Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
I plan on installing:
Qarls texture pack III
OOO (obscuros oblivion overhaul)
Martigens monster mod
Armamentarium
Better Cities
The Lost Spires
and a few weapons/texture replacers
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Well I never rely on the Wall Street Journal for a Game Preview.
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One can't compare Diablo with any TES game. I believe they are VERY different games. I know D3 failed not in terms of "gaming" but by Blizzard decisions on things like "always onlline" stuff.
TES series were always good. You can bet it will be an excellent game!. Maybe it will have glitches and such, but that doesn't count at the end on such a great game!
I remember TES:Arena. A wonderful game! So huge for it's time really... yes, I'm a bit old
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For sure...but let's not forget all the unintentionally hilarious glitches in Oblivion and Fallout 3
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And creepy glitches too : / Like a damn dog without his head walking around or floating heads without eyes :S
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Get it on 360, then by the time you have your Alienware, there will be a number of mods available and you can decide if you like the game enough to get it on PC and mod it
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UK Gamespot Review of 60-minute Demo
http://uk.gamespot.com/events/quake...397&tag=updates;latest;all;title;1&pid=615805
Some Highlights:
Face Paint: " Between the reptilian Argonians, cat-like Khajiit, pointy Dark Elves, and many more, we decided to play an Orc with a striking coat of yellow face paint. The striking yellow face paint was one of the many face paint options available via the face paint slider."
Character Creation: " As you would expect, there were dozens of these sliders to choose from in creating our devilishly handsome (or perhaps hideous) character. Everything from skin tone to jaw width to eye depth to facial hair could be tweaked to our liking. And if we switched to another race in the character creation screen the game saved our customizations so that we don't have to redo them when we returned to that race."
Traveling/Camping Merchant: "We decided to test this out on the unsuspecting merchant we spied camping along the bank of a nearby river. At first he was more than happy to have a customer at his little shop, and gladly bought the wolf pelt we'd collected earlier. However, his mood quickly soured after we cracked him upside the head with our hand axe."
Gardening/Farming: "Flush with victory, we equipped the new weapon and took practice swings at nearby trees until we happened across our next victim: an elderly woman who was outside gardening."
Alchemy System: "In her basement there was an alchemy station where potions could be brewed. All we needed to do was combine two to three alchemical items (pilfered from upstairs) that shared a special property. Each item had four special property slots, all labeled "unknown," and the only way to find out what they were was through trail and error at the station, or by eating the item. Either method consumed the item(s). Our first potion failed, but the second succeeded since two of the items shared the "resist frost" property. This information was then recorded in the item's description for future reference."
Barbarian: The First Perk in Two-Handed Tree, Multiple Ranks: "At level two we first had to choose between improving our magicka, health, or stamina attributes. Next we got to pick a perk from one of the many skill constellations. From the two-handed skill set we chose to improve the first skill, barbarian, which granted our character 20 percent more damage per rank when using a two-handed weapon. "
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Multiplayer IT Review of 60-minute demo: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Provato per PC Windows del 05 agosto 2011 | Multiplayer.it
there is some new info there
WE CAN CRAFT CLOTHING!
Loading screens look cool
hand to hand attacks have a much improved gravity and physicality
random NPCs that you persuade to join you are interesting companions
pop-up issues, vsync, polygon management, etc., fixed (I guess this is more relevant for Xbox version)
rough English translation:
Version tested: Xbox 360
Sooner or later you will find a short article on QuakeCon 2011, the id convention being held in Dallas at this time at the Hilton Anatole, a large hotel complex situated in the middle of a city that exists only for business and for oil. It feels a bit like walking on the moon, especially coming from Italy, because I do not know how many colleagues have ever attended and since we are the only ones invited to this event.
The id family has grown recently, however, when Bethesda bought Carmack's software house and this is how it came to be that we have the opportunity to play one of the most anticipated titles of 2011: The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim.
