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Inanimate wrote:

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:I mean that will be perfect after I've gotten bored of a quest hub, done something stupid, killed a quest giver, and found myself stuck.

Never had much problem with that, but I've had bandits kill important quest related NPCs. Once, during some vampire hunting mission, I was to investigate a claim of an alleged vampire (lives in a cottage in the woods). I fast travel to that place, see a bandit run straight into the house. I enter the house like 10 seconds after, and everyone's dead. :S Reload...

Never seen a bandit do that before. :S

Used to happen all the time to me on Morrowind, but that was because I exploited the spell system and did a weekly raid on Balmora with a skeleton horde.

Fable Effect? Never heard of that. Care to elaborate?




Honestly, the biggest issue I can see is in fact part of the physics engine. I think it'll be the whole reason for not allowing three dimensional flight, though the talk of riding dragons makes me hopeful.

Wonder if they'll continue to have the ugly cat heads for khajiits. If so, hope someone comes with a mod to replace it with human heads instead... I hated that change they did when they made morrowind (Khajiits used to have fully human heads and bodies before Morrowind, with fur, tails, and cat ears. Much more pleasing to the eyes).

Eh. I'm sort of the other way with that one. Seen enough cat-girls in anime, and I like the feel of the more bestial beast races. Honestly, I'm a bit peeved that they took away the 'beast feet' from the Argonians and Khajit, along with the inability to wear footgear and certain helmets. Just seemed more... realistic that these races weren't humans with animal-like features, and were instead bipedal, well, beasts. It's supported by the fluff, as well, that they come from the animal side of things rather than the human side.


though I guess I can see the need to have Argonians and Khajit able to wear shoes and helmets. There's so few item slots in Oblivion it's not even funny.

Anvildude wrote:Fable Effect? Never heard of that. Care to elaborate?

This refers to the Fable games. They're generally considered to be decent RPGs, but not too groundbreaking. However, the development team made very ambitious promises and told tales of features that would revolutionize gaming.

None of these promises or features actually made it into the game. So, rather than everyone going in expecting a semi-good game and getting what they expected; we all came into it expecting one of the greatest video games of all time that would be considered a classic for decades to come and we were severely disappointed.

Chrysaor686 is saying that this game looks really good and is promising quite the groundbreaking technology, but is worried the game itself won't get anywhere near to the hype.

As long as the game starts with Patrick Stewart saying 'I see you in my dreams' i will be fine.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Some of the Oblivion Mods are a little.. well bizarre to be frank, and yes I can say that with this Avatar and keep a straight face.

Some have gone way too far in my opinion.

I saw one that someone had made a Banshee from Halo, Master Chief's Helmet, and an Halo Assault rifle. Wtf?

"The story manager is always watching you, which can leads to strange random encounters as well. If you drop a sword in the middle of town, someone may pick it up and return it to you, or two guys may get into a fight over who gets to take it. If you're really good at a particular skill, like one-handed weapons or destruction spells, a stranger who knows of your reputation may ask for training, challenge you to a duel, or beg you for a favor that will require you to show off your skill."

Mind is Blown, hopefully works as well as it says

GalacticDefender wrote:

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Some of the Oblivion Mods are a little.. well bizarre to be frank, and yes I can say that with this Avatar and keep a straight face.

Some have gone way too far in my opinion.

I saw one that someone had made a Banshee from Halo, Master Chief's Helmet, and an Halo Assault rifle. Wtf?

Oh man, you haven't even seen the adult stuff.

Grakmar wrote:

Anvildude wrote:Fable Effect? Never heard of that. Care to elaborate?

This refers to the Fable games. They're generally considered to be decent RPGs, but not too groundbreaking. However, the development team made very ambitious promises and told tales of features that would revolutionize gaming.

None of these promises or features actually made it into the game. So, rather than everyone going in expecting a semi-good game and getting what they expected; we all came into it expecting one of the greatest video games of all time that would be considered a classic for decades to come and we were severely disappointed.

Chrysaor686 is saying that this game looks really good and is promising quite the groundbreaking technology, but is worried the game itself won't get anywhere near to the hype.

Ah. Well, I don't think we'd have to worry too much about that with Bethesda. They seem to be pretty straightforward in what they put into games, and I wouldn't put that Radiant Quest thing out of their abilities, really.

Anvildude wrote:

Grakmar wrote:

Anvildude wrote:Fable Effect? Never heard of that. Care to elaborate?

This refers to the Fable games. They're generally considered to be decent RPGs, but not too groundbreaking. However, the development team made very ambitious promises and told tales of features that would revolutionize gaming.

