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Mr82 has been playing it since 12 noon. I can't see much else happening in this house for the next week to be honest
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.
I've not got the game yet, concerned my 3 year old pc might struggle a bit, but my all account the leveling system is a lot better. You're not forced into a picking a type of character at the start and you get additional perks when you level up, allowing specialization. That and a lot of the enemies now dont level up when you do, so it makes things more worthwhile.
Liking it so far- just arrived at Whiterun. Like the "Norse" feel.
😀
Glittergary, no it's not essential you have the patch. I've been plating it all day on my internetless 360 just stopped for food. I'm told the patch makes it much better, but to be honest I've not encountered any glitches. Internets being connected in a few weeks so will see.
I've been trying to work out the cheapest way to get this! My laptop meets the min. reqs but has serious overheating issues on the GPU so I suspect it'll just keep overheating if I get skyrim. I hope they've sorted it so that creating a tank doesn't just own everything!
catflees - Cheers for the update mate, I didn't want to fork out the money only to have an unplayable game all weekend, that would be torture!
Oh, and chvck - Get an xbox 360, Fallout 3, New Vegas and GTA 4 and that's the next year of your life sorted/ruined, all for less that £200 quid. Bargain. 😉
well my friends,the time has finally arrived 😀 it was a perilous journey to pick up the game |(had to dodge aggressive moor hens and everything 😯 on the towpath.but lo did i complete my quest (and got the update 😉 am right now listening to the theme tune (fantastic 😀 after just installing it to my hdd.it's asking me to press start 😯 (will i suddenly be going through the elder scrolls equivelant of the wormhole scene in 2001 😀 AND SO IT BEGINS... 😀
Well my sneakily ordered copy for Mrs Grips arrived about 11. I've been looking after the kids since then.. Mrs Grips is currently frowing at the game controls and system...
Looks nice, though.
I predict Raceface's 360 will RROD in the next half an hour.
560ti works well in graphics department.
Cougar may 1000 pommeranians break wind in your general direction 😉 by the gods this game looks stunning 😀 have chosen to be a nord.man the opening of the game is fantastic! an now hiding out in a fort with one of the other prisoners (and equipping myself with weapons e.t.c. i apologise if i do not reply for a few hours,but i will try and give a short review of the game (no spoilers).so far though it is outstanding 😀
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Someone I worked with told me while at uni FF7 came out a couple of guys from their group of friends dissappeared for a week
I blame squaresoft for me almost failing third year
Still nothing else to touch it.
Been fantastic so far, I like the level up screen. It makes it clearer what will happen should you increase that stat. It reminds me of the way 'skills and attributes' are presented in Fallout New Vegas. I'm getting well skilled with both single handed weapons and ranged weapons, if you liked Oblivion you will enjoy this.
Only gripe can't get the weapons to 'favourite' on the D-pad.
Our special effects coder had the collectors edition delivered today, in a huge box, complete with dragon, making of DVD and 'Art of Skyrim' book. Cost him £129. O_O
If I had the money I'd buy the Special Ed too. Like all expensive special edition games they get reduced fast. When I was working in a games shop the RRP on the last street fighter game special edition was £69.99 on ps3, it was £15 on play not so long ago. The art book you get looks really nice.
i had to look up what fapping meant.i didn't quite go that far to be honest 😉 will take me some time to get used to the control system/inventory/hotkey,but i can see the reasoning behind it.does anyone have any tips on how to do the lockpicking?i am rubbish at it (and in oblivion).
Twist gently in one direction, when the pick gets trapped you need to adjust it in the same direction. If the pick starts to break exit the screen. When you go back pick is good as new.
Can you hotkey your d-pad? I can't work it out 🙁
catflees.it seems that you can only use the up/down on the d pad for hot keying items e.t.c then you use either left or right triggers for which hand you want to put the weapon/spell in.it is taking me some time to adjust,as i'm used to oblivion. this game is fantastic though 😀 am still on level 1,but have just vanquished some criminal scum bandits from a bridge (the bandit chief was very tough to beat/had to dual wield swords) 😀
She says she has no idea at all about lock picking. And she doesn't like that you can't equip a spell, a shield and a weapon at the same time. Can you?