The game contains one of the features most requested by fans of Oblivion, dragons, but there was no sign of these flying reptiles. We will meet them during the main quest, which was disabled in this pre-alpha version of the Xbox 360 (Skyrim will also be released on PC and PlayStation 3 on November 11), which we played from the character creation until the early quests, freely, along with ten other colleagues for a moment in time when [everyone was so focused that] you could hear a pin drop. Imagine a room, wrapped in silence, except for the words of Pete Hynes and Todd Howard, Game Director and Vice President respectively, of Bethesda, who turned in their chairs to help those who were playing. In search of dragons ... that were not there, though.
In the footsteps of Oblivion
One thing is clear, Skyrim is a game too complex to be dealt with in one hour of play. Too many things to do, too many unanswered questions [and not enough time] to be able to concentrate and actually do something productive, really.
Imagine a dozen stations, and at each there was a journalist who did something completely different. The writer has found himself manufacturing armor upon leaving the starting area, delivering a letter and exploring dungeons a bit .
There are those who became archers, who killed wolves and deer, and who traveled through at least a couple of urban settlements, shown on a 3D map with the names of the outposts, including using fast travel, but only after having first explored the area on foot.
To reach this myriad of end results, we all started from a save following shortly after the start of the game, which takes place in a dungeon, as usual, leaving the details of the story to our previous article which is rich with details.
Character creation has always been the pride of Bethesda, and this is no exception, thanks to new engine models, which allow much more rough and realistic faces marked by a thousand details. Tattoos, scars, hairstyles and appearances can be modeled with detail even higher than previously experienced. The races are the races of Oblivion, what has changed radically is the class selection, which no longer exists, as the evolution of the character is completely linked to the skills that you decide to develop, as you level up by playing.
Each of the skills, from wielding two-handed weapons, one-handed weapons, or casting spells to heal, has an indicator that tells you how many times it is used. Each of these contributes to the skill level and every time we reach a new character level, we are asked if we want to increase the magicka, stamina or the health of our alter egos.
Afterwards you can invest one point in any of the skills, to select a perk that permanently increases the abilities of the main character. Each skill is represented by a constellation, each of these branches arranged in a tree, marked by perks that can be activated by having the minimum requirements. Each of the perks on the tree has different levels of development, going to create an overall picture that sounds like a headache, but already at first glance it appears to provide a sufficient level of complexity with greater immediacy than the guilds and classes of Oblivion.
Good old TES
Who has not played Oblivion may not be familiar with the controls of The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim , at least at first. Upon discovering how the different spells and equipment are handled in detail via the favorites menu, the basic commands remain the same. You jump with Y, with A you interact with objects, with B you activate the inventory / map, with X you draw your weapon or stow it away for exploration.
The trigger buttons still handle the task of launching attacks, one for each player's hand and left hand side is the left trigger, until you have run out of stamina.
The similarities however, stop at the layout of the buttons, since the answer to the demands of the player is completely changed.
Just hitting your bare hands, with the new engine offers a physicality and a gravity unknown before, they actually feel like blows, and this makes it difficult to walk around beating your fists in empty air.
Even the new animations, especially those of the protagonist that can finally be controlled with a third-person view without being ashamed to show what really happens on the screen.
The surrounding world seems less obsessed with having to tie a physical reaction to any interaction, but the detail and quality are from a different planet compared to Oblivion. The pop-up problems, vertical sync and even management of polygons all appear to be completely resolved, leaving room for a glance obscured by trees, flowers, trees, rocks and houses far on the horizon.
At the E3 presentation, we feared, among other things, such grace had been bestowed on a world with an almost lunar quality, too devoid of NPCs or enemies, but this test has dispelled this doubt, since the animal encounters and NPCs were frequent, giving the idea of a truly populated world, even unexpected encounters and animated in a much more credible way.
First Steps
Apart from the desire to recover from back to playing with a new episode of The Elder Scrolls, enjoy the view and the new "physicality" of our hero (which Bethesda should send a screenshot in the coming weeks), there was just enough time to interact with some NPCs and explore a little the world of Skyrim.
