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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |OT| Het Kos Dovahhe
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spekkeh said:
If you're only exposure to the game is through 360p YouTube videos, you'd be correct.
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I think I'm going to play as Nord named Orm Tosteson in honor of one of my favourite books, The Long Ships.
herzogzwei1989
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Heshinsi said:
congrats!
charlemagne
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My copy isn't going to arrive until next week, so I'm going to have to live vicariously through the internet until then.
So like normal.
I've learned long ago not to argue with the master race. Especially if they just spent tens of hours on geeking over a rig and spent all that money.Hawkian said:
But the xbox was the lead platform, and judging from the screenshots the main difference lies in a slightly greater drawdistance and better AA.
bitoriginal
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Managed to get this delivered a day early.
The only thing I want to say... holy shit at the sound design. The music is so good.
The only thing I want to say... holy shit at the sound design. The music is so good.
JordoftheDead
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Man, I'm exhausted... You know those time travel games? As in, start playing at 8:00 when I got home last night, my GF and I both went to different ends of the house to start playing, and I decide to check the time because I am wrecked tired... 4:45am... What the F*ck.
That said, it is now 10:00 in the morning and I'm back at it, but I eyes are so tired they are barely working.
My first impression was that it wasn't an enormous step up graphically, but then when you see the environmental and particle effects combined with the lighting and shadows it's just brilliant. There have been a few sections, particularly in some of the caves that have blown me away to look at.
No glitches in over six hours, and I'm level 7.
Girlfriend is still only level 3 in the same amount of time because she has been farting around a lot more and hasn't done as much combat.
Picked up both 360 and PS3, and I will trade back the PS3 version at EB for full value towards AC: Revelations that I was going to pick up anyway. Only compared the opening 20 minutes or so, and there seemed to be very little difference. At a push I'd probably give 360 the slight edge based upon the opening section but it's nothing to be upset over. In the interest of full disclosure, I was leaning towards 360 anyway for controller preference.
I could post comparison pics at some stage today, but they will be shitty iPhone pics so they'll probably be next to useless.
Does anyone know whether or not we can install on 360 yet? Has the texture thing been addressed? The loading isn't too bad, but my preference would still be to install it.
That said, it is now 10:00 in the morning and I'm back at it, but I eyes are so tired they are barely working.
My first impression was that it wasn't an enormous step up graphically, but then when you see the environmental and particle effects combined with the lighting and shadows it's just brilliant. There have been a few sections, particularly in some of the caves that have blown me away to look at.
No glitches in over six hours, and I'm level 7.
Girlfriend is still only level 3 in the same amount of time because she has been farting around a lot more and hasn't done as much combat.
Picked up both 360 and PS3, and I will trade back the PS3 version at EB for full value towards AC: Revelations that I was going to pick up anyway. Only compared the opening 20 minutes or so, and there seemed to be very little difference. At a push I'd probably give 360 the slight edge based upon the opening section but it's nothing to be upset over. In the interest of full disclosure, I was leaning towards 360 anyway for controller preference.
I could post comparison pics at some stage today, but they will be shitty iPhone pics so they'll probably be next to useless.
Does anyone know whether or not we can install on 360 yet? Has the texture thing been addressed? The loading isn't too bad, but my preference would still be to install it.
RebornYeti
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4 more hours of work, 8 more hours of waiting for the game. Ugh!
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spekkeh said:
And the resolution. Do you hate image quality so much? You're like at more than double the pixel density if you're playing at 1920x1080 or higher on the PC.
bitoriginal
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Lakitu said:
I've been playing installed, and textures do seem a little poor but I can't tell if thats normal or not. Got a link to a video of this texture glitch?
Just to illustrate what improvements you might see with the PC version, just take a look at the difference in between default, and with the "bTreesReceiveShadows=1" option on in the .ini file (for some reason, they don't let you turn it on in the options):
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Some things do look terrible, like the textures, but rest assured that with mods, the PC version will improve drastically over time. This is par for the course for Bethesda games.
