No, I'm not playing Fallout 4. It's Fallout: London. And I'm probably not playing that either.

How are you doing? I see on the fanfic site you talked about not being well

i've seen your review for borderlands 1 and i have to say you said it all buddy. there is something special about borderlands 1 that i can't put my fingers on. i love everything about it.even it's clunky gunplay. still i find my self playing it more than borderlands 2 or other entries.

Please note that my Half-Life 1 total is not accurate. Some glitch is registering me as playing Half-Life 1 whenever I play ESO or some other games. Sigh. But it's a false record.

Thank You, you must be a most wonderful girl in the world !!!

But what she's REALLY like to do is tell Akatosh to take his "blessing" and shove it where the light never shines. She hates virtually every frigging moment of being Dragonborn, especially after she discovers to her horror that a part of her actually LIKES to kill and injure people, a part she never suspected she had and wishes she had never discovered. And that was the start of 120,000 words of fanfic that went all the way to her granddaughter in the end. It was a fun journey, and I may be on it again some day. But not right now.

Oh, in all that time I never once played the Stormcloak side. The Imperials weren't perfect but they ended up the default case. What I really wish the game had had was a "screw you, I'm taking the whole damn thing" option like Fallout: New Vegas, where you get to kick everyone else out and run the place yourself. She might have gotten into that.

Sorry I haven't looked at this comments list for a long time....Well, Skyrim. Basically I was roleplaying a lot of the time even though it is a single-player game. I like to do "what if"s and I got annoyed with the Skyrim trailer and its very, very generic Dragonborn. Perhaps I'm not being fair to the guy -- maybe he embroiders or buids ships inside bottles in his spare time -- but he struck me as a huge yawn, the Dragonbore. So I replaced him with a paranoid, self-doubting, angsty teenager from High Rock, on a horse-stealing expedition that's gone very wrong, who suddenly finds that first she's up for a very short haircut and then she's expected to save the world..... [what kind of an idiot has a 1000 character limit and NO COUNTER??]

5k hours in skyrim? what things do u do to play that game so much

Just wanted to say thanks for updating the review and being so fair with it. I'm glad you were able to enjoy the game in some sense in the end. I agree completely that I wish we had found a way to minimize the heavy handedness. I am remastering it for console / VR as well as an updated PC version and I hope to make some adjustments in the right direction. Thank you again!

Hi Adzkotter! It's just, I suppose, that I get a feeling from games when I begin to play them, and it isn't a matter of reason. I just disliked Borderlands 2 when I began to play it, and that's that. I would never give it a bad review; it's an entirely personal thing. The same happens in the Elder Scrolls series. I like Oblivion, Skyrim, and ESO, but for some reason I can't abide Morrowind. It isn't because of the relative age of the game; hell, I still play Doom now and again. It's just.... something I can't put my finger on. Again, I would never call my reaction rational or criticize Morrowind because of it. But, it's there.

nice reviews ,halfly agry on ESO,hope ull get better ,see u around

I came across your review of Borderlands and saw that you had 1100+ hours logged on it and I was curious to see how may hours you had on Borderlands 2 and was a bit shocked to see that it was under an hour. I'm curious why you obviously love the first game but don't seem to be interested in the sequel? (apologies for the unsolicitated post, feel free to ignore/delete if offending)

Elementary, my dear Watson. Poor to very poor health, which gives me the time, and a tendency to beat games to death if I like them. Plus a partner who's even crazier about gaming than I am (I use mods; she writes them). Add a few of my own story lines in the Elder Scrolls universe -- I write fanfic -- and there's enough there to keep me for a while.

WTF idk how i came across u on steam but oh my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ god u have ALOT of hours played.

(one paragraph. pfft.)

And the game cheats. Or perhaps better, it makes free use of exploits. By this I mean it violates ordinary rules and expectations to give itself an advantage. Clipping issues are the most blatant contenders for the Hall of Shame here. You can be hit by projectiles even if you are behind ten feet of stone. Forget about using cover: both enemies and their weapons seem set on permanant noclip. I had a guy jump on me THROUGH a stone pillar once. If he'd been strong enough to knock the pillar down, that would have been my bad luck, but letting him casually noclip through it is cheating. No other word for it.

