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

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

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.

Well I’m getting it for christmas 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?”

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!

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.

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 🙂

Can you play Steam games with out net access?

Oh FFS! I hate this shit, I have an offline games PC coz I don’t want to faff around with windows security updates and other guff. Why can’t you just buy a game that works? Oh and steam can be a right old PITA even if you are online.

still not cheating, your character is practicing even if you aint there to see it 🙂

not AFAIK, when I bought HL2 I asked th guy in the shop can I play this with no internet connection he said “yes” wrong!

nope doesn’t work. Steam won’t let you install games in “offline mode”.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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 🙂