Elder Scrolls V news
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360 is great, load times aren't that long.
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360 has been good for the most part, no serious problems as of yet
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PC version is terribly bugged. Most annoying bug ever is that I can't use the favorite menu to equip my right hand. I talked to another PC player and he didn't have this problem, bug googled it to find it was common. The PC version isn't unplayable, but the interface is so brokenly frustrating at times I don't even want to play it.
Other than that, it seems like Bethesda finally got something right, but they released it too early.
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Only played it for about an hour, but I… got bored...
Seems like oblivion with a worse interface to me. And dragons.
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Yeah, I have to emphasize again at how terrible the PC version is, but I do think it's about a hundred times better than Morrowind and Oblivion. I think the characters are better, the voice acting, they took a lesson from Black Isle studios and have an interesting plot and well thought out setting (finally). This is the first game of the series that I didn't abhor The Elder Scrolls as a fantasy setting. The city layouts actually look like something out of fantasy, instead of an 6 year old's home lego castle (looking at you Imperial Capitol).
Lots of swedes in this game. I keep thinking of him.
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This game is boring as fuck.
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Ignoring the trolls above me.
I decided to hop on and get the game (and about a dozen old PS2 games for trade-in value made it a free deal anyway).
I will admit that the overall landscape graphics did not improve much at all from Oblivion to Skyrim. Environmental effects, however, have improved - directional wind and consistent celestial bodies allow for more immersion.
NPC CONVERSATIONS HAVE IMPROVED. Gone are the days of, "I'm going to say this obvious plot hook!" replied with, "I heard this person sells this kind of thing!" NPC conversations actually flow together now and are properly strung according to individual units.
Challenge has gone up. I was shocked to run around and realize that there were ACTUALLY monsters that WEREN'T scaled down horribly to accommodate for the main character's crappy beginner loot. You WILL get tossed around like a sack of potatoes if you attack a giant under level 10. I'm glad for this, because ease of gameplay made Oblivion boring.
Gold/Loot is not well balanced. I've already gotten well over 5,000 gold without finding significantly useful armor/weapons in the main campaign. And for this type of game, equipment is FAR more valuable than gold.
The dragons are cool. I like how they're interpreted here. It's a harkening back to the, "OH, SHIT, IT'S A MOTHERF&CNG DRAGON!" fear that they should garner in any setting.
All in all, it's not THAT impressive, but it's certainly enjoyable. I'll likely put it down once I blaze through the main campaign and hop back into Arabel shortly thereafter. Shouldn't take but another day.
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I think this game is good because…like...I can actually die in battles...easily.
I think this game is good because...like...I can see they spent more than 10 minutes making character animations.
I think this game is good because...like...golw somehow can't find out how to equip weapons to his right hand in the favorites menu.
I think this game is good because...like...after bitching about the menus the first day it came out, I've thanked god i could hot key my favorites and have to look at it even less.I think this game is bad because...like...I've made 3 characters and went threw the tutorial 3 times wasting a total of 90 minutes of my life.
I think this game is bad because...like...I'm going at such a slow fucking pace I want to slap myself.
I think this game is bad because...like...ubad. -
After climbing this huge, snowy mountain, I just fought the hardest, most coolest boss in a video game and got nice lewtz for a reward. And after that, I spent over an hour in one dungeon, and I know I still missed stuff.
And that's only one day of gameplay!
It is so hard to specialize because you find so many neat weapons and items that it makes you want to equip and use everything. But you can't! Because you'll just suck at everything! And then those scary wolves will eat you.
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My question is, which one of you hater trolls gonna mail me your copy so I can give it to my boyfriend for a late birthday present? ;)
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Got the collectors edition, My god the size of the box, about the same size box my monitor came in. Maybe bigger.
Love the game play and the world feel. Spent several IG days cutting wood to sell for my first home and improvements.