None of these promises or features actually made it into the game. So, rather than everyone going in expecting a semi-good game and getting what they expected; we all came into it expecting one of the greatest video games of all time that would be considered a classic for decades to come and we were severely disappointed.

Chrysaor686 is saying that this game looks really good and is promising quite the groundbreaking technology, but is worried the game itself won't get anywhere near to the hype.

Ah. Well, I don't think we'd have to worry too much about that with Bethesda. They seem to be pretty straightforward in what they put into games, and I wouldn't put that Radiant Quest thing out of their abilities, really.

Well, considering the massive pile of BS that radiant AI was...

Everytime I play Oblivion I question the logic of giving every NPC voice acting. You need at least a half dozen different voice types for each sex/race to make it remotely decent. The voice acting in Oblivion was atrocious. Why is the crazy old beggar suddenly talking like a freaking queen? /facepalm

And see, THAT's where the mods come in. There is a mod for that.

Heh, sounds like an apple comercial.

Annoyed with bad voice acting? There's a mod for that.

Want some more difficulty in later quests? There's a mod for that.

Want to use Frostmourne to kill Steven Segall? There's a mod for th- wait, seriously? That's just silly.

There is no mod to fix the voice acting.

I'd beg to differ. I know for a fact that OOO fixes the weird glitch that swaps the beggar's voices around between asking and thanking, and there's even an entire community devoted to providing proper voice acting for mods.

Some new pictures!



http://www.gamereactor.se/media/59/elderscrolls5_235966b.jpg

http://www.gamereactor.se/media/59/elderscrolls5_235967b.jpg

http://www.gamereactor.se/media/59/elderscrolls5_235969b.jpg

http://www.gamereactor.se/media/59/elderscrolls5_235970b.jpg

This isn't new news but I'm excited to have found out about it.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/01/14/the-sounds-of-skyrim.aspx

Jeremy Soule wrote the music for Skyrim. TBH, the soundtrack for this game is one (of the many, many things) that I'm excited about.

What else did he do? Anything I might know?

Lord Scythican wrote:What else did he do? Anything I might know?

Most of the music for guildwars, search it on youtube.

Thanks I will check for his music later. Youtube is blocked at my workplace.

Its some pretty good stuff, mostly orchestral and captures the whole fantasy genre very well (much like the lord of the rings sound track at times)

That will fit rather nicely with TES then. I really liked Oblivion's soundtrack, but this sounds like it is going to be way better.

Is anyone else amazed that Bethesda has finally managed to make normal looking humanoids?

Amaya wrote:Is anyone else amazed that Bethesda has finally managed to make normal looking humanoids?

In Fallout 3 they looked alright, but in Oblivion some of the faces were just "WTF?". The eyes would either be too far apart, too close together, or have some other weird and distracting feature.

My god, that's- that's-
Beautiful...



First off, Booyah! Flight mechanics! Even if it's 'only' the dragons, that means that the means are there, the code's included, and yup, someone's gonna figure out how to mod it into a spell.

Secondly, Dang! but that menu screen is badass!

Third- Looks like they're bringing Pauldron's back! That is, if that armor is indeed the regular Iron Cuirass, and not some sort of Light or Medium armour variant.

I cannot wait!!!!

Pardon for sounding like a giddy school girl, but I've been waiting for this game since 2005 when I played oblivion, the game that inspired me to become an environment artist...

WOOOH!!!!! xD

Holy friggin frackin! That looks gorgeous. Gah! As soon as theres a pre order list, my name is going on that sucka

It already exists at your nearest (out of seven within minutes of your house) Gamestop, where their motto is "don't even think you can buy one thing and not get harassed about pre-ordering something else." I fully expect to be asked if I'd like to pre-order Elder Scrolls VI while I'm handing over the cash for Skyrim.

Yea thats true, I actually had something similar happen once. They asked if I wanted to preorder(I cant remember what it was now) but the game wasnt even slated to come out for like 8 months or so. I laughed.
So let me add more to what I said, Ill preorder it as soon as the preorder becomes more of a yes its coming out in 2 months, not get a chick preggers, have the baby and then decide when you can play it once it comes out

They actually did ask me if I wanted to pre-order it a few weeks ago, at the end of January. TEN MONTHS IN ADVANCE. I said "no thanks" and was then asked if I'd like to pre-order Dragon Age 2 instead.

Thats just sad.
"PREORDER THIS GAME! It definitely wont crash and burn and you lose your money. I mean, Duke Nukem DID come out eventually right?"