Elder Scrolls SKYRIM

[jenova_9]

Most excited gaming crowd ever?

Oh ya TES IV is very good, and TES V looks to be mew mew better!

(and I did a search for Skyrim, I'm surprised no one made topic yet.)

[Neverslip]

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Skyrim is too big of an idea for a topic.

[DakAttack]

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I've yet to get my hands on it, but I hear good things about it.

[Raydeus]

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Oh ya modded TES IV is very awesome +1, and TES V looks to be mew mew better!

What J9 said.





PS > Steam preorder ftw.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I have a hard time believing J9 has the capacity to play a TES game.

Then again it does have cat people in it, but I've yet to see one go "mew."

[Icemage]

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I have a hard time believing J9 has the capacity to play a TES game.

Then again it does have cat people in it, but I've yet to see one go "mew."

I lol'd.

Also, what happened to King of Fighters XIII being the best game in the history of history?

P.S. I'd rather play Skyrim for 100 hours than KoF13 for 1.


Icemage

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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To be fair, KoF XIII does have the 4-disc CD soundtrack going for it - hats off to Atlus for making that happen. It has, at the very least made it another Atlus-published game I'll pick up this year. I find it curious SNK Playmore had to go through them, though.

As for playing it - not sure. I'd probably end up playing SFIII Third Strike Online Edition, SSFIV AE and UMVC3 more this year.

Personally, though, I'm looking forward to SF X Tekken and SCV more. I'm just hoping with SCV that Project Soul got it through their thick skulls to pick up where SCII arcade Ver. F left off, drop the idiotic story mode and reintegrate SCIII's create-a-character system.

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As for Skyrim, its looking pretty good and dumping the previous engines will likely do the game a world of good considering Morrowind and Oblivion ran on fairly similar engines.

People complain about the skill-up system in Oblivion, but its really the magic skill-ups that are painful, not anything else. It made enchantments and spellmaking a real pain in the ass in Morrowind (and Morrowind's penchant for crashing while you wore more than one CE item made the game in general a crushing disappointment), but Oblivion alleviated it somewhat with the Sigil Stones (well that and CE was scaled back a bit, but at least Oblivion didn't ritually crash).

Dragon Shouts in Skyrim seem to be their own kind of magic and a potential middle-ground for the skill-up system for magic. though I do hope they improve how characters skill up magic and grow their manapools anyway, because it was still a pretty miserable experience in Oblivion.

I capped out Stealth and neared the top of Marksman after three guild quest archs and the Oblivion arch, but my magic is still all below the 50s and my best curative spell that I can use is still Night Mother's Caress as I have started the Shivering Isles and still have jack for MP.

Also, I'm hoping they really do make good on the promise to avoid doing add-ons and instead focus on proper expansions. Cuz Knights of the Nine is fairly uninteresting compared to the quests that came with the game. I'm glad it came with the 5th anniversary edition, because I certainly wouldn't have paid money for that add-on by itself.

[jenova_9]

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Well I admit I exaggerated about KOFXIII, but the arcade version is already much better than any fighting game Capcom has made. And the home version will be even better! And what the mew? You only give KOFXIII and Atlus some respect just because of the 4 CD soundtrack offer? Did you even bother to research KOFXIII's superior gameplay over other fighting games?

I have a hard time believing J9 has the capacity to play a TES game.

Then again it does have cat people in it, but I've yet to see one go "mew."

MEW!!!! I played TESIII and TESIV very long time! I especially liked TESIV a lot.

TES is kind of like single player mmorpgs in a way, with more freedom and real-time combat and stuff.

And Knights of the Nine was the best DLC. For a DLC expansion it really is a interesting and rewarding quest and nice characters you meet too.

[Icemage]

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And Knights of the Nine was the best DLC. For a DLC expansion it really is a interesting and rewarding quest and nice characters you meet too.

Shivering Isles was better and more useful. Knights of the Nine had that same formulaic go-here-do-that-kill-this quest setup, and while there was indeed some interesting characterization, you just don't get to see the Knights long enough to care much about them or their various sob stories.

At least with Shivering Isles you got something that helps you tangibly, instead of a suit of armor that falls off of you if you accidentally hit an innocent bystander with a fireball.


Icemage

[pxch]

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I am very interested in this game. I am a fan from when it was first launched back in 001/02 in there some where. I have followed the expansions and now waiting to get the game now. I have heard they changed the engine though. What significant changes will that make to the game?.

[Icemage]

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I am very interested in this game. I am a fan from when it was first launched back in 001/02 in there some where. I have followed the expansions and now waiting to get the game now. I have heard they changed the engine though. What significant changes will that make to the game?.

Well from what anyone can tell from the hands-on impressions and trailers, giving the Gamebryo-derived engine that ran Oblivion the boot gets rid of the perma-ugly people. It also will hopefully make it a more stable engine instead of the lock-up-if-you-sneeze-at-it-too-hard thing that Oblivion ran on.

In other words: Better game stability (hopefully), better graphics (definitely), and hopefully more streamlined gameplay because of fewer technical restrictions.


Icemage

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Man, I never thought I'd have to find sea legs for faces, but Oblivion really shows me you had to get used to everyone's head being stretched one inhuman way or the other. Ii made the Argonians and Khajit look more normal by contrast. The other races needed to be punched in the face as that might actually be an improvement for them.

At least now I can make a female character and not have to put a bag on her head. I know we're still going to have Lynda Carter voicing like 75% of all women, but I'll gladly take NPCs looking human and being more varied in exchange for that. Not that Lynda was doing a bad job or anything, it just gets sort of boring having everyone sound the same, but I accept they don't want to have to pay even more actors. Patrick Stewart probably cost big in Oblivion and his character was dead in like the first thirty minutes.

I do hope they get rid of those "homeless man with the golden voice" moments, though. Some beggar with a cockney accent asks for a coin, but when I ask him about the Prophet and he's got a face for radio all of the sudden. Its just too bipolar for me to handle. I think they could spare the time to get the guy doing the cockney accent to read those lines, right?

My other hope is that there's lots of little towns given they're kinda downsizing from the Oblivion's eight cities to five. I get it aesthetically. Mountain regions aren't going to host a lot of robust cities, but a smattering of reasonable sized towns should be there.

I'm damn glad they got rid of those invisible walls on the mountains, though.

[Raydeus]

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Bethesda's games + Mods = Awesomeness +1

You could play the games without them but modded Fallout and Oblivion were just too good.

And Bethesda is smart enough to understand mods were a very big reason why their games were that successful so I'm expecting some nice modding tools to be released along with the game (at least for PC.)

[DakAttack]

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Hopefully it can load more than one data file at a time.

[jenova_9]

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new trailer? lots of choir stuff and some gameplay.