So, Skyrim's out 11/11/11

[Thenryb]

[quote='Treesh' pid='191417' dateline='1321154800']
Why are people so annoyed with it being on Steam? I like it. I like having digital copies of this stuff instead of always having to fight with discs.

I agree with not having to bother with discs. I never sell my games as used games but if I wanted to sell my Fallout New Vegas disc, for example, it would be worthless since it is registered to me no one else could play it on Steam even offline. As to Skyrim itself, I find some things really confusing such as assigning perks. Every time I level up I get some message about the number of perks which are now unlocked but have no clue in how to choose one. I can scroll through the various perks, some of which my character does not have the levels required to select but even for those he does (eg "barbarian") there seems to be no way to select it. I push on the mouse key and it just scrolls to the next perk. I definitely do not like the inability to assign various weapons to hotkeys. To switch you have to hit "Q" and scroll down your list of "favorites" with your somewhat unresponsive mouse. I suppose the controls are an example of the game being "consolized" (yet another new word I have just come across).

I was thinking of starting a new character and feared that what Treesh said would be true-no way to bypass the introduction. That is so annoying. That same thing was true in Mass Effect 2. The writers are so proud of their work that they think we all need to watch it multiple times. I have been playing Fallout New Vegas. Each of the DLCs as well as the main game has a lengthy introduction and epilogue which cannot be bypassed and which is extremely tiresome.