First impression is overwhelmingly awesome. So much to do, to discover, to learn ...
Already seen much improvement over Oblivion:
- Much better animations: no more floaty jumping in a static posture in 3rd person but real, physical jumps with flailing arms which feels just "right" to give an example.
- Crafting and improving items is great so far: tons of crafting stations to use: workbench. forge, sharpening stone, leather rack, etc. Very similar to common mmorpg crafting.
- More detail to just about everything, bar some rocky textures here and there.
- Great effects like running water / heat shimmering / shaking environments, etc make it feel alive
- So far no crashes: three hours in
- Amazingly well optimized: Skyrim just runs like a honey bee with short loading times and good fps, feels like much less of a resource hog compared to Oblivion
- Much cooler skill system with skill trees: many hard choices to make in character development
So far I am having the feeling its Oblivion on steroids with a lot of aspects and systems done in a much better way.
Hope the goodness lasts.
*is amazed*
edit: playing on PC here, only real downside is a clunky UI, but if you only use your keyboard it works well enough for me
Pro-tip: bind items / spells / potions to 1-8 buttons by first favoriting them (F) in your inventory, then through the favorite menu (Q) assign a number key to them. Kind of unintuitive but there's still a way to keybind things.
Just a quick update. My computer froze up during gameplay and when I restarted I was back to getting 60 fps on high. Not sure what happened there.
Also I made a male nord and his facial textures are fine, only the female nords was blocky looking. I could also see graph texture of face over brow/forehead but much less noticeable than nose.
Anyway, playing a male nord cause he looks BADASS, lol. Having a lot of fun so far. Definitely happy I bought the game. From what I've seen of the world and interacting with the characters this game has not disappointed. Just some little graphical bugs that hopefully are resolved soon.
Playing combo first person third person. Third person is very doable and mostly what I'm used to, but sometimes it is nice to switch to first person.
Geeezus, what is the deal with PC games forcing us to use console based UI's. Gawd damn their frakking laziness. I don't care how much I love certain development companies. I will not buy another PC game again that uses a console style UI. You really have disappointed me, Bethesda.
Originally posted by DarkPonyPro-tip: bind items / spells / potions to 1-8 buttons by first favoriting them (F) in your inventory, then through the favorite menu (Q) assign a number key to them. Kind of unintuitive but there's still a way to keybind things.
Good to know. That's been my biggest complaint so far, switching between bows/melee and different shouts has gotten a bit annoying just utlitizing Q.
I love the game. Played it for about 10 hours so far, and it's both addictive and fun. That having been said though, the interface is poor. Is it too much to ask for an auto-run toggle, or for there being an easier way to switch between spells? They've been doing this for a long time, the weakest part of their games is the UI. Would be nice if they address it at some point.
skyrim MMO please. Best single player game of the last few years!
Hell no. No thanks. Let us have some good single player RPG's. I don't need some dude named xXLeGoLaSXx ruining another game
Anwyways...Just want to say that this game so far is amazing. Played until 3 AM last night, got four hours of sleep because of it. I've encountered a small bug but that's it. For some odd reason when I bind a favorite to key 1-8, it just gets erased after I use it. To be honest though, my game might not have patched to the latest, it was only a 5.5 gb download and my friends told me there was a patch that should have gone with it, but my Steam didn't want to download it. Might be fixed already. Besides that this game is just amazing. I love it.
And for people saying "HURGH BLURGH. CONSOLE UI, I WONT BUY IT!!!! That's cool. It's not the greatest UI I will admit. You can miss out on a great game. Me and everyone I know will be enjoying Skyrim while you are busy complaining :P
Bethesda has a gazillion dollars, years to work things up, and this is the best UI they can come up with??
Yes, the interface is poorly designed. It's the interface, so you constantly have to deal with it's poor set up. Mods for it will come, but it makes me glad I didn't buy the dang thing at full price, and instead tried it on my friend's computer first. I will wait til the price goes down, and the modders finish the game for lazy ol' Bethesda.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
Bethesda has a gazillion dollars, years to work things up, and this is the best UI they can come up with??
Yes, the interface is poorly designed. It's the interface, so you constantly have to deal with it's poor set up. Mods for it will come, but it makes me glad I didn't buy the dang thing at full price, and instead tried it on my friend's computer first. I will wait til the price goes down, and the modders finish the game for lazy ol' Bethesda.
Interface is rock solid in my opinion. Love it.
Edit: Also using mouse only for the UI except for dropping items. Really can't see why people think its so clumsy.
Hmmm I must not have been paying alot of attention before. Alot of the npcs sound like Arnold The Barbarian did the voiceover. Its both great (in a funny sense) and terrible in a way lol.