Thanks. I was trying to hot key on every direction. I picked a fight with a mammoth and lost, got a nice enchanted now though.
You can equip either a weapon and a shield. Or a weapon and a spell from what I can tell.
Lockpicking is very similar to Fallout 3 and New Vegas, rather than oblivion. Tried to play it on our CRT TV in bedroom I can't make the text out. You really need HD for this game, day off tomorrow and my girlfriends working all day 🙂
Got Skyrim today, can't play it though as the tv is occupied.
for anyone that cares,here's a short video of my nord character (he's called hemlrick maklier).here he is posing,before going off to crack a few criminal scum skulls (he's so cool he can even levitate 😉
What a great game! Best so far.
Got workmen coming tomorrow at midday, so obviously that calls for a day off playing Skyrim just incase they are a few hours early or a few hours late.
I picked a fight with a mammoth
Mrs Grips: Ooh I need mammoth tusk.
*equips bow*
*pling*
Mammoth: ROAR CHARGE STAMPEDE!
Mrs Grips: pling argh!
Please insert 10p for another credit
Re lockpicking - are you just supposed to find the right angle or sometihng? We tried a novice lock and there was only one pick, and I eventually got it but not sure quite how. I suppose the right angle did it.
You need to find the locks 'sweet point' do it pops open. By turning the pick you put stress on it, if it's in the sweet point there's no stress and the lock just opens. Slowly move the pick, if it hits something your going the wrong way. Harder locks have a smaller sweet point. I've managed to pick everything I've found so far, as the picking system is the same as fallout and I wasted a while on that... It's really hard to explain, there should be some YouTube tutorials of it.
Not played any of the previous ones but on the pc it looks fantastic. Impressed with the story and how you can just do your own thing. The UI is pretty poor though!
Yep you can do a spell in one hand and a weapon in the other. Just tap the lock and you get an idea if its going to turn. Picks are everywhere though so not an issue.
2560*1440 on " high " setting on a hd 5870 looks fantastic and getting 35 - 60 fps. Will cross fire it when its fixed to see what its like on Ultra settings.
Only bad things - yetis and giants kick my butt every time. It could also steal your life!
Are the rumours about the PC version control/menu system being awful true? I read that you need to get a wired 360 pad to get the most out of it. If so I think I'll probably wait for a bit til it goes down in price as I need a pad as well!
The menus aren't great on a PC but they're good enough I don't find them a distraction.
Lock-picking seems reasonably intuitive, I guess the higher level locks just give less margin for error (until your own skill is at that level at least).
What I've not figured out yet is is the a con/consider system? e.g. if I mouse-over a dragon can I tell if it's way higher level than me? I know there's some level scaling anyway but right now if I see something like a giant/troll/dragon I end up quick saving then having a go and see how quickly I get mashed to figure out if it's worth trying it again.
The vampire disease thing is a PITA to - I hadn't realised I was diseased apart from odd messages and people saying I looked ill (I guess in hindsight that should have been a clue), just glad I read a forum post in time to cure it before it became permanent.
Mind you I'm only level 12 now and already getting a bit bored of it, mostly because the combat feels a bit clunky and I have have a niggling feeling I'm going to regret skill choices later and end up investing countless hours in a crap char :p
What's a crap character though? In Oblivion Mrs Grips chose a race that I thought was distinctly poor and ended up with naff skills but she developed them to an awesome level. She was so good at sneaking that she could walk right up to anyone and kill them without a fight.
varies wildy, there's so many different ways of playing that what 1 person thinks is rubbish may be fine for you. Plus you got the choice of starting out with reasonable skills/stats then run into trouble later on, or you could start with a lowly character with the maximum potential.What's a crap character though?
