Official Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim thread!

[Hamata]

edit: it's out! feel free to talk about the game on this thread regular fourm rules apply

[johnhughthom]

Not overly impressed with Beth's last two games in Oblivion and Fallout 3, nowhere near enough quests. This will be a Steam sale buy for me.

[rajpoot]

It's V not IV.
Anyway I am pretty exited. And recent live action trailer gave me hope, that they'll probably make a movie or something...but haven't pre-ordered it. Want to look at the reviews. Since they're making this a console first game, I'm slightly apprehensive about the gameplay.

[lars573]

They did that for Halo too. I don't see a Halo movie anywhere. However if I'd know Encore Devastator, a local con I'm going to, and this were the same month. Well I'd still do what I'm doing and ask for this for X-mas. What's 30 days?

[Veho Nex]

Official

Im dying waiting for it, I'm probably not going to be able to buy it day one so I'm going to be ducking anyone who brings it up while I wait for financial aid to be sent to me

[al Roumi]

Well I caved and have pre-ordered. Been replaying New Vegas and I think I'll be happy if Skyrim is basicaly Oblivion with a sprinkling of Fallout-style character progression -i.e. the perks and skills and no longer that god-awful leveling system from Oblivion.

[econ21]

I've pre-ordered Skyrrim, but more out of habit than expectation. Nothing about the advance notice has grabbed my attention (I am particularly non-plussed by the dragon theme, suffering from dragon fatigue with Dragon Age and WoW: Cataclysm. And I find the idea of taking defeated dragon's essences distinctly bleh.). However, these Elder Scroll games are always sumptuous meaty affairs, if not ultimately to my taste.

Not overly impressed with Beth's last two games in Oblivion and Fallout 3, nowhere near enough quests.

I don't want to be confrontational, but I find this comment a little mind-boggling. Oblivion seems to have a virtually endless number of quests. (I bought the official game guide which lists them all and it is not a short volume.) [EDIT: Google says something in the region of 180-200 quests in the game.] I think the root problem with Beth is that they go for quantity over quality. I burnt out long before I had worked all the way up even one of the guilds or finished the main quest.

Recently I have gone back to Fallout 3 and must say I was pleasantly surprised: it was a far better game than I remembered. I particularly liked the start and the main story involving your Dad (I admit, I am a bit in awe of Liam Neeson). I am wavering on giving up at level 16, but am pretty sure I have done only a fraction of the quests. The world seems very large and I have not explored most of it. I particularly like the feel of FO3 - it feels just like you would imagine a post-apocalyptic DC would - whereas I found Oblivion's generic fantasty setting did not grip me (unlike say Morrowind's more outlandish setting).

I've also gone back to FO: New Vegas, which may have more quests than FO3 but also seems more likely to induce exhaustion.

Small can be beautiful.

[Vuk]

I've pre-ordered Skyrrim, but more out of habit than expectation. Nothing about the advance notice has grabbed my attention (I am particularly non-plussed by the dragon theme, suffering from dragon fatigue with Dragon Age and WoW: Cataclysm. And I find the idea of taking defeated dragon's essences distinctly bleh.). However, these Elder Scroll games are always sumptuous meaty affairs, if not ultimately to my taste.



I don't want to be confrontational, but I find this comment a little mind-boggling. Oblivion seems to have a virtually endless number of quests. (I bought the official game guide which lists them all and it is not a short volume.) [EDIT: Google says something in the region of 180-200 quests in the game.] I think the root problem with Beth is that they go for quantity over quality. I burnt out long before I had worked all the way up even one of the guilds or finished the main quest.

Recently I have gone back to Fallout 3 and must say I was pleasantly surprised: it was a far better game than I remembered. I particularly liked the start and the main story involving your Dad (I admit, I am a bit in awe of Liam Neeson). I am wavering on giving up at level 16, but am pretty sure I have done only a fraction of the quests. The world seems very large and I have not explored most of it. I particularly like the feel of FO3 - it feels just like you would imagine a post-apocalyptic DC would - whereas I found Oblivion's generic fantasty setting did not grip me (unlike say Morrowind's more outlandish setting).

I've also gone back to FO: New Vegas, which may have more quests than FO3 but also seems more likely to induce exhaustion.

