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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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  • #392
    quarryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    Dont think this was posted already


    http://www.gameinformer.com/games/the_elder_scrolls_v_skyrim/b/xbox360/archive/2011/08/15/more-skyrim-character-races-revealed.aspx

    posted 2 days ago. ^^^^^


  • #393
    Big Knox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭Big Knox


    New PC on the way in preparation for this and battlefield 3... but mainly this :pac:

    i7 2600k overclocked too 4.6g
    Asus GeForce GTX 580 Matrix
    8 gigs of DDR3 PC3 @ 2133MHz

    Hoping for Max settings!!


  • #394
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    I'm gonna stop reading this thread for a while, because I'm very excited but November is ages away.


  • #395
    quarryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Zillah wrote: »
    I'm gonna stop reading this thread for a while, because I'm very excited but November is ages away.

    you'll be back.

    as soon as some random info pops up on the choices of colours of Argonian fingernails, you'll be back.


  • #396
    Santana Big Rambler
    Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Santana Big Rambler


    Stealing was easy enough in oblivion but not as worth it I think. I was far more of a thief in morrowind until I discovered creeper and the whole soul trap gem thing. Found that harder in oblivion :confused: I'm sure I missed loads though, I didn't get as much into it as morrowind. Other than following people around with poisoned apples "eat damn you, eat!!" :pac:
    Didn't like the mucking around with 5 million mage guilds to advance a level in oblivion either


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  • #397
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,554 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Zillah wrote: »
    I'm gonna stop reading this thread for a while, because I'm very excited but November is ages away.

    I'm the same. All this talk about it is making me more and more excited, but it's still just under 3 months away. I know i wont be able to stay away though, and the hype will just keep on building.


  • #398
    Santana Big Rambler
    Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Santana Big Rambler


    they're likely to have open cities in this again, right?


  • #399
    Dcully
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,806 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    Im still worried it will end up to be another oblivion which was pretty poor imo.


  • #400
    quarryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Dcully wrote: »
    Im still worried it will end up to be another oblivion which was pretty poor imo.

    Take that back. Take that back right now.


  • #401
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,554 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    I loved Oblivion. Yes, it had it's faults, but it was still a great game. Massive open world with a crazy amount of stuff to do. I'll be quite happy if it's Oblivion, with a better story and engine.

    I'd be happier if it was Morrowind with a better engine though :P


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  • #402
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Zillah wrote: »
    I'm gonna stop reading this thread for a while, because I'm very excited but November is ages away.

    it's two pay days away :eek:

    I really need to buy a new PC


  • #403
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,565 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Monotype wrote: »
    I found that stealing wasn't worthwhile in oblivion. The upmarket house would have a load of silver... worth 2 gold each or something? Even if you come across amulets or swords, they weren't worth much. Then you could walk outside and get a bandit with a full suit of Daedric armour and with the value of five house lootings.

    This is true, the bandits you'd find levelling up with you and having glass armour, etc was ridiculous. At lower levels, say 5-20 - stealing was horribly overpowered though I found.

    Maybe it's just whatever mods I had installed (Oscuro) made all the items a bit more valuable perhaps.


  • #404
    quarryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭quarryman


    I really wished I could get Oblivion working on the PC with an Xbox 360 controller. The graphics overhauls and Oscuro mod really enhance the game but I prefer it with a controller.

    I tried the Pinnacle program and Xpadder but neither worked perfectly. Skyrim better have controller support!


  • #405
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    i was at a friends house on saturday and he recently discovered oblivion so I was playing a bit on the xbox.. i found the controller pretty horrible to use. you don't have the fluidity of movement you do with the mouse, turning around corners or looking up and around rooms is more effort than it needs to be.

    one thing I hope skyrim has is an always walk button like fallout 3. holding down w all the time gets annoying.


  • #406
    Magill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,732 ✭✭✭Magill


    quarryman wrote: »
    Take that back. Take that back right now.

    :P As they say...Opinions are like assholes...


  • #407
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,554 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Skyrim will have controller support this time. Nothing to back this up, but it's pretty standard these days.
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    one thing I hope skyrim has is an always walk button like fallout 3. holding down w all the time gets annoying.

    Do you mean auto-walk, or a slower walk. Cause Oblivion has both. On my pc, Q is auto walk, and Caps Lock slows you down.


  • #408
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,555 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    i mean auto walk

    and i did not know oblivion had it

    le sigh


  • #409
    mhairt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 109 ✭✭mhairt


    quarryman wrote: »
    I really wished I could get Oblivion working on the PC with an Xbox 360 controller. The graphics overhauls and Oscuro mod really enhance the game but I prefer it with a controller.

