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[CrazyDude]

I'm in the ESV thread, right?

No, you're in the Mass Effect thread.

 

[CrocMother]

This may seem weird but are there any pics of what a Khajiit's hands look like from first person perspective?

 

[webrunner]

Wait until you see it..

A warhammer 40k RPG?!

 

[Gorgon]

Can anyone confirm this happens for the PS3 too? Since we have no choice but to install to the HDD.

This.

 

[weeskwee]

Has anyone been this pumped for a game in a long time? The last one I was seriously crazy gaga for was Bioshock 2....and yeah...

I only ever get this pumped for an Elder Scrolls game. After the greatness of Morrowind, I was super pumped for Oblivion. But that wasn't anywhere near as good. Now this... Skyrim looks epic. CAN'T WAIT! took the day off work.

 

[base shagohod]

Am I the only one not really thinking about the starting bonuses? I'm probably going to build my character from the class that looks the closest to the character I have in my head, regardles of starting stats. A few levels in I'll have that character bending the direction I want to play.

Right now I'm guessing wood elf, but we'll see how they look in the character creator.

Same, I'm going for looks, but that command animal power is my other reason.
Planning on setting some wolves loose on people.

 

[Izayoi]

I only ever get this pumped for an Elder Scrolls game. After the greatness of Morrowind, I was super pumped for Oblivion. But that wasn't anywhere near as good. Now this... Skyrim looks epic. CAN'T WAIT! took the day off work.

The Elder Scrolls cycle.

Same, I'm going for looks, but that command animal power is my other reason.
Planning on setting some wolves loose on people.

Is there a place that has a breakdown of all the racial skills/bonuses/starting stats/etc?

 

[Rapture]

This may seem weird but are there any pics of what a Khajiit's hands look like from first person perspective?

Im actually interested about this too, as well as if the animations for hand to hand combat are different for Khajiit.

 

[The Lamonster]

Release day delivery not available on the Prima guide from Amazon

 

[Lakitu]

I'd love to see some patch notes and a Beth comment on the HDD/disc texture issue.

I never understand when devs release a patch but don't make notes available anywhere.

I may be wrong here but I thought Nick Breckon said they would release the patch 1.1 notes?

 

[DangerStepp]

I'm in the ESV thread, right?

Yes, the EldAR Scrulls Thred.

 

[Piercedveil]

Really don't feel like reading through 13 pages anything important been discovered in the last 12 hours or so? lol

 

[Lakitu]

Really don't feel like reading through 13 pages anything important been discovered in the last 12 hours or so? lol

Main topic of discussion has been texture issues upon installing the game on 360.

 

[CrocMother]

Im actually interested about this too, as well as if the animations for hand to hand combat are different for Khajiit.

Based off a quick Google search along with my own memory the answer seems to be no.
I'm either going Khajiit or Argonian depending on the animations. I'm leaning Khajiit because the idea of my furry claws forming up spells seems really cool to me.

I know it isn't going to happen but I always felt that Bethesda could play up the beast races "animalness" a bit more. One example would be that Khajiit and Argonians could have animal-like sneak and sprint animations. Argonians could swim really fast like lizards underwater, Khajiit could have improved sprint by running on all fours, etc.

 

[KingK]

The Elder Scrolls cycle.


Is there a place that has a breakdown of all the racial skills/bonuses/starting stats/etc?

I'll quote myself from the last page

I think I've convinced myself to be a stealthy Bosmer ranger named Bloodraven on my first playthrough. I just spent like an hour trying to decide what to be, lol.

Also, once again, anyone looking for a good list of race bonuses and abilities, you can see them right here

 

[schragnasher]

Wait until you see it..

The Eldar Scrolls, made by Relic...OMG Do want.

UPDATE: Dang Beated!

 

[zlatko]

so can anyone recommend a good steam game that could last me the last few days? Im seriously jonesing for some adventure rpg type game to keep me going .

Have you played Magicka yet? That's a great downloadable title you'd have a blast with to fill up time until ES5.

 

[Dresden]

High Elf mage

name: Rincewind

will toss runes and fireballs and slaughter people with some measure of remorse

 

[GhaleonEB]

I'd love to see some patch notes and a Beth comment on the HDD/disc texture issue.