FFNV I picked lasers as my weapon of choice but no ammo around at the start of the game, used guns instead but kept putting skills into lasers. After a few levels I would have been able to blow the crap out of any badass badguy with a laser (if I could find one and had the ammo) despite having never used one. Doesn't make sense to me, but I'll wait and see what skyrim is like.I like the level up screen.../...It reminds me of the way 'skills and attributes' are presented in Fallout New Vegas.
There's a worrying thread on the official forums about the dynamic levelling which has me second guessing how to play. Apparently it's not just your primary skills that count against you (when it comes to determining the difficulty of the mob you're fighting) but your secondary skill and inventory as well. So spend hours working on alchemy and carry around a load of potions (but not done much more than average with your primary skills) and the mobs are much harder than they would have been if you just focused on primary skills. It's crap if true IMO (although admittedly I rarely do all the trade-skill stuff :p ).
I get that open world game play needs some sort of dynamic mob difficulty scaling but it also sucks that fighting a bandit at lvl 20 is just as hard as at lvl 4, in fact it could be harder if you have spent a lot of time working on secondary stuff and not just doing the hack and slash thing.
yeah tricky one for game developers. I downloaded OOO, insanely hard for the first few levels, hit lvl 20 almost becomes too easy and a bit boring, mind you that was on 3rd/4th play so maybe I'm just bored of oblivion.it also sucks that fighting a bandit at lvl 20 is just as hard as at lvl 4
No such thing as a crap char. We all play differently. Also you can get the tusks from another location 😉 quite close to them. Makes it sense when you find them. No need to kill the wolly mammoths. Found the mob difficulty ideal so far to level 12 as a kitty cat sneak thief. I find the sneaking around and long shots with bow to suit my playing style. And I have learnt lock picking, pretty easy when you find out how.
560ti on ultra settings no issues.
Well my point with the crap char thing is more about if you level up using secondary skills (e.g. do a lot of smithing, enchanting, alchemy etc.) then you can end up gaining a few levels without raising combat skills and taken to extremes end up with a high level char that struggles when combat's required.
There's also stuff like I was specialising in fire and ice spells only to then read about lightning stuff being instant effect etc. so I'm now thinking perhaps I should start working on that and leave fire/ice alone for a bit. maybe it's covered in the manual better but I just did a Steam d/l so don't have anything more to go on than in-game tooltips really :p
Your not forced to level up in Elder Scrolls games. If for example you make a load of potions and you gain enough XP from it to level up, but your worried the next bandit you see will stab you up, don't take the level up till you have gained more combat/defence skills.
I like sneaking around with poison on my blades and arrows, so my character reflects that. Killed a few giants and mammoths with poisoned arrows, fatigue and paralysis are particuarly good.
There's also stuff like I was specialising in fire and ice spells only to then read about lightning stuff being instant effect etc. so I'm now thinking perhaps I should start working on that and leave fire/ice alone for a bit.
Hey? Why? Be what you want to be. Fire ice arcance whatever. Dont be forced in to playing a build just becasue its the 'best'. Play the one you like.
am having problems with the skeleton lich's.there are 2 quests in particular that i have been handed my arse by them.am currently level 11 now and mostly specialize in 1 hand blade/destruction magic mostly this 😉
they (the lich's) are hard as nails 😯
I ran from fighting 'red eagle' but I will be back for him...
Waiting for the kids to go to bed so Mrs Grips can fire up Skyrim.. it's really a bit too violent for them to watch.
Right - a question:
Mrs Grips would like to know how to quickly switch between a bow and a sword. We had a go at getting the favourites set up, but now the dpad hotkey just seems to flip between sword and nothing.
molgrips just show them the educational qualities of the game (all the wildlife) it will be like an interactive david attenburough documentary 😉 (nature in action as a huge dragon/giant/sabre tooth tiger e.t.c opens a big can of whupass on your character 😉
No idea how to equip weapons without going through the whole menu system 🙁