You know what I find awesome is all the little side quest...that lead you to areas to explore where...you find little things that turn into a makeshift home-made, quest to find a particular place, thing...just awesome.
Also, anyone else feel, while playing, that you hear soundtracks from Conan the Barbarian playing in the background or maybe Lord of the Rings? Game just brings out the feeling of being in a land of high adventure.
Also, anyone else feel, while playing, that you hear soundtracks from Conan the Barbarian playing in the background or maybe Lord of the Rings? Game just brings out the feeling of being in a land of high adventure.
Yeah. But only after I cranked up the music volume. Somehow by default it's much too low. Atmosphere is amazing.
While the graphics are amazing the questing and "open world" is bleh. I don't want the ability to travel to different cities for different quests at different times. I want to know that next city coming up is next objective and I'm done with this stink hole I'm at currently.
My friend bought it, I played it for about an hour while he played with his kid and I certainly won't be buying it.
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I prefer linear games too. Always loved FF for this but there is a main storyline in Skyrim too which leads you from place to place. If you don;t want to don;t wander off.
I just killed my 1st dragon and can use shouts.. yeah! =P I loved the moment when a mage asked me about a tablet from some ruins and I already got it earlier. He was all like.. omg you already got it? Nicccee. =P
Also there is a graphical glitch? that makes the end part of my characters nose kind of pixelated. I tried adjusting AA to no apparent effect. It was also present before and after upgrading my drivers.
That's a result of the normal maps they're using. When they baked their normal maps from the 3D models, Bethesda's artists didn't smooth those sections out.
There is a fix for it though. Someone actually made a mod specifically for that..
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
Sincerely when Skyrim mmo arrives dont buy it.
And just for your info ,if sometime in future Skyrim online comes your single player Skyrim will still run in your pc.
That being said i dont understand what the Helll no thanks part.
I made a quick panorama from the area around Solitude: clicky for big
Heavilly compressed to make photobucket eat it though. In game it looks just dead gorgeous.
Awesome. That's my next destination after I finish up these Magic College quests. I want to check out the Bard stuff in Solitude, the bards in the inns told me to go there. Wonder if we can play music at all or something to do with them?
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
Sincerely when Skyrim mmo arrives dont buy it.
And just for your info ,if sometime in future Skyrim online comes your single player Skyrim will still run in your pc.
That being said i dont understand what the Helll no thanks part.
Some people can't tolerate the idea of other people playing and enjoying a game that they don't or wouldn't like themselves. They want everyone to like and play what they like and play.
You know, the whole, "I don't care if others like playing it. If I don't like it, it shouldn't exist" mentality. We see it constantly around here and on other sites with different MMOs.
"If you just step away for a sec you will clearly see all the pot holes in the road, and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
Have to admit that Skyrim has the actual feel of an MMO compared to most RPG I have played, and this is my first time playing the Elder Scroll series. Also it seems better than Dragon Age, let alone for me Dragon Age 2 was a failure, and their release of DLC meh didnt like it.
Now the real question I forgot the dragons name buth the one on the mountain, Kill the Dragon, or let the dragon live O.o?
At least the game itself isn't actually about just go Here collect these turn these in, and lame repeat quests, although it would be very nice if there was a online version of Elder Scrolls, possibly a MMO very similar to Skyrim, the only difference is that data is stored and saved via Server Side, it would be free 2 play or P2P, and allow players to interact, chat, and play together like Guild Wars kinda would be awesome, the only difference is that you could CoOp and do quests together, with friends, repeat such questions dungeons etc and it would be marked as a repeat quest after completion of the first, but everyone would follow the story line, and it would always have developed content/addon purchases to support the game and be ever growing. Also I am not talking about a game that works through a service like GameSpy because it just doesn't work that well found that out with Border Lands for example it says multiplayer, but really its multiplayer through GameSpy never anyone there really. Overall the feel of a MMO game like this would be great and wouldn't be like OMG NERF THIS, OVER POWERED!, however this is just an Idea for the developers of this game aka all the big guys with the money, and of coruse the game would also possibly have pvp maps, servers or something that allows players to take a side between the empires/faction and do combat and such for control over the land as well as fighting dragon attacks and such just a thought.
Over All looking at Skyrim it is very detailed looks like they actually put a lot of time into the design of this game, and it seems that I have actually played it longer than I have played when it took me to beat Dragon Age, and for a 5-6GB game that seems really under the limit compared to Dragon Age which is over 10GB and doesnt seem to feel as real as Skyrim, or Elder Scrolls 5.