Geeezus, what is the deal with PC games forcing us to use console based UI's. Gawd damn their frakking laziness. I don't care how much I love certain development companies. I will not buy another PC game again that uses a console style UI. You really have disappointed me, Bethesda.
It took me 10 min to get used to... I think I'll be fine for the 99 hours and 50 minuites.
What about the mainstory & side quests? What's the scope & quality compared to, say, Oblivion, Falloutt 3, Fallout New Vegas? I for one hated Oblivion because of how short & bad the main story was...
Geeezus, what is the deal with PC games forcing us to use console based UI's. Gawd damn their frakking laziness. I don't care how much I love certain development companies. I will not buy another PC game again that uses a console style UI. You really have disappointed me, Bethesda.
It took me 10 min to get used to... I think I'll be fine for the 99 hours and 50 minuites.
Same here. Though I am honestly thinking about just spending $30 on an xbox 360 controller just to make games like these easier from the get go. Its not like games like skyrim really REQUIRE every button on the keyboard and 15button mouse to be bound to something. With a controller the UI would be a non issue for the first 10 min and you would still be playing on the PC. The whole point to a PC in RPG's is the graphics, not the 500 key binding options that you may want in other games.
I refuse to switch game from key board to controller. It just add morefor me to make a discision ill prolly won't buy games anymore, if everybody give in the fact that games should played like on consoole or PC players playing on there PC with controller and big screen on couch relaxing with beer and chips you should ask yourself if your still a pc gamer or just want to have stronger console that can handle better graphics with all the comfort a console give but is not yet avaible.
I love my PC build a rig OC and finetune it so i can play them on best settings, becouse i can change alot becouse i sit behind a PC screen and play with keyboard mouse with alot more complex UI then consoles. I hate the symplification in constrolls and gameplay and the overall obvious lack of progress in AI graphics and limited npc/mob population becouse this game is alot more empty then Oblivion everything is dumb down so a console can handle it its pure console port only thing we have is 1920x1080p and AA thats all even tho i serious doub thats even through its just scaled up a little give us PC gamers impression we have AA and 1920. Its clear PC is losing BIGTIME and im very sad about this.
I still enjoy this game but only becouse there is almost nothing left to play anymore thats truely a PC game, but i already have only bought 2 games this year while i in past buying around 15 games a year.
This is now after play 15 hours and my experience how i feel while playing, prolly most of you will disagree but thats your right and i wont argue about that, i stay by my gaming experience with Skyrim.
Bethesda have won for now becouse ive spent 50 euros on Skyrim and can't chamge that anymore, but if ill buy there next product i serious start doubing that.
Hope to build full AMD system RYZEN/VEGA/AM4!!!
MB:Asus V De Luxe z77 CPU:Intell Icore7 3770k GPU: AMD Fury X(waiting for BIG VEGA 10 or 11 HBM2?(bit unclear now)) MEMORY:Corsair PLAT.DDR3 1866MHZ 16GB PSU:Corsair AX1200i OS:Windows 10 64bit
The first time I overlooked the mountains my breathe went away. The combat is immensely satisfying, the magic is rewarding and the whole system flows well together.
I've only had a few water textures disappearing here and there, but nothing major. The UI is vastly improved.
Overall, this is the best and most engrossing gaming experience I've ever had.
I played 7 hours yesterday after work and realy love the game. The only thing I do not understand is, how can they provide such a great and massive game with such a bad interface? It looks like its only 25% finished. The perk tree part is very beatiful but the other 3 directions? Just lists? come on, it can not be so hard that someone sits down and comes up with a few better ideas, you could even just copy them from other RPGs.
I know how "console ported UI design" is a capital sin in the pc community, and I had my reserves as well initially but some people are a little exagerating I think.
After 8 hours in it really doesn't bother me anymore; I only use hotkeys in combat and whenever I need to go into the UI it's; right hand off the mouse and 100% keyboard navigation; once you get used to the button layouts and quirky stuff like cursor buttons not scrolling when you keep holding them but W and S do, it's very manageable. Whatever you can do with a console controller, you can do with a keyboard just the same.
Innitially annoying bits like the crafting confirmation popups can be dealt with by pushing Y instead of navigating the mouse to it, to give an example.
Like any game with a new UI: it takes some time to get all the controlls hardwired, but once you do it really is not a big deal in Skyrim .... imho.
One thing that annoys me...when I killed 3 Imp troops in the forest - thre was nobody there to see me do it. I go into town and the guard stops me and tells me I either pay the bounty on my head or he'll take me to prisom and if I resist he'll just attack me. So how is it that the guard even knows I killed three Imp soldiers miles away from this town - (in the middle of the forest mind you)?
BTW anyone know how to get arrows to go away that your charcter has been hit with? Mine has one in her side and the other goes right through her forehead. LOL!
