[Closed] 2 days to go until SKYRIM ! ;-D is that a dragon i see.by the gods,BY THE NINE!

Got a dispatch confirmation yesterday, not sure if I'll get it early or not!

Don't know whether to get this or not I loved Ovlivion. Might wait a bit for the price to drop.

Me too, I buy it it means not leaving the house all Winter... will still probably cave in and get it though.

I will be getting it on Friday. Very excited. Can't see much work being done.

I've got some bits of metal and a pair of shoes turning up this week.

I'm off Thursday and Friday and way weighing up whether to buy this or COD. The video up there has persuaded me to wait til Friday and buy Skyrim.

Will there be a playable demo? maybe its wrong to say but the videos make it look boring and I like RPGs...

Well I'm getting it for [s]christmas[/s] the event that shall not be named, so no spoilers please. besides I need to build a faster PC to actually run it at a decent speed. Currently replaying oblivion to whet my appetite.

Sounds like they may have dumbed down some of the geeky features. "What do you mean I can't spend 3 hours sneaking in the oak and crosier to level up?"

Sounds like they may have dumbed down some of the geeky features. "What do you mean I can't spend 3 hours sneaking in the oak and crosier to level up?"

Geeky features? You mean they've closed some of the loopholes that allow you to cheat?

Got it on pre-order from Amazon, not Steam this time as it's quite expensive there. Based on how much Oblivion ate into my spare time, I'm a bit concerned about the impact this is going to have on winter base training!

You mean they've closed some of the loopholes that allow you to cheat?

PS if we are getting all technical about it it I'm not too impressed with the mechanics in fallout3, you can upgrade a skill to high level without ever using it, that's not right is it? I've heard rumours skyrim has similar levelling to FO, not been reading too much on it tho.

Received mine from Amazon today. On installation, it ties itself to your Steam account, which is fine, but then goes on to say... "Skyrim cannot be installed yet because it is not yet released". Cheeky buggers!

Spending hours practicing MTB moves on your front street instead of learning it all on the trail isn't cheating is it?

I assumed you were talking about entering sneak mode, facing a corner then putting a rubber band around the controller stick and leaving it overnight. Which would be a ace if you could do things like that with biking 🙂

Skyrim cannot be installed yet because it is not yet released

Unplug from the Internet and set your calendar forward?

Can you play Steam games with out net access?

Actually I need to stop posting on this thread, the more I keep it up the top the more chance there is of Mrs Grips seeing it.

On installation, it ties itself to your Steam account, which is fine, but then goes on to say... "Skyrim cannot be installed yet because it is not yet released". Cheeky buggers!

facing a corner then putting a rubber band around the controller stick and leaving it overnight

Can you play Steam games with out net access?

As expected it's garnered excellent reviews on IGN & Gamespot. Gamespot has a live stream of game play going on - looks really, really good.

I can see the frequency of my winter mountain biking dipping off!

have realized that i will need to carry my 360 with me to the game shop tomorrow (to download the 1.1 patch for the game) as i do not have a phone line/no x box live.will be worth it though (if my back survives as it's a first gen system 😉

Had a quick go round a friends house, it seems pretty good but I'm not really into RPGs. Seems like a huge improvement over Morrowind which is the only Elder Scrolls I've played.

Unplug from the Internet and set your calendar forward?

nope doesn't work. Steam won't let you install games in "offline mode".

So, what, the game [i]requires [/i]Steam? Wow. Is that a common thing these days? (I think the last boxed PC game I bought was Gabriel Knight III so I'm a bit out of touch)

This is the first one I've bought outside of Steam that actually requires it. Generally I don't mind Steam, it's a good way to get introduced in particular to indie games.

I've celebrated the approach of Skyrim by buying Fallout 3. Think I'll wait til the modders have got their teeth into skyrim

OK so I came home to find Skyrim had arrived a day early and haven't managed to get a conversation out of hubby since he started playing at about 5pm. Apparently I can expect to have a weekend of "me time" doing whatever I want, as long as it doesn't involve either him or the TV in the sitting room!

