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Picked it up about 2 hours ago. It seems pretty good. points to pick at though, unless i'm being totally stupid, it doesn't let you customise you're intital skills, and the graphics are a bit poo-y!

(11-11-2011 12:56 PM)jimbobovalsocks Wrote: [ -> ]Picked it up about 2 hours ago. It seems pretty good. points to pick at though, unless i'm being totally stupid, it doesn't let you customise you're intital skills, and the graphics are a bit poo-y!

I have it downloaded and ready to go.
Playing it on the PC so expecting lurvely graphics.

Looking forward to playing this when I get home
Yeah always best to play games on PC as graphics are always better - BF3 is stunning with frostbyte2 engine and destructable terrain

Installing as I type. Preparing to be amazelled.

I'm skipping it for now as I expect it to follow the same pattern as the previous two Elder Scrolls games for me - ie I'm wowed by it for a bit, then I go off on some side quests and lose sight of the story and my interest wanes to the point I find something else I'd rather play.

(BF3 looks awesome on Xbox 360, btw. Don't know how they did it considering how old the hardware is)

Daggerfall rocked. Morrowind rocked. Oblivion sucked. Expecting Skyrim to suck also.

PS3 user here. After the debacle that was Fallout 3 I shall be waiting to see if it's utterly broken before buying anything else from Bethseda. I have no time for game companies that make no effort to fix their own flawed product because it's too far after release date to have a significant effect on sales.

Bastards.

WEIRDO! Previous two Elder Scrolls were the best two games ever made! I can't wait to waste hundreds of hours playing Skyrim, after all, what's better? a pickpocketing catwoman or a short fat choclate seller? I'll take Xbox life over real life any day!

(11-11-2011 02:59 PM)maxvon_d Wrote: [ -> ]I'm skipping it for now as I expect it to follow the same pattern as the previous two Elder Scrolls games for me - ie I'm wowed by it for a bit, then I go off on some side quests and lose sight of the story and my interest wanes to the point I find something else I'd rather play.

(BF3 looks awesome on Xbox 360, btw. Don't know how they did it considering how old the hardware is)

(11-11-2011 03:01 PM)Calmdown Wrote: [ -> ]Daggerfall rocked. Morrowind rocked. Oblivion sucked. Expecting Skyrim to suck also.

You're talking crazy man! Oblivian was amazing!

(11-11-2011 04:21 PM)mertaal Wrote: [ -> ]PS3 user here. After the debacle that was Fallout 3 I shall be waiting to see if it's utterly broken before buying anything else from Bethseda. I have no time for game companies that make no effort to fix their own flawed product because it's too far after release date to have a significant effect on sales.

Bastards.

Fuck me! I've walked in to Broadmoor! Fallout was one of the best games ever released, by a wide margin. It wasn't broken at all! Bethesda are God's gift to games developers!

So I've played it for a bit and the character creation side of it is really unique. You don't get to pick a starting class and skills, instead, each race comes withdifferent strengths and weaknesses and you progress a skill by using it more! You don't alocate skill points when you go up a level, instead there is a system of 'perk trees' when you can pick certain perks, but not before you've met the right criteria, I didn't like it to begin with but it's actually really new and inventive once you get used to it!

(11-11-2011 11:06 PM)jimbobovalsocks Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-11-2011 04:21 PM)mertaal Wrote: [ -> ]PS3 user here. After the debacle that was Fallout 3 I shall be waiting to see if it's utterly broken before buying anything else from Bethseda. I have no time for game companies that make no effort to fix their own flawed product because it's too far after release date to have a significant effect on sales.

Bastards.

Fuck me! I've walked in to Broadmoor! Fallout was one of the best games ever released, by a wide margin. It wasn't broken at all! Bethesda are God's gift to games developers!

My save game corrupted for Fallout New Vegas on pc about 10 hours in, rage quit the game for months and not the only person who it happened to.

bethesda makes great games, unfortunately thats at the expense of having quite a few bugs - thankfully no show stoppers in Skyrim so far but noticable how theres quite a few little issues that appear throughout the 5 or so hours I have played so far.

