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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim |OT| Het Kos Dovahhe
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AlphaDragoon
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Why can't it be midnight in Arizona already? 
Stupid Steam unlock.
Stupid Steam unlock.
HP_Wuvcraft
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SilentProtagonist said:
Advantage:
Being awesome.
OrangeYouGlad
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Someone said it was in the Magic window. This is all I know.MrBig said:
Linearskillz
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I can confirm that TheNiX is THE MAN!TheNiX said:
Been playing the last 3 hours, fucking awesome game... once you get over the retarded mouse accel/smoothing/y-axis sensitivity nonsense.
I'm engaged but not really enthusiastic about what I'm playing so far. I don't really feel the improvements in Skyrim really play to Bethesda's strengths, or the reason I enjoyed Elder Scrolls games previously. Never wanted quests to be more cinematic and "stand around waiting for the script to play out."
As mentioned, I can't actually play this game with keyboard and mouse, because Bethesda decided to "reserve" the entire numpad and prevent the keys from being rebinded. And I'm left-handed, so that screws me. But would I even want to play with the keyboard if I could? The interface is tremendously gamepad-centric.
Graphically, it looks old and haggard, and it's a very incremental step up from Oblivion.
The crafting stuff's nice and involved.
Magic seems obscenely powerful right from the get-go, but the effects are a nice step up from previous ES games.
Loot seems extremely level-appropriate at all times except for things in display cases, so I'm assuming drops are scaled very heavily.
As mentioned, I can't actually play this game with keyboard and mouse, because Bethesda decided to "reserve" the entire numpad and prevent the keys from being rebinded. And I'm left-handed, so that screws me. But would I even want to play with the keyboard if I could? The interface is tremendously gamepad-centric.
Graphically, it looks old and haggard, and it's a very incremental step up from Oblivion.
The crafting stuff's nice and involved.
Magic seems obscenely powerful right from the get-go, but the effects are a nice step up from previous ES games.
Loot seems extremely level-appropriate at all times except for things in display cases, so I'm assuming drops are scaled very heavily.
HP_Wuvcraft
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klee123 said:
I give it a week.
Did Oblivion or Fallout 3 pull up a prompt for difficulties at some point? Don't remember. Skyrim doesn't seem to, at least for the opening few bits. I went in the options and changed it manually. Remember to do that for those of you who want to change the difficulty, unless it does end up prompting you after the opening.
-WindYoshi-
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OrangeYouGlad
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It can be if you use the VPN.AlphaDragoon said:Why can't it be midnight in Arizona already?
Stupid Steam unlock.
CrocMother
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Can anyone playing the game tell me how easy it is to switch from one-hand magic to one-hand unarmed?
Is it the same as switching to a sword?
Is it the same as switching to a sword?
EviLore said:
"stand around waiting for the script to play out" That doesn't sound good.
The graphics look a lot better than Oblivion from the screenshots. Are those pretty much bullshots then?
I hope someone mods the interface quickly because it sucked from what I saw in the trailers. So obviously console designed.
Complistic
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TheNiX said:
Tempting as hell and I know I'd never get in trouble with steam, but I just can't risk anything with the number of games I have on there.
The Technomancer
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This game isn't Steamworks, right? Just sold on Steam?
BlazingDarkness
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sp3000 said:
Visually it's like Oblivion with mods
A complete mixed bag
Fusion Pizza
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Piercedveil said:
Thank you, Based Amazon.
Ditto
The Technomancer
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Kk was discussing it with my roomate and wasn't sure.Wallach said:
Baraka in the White House
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Sooo, I peeked over in the Skyrim PC tweaking thread and I'm gathering that the game's not terribly optimized at all. Sounds like some people with mid level rigs are steamrolling the game while monster machines are having issues. Is this an accurate assessment? I've got a Phenom II Quad Core and a GTX 470 with 8 gigs RAM but I really don't want to have to do a lot of tweaking before digging into the game.
BlazingDarkness said:
Well, does it look worse than Oblivion with mods? Oblivion with high resolution textures and LOD actually looked good, other than the low poly models.
It looks like they are just using a recycled Gamebryo and calling it by another name for marketing purposes.
Franklinator
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syllogism said:
That guy is a master thief. I plan to use his teachings to my advantage
Pollux
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EviLore said:
Honestly they look much better IMO, but that's just me and from what I've seen on screen shots. Heading to gamestop in 2 hours to pick up my copy so I'll let you know then (360). Where you expecting anything different it's the same hardware?
They could have had the same graphics as Oblivion but redone the character models and art direction and put in more hand crafted dungeons and better level scaling and I would have been thrilled.
This is an honest question for PC gamers, I've never played a game on PC before just consoles, but why is there such an uproar over textures and things like that? I mean I get that you want the game to look good, but why let a game that has pretty good graphics be "ruined", so to speak, just because the texture package doesn't live up to your expectations? (I'm really not trying to troll)
OrangeYouGlad
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Offline mode after decrypting. They'll never know.Complistic said:
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