(continued, and thanks again, Valve, for insulting your customers by assuming they can't write more than two paragaphs and make sense)

There are no boss battles, per se, in Elder Scrolls games. Yes, there are powerful enemies you have to deal with, but they aren't turned into gatekeepers. Often, they are trivialized, as anyone who has faced Alduin with a Level 80 character can testify. There are absolutely no battles of the sort that are unfortunately common in ESO, the painfully artificial two-scorpions-in-a-jar style that depends on nothing but relative DPS. These don't advance the story line; they block it. On top of that, most of them have been very poorly designed. Some are almost impossible to beat unless you have a particular build or go into the battle ten levels higher than recommended. Some are so gimmicked-up that their replay value is virtually nil. And most force you to fight alone, with the help, perhaps, of some of gaming's most incompetent and inept NPCs.

Well, so much for Elder Scrolls Online.

It's a beautiful game, there is a ton of things to do, the bugs are steadily being beaten out of it (I thought the gold bots would kill it, but one day they found the magic bullet and most are now gone), and crashes are only occasional now. The only thing wrong with it is the game design. And unfortunately, I think the error is fatal.

All of the design problems, I would contend, come from trying to bend the game to the wishes, or what they think are the wishes, of MMO players. I am a story player. Combat is a bore, and "achievements" something worse than a bore. I want a world that I can wander in and explore, and one where I have to do something breathtakingly stupid to get killed. Getting yourself killed half a dozen times to work out how to defeat a boss is inane. It's a fantasy game, I know. But death as a research tool is so stupid that it casts a pall over the whole exercise.

Thinking again about Gone Home, I have to conclude that the developers did venture on one too many gambles in assuming players would know all the background. I am finding that a lot of younger players don't understand that given the policies at the time (mid-1990s), if Lonnie joins the military, that's the end of her relationship with Sam, period exclamation mark. The official policy of "don't ask, don't tell" usually ended up as just "don't." That's all changed now, but the changes are too recent to be taught as "history," so ironically they tend to get forgotten.

(And thanks, Valve, for the 1000 character limit on comments.... and no character counter. *bangs head on desk*)

I haven't done any multiplayer recently since I and my fiance more or less beat our favorite mutiplayer games to death a couple of years back, and they got stale (we first met in Left 4 Dead). But we may be getting back into online multiplayer when Elder Scrolls Online is released. Our objection to games like WoW is that you need to have too many people together at the same time to make them practical. Neither of us likes to play in a mob. But it is rumored that Elder Scrolls Online will be small-group and even single-player friendly, and if it is, we may disappear into that for another couple of thousand hours.We're both reasonably familiar with the enormous mass of Elder Scrolls lore.... nearly twenty years of it now.....and I even write fanfiction for it.... not particularly good fanfiction.... but it's a way to practice writing.....

Read your review on Gone Home. Basically everything I wanted to say but couldn't in such a short space. Very impressed! You seem like a super cool person, too; do you ever do multiplayer gaming?

It appears that Dawnguard has now been patched to the extent that it won't destroy your Skyrim experience. Dragonborn is relatively bug-free, and much richer than Dawnguard, though the chief villain is just as naff.

Dawnguard is to be avoided. I found it more interesting than reviews had indicated, but FAR more buggy. If you want your Skyrim crashing every ten minutes, Dawnguard is the way to go.

Not yet. Vampires don't appeal to me and it seems to be especially buggy. I'm waiting for the Christmas sales.

SPSMI Skyrim house mod: Do you have the Dawnguard DLC installed?

Hi dude !

Pie is good... except for cow pies, lol.

That was a very foolish thing to say.

i will find you and kill you

hey tell black fox im sorry for what ever i did

Love you too, hugbundle <3

I love you garybear <3

Well... having over 8 gigs of memory to play with instead of less than 4 does make a difference.... it REDUCES the number of unexplained crashes in NV quite a bit.... but on the other hand, Windows 7 sound management is screwed up..... it won't use some ports at all and the general level is way too soft..... with no option to turn it up..... apparently in the Windows 7 world no one is crass enough to use headphones; they all have quadrophonic sound systems. Dickwads.

Installing Windows 7..... going about as I expected... in other words, half a dozen inexplicable screwups so far.... Windows telling me to plug my headphones into a port that doesn't exist.... f'ing bunch of braindead losers.....

Actually my dear its me posting a comment on your page so...I love you more then life its self...<3 my garybear...

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200,000 Yay!

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100, 000 kills in L4D2! Woot!