I never understand when devs release a patch but don't make notes available anywhere.

The Beth community manager posted a few days ago that we'd get patch notes around the time the game officially releases. Would be neat if they'd come out early given all the current bruhaha, but they'll be out soon enough.

 

[Dr. Ecco]

Maybe I didn't understand the leveling system correctly, but it seems to me that picking a race, aside from their corresponding racial abilities, doesn't have much of an impact beyond the first hours in the game, just like picking between a sorcerer/knight/hunter in dark souls. In other words, if I want to make a, let's say, mage orc, all I have to do is build the corresponding skills and eventually it will be as good at destruction as a high elf, right?

So many possibilities...

 

[Piercedveil]

Main topic of discussion has been texture issues upon installing the game on 360.

Thanks. Is it a big problem?

 

[dondarm]

High Elf mage

name: Rincewind

will toss runes and fireballs and slaughter people with some measure of remorse

Putting most of your points into stamina, i guess?

 

[Lakitu]

Thanks. Is it a big problem?

Not huge IMO, it's not enough for me to not install the game but I'd rather Bethesda cleared this up.

 

[CrocMother]

For a mage, I don't see any reason to pick high elf over breton.

 

[Stahsky]

Thanks. Is it a big problem?

We'll find out in a few days if it is still an issue or not

 

[webrunner]

Skyrim: Pickin' Races, Swingin' Maces

High Elf mage

name: Rincewind

will toss runes and fireballs and slaughter people with some measure of remorse

I think you mean:

Will have high running speed and not an ounce of magical ability.

 

[Piercedveil]

Not huge IMO, it's not enough for me to not install the game but I'd rather Bethesda cleared this up.

Absolutely. If it's supposed to work, it obviously should.

 

[KingK]

Maybe I didn't understand the leveling system correctly, but it seems to me that picking a race, aside from their corresponding racial abilities, doesn't have much of an impact beyond the first hours in the game, just like picking between a sorcerer/knight/hunter in dark souls. In other words, if I want to make a, let's say, mage orc, all I have to do is build the corresponding skills and eventually it will be as good at destruction as a high elf, right?

So many possibilities...

Yeah. The skill bonuses of the races are pretty much just to give you a head start in those areas. Any race can be any type of person. However, each race also has 1-2 passive abilities and 1 power that can be used once a day.

 

[Izayoi]

I'm sure that Bethesda will patch the texture issue.

I'll quote myself from the last page

Thanks dude.

 

[ironcreed]

I wonder many who have been leaking footage have their game installed? Of all the footage I have seen, I never noticed the low resolution textures one time. In fact, I just watched yet even more leaked footage and it looked fine.

 

[Piercedveil]

We'll find out in a few days if it is still an issue or not

It has already been confirmed the 1.1 patch will come on November 11th. Maybe this is one of the issues they plan to fix right away?

 

[Wallach]

For a mage, I don't see any reason to pick high elf over breton.

They both seem pretty good. 50 magicka isn't bad since I think that's about 5 levels worth of upgrading magicka, and getting 10x magicka regen for a full minute will definitely give you the ability to go nuts in a pinch. The nice thing about that is it's a broad utility that doesn't much care what you're doing with your spells or what you're fighting. You can drop that magicka regen for the purposes of heavy defense or heavy offense all the same.

Bretons are still the more defensive minded casters; you can't make use of their greater power unless you're under fire and even then by something actually dealing magic damage. Even their passive is a more narrow utility, and truthfully when it comes to TES being on the receiving end of magic damage is not really all that common. The big question is whether Dragonskin works against dragon magic. That would make it a pretty valuable defensive power.

Of course, this is mostly irrelevant considering High Elves have soft serve ice cream for haircuts. Idiots.

 

[Dresden]

Skyrim: Pickin' Races, Swingin' Maces



I think you mean:

Will have high running speed and not an ounce of magical ability.

hey I'm not roleplaying or anything man

 

[Nostalgic Nightmare]

Had a change of heart and going master race on this one. Will be starting with a Bosmer Assassin/Thief and all around creep who breaks into your homes and steals intimate objects.

 

[JohnOfMars]

Anyone got a line on video of melee combat? I found melee combat really awkward in Fallout and am really curious how it plays in Skyrim.

