» Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:14 pm
Just yesterday I got my first framerate drop (Xbox 360)... it lasted around a minute and everything went normal after that. I think it's related to loading the world, foliage, a lot of graphics, pathing (I was doing an escort quest) and a Dark Brotherhood Assassin that tried to kill me. Basically, when the game tries to do a lot all of a sudden, that's when things go ape[censored]. Aside only a dead dragon spawning every now and then outside Whiterun, an armor incorrectly named as 'boots' and that's it. No drunk dragons either, no weird Lethrush (or whatever) spawning, no oddities, aliens, etc.
IMHO if it's that hard on the hardware, they shouldn't have such an organic (or should I say random?) world with 3 - 4 events happening at once when I can play for hours just strolling through mountain flower fields with virtually nothing to do (and by this I mean no Radiant quests, no bandits, wolves, creeps, mammoths, nada to fight/fetch/kill). Why trigger everything at once?
Also, graphics are very cool, but I paid for a game, not a movie. I want more gameplay, not some 'ohhh' and 'ahhh' effects every now and then. Games nowadays feel more like interactive movies than interactive entertainment software. I feel PS3 users because they got the worst of the bunch (most, not all). Matter of fact, the only reason why I can still play is because I never updated to v1.2. Does that not sound like enough? Go read some threads on these very forums.
And be thankful you have no game-breaking bugs. I don't either, but I'm not implying the rest of the world is trying to [censored] me. Go play.