Let the Bodies Hit the Floor
by Scott Hardie on October 14, 2006
Damn it. After The Sims 2, I'm not ready for another glitch to ruin a game. Elder Scrolls IV has always been a little buggy, tending to lock up my Xbox when it gets too excited for instance. But now I've saved a glitch into the game and it can't be undone. Late in the fighter's guild quests is a mission where you need to discover a corpse in a cave to proceed. Trouble is, if you enter the cave early in the game as I did, the corpse will appear then, and corpses vanish after three days of game time, so it's gone by the time you need it in the quest. I was relieved to discover a patch, even if I would have to subscribe to Xbox Live to download it, until I read the disclaimer: The patch doesn't affect saved games in which the problem already occurred, only saves from before your first visit to the cave. Well shit, if I have to go back to before my first visit to the cave, what would the patch even achieve? That would require me to re-do two months of daily playing. So much for completing that leg of the game. Friggin' great.
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