One of the first events that struck us was the active quest indicator, in the compass at the top center of the screen, guiding us even to the doors of houses where you need to enter, thus making it much easier to move into cities in search of the NPC [related to the quest].
Load times appeared a little long, populated by polygonal models, however, interactive, and always different, at least in this first test, dragons, statues and figures of the main quest and all well made.
The ease and immediacy with which the the mode of progression in the game seems to have changed were also evident in some aspects of quests. As we helped a person to receive a letter in this brief quest, we could ask him to follow us, and he became an intelligent and careful fellow companion adventurer.
In short, among other things, we were able to craft some armor and weapons at the blacksmith's forge and carve skins to make our own clothes, under the watchful eye of a master blacksmith met after a few minutes in a village.
As the darkness fell, we appreciated the new lighting and thick fog that enveloped the earth, and this took us into the bowels of a mine not far from where we started playing.
There was the usual attack of robbers and rats of different kinds and sizes, with a pleasant sense of dejavu. In short, it seems that Bethesda in preparing The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim has certainly given the strengths of Oblivion, creating an obvious point of continuity, but also sought to solve the cumbersome aspects that could have kept away many players.
Obviously it takes a lot longer to understand the balance of this new nature and the direction taken, in particular in assessing the behavior of the NPC and the merits of the new skill structure, but the first good news is that at this stage of pre-alpha, The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim seems much cleaner than it was Oblivion at launch and this is already a good starting point.
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I should NOT have read through this thread. I am so excited for this game it's not even slightly funny. Unbearable xD
Going to buy the collector's edition when it comes out!
Just search for them on this site -> The Elder Scrolls Nexus - Oblivion mods and community
(The search bar is on the right side)
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Yessssss
![[IMG]](images/storyImages/skyrimcollectorsedition.jpg)
I think it just came out today?
http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-en...723-bethesda-teases-skyrim-collectors-edition
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Thanks alot I found some of them, but ended up finding some rather interesting mods, and some of them failed and some made it
Well the orcs in my game looks full on retard after a failed mod xD
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"... a perfect, cloudless midnight, cold as winter ice and shrouded in shadow."
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I'm not pre-ordering because I won't be able to play until late December anyways... =(
Or shouldn't anyway, can't be tempting myself.
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I had well over 200hrs in Morrowind and also Oblivion. Closer to 300 for Oblivion actually.
Skyrim is the one game this year that has actually got me excited and counting down the days till it comes out. Morrowind I only ever played on the xbox, but reading thru these 19pgs has got me wanting to download it along with a bunch of mods for the pc while I wait for Skyrim. I hope that Skyrim includes a letter of apology from Mr Howard to my wife explaining that its his fault, not mine, that I've turned into a zombie with no desire for anything other than sitting in front of my pc slaying dragons.
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Man this game looks sweeet. Big LOL to the audience that wanted Todd to kill everything. Even the town folks lol
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I actually like the new inventory system. The inventory systems of all the previous TES games felt like natural evolutions of the inventory systems in the previous game (Arena->Redguard->Daggerfall->Morrowind->Oblivion); all blocks and grids. Granted, they laid out all the information about your character but sometimes it became cumbersome with the sheer amount of items. To me, Oblivion actually felt like a regression in inventory system intuitiveness with the single scrollable lists and items in the same color text.
It's 5 years after Oblivion and 8 years since Morrowind. Technology has improved exponentially and I think a new system was needed. I also like how all the items are instantly viewable and zoomable. Because as TES fans, we all know kicking butt well is almost as important as looking good while doing it.
I think it really adds to the immersiveness of the environment. In previous TES games, looking at nirnroot in your inventory was unemotional. Did you see the detail on the nirnroot in Skyrim? Pretty amazing!
-Skill system is pretty awesome.
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TES V: Skyrim Discussion Thread
Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by jerg, Jun 6, 2011.
