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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

KamikazeCanuck wrote:ME3?

Skyrim

Dunno if I'm gonna get Skrym... haven't played the other games and I like to get the whole story from the beginning.. and I don't wanna blow through 4 long (and lower tech) rpgs before I can get to the new one

Next on my list in a while will prolly be Killzone 3 haven't been following anything else right now.

But I have a necron battleforce and 1500 pts of little rats to paint before I'll buy another game (famous last words ) my model desk is dusty :(

Ha, I had clean forgotten about ME3. We just have "Holliday 2011" I think (may be out of date on this one) so I'm going to say Skyrim will be first -- in which case, I will have troiuble remembering ME3 this holiday, too!

Necros wrote:Dunno if I'm gonna get Skrym... haven't played the other games and I like to get the whole story from the beginning.. and I don't wanna blow through 4 long (and lower tech) rpgs before I can get to the new one

Next on my list in a while will prolly be Killzone 3 haven't been following anything else right now.

But I have a necron battleforce and 1500 pts of little rats to paint before I'll buy another game (famous last words ) my model desk is dusty :(

The stories are unrelated. You don't need to play previous ones.


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Manchu wrote:Ha, I had clean forgotten about ME3. We just have "Holliday 2011" I think (may be out of date on this one) so I'm going to say Skyrim will be first -- in which case, I will have troiuble remembering ME3 this holiday, too!

Suprisingly one of the games I've never beaten is Oblivion. I was so impressed with it at first but then just sort of lost interest. I think it was the stupid scaling. It just made the leveling pointless.

As per KC, Each installment of TES is self-contained. Only geography and lore -- and the very occasional "easter egg"-like reference -- connects them. The only thing you really miss out on (besides awesome gameplay) is familiarizing yourself with the cosmology/ecology of the setting.

Not even, Morrowind has all fictional plants and animals whereas Oblivion contained mostly real things i.e. Dear and Aloe Vera. What do you mean by cosmology?

The Nine/Aedra/Daedra &etc.

Cyrodiil plants are often made up as well. And I think some of the stuff was the same as in Vvardenfell.

I love how none of the templars note you are mage when you fight alongside some of them, throwing fireballs and lightning bolts around all willy-nilly.

Elector wrote:I love how none of the templars note you are mage when you fight alongside some of them, throwing fireballs and lightning bolts around all willy-nilly.

I love how Meredith brings it up once and then never mentions it again

I love how suddenly Elves look like the blue people from Avatar (facial structure) and the Qunari are all horned thngs.

I honestly thought the Arishok would be the main boss until the end of Act II, given all the Qunari war references (such as in the trailers).

I actually like the new Qunari designs. The Elves are kind of creepy though. I mean, I used to walk into the alienage and think: "Well this is racist and all, but hey, at least they're obviously eating well!"

So much for that plus. Now I enter the alienage and try to figure out why on earth is everyone starving to death XD. I can get that they wanted to differentiate the races more. Elves were just shorter humans really. But now, they're just eerie to look at.

Elector wrote:I love how none of the templars note you are mage when you fight alongside some of them, throwing fireballs and lightning bolts around all willy-nilly.

Heres something you'll find funny

That is an awesome thing. You are awesome.

The Qunari new look is very bad-ass, but I did not know they were Qunari until a guy essentially pointed at one and said that he's a Qunari.

EDIT: I like how Varric mocks Fenris' brooding. Varric is an excellent part of the party.

LordofHats wrote:I actually like the new Qunari designs. The Elves are kind of creepy though. I mean, I used to walk into the alienage and think: "Well this is racist and all, but hey, at least they're obviously eating well!"

So much for that plus. Now I enter the alienage and try to figure out why on earth is everyone starving to death XD. I can get that they wanted to differentiate the races more. Elves were just shorter humans really. But now, they're just eerie to look at.

The 'new' Qunari designs aren't.

Sten made a mention in Origins that he was part of an abnormal bloodline of Qunari, and that they were only really tolerated because other races reacted better to them since they looked more 'normal' than the Qunari themselves do.

They're new in the sense that they didn't exist in DAO. All I really meant. And I doubt Bioware had decided to slap horns on the Qunari at the time of DAO. I actually doubt they ever intended to make a sequel.

EDIT: Sweet. Comics . Are there more? Surely there's enough laughable material in DA2 for an entire series.

LordofHats wrote:They're new in the sense that they didn't exist in DAO. All I really meant. And I doubt Bioware had decided to slap horns on the Qunari at the time of DAO. I actually doubt they ever intended to make a sequel.

EDIT: Sweet. Comics . Are there more? Surely there's enough laughable material in DA2 for an entire series.

I wish but they useally make comic strips on games and stuff relevent to games.

Heres the site link: http://refried.timtekindustries.com/

I'm sure they were working on or at least starting on DA2 even before DAO was released... it takes a long time to make games, ya don't just slap em together and hire some struggling actors to do some voices.

I'm sure DA3 is under heavy devlopment right now so they can release it next year. Seems like more and more games are copying off sports games and just putting out a new version every year or so so we keep forking over $60 plus another 50 or so in DLCs.. it's cheaper to wait till the new one comes out, and then buy the ultimate edition of the old one and get all the DLCs for free the DAO ultimate edition was also $50 new for me instead of $60 for new releases.

Finished the demo. It's definately a lot more fun to play and the action is flashier. What do you guys about having to press the A button (or some shape) for every attack now?

I'm okay with it. I don't complain about it in God of War, so I won't complain about it for DA2.

Necros wrote:I'm sure they were working on or at least starting on DA2 even before DAO was released... it takes a long time to make games, ya don't just slap em together and hire some struggling actors to do some voices.

I wouldn't be so sure. It's really just what I think, it's not like I have evidence or anything. DA2 just feels like it was sloppily thrown together, tested to the point that gameplay would run well enough, and then pushed out to stores. DAO felt like a game Bioware made because they really wanted to make it, not necessarily because they wanted another series to work on. Then EA found out it was a gold mine XD.

But like I said. Just what I think. There's probably evidence one way or the other somewhere.

I'm usually not a big fan of buton mashing since my old carpal tunnel thumbs get tired too quick, but I didn't mind it in DA2. But the demo for Gods of War had my hands all cramped up. It's probably because the fights were kinda quick and there was a lot of just walking around and questing to balance it out

I didn't really find much button mashing in DA2 that I didn't find in DA:O.

I just kept the "R" key to "attack nearest target" and it wasn't a problem at all.

Can't you turn it off on the consoles?

I know on PC its auto-attack, but I thought I read somehwere that you can change it to auto-attack.