy #6. Has nothing to do with platform-specific problems of which i haven't had many.

I don't think they should have tied the release date to the gimmicky "11-11-11" because the PC version certainly could have benefitted from some more dev time/QA/ overall polish. I understand that the console market is the primary one at this point, but the PC sales are nothing to sneeze at. It's obvious which version suffered due to this self imposed deadline.

We're not going away, and Bethesda would be ill advised to cut us off.

They do, however, realize that we have the ability to fix many of our own problems with the games, and many of the smaller bugs/quirks will be left for us to fix. So, they'll lean upon us to deal with the minutiae just as they always do.

It's been this way for a long time. But, we deal with it. Because at the core, the games mostly are that damn good.

The day I find a game that doesn't have bugs/glitches/exploits/weird happenings and never crashes at launch (especially on PC) is the day I'll start checking the sky for flying pigs.

Where do you people keep popping out from? I have came across 0 serious bugs or broken aspects in the game, played +60 hours on pc.

Provided that in another five or six years time they actually do what they used to do, and that's push the technology, not fall back on aging technology. Though I guess that's not their fault, we have Microshaft and Sorny to blame for that. But DirectX 9? Really? I do hope that TES VI doesn't suffer from Consolitis, but we shall see.

You know, this is the Skyrim board, right? Either you haven't played this game much, don't know what a bug is, or are talking about a different game. I've never played a game this buggy. I still enjoy it greatly, but seriously...

The Construction kit is a good point. If they stop releasing those, I stop buying their game.

I'm not really even a fan of mods for the most part, it's all about freedom.

**and if you haven't had many bugs, congrats. The rest of us however have had quite a few little CTDs; and googling the exact areas they occur tends to reap significant matches, so it's a definite problem.

I don't like your question. The people of Bethesda created a great game; they'll obviously do everything they can to fix whatever need to be fixed. So, yes I'll buy the next TES because I love all the freedom we're allowed here, compared to other games when you can't even leave the road...

Yeah the console versions are without any flaw, they have no problems, they only messed up the PC release...

... no wait, that's a lie.


So what the [censored] does this have to do with the PC?

Yeah, I hate companies that come out with games and release a tool that allows the fanbase to continue improving it for years. And if all you saw in the update was improvements for the PS3 version, you didn't read the patch notes properly. There is more than just one line.

For an FPS, hell no.
For racing yes.
For anything else, meh.

Just because you and I don't have these issues, doesn't mean that other people do not.

Everyone's hardware configuration is different. Even console players have slight variations in their hardware, due to model revisions.

Crashes are part of the Skyrim Drinking Game.

You crash, you drink.
You FUS RO DAH, you drink.
You encounter a dragon on fast travel, you drink.
You break a quest, you drink.
Your companion dies, you drink.

I'm not an all or nothing sort of guy. I have a lot of fun with their games.

That being said, Bethesda's attitude towards bugs, their general tendency to botch and cut corners, and the fact that I've now played 4 itterations of their games (Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and now Skyrim) where the same bugs and issues rear their ugly head with no indication of attempts being made to fix it; it has knocked my interest down several pegs. I doubt the next game will be a day one buy.

When Todd Howard made claims of a new engine, I failed to realise this was solely a new graphics engine. I had hoped that the solid foundations of a new engines would help eliminate the rampant quirkiness and awkwardness of their games. AI is too loose, and easily broken. They themselves seem to have trouble getting NPCs to do what they want 100% of the time.

As much as I love their game and the unique freedom I can't get out of any other game, I'm growing increasingly tired of the loose, easily broken system.

This is my last Bethesda game. Actually, I'm never going to buy a game again that was designed for consoles and then ported over to PC. Only PC exclusive games for me for now on. Actually, I can live with the game being dumbed down for consol gamers, but the game breaking bugs are too much. If you want to wait around for a SDK all the power to ya, but I don't have that kind of time to waste.

I am gaming like a crazed monkey, and loving it, of course such a huge game will have issues, but since i'm on PC (the best way to game imo) most can be fixed or at least circumvented. So overall, i am happy to move about my level 63 dunmer, levelling my skills and trying to be all i can be.