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Elder Scrolls V Skyrim is by far the best RPG I’ve ever played, but also by far the most annoying and unplayable at times RPG I’ve played.  Let talk about the goods first!  Skyrim is gorgeous in regarding to its level of details.  Every object, however big or small in the game, from a bowl to a mountain, the details are overwhelming and extraordinary.  Skyrim isn’t hard to play, but it does take one to play enough hours before one fully becoming addicted to the game.  How come?  It’s starting out slow and with very little tutorial to begin with.  Then again, it’s so simple to play, but too simple to a point that requires gamers to experiment to figure out how simple it is.  How ironic, isn’t it?  Skyrim is also fun to play since you can do almost anything and go anywhere within the game.  The map is so large that gets your jaw drops wide open.  So far, I had joined the Companion and acquired werewolf power/form.  I suspect I cannot get bore with this game until I truly finish it, and even then I’ll poke around with Skyrim’s landscapes for some picturesque moments.

The bad of Skyrim is that it’s glitchy!  At the moment, I’m stuck at the part where I’m being pursued by Vilkas every second and a menu would pop up to pause my gaming process, because Vilkas wants to say “We’re going to make them pay!”  This is also the part where Vilkas has to follow me to finish a quest known as Purity of Revenge.  So, the glitch began when a guard wanted to arrest me, but I ran into the Companion sanctuary within Whiterun.  Inside the Companion sanctuary, the guard started to attack me but the Companion fellows attacked the guard which led to more guards came in and attacked more Companion fellows.  I went crazy and used a fire explosion scroll (don’t remember of the scroll name) which exploded and killed all the guards and some Companion fellows.  This led to Vilkas turned on me and wanted to kill me, but instead of killing me, he pursued me everywhere and wanted to talk to me which prompted the glitchy menu to pop up every second.  (Update:  Someone suggests that by following the guard’s order to take up jail time, the glitch will end, but I’ve found out that this isn’t the case.  I guess, the glitch goes on for now!)

The glitch got worse at one time that I had to laugh out loud.  So, I got pretty much fed up at this point since Skyrim was unplayable with stupid Vilkas bothered me and pursued me pointlessly, I picked pocket a woman in Whiterun.  Instead of calling for a guard, she would let me picked pocket her and then ran up the stairs a little repeatedly.  Eventually she would ran to a guard and asked for help but a male bystander would pull out a sword and smacked her to death with it.  I laughed hysterically, because the artificial intelligence of Skyrim at this point was anything but sane.  I slowly came up to the corpse of the woman who lay on the cold ground and stripped her belongings, and this was the last occasion of picked pocket of this unfortunate woman if you considered taking things from a dead corpse was picked pocket.

After putting in a substantial amount of time into Skyrim, it was and is finally unplayable.  Can I have my $60 back?  I love Skyrim, but hate it for the glitch.  I don’t feel like to restart the game from beginning or even roll back to previous saved points!  Too much time I’d invested in Skyrim already!  For your information, I’m experiencing a glitch with Skyrim on PS3 console, and so I can’t comment how glitchy Skyrim would be on other consoles and game platforms.  I wonder could Skyrim developers release a fix somehow over the Internet to PS3 so I can continue my Skyrim quests?  For now, I hold my breath on this!

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