Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[mmhmm]

omg jock's been playing this ALLLLLL weekend.
and talking about it that even i remember the
name of the game. i love how he gets so
super excited.

i told him to go find/build/or whatever you do in the
game and name it after me.

 

[Matt_s]

Not much of a gamer these days but I got all excited for this. I went down to the gamestop and they were sold out. They directed me to the crappy gamestop in the bad neighborhood. I pedaled my way down there and they had a whole box. Played all day today. I hadn't played the previous elder scrolls so the controls are still taking some getting used to. I hated it for a while but it's growing on me. I'm constantly sort of lost but I like sneaking up on animals with my bow and arrow.

 

[Rail Tracer]

Don't care so much for MW3, but I am liking Skyrim.

That is probably saying a lot, especially when RPGs have been kind of lacking. Could probably spend all of my free time on Skyrim.

In fact, probably the only game this year where I felt like it was actually a very great game.

Big world and a VERY long game (if played correctly.) I mean, holy, I am not even playing the main storyline right now.

 

[Eruca]

omg jock's been playing this ALLLLLL weekend.
and talking about it that even i remember the
name of the game. i love how he gets so
super excited.

i told him to go find/build/or whatever you do in the
game and name it after me.

Let him enchant a mighty blade with the power to suck out souls.

And call it mmhmm.

So many of my steam friends are playing skyrim. It truly is an excellent game. With Batman, that is two excellent singleplayer releases in a row!

 

[Jaq]

Rented it and loving it!!!1

 

[Craft]

I think Skyrim and Oblivion have too much breadth and not enough depth. The story, I hear, is really long but I prefer my characters to be "fat" than "many."

 

[mmhmm]

Let him enchant a mighty blade with the power to suck out souls.

And call it mmhmm.

omg there better be such a thing!
i want that! it would be so wonderful.
and here i was thinking about jock
making me a library in his game home
and naming it after me. "the mmhmm wing"

 

[Words of Ivory]

Ah, this the thread that I was looking for!

Being the insatiable video game nerd that I am, Skyrim was right at the top of my list this year. Picked it up day one, and I've been enjoying it immensely. The emergent quest design makes for some really interesting quests and scenarios, and the world itself is stunning. They have the atmosphere and setting down perfectly.

I've been an Elder Scrolls fan since the original Arena game, and I couldn't be happier with the end results of this. It was everything I expected and more.

What kind of class have you guys been building for yourselves?

So far, my high elf has been levelling swiftly towards a focused ranger class, with restorative and defensive magic abilities. I've always had a fondness for rangers.

 

[KDude]

So far, my high elf has been levelling swiftly towards a focused ranger class, with restorative and defensive magic abilities. I've always had a fondness for rangers.

I can't resist playing a Nord. The setting is somewhat tailored for it.

 

[jixmixfix]

Screw skyrim im looking to see what they can do with the fallout series with this engine, not really a fan of orcs and elves.

 

[KDude]

Screw skyrim im looking to see what they can do with the fallout series with this engine, not really a fan of orcs and elves.

Is the engine that different? I thought it might've shared more technology with it than not.

I'm not the biggest fan of orcs and elves either (but I do like a lot of fantasy stuff). What I'm really a fan of though is chopping off heads. Guns are boring.

 

[Blank]

How is the leveling in this game? The one thing that really upset me about Oblivion was that leveling up your "preferred" skills was actually detrimental to becoming a badass.

OH HAY I'M A LEVEL 13 THIEF THAT TAKES 1000 HITS TO KILL A WRAITH BECAUSE I ACTUALLY LEVELED MY CLASS SKILLS.

 

[Orangey]

How is the leveling in this game? The one thing that really upset me about Oblivion was that leveling up your "preferred" skills was actually detrimental to becoming a badass.

OH HAY I'M A LEVEL 13 THIEF THAT TAKES 1000 HITS TO KILL A WRAITH BECAUSE I ACTUALLY LEVELED MY CLASS SKILLS.

There's no little screen that asks you to pick a class, so you can pretty much just level up whatever skills you want without any added weighting.

 

[Words of Ivory]

Is the engine that different? I thought it might've shared more technology with it than not.

I'm not the biggest fan of orcs and elves either (but I do like a lot of fantasy stuff). What I'm really a fan of though is chopping off heads. Guns are boring.

Yeah, it's a completely new engine. It looks better, it runs smother, and there are a lot of significant changes to the UI. There are more physics in play in the game world as well, making combat feel a lot meatier and (to use a vastly overused word) visceral.

The game comes with copious amounts head-chopping, you'll also be glad to know.

How is the leveling in this game? The one thing that really upset me about Oblivion was that leveling up your "preferred" skills was actually detrimental to becoming a badass.

As Orangey said, there are no classes this time around. The levelling itself has been seriously overhauled, and streamlined significantly from Oblivion. You can now level up using whatever skills you want, but every skill has it's own talent tree of sorts.

The more points you have in a particular skill, the better the "perks" you can unlock for those skills. These give you completely unique abilities, such as an archery skill that slows down time and improves your chances or critical hits with a bow and arrow, or an armour skill that allow you to avoid damage 10% of the time.

To get the best abilities though, you have to specialise, so even without a dedicated class system, you'll still find yourself molding your character into your own personalised and very specific class.

 

[Kyrielle]

All I know is that I want this game so bad. But I'm going to wait for Christmas to get it (by then the CS will be released along with the first patch, I'm sure...plus I need a little more RAM to run it on the settings I'd like to use). Oblivion was one of my favorite "fallback" games. I've returned to it again and again over the course of 3 years and have modded it to death. So, I can't wait to play this one. I've been watching the IGN gameplay stuff, and I just keep drooling over how pretty everything is and how much potential for role playing I see. Already, I'm thinking that the first thing I'll do before I even start up the game is make a mod where I can place crafting stations, bedrolls, and other camp objects at will and do the whole travelling nomad thing.

I'm thinking of specializing in archery, alchemy, sneak, speech, and possibly smithing. I definitely want to rock some of those rune spells and set up traps. Or I might not touch magic at all and use shouts as my "magic". I dunno. I'm just all excited. It looks soooo cool. I want to go everywhere and see everything!

 

[KDude]

Yeah, it's a completely new engine. It looks better, it runs smother, and there are a lot of significant changes to the UI. There are more physics in play in the game world as well, making combat feel a lot meatier and (to use a vastly overused word) visceral.

I see. I wasn't sure how much it was an improvement over Fallout. It does feel better than Oblivion though. Not quite the visceral feeling of playing a warrior in Dragon Age II (or some action titles), but still cool.

 

[Words of Ivory]

I wasn't sure how much it was an improvement over Fallout.

If nothing else, it's a hell of a lot less buggy.

 

[jixmixfix]

It looks a bit too much like an action game for a fan of Morrowind (as I am), but maybe it's just an impression...

morrowind was so boring.

 

[jixmixfix]

If nothing else, it's a hell of a lot less buggy.

Is it seriously not buggy? every bathesda game is buggy as shit when it first comes out.

 

[KDude]

It's not exactly action-y. It's more like a tweaked morrowind. You'd probably like it more than me FDG.