I'm enjoying the game. It did take some getting used to at first. I have played all the previous games on the console, but decided to go the PC route with Skyrim. It is definitely a bit clunky on the PC but after few hours I started to get the hang of things.
I ran into trouble because I made some keybinding changes: "F" to interact instead of "E" which f'd up my favorites. The UI shows to hit "F" for favorites but it is actually still "E". Tells me to press "E" to steal things, when it is actually "F". Minor issues once I figured it out lol.
I have had several CTDs (crashes to desktop). I only have about twelve hours in and have had four CTDs, which apparently is low compared to some others. I made a change to the sound properties of my system as instructed and rather than CTD it locked up instead. It's ok, I needed to go to bed anyway.
The game itself is a lot of fun imo. I love the magic in this one. I was never much of a magic user (only the stuff necessary) but I've noticed myself using it a lot more in Skyrim. This brings up a problem though. You can only have 8 items bound to 1-8 and if you use a 1h weapon, shield, and a bow, you're down to 5 keys for quick access to spells. I use 1 for sword, 2 for shield, 3 for bow, 4 for heal, 5 for heal other, 6 for fire spell, 7 for buff, 8 for conj spell. With this set up it is pretty limited, but I think it's mostly because of the way I'm building the toon.
Anyway, the postives far outweigh the negatives. The dungeons are amazing, the monster battles can sometimes feel like epic battles, and its always nice to get off those rails and do whatever you want to go do.
Actually Skyrim plays much more like a mmo than any of the previous installments.
With the new quest system its impossible to run our of quest content (just like a mmo).
However, due to this system Bethesda got rid of the respawning dungeon enemies that would repopulated dungeons three in game days after you cleared them. So now a dungeon will stay empty forever.
Bethesda refocused the game to target quest content over random dungeon, ruin and cave exploration like in passed games.
Thankfully the game offers over 150+ unique dungeons to explore and supports mods.
Actually Skyrim plays much more like a mmo than any of the previous installments.
With the new quest system its impossible to run our of quest content (just like a mmo).
However, due to this system Bethesda got rid of the respawning dungeon enemies that would repopulated dungeons three in game days after you cleared them. So now a dungeon will stay empty forever.
Bethesda refocused the game to target quest content over random dungeon, ruin and cave exploration like in passed games.
Thankfully the game offers over 150+ unique dungeons to explore and supports mods.
I really don't understand why people complain so much about the UI, i think it is awesome on PC, the best Ui i have seen for fps like combat on a pc platform. You obviously have everything under your left hand fingers this mean swad movement + "a" "e" keys, tab shift and control. Just great.
If you compare it to any other fps rpg game out there where you have to stretch your finger in keys that are totally outside the fps specter this setting is just great. Sure you have to play with favorites and re-asigning them often, but really is it that bothering? certainly a lot less than having mmo control for an fps like game. I'm pretty sure all fps players will see the great advancement this UI setting is bringing for a rpg games with fps combat, now its clear that some mmo player will not like it. But those people aren't very used to fps and don't know much about the differences between fps controls and mmo controls and won't be able to see why this UI is really nice, because they think they can have f1 to f12 and 1 to 0 keys, with skills bars and all this kind of crap. Any fps player will know this kind of mmo setting make no sense for fps control, you need to have it all around the swad and on the mouse, which is exactly what offer Skyrim UI.
Tdlr the people complaining about the UI have no clue what they are talking about. Also the tab is used for the esc key to go out of the menu, just like i pointed, look at your keyboard and see where those keys are. Ye tab is just a key away from swad, esc is way up there where you need to stretch your finger to access it and most probably would have to loos contact with your swad key. So people before complaining at least try to understand why they did that that way.
The game is just awesome, look great, combat is superior to any other rpg. Now i have to go play, sorry guys....
Do the misc quest that has a blacksmith asking to find his dog.
I wont give any details to quest to keep spoiler free but the dog is your compainion during the quest and hes unkillable.
He tanks every mob even dragons. makes everything so easy i asked him to go away.
The dragons, though, are wimps in this game, a bit like swatting a fly.
I wouldn't go that far but I did amp up the difficulty because the dragons were a bit easier than they should be. I think I'll up their damage once the toolset is released and that should solve the problem.
