is it really so addicting?

Is anything really addictive? Maybe, maybe not, but my will is weak when it comes to resisting playing this game.

You know, if I even ever wanted to not play it.

hmmm. maybe i should get myself a new graphic card and test it myself....

If you ever come up against this topic and want another way to describe it, this is what I believe to be the case:

Games aren't addictive, they're compelling. Addiction implies chemical dependency, as with drug addiction. Game compulsion can be harmful as well, of course, but (as you said), it comes down to a matter of wills with no substantial bodily forces motivating the action.

Someone doesn't know the difference between physical and psychological addiction. In the former, the body cannot function normally without the presumed drug/substance. In the latter, the person believes they need the drug/substance to function, as is the case with cigarettes or alcohol.

But nicotine and alcohol are both extremely chemically addicting drugs.

The amount of nicotine in cigarettes is negligible.

So is the amount of crack you put in a spoon. A cigarette is only a gram's worth of tobacco, how much of anything can you cram in there? What a silly counter statement. Even a small percent adds up if somebody smokes 60+ grams of tobacco a day.

I'm waiting for AMD to fix their drivers. >_<

(Yes, I know I can disable Crossfire... I don't like doing it. It screws up my monitor config and it takes 30 minutes to get it fixed each time.)

Really, another Skyrim journal, how origonal, SERIOUSLY DUDE, I've got nothing better to do than to refresh my journals page every 3 seconds and wait for a new journal and oh yeah it always has to be about Skyrim bla bla bla, generic horny furry comment here

But you kill dwagons and dwagons are sexxy and kool and I wuv them. Wibbly bibbly boo hoo.

god damn it lol

Epic game, but the controls kind of ruin the magic. :c

I've found the controls pretty simple so far, and this is coming from someone who refused to play the N64 because the controller was shaped like a fucking trident.

They're console controls though, and I want to assign more keys than allowed. I mainly use my directional/numpad for movement and hotkeys, most of the numpad is inaccessible due to forced numpad hotkeys, and closing most windows required TAB.

Oh, well I'm glad my PC isn't powerful enough for it then, haha.

I did the whole "if you can't beat 'em..." thing and bought an Xbox about a year ago now; have to say I'm becoming more at-ease with console gaming nowadays, even if the PC is still my preferred platform.

Yeah, but any Elder Scrolls game is usually 50% original/50% mods.

It is if you put up with the frequently shoddy mods.

Morrowind and Oblivion I modded myself, but 95% of all the mods I downloaded were abysmal, and another 4.95% passable at best.

I was really discerning, it makes for much better quality. :I

If you say so. :V

I was playing it on ultra on my laptop, you can prolly play this on a IBM Aptiva D:!~!!

Well bully for you, good sir. My PC is about four years old, so... Not happening.

I am saying there may be a chance! >:E ASS!

If my partner can't play it on max settings on his vastly superior PC, I doubt I can play it on even the minimum settings on mine, not that I'd even want to on settings as low as that.

Whilst I don't keep up with computers nowadays, as it's all a load of fucking bollocks, I know how specs work. X)

that's craziness!!!

So what are you playing it on anyway?

On my casio calculator, clearly.

My Xbox you goon; you even replied to my post stating I was playing it on my Xbox. X)

shadup i'm waking up and still whipping the sleepy things from my eyes ;_;

Real men play console games. 8) Like our forefathers!

How can real men play consoles if a game has to be made less to even be elligible for consoles?

Less complicated for the platform, less intricate than the thinking man wants, less technical than the working man wants.

In every aspect console gaming is a casual gaming medium, hardly for real men. Maybe new men.

Game over, real life.

Skyrim crits RL for 9999 damage.

IVE NOT SEEN YOU AROUND PERIOD!

Because I dunno :<, Ive prolly not paid to much attention to aim.

personaly im disapointed in trashing old elder scrolls system...and enchanting

become sort of like Risen/gothic , simple rpg for masses

I don't miss all the fat they cut, though some of the stuff they cut will be missed.

On the whole, I'm glad they got rid of a lot of the stuff that, frankly, was just rubbish; repairing armor/weapons, pointless stats and skills and the way in Oblivion how if you had Glass/Daedric, so did every bandit in every cave everywhere.

There are good and bad points, but on the whole it's another solidly good game.

Strange, I've got it all downloaded and ready to play on steam but not got round to it yet, is it as good as they say it is Tegu? :)

Well, in my opinion it is a very good game indeed, but I am pretty biased; I love this sort of game, the lore of TES series and I played and enjoyed Morrowind and Oblivion.

Aye I missed Morrowind but did enjoy Oblivion immensely, must clear my backlog of current games fast so I can get to this one ^^