Actually, doesn't have to be video if someone wants to just comment on Skyrim/Oblivion melee combat.

 

[Dr. Ecco]

Yeah. The skill bonuses of the races are pretty much just to give you a head start in those areas. Any race can be any type of person. However, each race also has 1-2 passive abilities and 1 power that can be used once a day.

Thanks for the insight. I might consider building some type of crazy character like a shaman orc or a high elf juggernaut

 

[Stahsky]

It has already been confirmed the 1.1 patch will come on November 11th. Maybe this is one of the issues they plan to fix right away?

Let us hope! Curious to see if this does anything on the PC side of things.

 

[Midou]

Anyone got a line on video of melee combat? I found melee combat really awkward in Fallout and am really curious how it plays in Skyrim.

Actually, doesn't have to be video if someone wants to just comment on Skyrim/Oblivion melee combat.

Even in Oblivion it was far less awkward than in Fallout. ES games are actually built for it, while it was more thrown into Fallout. Skyrim is supposed to have an improved but not crazy different combat system.

 

[-tetsuo-]

Eldar Scrolls could quite possibly be the best game ever.

 

[CrocMother]

They both seem pretty good. 50 magicka isn't bad since I think that's about 5 levels worth of upgrading magicka, and getting 10x magicka regen for a full minute will definitely give you the ability to go nuts in a pinch. The nice thing about that is it's a broad utility that doesn't much care what you're doing with your spells or what you're fighting. You can drop that magicka regen for the purposes of heavy defense or heavy offense all the same.

Bretons are still the more defensive minded casters; you can't make use of their greater power unless you're under fire and even then by something actually dealing magic damage. Even their passive is a more narrow utility, and truthfully when it comes to TES being on the receiving end of magic damage is not really all that common. The big question is whether Dragonskin works against dragon magic. That would make it a pretty valuable defensive power.

Of course, this is mostly irrelevant considering High Elves have soft serve ice cream for haircuts. Idiots.

Whenever I have played mage, I never come close to running out of Magicka, and on the rare occasion I come close I always have a stockpile of potions. True, it is rare that enemies use Magicka on you but the ones that do tend to be really powerful.

I'm pretty sure that dragon magic is just magic, based off the fact that there are frost dragons, lightning dragons etc.

 

[BoobPhysics101]

Eldar Scrolls could quite possibly be the best game ever.

Uh, which one? Or did you forget that it's a series in your rush to shit out some hyperbole?

 

[Piercedveil]

Let us hope! Curious to see if this does anything on the PC side of things.

Also wondering that, since that is the version I am getting!

 

[EviLore]

Eldar Scrolls could quite possibly be the best game ever.

Until Witch Hunters Scrolls comes out, that is.

 

[Blue Ninja]

Man, Notch is gonna get sued over and over and over again.

 

[stuminus3]

Uh, which one? Or did you forget that it's a series in your rush to shit out some hyperbole?

Did you just read the most recent post or something? >.<

Eldar Scrolls is not a series. It doesn't even exist.

 

[Echoplx]

Uh, which one? Or did you forget that it's a series in your rush to shit out some hyperbole?

hahahaha, missed the joke

 

[darkpaladinmfc]

Uh, which one? Or did you forget that it's a series in your rush to shit out some hyperbole?

He's talking about Eldar Scrolls Vee, duh.

 

[Piercedveil]

Man, Notch is gonna get sued over and over and over again.

Poor Notch.

 

[-tetsuo-]

Uh, which one? Or did you forget that it's a series in your rush to shit out some hyperbole?

I've missed installments? God damnit.

Until Witch Hunters Scrolls comes out, that is.

Top hats > Space Elves? I thinks not, good sir.

 

[Rapture]

Based off a quick Google search along with my own memory the answer seems to be no.
I'm either going Khajiit or Argonian depending on the animations. I'm leaning Khajiit because the idea of my furry claws forming up spells seems really cool to me.

I know it isn't going to happen but I always felt that Bethesda could play up the beast races "animalness" a bit more. One example would be that Khajiit and Argonians could have animal-like sneak and sprint animations. Argonians could swim really fast like lizards underwater, Khajiit could have improved sprint by running on all fours, etc.

Ah i agree, that would be awesome. I also play as beast races because i love the hate you get from some of the NPCs lol.