You should be skeptical of every single word, even “a” and “the”, written on a dating profile. People are capable of bottomless depths of deception, especially self-deception.

This is the first Bethesda game I’ve actually preferred hoofing over fast travel (except for junk drops). You should get XP for walking, like a PIPBit.

Some folks brains have, like, built in Ritalin, so they always see stuff through to the bitter end. I’d like to hire them.

then why not give them the best: Skyrim (unless they already played it to death on the 360). An average GPU will play it 1080p/60fps with all sliders maxed. Plus a practically bottomless set of cool mods. Some games easily justify the cost of the game ($60) - skyrim is one of those games that justifies the cost of the…

Agreed - graphically intense PC games are often released when only a minority of gamers could actually run them well. This is something going way way back, even before proper “3d cards”. I remember having to run Doom in a smaller window because my 486sx would choke.

huh - no Skyrim? You crazy? No Fallout 4? You crazy!!

Diablo 3 on consoles is probably the best couch co-op out there.

I agree with the GTAV statement. The key gameplay is still rather dodgy (shooting, driving). You gotta be into the whole GTA vibe to enjoy the game - and it’s a highly off-putting vibe. I know that for some, it’s bliss. For me, I wish I had bought a physical copy, because I’d sell it.

I agree - though they should also maintain a separate list of “best games you can’t play anywhere else”

I bought a PS4 although the XB1’s exclusives are more appealing to me (at least Halo and Forza). Because 3rd party is where it’s at, and PS4 tends to have the slightly better rendition. In the end, though, I probably should have spent the $400 on a kick-butt GPU for my PC.

This is the first Bethesda romp that has me gravitating away from fast travel. Skyrim made hoofing it a bit of a chore, with its sprawling map, and maze of mountains. But Fake Boston is probably the coolest world I’ve seen in a game. It’s gorgeous, tense, and alive. I love hearing distant firefights, or feeling the…

I sometimes find myself in downward spiral, where I do inadvisable things, such as: read the comments on a foxnews.com article. Yeah, it’s bad out there.

But the xbone is not emulating the 360 when running its games. Even if Microsoft claims emulation

I stand by the original statement. The data required in order to make statements like “just about every critic says the game is full of bugs” needs to be taken from a representative sample of appropriate size. Not just a few quotes from a handful of reviewers, most of whom don’t provide detail (eg. I’d love to hear…

Let’s stop pretending that plural of anecdotes=data. I’m hours and hours into the PS4 version, and zero bugs / framerate issues whatsoever. I did lots of different things, had some huge battles, wandered a lot. No bugs. If the game had “lots of bugs” a typical user should experience at least one every 8 hours, right?

I plugged about 8 hours into it yesterday on PS4. No crashes, no freezes, no framerate drops (outside of an occassional slight pause to load an asset), and no bugs. Not one. The only thing close to a bug was when I saw all these ghouls fall down again when I exited Cambridge Police station (I killed them before…

When is this exactly? I put about 7 hours into the PS4 version yesterday and didn’t notice any frame drops (maybe a quick stutter as something loaded, maybe?)

We could also have a poll for “Worst Anything Ever”

Skyrim was pretty stingy with its crafting. You could craft steel junk right off the bat, but you’d have to level up and dedicate a lot of perk points to get where you could do more advanced stuff, like said dragonbone.

Or mercury (though technically not metal)