Wish I could ride at the moment!

tis 11.11.11 everyone 😀 happy skyrim day 😀 (won't be getting my copy until around 11am),but i can assure you that i will write a short first impressions on here (no spoilers).would be glad to hear your views of the game also. 😀 [img] [/img]

Argh, I still haven't finished arkham city yet :/

Why aren't you all playing COD or have you completed it?

COD? pffft. I'll pick that up after Christmas when its 10 quid 🙂

haven't managed to get a conversation out of hubby since he started playing at about 5pm

🙂

have realized that i will need to carry my 360 with me to the game shop tomorrow

For PC users struggling with frame rates, here's a tip. For some reason, vsync is enabled by default and can't be changed in game, which causes tons of mouse lag. Here's the fix...

"To disable VSync in Skyrim, add iPresentInterval=0 to the bottom of the [Display] section of the Skyrim.ini file in the \Users\[Username]\My Documents\My Games\Skyrim directory"

Also, if you're running CrossfireX (like me) then disable it as, yet again with a major release, there's negative scaling at work. Apparently a new CAP is "being worked on"...the ATI driver team on the ball as usual 🙄 . I've only played a few minutes but it looks good so far.

i need a new game can somebody tell me in laymans terms what its like, what its similar too etc.

i fancy a different game...

cheers

Help me out here.

Do I need Skyrim?

I enjoyed Dragon Age, but Oblivion left me cold. For that reason I've not really paid it much attention and know nothing about the Elder Scrolls series mythology.

What do other readers think?

Cougar if you just fancy a new game to play I could send you Morrowind (for PC). I've had it sat around for ages and I'm never gonna play it again so it may as well get some use..

if you just fancy a new game to play I could send you Morrowind

I appreciate the offer, but I'll decline I think. Whilst I'm all for retro gaming, something that's like Oblivion only older doesn't really have much appeal. (Also, I think my OH might actually own it, I vaguely remember seeing it in the cupboard.) Thanks anyway, though.

How to shoplift in Skyrim.

Ah no worries, yeah it is pretty old I guess! from what I've played Skyrim is fun, you can walk around with fireball hands 🙂

On the xbox 360 is it essential that you get the update patch?

Mine doesn't have internet access at the moment either, and I don't want to cart it down to the shops for an update, well not if it can be helped anyway... 😉

Cougar that is hilarious 🙂

Isn't it. (-:

See, that sort of thing is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, I think it's cool that the game engine actually makes that sort of left-field thinking possible. On the other, it's a bit crap that they stand there like, well, NPCs whilst you do it rather than kicking your head in.

totally agree cougar. My "using the game mechanics to your advantage isn't cheating" comment now looks a bit silly.

Shame about Crossfire X - to be expected though. Almost makes me glad I dropped a HDD on one of my cards, shorting it...
What card are people saying is minimum for shiney bling? Can't trawl through gaming forums at work really.

Wait, that means STW is an addiction. I've rationalised my reasons for being on here and see it as a special case... I digress...

I enjoyed Dragon Age, but Oblivion left me cold. For that reason I've not really paid it much attention and know nothing about the Elder Scrolls series mythology.

Is the levelling anything like the stupid setup in Oblivion? I wasted 30 hours playing the game to realise I'd got a monumentally flawed char. I then had to spend ~200 hours fannying about to get a decent chat stats set up.

It's completely counter intuitive and I suspect only there to annoy people like me.

As for FF7 - I lost the weekend it came out and a coupla days holiday. I got to the final boss in ~67 hours seriously underequipped. I then had a monumental +4hour fight throwing everything at it until I was defeated.

I started again, went stat chasing (Crashed gelnika for the win) and went back to the final boss with 200+ in each stat ('cept luck) and whalloped him in about 2 minutes (with Kotor).

Back in the days I was single and childless....