Comments
First impression is overwhelmingly awesome. So much to do, to discover, to learn ...
Already seen much improvement over Oblivion:
- Much better animations: no more floaty jumping in a static posture in 3rd person but real, physical jumps with flailing arms which feels just "right" to give an example.
- Crafting and improving items is great so far: tons of crafting stations to use: workbench. forge, sharpening stone, leather rack, etc. Very similar to common mmorpg crafting.
- More detail to just about everything, bar some rocky textures here and there.
- Great effects like running water / heat shimmering / shaking environments, etc make it feel alive
- So far no crashes: three hours in
- Amazingly well optimized: Skyrim just runs like a honey bee with short loading times and good fps, feels like much less of a resource hog compared to Oblivion
- Much cooler skill system with skill trees: many hard choices to make in character development
So far I am having the feeling its Oblivion on steroids with a lot of aspects and systems done in a much better way.
Hope the goodness lasts.
*is amazed*
edit: playing on PC here, only real downside is a clunky UI, but if you only use your keyboard it works well enough for me
Pro-tip: bind items / spells / potions to 1-8 buttons by first favoriting them (F) in your inventory, then through the favorite menu (Q) assign a number key to them. Kind of unintuitive but there's still a way to keybind things.
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Not an MMO all i needed to hear, but my 12 yr olds are liking it... pfft
Just a quick update. My computer froze up during gameplay and when I restarted I was back to getting 60 fps on high. Not sure what happened there.
Also I made a male nord and his facial textures are fine, only the female nords was blocky looking. I could also see graph texture of face over brow/forehead but much less noticeable than nose.
Anyway, playing a male nord cause he looks BADASS, lol. Having a lot of fun so far. Definitely happy I bought the game. From what I've seen of the world and interacting with the characters this game has not disappointed. Just some little graphical bugs that hopefully are resolved soon.
Playing combo first person third person. Third person is very doable and mostly what I'm used to, but sometimes it is nice to switch to first person.
My sneaky wood elf on the prowl right after sunset.
(Autodetect: "high settings". Didn't do any tweaking yet).
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Geeezus, what is the deal with PC games forcing us to use console based UI's. Gawd damn their frakking laziness. I don't care how much I love certain development companies. I will not buy another PC game again that uses a console style UI. You really have disappointed me, Bethesda.
Good to know. That's been my biggest complaint so far, switching between bows/melee and different shouts has gotten a bit annoying just utlitizing Q.
Nord hunteress surveys the land.
I love the game. Played it for about 10 hours so far, and it's both addictive and fun. That having been said though, the interface is poor. Is it too much to ask for an auto-run toggle, or for there being an easier way to switch between spells? They've been doing this for a long time, the weakest part of their games is the UI. Would be nice if they address it at some point.
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Hell no. No thanks. Let us have some good single player RPG's. I don't need some dude named xXLeGoLaSXx ruining another game
Anwyways...Just want to say that this game so far is amazing. Played until 3 AM last night, got four hours of sleep because of it. I've encountered a small bug but that's it. For some odd reason when I bind a favorite to key 1-8, it just gets erased after I use it. To be honest though, my game might not have patched to the latest, it was only a 5.5 gb download and my friends told me there was a patch that should have gone with it, but my Steam didn't want to download it. Might be fixed already. Besides that this game is just amazing. I love it.
And for people saying "HURGH BLURGH. CONSOLE UI, I WONT BUY IT!!!! That's cool. It's not the greatest UI I will admit. You can miss out on a great game. Me and everyone I know will be enjoying Skyrim while you are busy complaining :P
Agreed this is hold me over until GW2 and Diablo 3 comes out...Maybe even if TERA Online comes out
Awesome game Skyrim I have been playing now for over 12 hours straight OMFG the PC graphics are just incredible
Nothing worse than a lazy developer forcing a clumsy console interface on a PC player. Absolutely no excuse for that.
Good game, but the interface is a major detriment.
Bethesda has a gazillion dollars, years to work things up, and this is the best UI they can come up with??
Yes, the interface is poorly designed. It's the interface, so you constantly have to deal with it's poor set up. Mods for it will come, but it makes me glad I didn't buy the dang thing at full price, and instead tried it on my friend's computer first. I will wait til the price goes down, and the modders finish the game for lazy ol' Bethesda.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
Interface is rock solid in my opinion. Love it.
Edit: Also using mouse only for the UI except for dropping items. Really can't see why people think its so clumsy.
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Just waiting for modders to create a better UI for me
EDIT: Actually I'm gonna be a champ and start working on one myself, need to play more of the game first to get an idea of what to improve :P
How much WoW could a WoWhater hate, if a WoWhater could hate WoW?