(11-11-2011 03:01 PM)Calmdown Wrote: [ -> ]Daggerfall rocked. Morrowind rocked. Oblivion sucked. Expecting Skyrim to suck also.

Fail.

Skyrim sounds like some kind of sexual practice.

Possibly one you could only do is space or whilst parachuting.

It is, do you really think i'd get this excited about a computer game?

I saw trailer - got excited. Tried playing Oblivion to get into elder scrolls a bit - resigned after first 30 minutes due to game being boring and kinda lame. Now pondering if there is any point in me buying Skyrim.

lol... the start of Oblivion is slow, granted. But as soon as you get a few minor quests under your belt it just opens up. Mental beast of a game! Play it as a vampire assassin for lolz!

Not going to get into the good/bad previous versions debate, I think you pretty much either love or hate the Elder Scrolls games and trying to convince someone who hates them that they 'don't get it' is like convincing a cat to 'give ice skating another try, it grows on you'. I'm not saying forum-trolling (or cat-curling) isn't fun, just not productive.

So far (around five or so hours in on PS3) my impressions in no particular order are:

Slightly buggy, occasional irritating clipping, and occasional freeze. Or so I thought - it doesn't tell you until you start digging around in the settings menu that it auto-saves every 15 mins. Good idea, but it would have been nice to be told that it wasn't trying to freeze up on me regularly. Particularly heart-stopping after the horrendous crash issues I had with Dragon Age! Anyway, no major instability problems so far so no rage-quit.

Visuals are very good IMO. As a former PC gamer who just can't afford to maintain a top-end gaming rig I have learned to accept the PS graphics aren't as good. Within those limitations, this is very nice.

Combat is pretty good, usual control issues in comparison to keyboard/mouse, but nonetheless sensitivity sets by default to a good setting. Loving the dual-wielding of spells / weapons.

Main menus, items/spells etc are very good indeed. Benchmark setting for future RPGs.

Sadly journal isn't quite as good. That's partly because I've got an old analogue TV so the smaller text is a bit difficult to read.

Character creation / development mechanics are fun. Similar enough to Oblivion that I picked them up in minutes, but with some new and cool ideas. Perks are a bit gimmicky but on the whole good. Maybe they've oversimplified a bit from Oblivion, but I guess they wanted to make it more accessible to the non hardcore geek crowd (like us natch). Same problem as Dragon Age 1 to 2, they wanted to make it more accessible and in fact just made it too simplistic. Some of this in ES5 does work well though, like reducing the number of different items of armour from the unnecessarily complex array in Oblivion.

One oddity is there are a lot more crafting options than before. You can pick up pelts, which you use one station to turn into leather, then leave as pieces or cut into strips. Then you use a forge to turn various ores into ingots. Then turn leather / leather strips / ingots into armour or weapons. Then another station to upgrade weapons. And yet another station to upgrade armour. Confused yet? Well there's another one yet for potions / poisons. And another one yet for cooking recipes from the regular foods. And after all this I can't see a way to make anything better than the drops I've already picked up from enemies, unlike in Oblivion when after a while the best stuff you carried was the stuff you'd crafted yourself. Confusing and annoying. Maybe better recipes will turn up soon and there becomes a point to it.

Quests are working not bad right now. Only one issue I've hit - I thought I'd cleared a dungeon but the quest has not shown complete, and I can't work out why. Some sort of optional hint-screen would have been nice. Having said that, the quest management with objectives etc is very simple and easy to work out so on balance a win.

Overall feeling right now is this is essentially an up-teched Oblivion, and not bad for it. Not nearly as hugely innovative and new as the marketing suggested (shock horror, adman exaggerates) but good in a 'ain't broke don't fix it' sort of way. They've taken out the worst of the flaws though not the irritating inventory management issue. Not the inventory system itself, that's perfect, just the over abundance of shit items you don't want but can't help constantly interacting with (I keep finding myself carrying around half a dozen wooden plates, animal skulls, iron forks, pieces of paper etc which have to be cleared out). That aside, I'm really enjoying it and expect to hit the 100+ hours played mark before I realise I'm only 10% into the main plot and get bored ...

Bought this but it has nothing to offer im finding to drag me away from Arkham City or MW3