I have yet to experience any serious bugs myself but as I am on the PS3 I licve in constant fear of reaching the maximum save file size and then having my data corrupt on me. Lots of people have had this happen and Im sure youre aware of the backwards dragon phenomenon occurring after the recent patch.

Fortunately not everyone has been affected yet. I have had some minor issues with textures not loading, slowdown in certain areas, people/creatures/objects floating and falling into white space when near certain walls but nothing major. The game is still enjoyable to me though I can certainly see how some would consider it broken if their problems are as serious as the claims.

I lol'd.

I'm getting tired of people complaining about people complaining! Stop!

Cheers

Same way I felt about Daggerfall. For some people the bugs don't just break a few quests, they make it impossible to play.

Did you tried re - installing it? I done it and it solved a lot. Might be just me but you never know until you try lol...

Exactly, since the FIRST patch I can't play without the 4GB Skyrim programme and I have a beast of a rig that can chew up any other game. Main quest was fine for me but the Thieves Guild is broken. I offlined Steam to avoid the latest patch that breaks the game even more.

Gee, let me count the ways...

There was this time where a Companion's quest glitched out, depositing the NPC I'm supposed to rescue into a mysterious void underneath Skyrim, effectively preventing me from completing the quest and progressing any further with the companions. That's pretty broken.

There was another time where the Greybeards were about to give me a new shout, but the word never appeared. Thus the quest never finished, preventing me from progressing in the MAIN STORY LINE. Yeah that's pretty broken.

Then there was a time that a dragon crash landed on me and died on impact. I didn't attack, no one else was around to attack, so he committed suicide? That seems a bit broken.

How about the numerous instances where I approach someone who's supposed to give me a quest or provide dialogue for completing one, but instead of doing so just keep repeating the same line over and over again, without actually initiating the conversation that's supposed to take place? It's especially infuriating when the quest marker is hovering right over their ignorant head.

Ooo, or how about the followers that don't level up with me, resulting in useless pack mules that tend to die because I can't give them a simple order to hold back while I blast my enemies with fireballs? Maybe that doesn't count since I could ditch the magic, but damn they get in my way more than they help really.

Try googling (yes, that's a verb now) dragons flying backward. 'nuff said on that one.

How about my wife that NEVER sleeps? And I really mean it, she's supposed to sleep so I can get the "Lover's Comfort Bonus", but after watching her on several full 24 hour cycles I've determined that she must have a stash of coke somewhere cause the woman never gets tired of cooking and walking around the house. Thus, I can't get the bonus, rendering completing that mission a totally useless waste of time.

There's plenty more, but I think I've made my point. Luckily for me I've played previous Bethesda games and have known to save often, so most of these have been circumvented by reloading an old save and replaying the hour or so leading up to the glitch points, but that's something that shouldn't be necessary. I shouldn't know that I need to do these things because the game is broken. Had this been last week I would have cited the PS3 lag, but that's fixed, mostly, since it only happens after a 3 hour session now.

Sure, I enjoy these games, and try to ignore this stuff to the best of my ability, but some of these errors are just horrendous and can't be ignored. Lots of us probably sound like all we do is complain, but frankly if the game works right I have no reason to come on here. I come and complain so that Bethesda can see what's wrong, and hopefully remedy the problems, because I genuinely want this game to play better. If we don't complain, how will they know?

Yes, if we just ignore the fecal matter on our meals, its delicious.
What, remove the dung? How dare you insult that meal! Just ignore it!


(for those who dont know what a metaphor is, replace 'fecal matter' and 'dung' with 'bugs' and 'meal' with 'game')

Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've seen very few bugs other than those introduced by this recent patch. And of those, I've only experienced the resistances bug so I personally don't think the game is broken at all. Though I've seen on these forums that many others are having troubles.

It's not broken, I vote Game of the Year.

The gliches I'm experiencing is mostly home/house related,
sure they are a little annoying but this dosen't ruin the game for me.

You probably don't understand resistance mechanics well enough or had none in the first place.

BigWoop, sometimes things don't spawn and a reload will help that. Sometimes it doesn't though as I have a man laying dead in the air where there's supposed to be a cart beneath him on multiple reloads. His shadow is perfectly on the ground though so the lighting worked.

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My problem is Bethesda's tendency to decieve their customers.

Yes, I'm unable to continue the MQ because no dialogue options appear with a couple of very important characters, I'd call that broken.

Just ignore it, you hater!

:>

Pre-patch (1.2) I had 60hrs of game time with no issues aside from some very rare frame rate drops. Now with 10+ hrs after installing the patch, not a single thing that I can think of that seems remotely glitchy. I guess I'm one of the lucky PS3 users.

Bugs, glitches, need to use commands make this game broken.

It would be interesting to know how many people complaining of game breaking bugs have added mods.

I've had very minor problems. I think one time I ended up realoading when a quest didn't trigger properly but that's it. Frame rate has always been excellent. Then again, I refuse to add mods cranked out by people of uncertain abilities or knowledge about what is or is not safe to do without breaking the game or any subsequent version.

Daggerfall did indeed have serious bugs. The worst was falling through the world. It was always cause for celebration when I could use an elevator without falling through it. The solution for me was to learn levitation.

I remember one time in Daggerfall Castle there was a complicated puzzle which to do it normally would require a great deal of running around to figure it out. Levers operating gates in various places requirnig running around to check what lever operated what gate and the order you did the levers was critical. I just ran around until I fell through the world and then levitated on top of the whole thing. I could see everything from one spot and quickly had it figured out.

I haven't had to do anything like that in any subsequent TES game.

It's just a matter of using what you're given.

P.S. Someone mentioned they were playing on Expert because they liked a challange. I found it plenty challenging on Adept until I got extremely good at Smithing, plus found something which increased armor/weapon quality even more. To get the same challange I used to have on adept I've had to switch to expert now that I'm using epic weapons and armor. In this game challange is all about how much you've abused the crafting system.

I have been playing since release on 360, and the only bug I encountered was getting stuck inside a rock once. That, and of course getting thrown into the sky by giants.

I think my game is brokded from the way i played in the beginning..

i ran around all of skyrim , clearing dungeons and picking up items i only realized later were quest items

I lol'd at your lol'd.

True fans of TES will endure a few minor bugs. If you can't play the game at all, then my sympathies, and try to be patient; I'm sure they're working around the clock.

I love the game and I can forgive some bugs, but playing on Master the Magic Resistance issue is driving me a little nuts.

Yea, 90% of the time that does work. Most recently I couldn't progress with the Imperial quest line because Legate Rikke just wouldn't talk. Reloaded, and we're good to go. The problem is sometimes these glitches occur and I don't realize it right away, since I have about 30 quests at any time. Thus, I didn't realize the companions was bugged until about 10 hours of gameplay later, and so I've gone nowhere with them and can't unless I restart my whole game. Things like that are infuriating, since it means to avoid these things I basically have to do a quest as soon as it's assigned, or simply accept the consequences later if it's bugged and I don't realize it until it's too late.

To the OP - All I was really getting at is that I don't think most people are here just to bash the game (trolls are usually obvious) - just most of us are having such a good time that when [censored] goes wrong it's far more annoying, because we care that our good time is ruined. If it was a horrible game, like Cursed Crusade for instance, we wouldn't bother complaining or continuing to play, we'd just return the stupid thing.

For the most part I do ignore the main quest as I prefer my own role play, but this particular part of the main quest is needed by my character, I'd explain more but it's a major spoiler!