Dragons are the best to fight. All of a sudden your running then hear a dragon and you go into "Oh Shit mode" Met a blood dragon last time and danger value went sky ward.
Ran into a boss were I could not win for my life. Had to sit back with a bow for hours and sneak attack it till it died.
at lvl 4 i think someone ask for a mammoths tusk, I said sure how hard will that be? Went hit a mammoth, it turned and WAM dead and flying.
spend most of my game time mining ore and wood cutting.
Bad, graphics glitch after awhile and have to turn it off then back on on the PS3
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My question is, which one of you hater trolls gonna mail me your copy so I can give it to my boyfriend for a late birthday present? ;)
Non of the hater trolls have a copy. They have embraced the way of the YARRR
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I bought it actually. Took it back though. Not worth the cash. I'll probly download it and fiddle about a bit if someone manages to mod the inventory to something useable on a pc.
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@Undead:
Non of the hater trolls have a copy. They have embraced the way of the YARRR
Sad girl is sad. :(
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Wait….. Where did ULK suddenly spring from?
U back?
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Screenshot! Say hi to my Dunmer sneaky archer/mage
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I've been a TES fan forever. Arena, Daggerfall, Battlespire, Redguard, those were all good and great but they weren't a milestone like Morrowind was. Morrowind was realizing an old, almost forgotten series that was– dang, what "bit" was it?--Less than 8?--regardless, the old games were an archaic method if portraying things, so then an almost real world in the game Morrowind came out, so.. all of a sudden, there's this "first ever open world do what you want first person RPG." It was totally unheard of for the "mainstream gamer" a that time. Morrowind has since been my favorite (hard to beat a first), and I really enjoyed Oblivion (eye-candy wise) but gameplay wise I found it grating. Honestly found Morrowind pretty grating, too, but once the main quest picked up I was like "Okay, this game has some serious awesomeness." Since then, all TES games have been a staple in my library o' games.
That being said, I never got hyped about Skyrim. It came out less than 10 months after they announced it, which for Bethsoft is UNHEARD OF. I remember hyping for YEARS over Bethsoft games. It has dragons, okay cool, but dragons have been around in games for a long time, who really gives a shit? At least, that was rather how I felt.
I picked the game up anyway. I've slept 9 hours for the last 3 days, including taking a half-day off work. It's that-farkin'-good. Holy jeez. I've never ONCE wanted to do everything you can do in a game but I think I may have finally met my match.
As for the haters.. Lol, let 'em hate. I've already got 200 bucks of game time out of this game and I can't honestly see me stopping until I've been thru it 3 or 4 more times with totally different builds (even though it's possible to play through and be a "God" build, that just bores me). Every quest has the polish of a unique story and a unique game. Every dragon fight is new, different, and challenging (esp if you're like me and crank it up to expert at least). Crafting is FUN and rewarding. The graphics are similar to Oblivion but there are many different zones/areas that look different and unique, instead of the same dungeon over and over and the same forest over and over.
Also, someone was complaining about the menu system. Omfg, morons (sorry, fellas). The menu is the most easy, streamlined, quick, fast paced thing any Bethsoft game has ever had. MW was slow and clunky, Oblivion was decent, Fallout went back to slow and clunky. THIS is like a flash website. Instant, intuitive, simple, easy, and it looks good/slick. The favorites menu is astounding. I can summon a zombie, heal my henchman, heal myself, and conjure two blades of owning-face-OMG+3 within seconds thanks to that.
Sadly I'll be AFK (again) for awhile until I bore of this, but so far it's just astounding me in ways none of the TES games have for me yet. Suck it, haters.
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So far I can safely say this is the best game I've ever played.
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Do the rats you fight still level up with you, so when you're 10th level you're fighting 10 level rats?
I never did get that about Oblivion.
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Do the rats you fight still level up with you, so when you're 10th level you're fighting 10 level rats?
I never did get that about Oblivion.
Nah instead there's like mastodons that teabag your lowly pathetic lvl 4 character.