Bethesda: Skyrim PS3 Is Fine For The "Vast Majority"
See Full ImageSometimes, the media - and gaming communities - can blow something very much out of proportion. Other times, it's not exaggeration but reality.
And when it came to the problems PS3 gamers experienced when sampling the admittedly epic greatness that was The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, fans seemed split on the issue. Some said the glitches weren't so bad, while others called the game virtually unplayable.
Well, Bethesda has responded. Game Director Todd Howard told IndustryGamers that although his team has been working hard to set things right, "statistically, it is not nearly as bad as it seems." In fact, according to both internal and external data, Skyrim is their most solid release.
"It's also our most popular by a large factor, so we do have a lot of people on the PS3 who play the games a lot and their games are at a state that the game is just taxing the PS3 enough. That's a fact; so, it really wasn't until we were able to get save games from the users – because, literally, how they play the game over 100 hours – some of it, very little of it, we were able to reproduce and take care of on our own and a lot of it that you're seeing now, we weren't. So over the course of, like, December, the community helped us. We got their save games. We'd literally have to look in and say, 'What quests do they have running, what order? Oh, he's doing this. He's got these dragons here. This script is running. Why is it kicking out this many things?' And the 1.4 update is coming out today on the PS3 and it should – in our internal tests on those games - it fixes it, it takes care of it. But, going through this, we now know, there will still be – a smaller set, but there are probably still people we don't have their saved games and they have [other problems]."
Howard went on to talk about how the PS3 handles things differently (which we already know), and finished by saying that for the "vast majority" of those who played Skyrim on Sony's machine for 100+ hours, the game was "fine." Would you agree with that statement?
Tags: the elder scrolls v, skyrim, skyrim ps3, bethesda
2/17/2012 9:00:56 PM Ben Dutka
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Comments (31 posts)
Neo_Aeon666
Sunday, February 19, 2012 @ 11:26:37 AM
So yeah no console is immune to the Skyrim bug plague. Still, I love the game. I keep playing all the time :D
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zork
Friday, February 17, 2012 @ 9:23:20 PM
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What about that Moonlight sword in Darksouls? is that a possible hint of a new Kings Field game?
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bebestorm
Friday, February 17, 2012 @ 9:25:44 PM
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Temjin001
Friday, February 17, 2012 @ 11:50:57 PM
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Qubex
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 5:33:57 AM
Q!
"play.experience.enjoy"
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___________
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 5:38:31 AM
i had to restart my character and game save because i was fed up with the unstable ps3 version.
112 hours in on my PC play and i have not had a single issue!
and thats even with a sh*t load of mods installed.
i wish the ICEnhancer mod for skyrim was not canned, dont get me wrong some mods look great!
but i really wanted to see what he could do with the game, i mean look what hes done with GTAIV!
i want skyrim to look that good!
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Geobaldi
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 7:05:00 AM
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___________
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 8:51:11 AM
are you able to fast travel without the game booting you out?
runs perfectly with the ENB and texture mods installed, as long as i dont fast travel as soon as i do that the game crashes.
if i remove the mods then it works fine, only with mods it crashes after fast travel.
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bebestorm
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 10:36:22 AM
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DazeOfWar
Friday, February 17, 2012 @ 10:20:41 PM
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One day I may get it but as for right now I'm not even worried about missing it with all the great stuff I still have to play and then the great stuff to come. I also will have the Vita next week to kill my time too.
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Underdog15
Friday, February 17, 2012 @ 10:23:18 PM
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maxpontiac
Friday, February 17, 2012 @ 10:50:03 PM
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Everything else seems fixed though.
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bigrailer19
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 12:11:46 AM
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But I'm just glad to see even though they are saying it is fine for the majority, they still are willing to fix it for the minority. Most developers flat out say of the demand isn't high enough they won't support the games. Obviously this game is very popular but it does sound like from there info that theres a much smaller fraction having problems than not.
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Beamboom
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 12:14:30 PM
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Russell Burrows
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 2:46:54 AM
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After patch 1.4 things are mostly fixed and I am very happy with this game to the point where there are other games that I have yet to play since my three games that I have been playing are Skyrim, umm Skyrim and yeah!! Sky rim!!
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Excelsior1
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 4:19:43 AM
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There is only one other game that forced me to hard reset my PS3 more than Skyrim and that is Fall Out 3.
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maxpontiac
Sunday, February 19, 2012 @ 5:14:53 PM
I do agree with you though that Bethesda needs to respect the PS3 userbase, and quit giving the appearance of being Xbox fanboys.
The fact that Skyrim shipped with so many issues is laughable, and in my opinion, removes it from any GOTY consideration.
I tell you the truth.
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___________
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 5:41:03 AM
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im sorry, but i dont believe that for a second!
however that aside, so freaking what?
i HATE it when companies come out and say ah its only a small minority.
like that makes it all ok.
who gives a sh*t if only 10% of our players cant play our game, its only 10% 90% can play just fine.
gone are the days where companies actually gave a f*ck about their customers!
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tes37
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 6:12:36 AM
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I have a friend who refuses to download anything for any game, no matter how large or small of a file, and his game is almost completely unplayable now.
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fatelementality
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 6:44:01 AM
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tes37
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 7:48:56 AM
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___________
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 8:49:53 AM
i could not play the game at all!
id either be so slow, or id completley freeze up my ps3.
those were not the only issues either, i constantly kept getting stuck in the world, and allot of missions would not trigger.
i remember one particular mission if you wanted to join the college to learn magic, first mission you had to meet the teacher at this cave at a certain time but he would never show up so i could never start the quest.
im sorry, but i dont pay 110 bucks for my games so they can look pretty on my shelf for 4 months while the developers work on a fix.
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SSRGohan
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 7:35:52 AM
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SSRGohan
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 7:37:15 AM
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Jawknee
Saturday, February 18, 2012 @ 1:42:43 PM
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Rogueagent01
Sunday, February 19, 2012 @ 3:16:40 AM
I love that they claim it as the minority as I have 25-35 firends on my list that have played it and all but 2 have claimed it has MAJOR issues. The only thing I will give Bethesda credit for is the fact that a "major" issue means something different to each and every player. I have and will still wait for the GOTY edition before I buy/play this game, and even then I am expecting issues with it, as they have yet to produce a game for a Playstation system that hasn't had real/major issues(to me).
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Gabriel013
Monday, February 20, 2012 @ 1:52:46 AM
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While I think about it I have also had NPC's disappear into thin air when I've killed them and unfortunately that has broken at least one quest. This has only happened with patch 1.4
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Reaper_505
Monday, February 20, 2012 @ 11:53:41 AM
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SS4
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 @ 10:37:57 AM
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In the end this created problems we see on console and the PC version feels like a console port and couldve been much superior.
To me it feels they kinda screwed up on both front.
The game is still great but it couldve been more polished imo.
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Clamedeus
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Friday, February 17, 2012 @ 9:20:42 PM