On Skyrim

Oh, what a wonderful game, oh, what agony it can create! Having gotten a PS3 on Christmas for the family, I also bought the season's "best" games and almost instantly got hooked on Skyrim, a dungeon and dragons game, the 5th from the series of Elder Scrolls games which include Morrowind and Oblivion.

After getting used to the Playstation controller, it was a few years back that I played my last console game from Sony, it was quite an awesome experience to see how far game development has evolved in the meantime. Actually, Skyrim in particular has gone so far that it reach a point where the standard PS3 hardware can no longer follow all the calculations needed to keep up with the game progress. And the consequence, the game crashed, the file system on the Playstation corrupted, and Skyrim reached the point of being unplayable.

Oh, the agony! Now the waiting began, will Bethesda come out with a fix? And when? Will it work? And what if not? I don't want to list all the things that went through my head, but I sure was very disappointed by the game makers. Not so much that the games bad, but more about the lack of testing and the willingness to release a bugged product. I would ever dare to operate on such a low level!

Well, in the end the fix came and things have greatly improved, I had since then many great battles with beasts of all kinds, plus the occasional human target! All is well in Skyrim Land, you ask? Not really, but I came to accept the rare instances when the game still crashed and forces me to restore the file and database systems, although each time I hold my breath and pray that I don't have to start again from the beginning.

So what does slaying dragons teach us then? I would say patience and appreciation for what we have (that works)!