The Video/PC Game Discussion Thread

Even with the amount of bugs in the game, you'd be very unlucky to hit that many in one playthrough, bugs don't tend to always occur every time. My first character was completely cut off from the Companions questline however, so I'd call that pretty major. I don't recall seeing a fix for the issue I had yet either. That Radiant system has got a lot of holes in it still. Rule number 2 when it comes to TES games: save, save and save, and don't overwrite your old save straight away, you never know when a bug is going to cripple something for you.

That's rule number 2. Rule number 1 for the record is never buy the game for anything but the PC. Not only do you get unofficial patches which will fix the game up even more after Bethesda give up (which they will), but you get access to the huge modding community which will allow you to extend your game indefinitely, with content which is sometimes better than what the game had to begin with, especially in Oblivion's case. I can't play that game without installing all the Unique Landscapes mods, the vanilla terrain is just too bland. PC also allows you to use the ingame console which can fix glitches on the fly. Ever had to reload because you got stuck in the terrain? Not on PC, just type in a code and off you go again. But the main reason is the mods. Skyrim is a much better game unmodded than Oblivion was, and about equal to Morrowind, but unless you really can't afford the PC rig to run the game I'm not sure why anyone would knowingly alienate themselves from these features. 

I got no time to be getting a gaming PC for myself so I can move away from the home shared computer.  I got 40k minitures to buy and build!

I too am a lot more at home with a controller in hand even though there are peripherals like that that are computer compatible.  I'm more in a single player mood for my console gaming as of late since my Ethernet wire seems to be messed up somehow and giving me gigantic amounts of lag and disconnects at random moments.  And this is where Skyrim and such is coming in.  Yahtzee shares my opinions for Oblivion almost word for word, so hopefully that means I'll like Skyrim more since he seems to think it's a massive improvement.

Also, if a developer can't dispose of large amounts of bugs or make interesting terrain features without the help of unpaid modders, fuck 'em.  On the other hand, if they can turn an Ork into a Loota with a Deffgun that actually operates like a 40k Deffgun, then I'm sold.

If this is any indicator, it looks like a visually pleasing game.

With it, she'll get the following games:

Castlevania II: Simons Quest (NES)

Star Tropics (NES)

Spanky's Quest (SNES)

Super Mario All-Stars (SNES)

As a bonus, she'll get a copy of Predator for the NES that I couldn't get working.  If it doesn't work she can throw it away.