Leave the scrounging for different armour pieces just to get a full set bonus for Diablo & Divinity series. Not to mention there isn't any locational damage incorporated in the first place, so why bother.

Would agree, even tho I love item hunting. Elder Scrolls games just aren't (imo) that sort of game. Items sure, but not to the mad extent of Diablo type games.

 

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I did notice the bit about companions in that interview, which I find a bit intriguing. I'll have to research what that entails, I wasn't expecting Elder Scrolls to do companions. I don't care if I can't fiddle with their skills, companions/party (whether 1 or 2 or 3) are still a big part of enjoying/motivation in "story" rpg's, for me. For some reason main plots don't motivate me in games...it's the smaller things like companions & interesting side quests/skills or just growing the chr.

write a deep Argonian romance quest, could be good for the lulz though

Did you read books in Morrowind?

write a deep Argonian romance quest, could be good for the lulz though

Did you read books in Morrowind?

The Lusty Argonian Maid?

write a deep Argonian romance quest, could be good for the lulz though

Did you read books in Morrowind?

 

Hm, yeah if whoever wrote Crassius Curio still works for Bethesda I could see it being amusing.

Leaked audio from the E3 showcase, no revelations but you can hear the in game audio well and Todd goes into more detail.

 

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Looks like an Oblivion NPC

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Perfect symmetry is frightening as hell.

Perfect symmetry is frightening as hell.

Most definitely. Being close to it is often beautiful, but...yes. Weird.

Looks like an NPC face texture.

Craig Lafferty interview.

 

Nothing new apart from a few snippets of extended e3 demo footage.

Neogaf has 6 screenshots up. The reception seems to be mixed. There's also a gameplay trailer but it's just the stuff from E3 without the annoying commentary.

 

And lol @ the ragdoll physics of the falling giant.

They look pretty good apart from a few suspect polygons jutting out in the distant LOD and a couple of the pics look like they've been brightened after the fact.

I don't even get where people are coming from when they say screenies like that are ugly. What the hell kind of standard are they using. The screenies look great.

It's a bit unrealistic to expect Witcher 2 graphics in an open-world game, like those guys are doing.

It's a bit unrealistic to expect Witcher 2 graphics in an open-world game, like those guys are doing.

 

 

They look more than good enough for what Bethie wants to do, definitely.

 

Actually, they look much better than they need to be.

It's a bit unrealistic to expect Witcher 2 graphics in an open-world game, like those guys are doing.

 

 

They look more than good enough for what Bethie wants to do, definitely.

 

Actually, they look much better than they need to be.

 

I'm just glad that Beth finally made people look like actual people this time around.

The armor system is very similar to Oblivion?s. The main difference is that the upper and lower body armors, the cuirass and greaves, have been combined into one piece. This helps create armor styles that have the look we needed for Skyrim.

Armor stuff even more dumped down.

That's fine, I was tired of looking like I bougth my armor at a garage sale anyway. Glass shoes, leather gloves, iron cuirass etc.

All I need is for the world to be more interesting than Oblivion's. I actually liked Oblivion, but there wasn't enough vareity in enviroments. Maybe make a main story that doesn't suck this time, and I might play it for hundreds of hours.

I like the birch trees, but those screens are tarted up for the internet aren't they. The first ones, way from the begining of the thread, they looked pretty lame.

I'm just glad that Beth finally made people look like actual people this time around.

 

 

Graphically it was the biggest criticism of both MW and Oblivion. Potentially it was the only criticism one could make since environments in both games were very good.

 

The environmental graphics in Skyrim don't appear all that more impressive than Oblivion, but that is still plenty good enough.

 

The character graphics are a huge improvement, even from FO3, which was a huge improvement from Oblivion.

A guy on Page 4 has adjusted the levels a bit, someone suggested they might have brightened the pics for magazine print, eitherway that's all that really bugged me about them, it all looks very nice.

I'm just glad that Beth finally made people look like actual people this time around.

 

Just you wait for the happy/angry faces.

 

I have a gut feeling, those will still look priceless.

I'm just glad that Beth finally made people look like actual people this time around.

 

Just you wait for the happy/angry faces.

 

I have a gut feeling, those will still look priceless.

 

Ha ha, yeah. Seeing an NPC's face go from happy to angry during the speech mini-game was hilarious. Probably unintentional, heh.

 

Speaking of which, I hope Skyrim doesn't bring back the speech mini-game from Oblivion in any shape or form. Terrible design decision.

As far as I could see, there are only dialog options and no other buttons anymore. Was that speech mini-game of any worth anyway? I never used it and I can't remember any situation where it would have been needed in some kind of way. For me it was just there for lulz and nothing more.

Speaking of which, I hope Skyrim doesn't bring back the speech mini-game from Oblivion in any shape or form. Terrible design decision.

 

They confirmed it uses Fallout 3-style speech checks.

As far as I could see, there are only dialog options and no other buttons anymore. Was that speech mini-game of any worth anyway? I never used it and I can't remember any situation where it would have been needed in some kind of way. For me it was just there for lulz and nothing more.

 

I didn't get very far in Oblivion, but I didn't notice a substantial difference in maxing disposition with other NPCs. Heh, it took me a while to "get the mini-game." I'm glad Beth ditched it.

 

Speaking of which, I hope Skyrim doesn't bring back the speech mini-game from Oblivion in any shape or form. Terrible design decision.

 

They confirmed it uses Fallout 3-style speech checks.

 

So it will be percent-based? I would prefer FNV's hard-cap skill checks but at least it's an improvement from Oblivion.