Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Deleted User wrote: »

Wow, I really hope those pictures are going to be accurate, because those graphics look fantastic!

Apparently the pictures are from an early print of the next issue of Game Informer (The crowd who did the Behind the Scenes video posted earlier)

It still looks Oblivion-ish but far more refined. Hopefully it won't be like Oblivion and chew up your machine........though it is Bethesda so.............yes, it probably will.

11/11/11 just feels like a countdown to the temporary end of my social life :pac:

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

The Skeleton's look way more badass.

:eek:

Haha they look fantastic with the eyes. Skeletons have been my favourite monster. They have a lot of flesh on them to be skeletons.

Nodferatu wrote: »

[*]Quests can be randomly generated and are tailored to suit your style of play. The game judges your strengths and weaknesses by logging your data, and will give your appropriate challenges.

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

I would assume that there is a list of quests that the game can pick out and put forward to the player based on certain circumstances. Perhaps various bits of quests can be put together in this manner.

To be honest though, I want to be able to play all the quests that the developer put in the game . . .

I'd say they'd probably be simple money type quests - retrieve X from the ruins; there's a zombie in my house; I don't like non-essential-NPC#114, kill him for me. The best quests will likely be reserved for guild lines or people you are likely to meet since somebody put some effort into writing a story.

Dragons may possibly launch attacks on towns.

That sounds great. It would be hilarious running as fast as you can on lower levels and seeing what you can take on at the higher levels. I wonder how destructible environments would be. It would be funny to see a roof torn/burned from a house which might be rebuilt over time. This would depend on whether houses were separate sectors.

I am so playing Oblivion again tonight

Sisko wrote: »

I dunno about you guys but I really was hoping this would have coop, would find this much more enjoyable if I could share the adventure with my friends and wouldn't mind the repetitiveness as much.

Coop sounds like a good idea...on paper. But in all honesty, do you ever expect it to work at all? Sure look at the way they left Oblivion, buggy as hell. Fallout 3 isn't the most stable of games too and let's not talk about Fallout New Vegas. Dont get me wrong, I loved their Fallout games and am currently in the thick of Oblivion (modded) and really liking it. But in all honesty, if they could just make sure the single player aspect of the game is in anyway playable out of the box I'd be very surprised. Dont really want them adding in new features if they cant get the core gameplay down right.

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Do ye think it'll have something similar to vats in it?

I hope to god not. VATs is from the Fallout universe, so there's no real need for it in this game.

I hope they go with a Morrowind style for the cities/towns/villages of just walking straight in instead of the oblivion load-at-gates.

Remember the Acrobatics Scroll found on the guy who drops from the sky outside Sedya Neen in Morrowind? . Increased your acrobatics by 500 or 1000 or somthing briefly and could literally jump across the entire map in one go, although you would die on impact haha!

It's even little things like that just make the game much more enjoyable

bluewolf wrote: »

Yeah, that was a killer too.
More immersive when it was morrowind-style.

It would be good, but things like hardware/software issues will have to be taken into account. They probably want to ensure a less stuttery/laggy game as possible (which suprisingly generally happens anyway in Oblivion and Fallout), incorporating a one consistent world with open borders might be tough on system requirements. Someone did do a open world mod for Oblivion where there were no gates for towns/cities, but yeah I think it did increases the FPS for players. Although I think Morrowind incorporated external cells which would load periodically when you entered new areas (albeit taking little loads constantly) which could be used again

Kiith wrote: »

I absolutely loved that bit in Morrowind. After leaving the starter town, you hear a scream. You look up and there's some guy falling from the sky. Pick up the scroll on his body, and it increases my jump you say? Lets give it a go. Weeeeeeeeeeee.....splat

That was great! I just ran to sell his stuff and forgot about the scroll Was there anything like that in Oblivion? I remember the town of invisible people but not much else.

pixelburp wrote: »

http://kotaku.com/#!5754577/the-new-elder-scrolls-can-actually-make-humans-look-attractive!

find it hard to believe the graphics will be as good as the screenshot of that barmaid bird at the top of that link. At least not on the 360.

evad_lhorg wrote: »

why? theyre not that unbeliveable.

i can't find a suitable screenshot to compare but it just seems too much of a jump on the same hardware. Textures are MUCH better for a start.

Overheal wrote: »

In fact: it's not the same hardware. The 360 has undergone several revisions since Oblivion's release (and the Original Xbox 360, long since retired and replaced by 360 Arcades and Elites, etc), getting newer motherboard, power supply, and memory specifications. I believe what was originally 256MB of Texture memory is now 512MB. And I wager code optimization helps too.

Has the xbox hardware spec actual been increased?

I assumed that have refined it and got cheaper components when possible rather then increase the spec. Afterall, I assume it will have to run on the first generation aswell.

Dunno why people are fixated on spears. I've not actually ever thought of using a spear to be honest. We talking throwable spears here, or what?