Small can be beautiful.

It really seemed to me that Oblivion had a lot of quests too when I first started playing (a mind-boggling amount in fact), but after creating several characters, I tried to do different things with them and soon came disappointed with how small the game suddenly felt.

[Xehh II]

Can't say I'm too excited about this game, I'll probably get it at some point but can't say i'd like it that much. I mean the people who make the elder scrolls game have created a massive world with interesting history and stuff and all they do is pick little parts of it to play, IMO they should have made TES 5 more with the scope of Arena, where all of Tamriel is available and they should have set it during the aftermath of oblivion where you could either help the other kingdoms break away from the empire or try and keep the empire together as a republic(they have that high council or somethingso it wouldn't to too hard to make a republic), or even try to become a new emperor yourself. This would be awesome because one province games are just too small for the epic elder scrolls universe they've created.

[johnhughthom]

Disagreeing with somebody's opinion isn't necessarily confrontational econ.

I do wonder what exactly they are counting in that 180-200 quests for Oblivion. We had the main quest, 3 guilds, I think 2 quests per town and that was pretty much it as I recall, Fallout 3 wasn't much better.

[Vladimir]

Her face is so close to the camera that I always smile when she says "Dragonborn comes".

Yea.

[Lemur]

Too much reverb. She has a lovely voice; no need to gild the proverbial lily.

Meanwhile, Zero Punctuation has as close to a positive review as Yahtzee ever gets. Warning: Zero Punctuation pretty much always contains some sort of obscenity. Not safe for work, grandma, or smallish children.

[lars573]

Too much reverb. She has a lovely voice; no need to gild the proverbial lily.

Meanwhile, Zero Punctuation has as close to a positive review as Yahtzee ever gets. Warning: Zero Punctuation pretty much always contains some sort of obscenity. Not safe for work, grandma, or smallish children.

I have zero respect for his reviews since he nakedly trolled in his War for Cybertron review.

[rajpoot]

I have zero respect for his reviews since he nakedly trolled in his War for Cybertron review.

I doubt people watch his reviews for fair judgement of the games. His reviews are funny though, and that is why I always watch them.

[lars573]

But the kind of trolling he did for that one I find to be quite vulgar, and not funny.

[Vladimir]

Minecraft was almost positive too. It all came down to having a plan before you start.

[Vladimir]

Still waiting for GOTY but I'm getting excited.

[Vladimir]

Still waiting for GOTY edition.

[Hooahguy]

So I played through three dungeons. Not so bad, actually not bad at all. Draugrs seem just like normal warriors to me. The spiders are annoying because of their venom but otherwise theyre no problem at all.
Though giants. Seriously. One minute Im on my way to Windhelm and the next Im flying through the air.

Also the Dance of Death mod is amazing. Such awesome kill moves.

[Memnon]

How're you dealing with the spiders? I used to be able to face them, but now when I find one is chasing me, especially in the swamps and forests, I just run away. Even the way they sound haunts my every in-game moment. As for the giants, agreed.
One of them caused my first death, I was just exploring a mountain after doing the dragon stone quest, and came across a camp with what looked like another bandit (I was far above him). So I fired my bow at him, expecting to at least be able to hurt him, when I saw that not only did my attack do nothing, but it was a giant coming after me, I decided to charge in there with my great sword... Bad idea. I've never been able to find that particular camp for vengeance.

[Andres]

So I played through three dungeons. Not so bad, actually not bad at all. Draugrs seem just like normal warriors to me. The spiders are annoying because of their venom but otherwise theyre no problem at all.
Though giants. Seriously. One minute Im on my way to Windhelm and the next Im flying through the air.

Also the Dance of Death mod is amazing. Such awesome kill moves.

Here's a tip to take out giants if you're still a low level character: they don't go into the water.

So, you need to draw their attention, then sprint for a nearby river or pool and shoot plenty of arrows in them until they die.

[HopAlongBunny]

You can use rock outcrops in a similar way. Plonk a cpl arrows into a giant while standing on top; the giant will eventually find a way to get to you, but all you have to do is jump down and keep shooting. It gets to be a confusing mess if you get multiple giants and a mammoth or two :)

You can find a suitable place in or near to every giant camp.