As much WoW as a WoWhater would, if a WoWhater could hate WoW.
Hmmm I must not have been paying alot of attention before. Alot of the npcs sound like Arnold The Barbarian did the voiceover. Its both great (in a funny sense) and terrible in a way lol.
It took me 10 min to get used to... I think I'll be fine for the 99 hours and 50 minuites.
Remember Old School Ultima Online
What about the mainstory & side quests? What's the scope & quality compared to, say, Oblivion, Falloutt 3, Fallout New Vegas? I for one hated Oblivion because of how short & bad the main story was...
Hype train -> Reality
Same here. Though I am honestly thinking about just spending $30 on an xbox 360 controller just to make games like these easier from the get go. Its not like games like skyrim really REQUIRE every button on the keyboard and 15button mouse to be bound to something. With a controller the UI would be a non issue for the first 10 min and you would still be playing on the PC. The whole point to a PC in RPG's is the graphics, not the 500 key binding options that you may want in other games.
I refuse to switch game from key board to controller. It just add morefor me to make a discision ill prolly won't buy games anymore, if everybody give in the fact that games should played like on consoole or PC players playing on there PC with controller and big screen on couch relaxing with beer and chips you should ask yourself if your still a pc gamer or just want to have stronger console that can handle better graphics with all the comfort a console give but is not yet avaible.
I love my PC build a rig OC and finetune it so i can play them on best settings, becouse i can change alot becouse i sit behind a PC screen and play with keyboard mouse with alot more complex UI then consoles. I hate the symplification in constrolls and gameplay and the overall obvious lack of progress in AI graphics and limited npc/mob population becouse this game is alot more empty then Oblivion everything is dumb down so a console can handle it its pure console port only thing we have is 1920x1080p and AA thats all even tho i serious doub thats even through its just scaled up a little give us PC gamers impression we have AA and 1920. Its clear PC is losing BIGTIME and im very sad about this.
I still enjoy this game but only becouse there is almost nothing left to play anymore thats truely a PC game, but i already have only bought 2 games this year while i in past buying around 15 games a year.
This is now after play 15 hours and my experience how i feel while playing, prolly most of you will disagree but thats your right and i wont argue about that, i stay by my gaming experience with Skyrim.
Bethesda have won for now becouse ive spent 50 euros on Skyrim and can't chamge that anymore, but if ill buy there next product i serious start doubing that.
Hope to build full AMD system RYZEN/VEGA/AM4!!!
MB:Asus V De Luxe z77
CPU:Intell Icore7 3770k
GPU: AMD Fury X(waiting for BIG VEGA 10 or 11 HBM2?(bit unclear now))
MEMORY:Corsair PLAT.DDR3 1866MHZ 16GB
PSU:Corsair AX1200i
OS:Windows 10 64bit
Does Skyrim scale the level of the monsters you encounter with your level, like Oblivion did?
Sheer awe.
The first time I overlooked the mountains my breathe went away. The combat is immensely satisfying, the magic is rewarding and the whole system flows well together.
I've only had a few water textures disappearing here and there, but nothing major. The UI is vastly improved.
Overall, this is the best and most engrossing gaming experience I've ever had.
I played 7 hours yesterday after work and realy love the game. The only thing I do not understand is, how can they provide such a great and massive game with such a bad interface? It looks like its only 25% finished. The perk tree part is very beatiful but the other 3 directions? Just lists? come on, it can not be so hard that someone sits down and comes up with a few better ideas, you could even just copy them from other RPGs.
I know how "console ported UI design" is a capital sin in the pc community, and I had my reserves as well initially but some people are a little exagerating I think.
After 8 hours in it really doesn't bother me anymore; I only use hotkeys in combat and whenever I need to go into the UI it's; right hand off the mouse and 100% keyboard navigation; once you get used to the button layouts and quirky stuff like cursor buttons not scrolling when you keep holding them but W and S do, it's very manageable. Whatever you can do with a console controller, you can do with a keyboard just the same.
Innitially annoying bits like the crafting confirmation popups can be dealt with by pushing Y instead of navigating the mouse to it, to give an example.
Like any game with a new UI: it takes some time to get all the controlls hardwired, but once you do it really is not a big deal in Skyrim .... imho.
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One thing that annoys me...when I killed 3 Imp troops in the forest - thre was nobody there to see me do it. I go into town and the guard stops me and tells me I either pay the bounty on my head or he'll take me to prisom and if I resist he'll just attack me. So how is it that the guard even knows I killed three Imp soldiers miles away from this town - (in the middle of the forest mind you)?
BTW anyone know how to get arrows to go away that your charcter has been hit with? Mine has one in her side and the other goes right through her forehead. LOL!