Skyrim wins Spike VGA awards despite PlayStation glitch

[Jazzy]

The fantasy role-playing game, Skyrim, has won the top prize at the prestigious Spike Video Game Awards.



The Game of the Year title was voted for by senior writers at 25 news organisations including Wired and IGN.



The decision has been criticised on some internet forums because of bugs which appeared to be particularly problematic in the PlayStation version.



Skyrim's developers said they were working on a solution and asked for patience.



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Skyrim is the fifth instalment in the Elder Scrolls series. The open world game has an estimated 300 hours of playtime during which the gamer explores a huge landscape, fights dragons and other beasts and pursues quests.



Critics have praised its sense of scale and atmosphere, but have highlighted technical glitches.



Nevertheless, Bethesda Game Studios was named studio of the year and won the Best RPG (role-playing game) award in addition to the top prize at the weekend's ceremony in California.



The news has created a backlash on some gaming blogs with users complaining the title is unfinished and broken.



Gamers have complained of dragons flying backwards, spells not working as they should and computer crashes.



However, user-feedback suggested that the biggest problem was that the game slowed down to the point it became unplayable on the PlayStation 3 as players progressed through the title.



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Games review website IGN said a poll of its readers suggested about a third of PS3 owners who had the title were experiencing issues with lag.



Full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16136691



Question: Are any of you playing this game experiencing glitches? If so, what's happening?

 

[The Dragon Master]

Other than my game randomly crashing sometimes, nope not many massive glitches like Dragon's flying backwards XD Then again I play on PC, and as far as I can tell, the PC version might be the least glitch-y version. But that's only due to my personal experience.

 

[Jazzy]

The open world game has an estimated 300 hours of playtime during which the gamer explores a huge landscape, fights dragons and other beasts and pursues quests.

Just wondering for those playing, how many hours have you played so far?

 

[The Dragon Master]

Just wondering for those playing, how many hours have you played so far?

Uhhh... 92

 

[Jazzy]

Uhhh... 92

How long have you had the game?

 

[Evil Eye]

Question: Are any of you playing this game experiencing glitches? If so, what's happening?

Well, the game has frozen a couple times and opening Steam while in dialogue makes it impossible to get out, but other than that it's been pretty stable.

Just wondering for those playing, how many hours have you played so far?

Only 48, I've been slacking

 

[The Dragon Master]

How long have you had the game?

Since the 11th November. I got it the day it came out XD

 

[Cranos]

The game crashed a few times, nothing more. Weird really, the game was made for consoles in the first place yet the PC version does not have many problems. Certainly not compared to the Fallout games... Yikes those were annoying...

 

[Driver]

I'm 120+ hours into my game, and i've had to just put it to the side for the time being. Its got to the point where you play 30 minutes or so and the entire game just freezes up on you.