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Some things do look terrible, like the textures, but rest assured that with mods, the PC version will improve drastically over time. This is par for the course for Bethesda games.
I thought it was common knowledge that the biggest difference by far between any game available on both will be resolution. The shots 3chopl0x posted are higher than 1080p...spekkeh said:
edit: huh, classy shadows. Are there other options like that we should be enabling in the ini?
Man, woke up this morning and played for one hour, made it to the first village, now I have to go to work 
At least I have a half day.
I killed a cow in town in the middle of the night, got a bounty, but the bounty was erased once the cow died because "all witnesses were killed." Awesome.
Then I promptly reanimated the cow with my raise zombie spell. Amazing!
At least I have a half day.I killed a cow in town in the middle of the night, got a bounty, but the bounty was erased once the cow died because "all witnesses were killed." Awesome.
Then I promptly reanimated the cow with my raise zombie spell. Amazing!
faulty_fork
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Is there something I can do early on with dragon bones and scales? I killed a dragon and it's a bit annoying to have them in my inventory since they weigh a lot.
Acheteedo
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Been playing all evening on the 360 version. The graphics were pretty disappointing at first, but they soon become truly beautiful - the choice of scenery to kick the game off is an odd one.
Man, there's so much to like about this game, it's dripping with awesome. Very much looking forward to the weekend, I've barely scratched the atoms on the surface of this thing.
Man, there's so much to like about this game, it's dripping with awesome. Very much looking forward to the weekend, I've barely scratched the atoms on the surface of this thing.
Deified Data
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Yes.zmoney said:
That is common sense, but until now nobody had posted above 1080p, so I figured it was capped at that. Being able to play it at a higher res. does give an improvement in quality. Of course the person asking wanted to play it on his hdtv so for him it's not much of an issue.Hawkian said:
bitoriginal
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Lakitu said:
Definitely not experienced this judging by your comment, I have only played for 3 hours or so though. I've installed it and it appears to be fine so far. 360 slim here.
Pollux
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Well then I might just have to play as an Argonian when I do my stealth/assassin character.Deified Data said:
Main is going to be a Nord as big as I can make him, named Beowulf, will use heavy armor with a shield and one handed weapon. He will be a pure melee character with the exception of restoration for health.
No long range and no magic.
Fuck yes. 5 hours till i'm playing this game. Can't wait.
Although depending on how awesome I can make my Argonian, then that might be my first character.
Decisions, decisions.
faulty_fork
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Yeah there's definitely some problems with texture loading on the 360, for the most part it's fine but sometimes I run into wall textures that looks like they're from a Nintendo 64 game.
DevelopmentArrested
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The music in this game is fucking incredible.
Why isn't the OST available on ITunes?
Why isn't the OST available on ITunes?
Yup.faulty_fork said:
Takamura-San
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How's the VPN process going?
Acheteedo said:
Just then I was walking a bit after dusk through a forest and arrived at a lake, covered in a bed of mist (boy do I love that effect, it's very simple but absolutely nails the image of a lake in winter), then suddenly the aurora came up and illuminated a village at the other side of the lake.
That stuff was magical.
lowhighkang_LHK
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Has there been any official comparisons between the ps3 and 360 versions. I have both consoles, and I'm pretty equal in terms of both - I have no controller preference, and trophies and achievements are both valued the same in my eyes.
Any recommendations? Generally - I feel that past Bethesda games have an edge on the 360, but I've been really enjoying using my ps3 recently (upgraded to playstation plus). All my bethesda games + NV are on 360 - so it'd be great to keep the consistency going.
Any recommendations? Generally - I feel that past Bethesda games have an edge on the 360, but I've been really enjoying using my ps3 recently (upgraded to playstation plus). All my bethesda games + NV are on 360 - so it'd be great to keep the consistency going.
Deified Data
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Do you believe they need mods to be enjoyable? That the inherent experience is sub-par? What about other games?Gvaz said:
bitoriginal
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DevelopmentArrested said:
This. So much.
Takamura-San
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That one is free and simple?loblaw said:
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