    I tried the Pinnacle program and Xpadder but neither worked perfectly. Skyrim better have controller support!

    Try this pinnacle profile.
    http://pinnaclegameprofiler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22497
    I am using it at the moment and it works brilliantly.


  • #410
    Monotype
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Monotype


    bluewolf wrote: »
    they're likely to have open cities in this again, right?

    Cities are closed. Not enough RAM on consoles. :(


  • #411
    quarryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭quarryman


    mhairt wrote: »
    Try this pinnacle profile.
    http://pinnaclegameprofiler.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22497
    I am using it at the moment and it works brilliantly.

    did you see my posts in that thread? :)

    I got very close to getting it working but not with Darnified UI enabled which i really wanted to use, the menu system in Oblivion sucks.

    Also there was some conflict with the Steam community Shift-Tab menu that would pop up occasionally, but i couldn't turn THAT off because i needed for OBSE which reduced the stutter.

    Just a classic issue of mods and interface not working 100% together. It got tiresome, so I've decided to not to bother fiddling with it anymore and do a playthrough on the console to keep me going until November.


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  • #412
    quarryman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Monotype wrote: »
    Cities are closed. Not enough RAM on consoles. :(

    Hopefully they leave it easy enough to allow PC modders to switch it back open again. Never found a mod that did it cleanly in Oblivion.


  • #413
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    I can't get excited about this game because I thought Oblivion was a very poor game. I just couldn't get into it at all, but I have recently got a copy of it on XBox (a friend had a spare copy of it and Bioshock - another game I think is appallingly poor and completely over-rated - on one disk) I may try again. It felt to me like a bad console port on the PC. It's a real shame, cause I'm all about Action/RPG games these days

    Morrowind on the other hand I thought was an amazing game. I had it running on my netbook whilst on holidays in America and it was the main thing that kept me sane whilst having to deal with my family :p I may go back to that and get it modded up with all the shiny hi-def texture packs etc.

    I'll just have to give Oblivion another go I suppose and maybe bash myself over the head with a hammer a few times to lower my expectations sufficiently... :D


  • #414
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,554 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    You should try it on the pc with some of the mods. It really give you a much better experience. I'm currently playing through with a few different mods, and it's soo much better. The community has really done a fantastic job on it.


  • #415
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,201 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    bluewolf wrote: »
    they're likely to have open cities in this again, right?

    what are open cities?


  • #416
    VenomIreland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭VenomIreland


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    do you mean no loading screens when you enter a city?
    I think he means like in Morrowind, where the cities were part of the world and you didn't need to load up a new area just containing the city.


  • #417
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 81,201 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    VenomIreland wrote: »
    I think he means like in Morrowind, where the cities were part of the world and you didn't need to load up a new area just containing the city.

    ah thats what I thought alrite and he is a she :-P


  • #418
    VenomIreland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭VenomIreland


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    he is a she :-P
    Woops, my mistake :o


  • #419
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,752 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Sephiroth_dude wrote: »
    what are open cities?

    Cities where you do not have to enter an entire new "cell" in order to get into them, basically no loading when moving from outside the city into the actual city like Oblivion has.

    In Morrowind for example, there was no loading whatsoever when moving from outside a city into the city.


  • #420
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Sierra Oscar wrote: »
    Cities where you do not have to enter an entire new "cell" in order to get into them, basically no loading when moving from outside the city into the actual city like Oblivion has.

    In Morrowind for example, there was no loading whatsoever when moving from outside a city into the city.

    What I really liked in Morrowind was that at the end of the game my vampire was able to leap over walls to get into the cities rather than using gates. That was cool.

    And yes I was lying about not coming back to the thread.
    quarryman wrote: »
    I really wished I could get Oblivion working on the PC with an Xbox 360 controller. The graphics overhauls and Oscuro mod really enhance the game but I prefer it with a controller.

    I tried the Pinnacle program and Xpadder but neither worked perfectly. Skyrim better have controller support!

    You are a lunatic. The idea of going out of one's way to use a pad in a PC first person game...boggles the mind.


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  • #421
    Magill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,732 ✭✭✭Magill


    Zillah wrote: »
    What I really liked in Morrowind was that at the end of the game my vampire was able to leap over walls to get into the cities rather than using gates. That was cool.

    And yes I was lying about not coming back to the thread.



    You are a lunatic. The idea of going out of one's way to use a pad in a PC first person game...boggles the mind.

    For FPRPG's i think it'd be dead on. Only for hte lack of buttons, i'd rather sit back on my big soft chair using a pad than using a KB/M for something as chilled as an elders scrolls game.


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