Like Skyrim? Need more content? Try my Skyrim mod "Godfred's Tomb."
Actually Skyrim plays much more like a mmo than any of the previous installments.
With the new quest system its impossible to run our of quest content (just like a mmo).
However, due to this system Bethesda got rid of the respawning dungeon enemies that would repopulated dungeons three in game days after you cleared them. So now a dungeon will stay empty forever.
Bethesda refocused the game to target quest content over random dungeon, ruin and cave exploration like in passed games.
Thankfully the game offers over 150+ unique dungeons to explore and supports mods.
Not true. Most dungeons repopulate.
Have you seen a dungeon repopulate? i've cleared around 20 dungeons so far and slept for a few days to see if they respawned and on the map they still say cleared and when i went back they had the same dead bodies.
Maybe you're referring to ruins and camps? those respawn.
Tdlr the people complaining about the UI have no clue what they are talking about. Also the tab is used for the esc key to go out of the menu, just like i pointed, look at your keyboard and see where those keys are. Ye tab is just a key away from swad, esc is way up there where you need to stretch your finger to access it and most probably would have to loos contact with your swad key. So people before complaining at least try to understand why they did that that way.
The game is just awesome, look great, combat is superior to any other rpg. Now i have to go play, sorry guys....
Too many people, including the ones that are shamelessly gushing about the game, claim that the UI was optimized for consoles not for PCs. They generally close with something like, "...but after a while I learned to deal with it". That tells me that you need to adapt to a system that wasn't well made to start with, but not so bad as to make the game unplayable. A good UI lets you slide right into it within a few minutes, with little or no headscratching.
Nothing breaks a game faster for me than a poor interface, which nearly all console ports share. I'm still going to wait for a decent mod to fix that up before I try the game so I don't start off playing it with a sour taste in my mouth. I'd hate to have an otherwise good experience ruined due to a goofy interface. I suspect that I'll still be able to buy the game a few weeks or months from now when many of the other rough edges have also been smoothed over by a dedicated modding community. Maybe it will even be a Christmas present to myself.
Tdlr the people complaining about the UI have no clue what they are talking about. Also the tab is used for the esc key to go out of the menu, just like i pointed, look at your keyboard and see where those keys are. Ye tab is just a key away from swad, esc is way up there where you need to stretch your finger to access it and most probably would have to loos contact with your swad key. So people before complaining at least try to understand why they did that that way.
The game is just awesome, look great, combat is superior to any other rpg. Now i have to go play, sorry guys....
Too many people, including the ones that are shamelessly gushing about the game, claim that the UI was optimized for consoles not for PCs. They generally close with something like, "...but after a while I learned to deal with it". That tells me that you need to adapt to a system that wasn't well made to start with, but not so bad as to make the game unplayable. A good UI lets you slide right into it within a few minutes, with little or no headscratching.
Nothing breaks a game faster for me than a poor interface, which nearly all console ports share. I'm still going to wait for a decent mod to fix that up before I try the game so I don't start off playing it with a sour taste in my mouth. I'd hate to have an otherwise good experience ruined due to a goofy interface. I suspect that I'll still be able to buy the game a few weeks or months from now when many of the other rough edges have also been smoothed over by a dedicated modding community. Maybe it will even be a Christmas present to myself.
I plugged a controller in. People bitch so much. Just shut up and use a controller or take the 10 minutes and learn the UI with a KB+M.
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You know what I find awesome is all the little side quest...that lead you to areas to explore where...you find little things that turn into a makeshift home-made, quest to find a particular place, thing...just awesome.
Also, anyone else feel, while playing, that you hear soundtracks from Conan the Barbarian playing in the background or maybe Lord of the Rings? Game just brings out the feeling of being in a land of high adventure.
Yeah. But only after I cranked up the music volume. Somehow by default it's much too low. Atmosphere is amazing.
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While the graphics are amazing the questing and "open world" is bleh. I don't want the ability to travel to different cities for different quests at different times. I want to know that next city coming up is next objective and I'm done with this stink hole I'm at currently.
My friend bought it, I played it for about an hour while he played with his kid and I certainly won't be buying it.
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I prefer linear games too. Always loved FF for this but there is a main storyline in Skyrim too which leads you from place to place. If you don;t want to don;t wander off.
I just killed my 1st dragon and can use shouts.. yeah! =P I loved the moment when a mage asked me about a tablet from some ruins and I already got it earlier. He was all like.. omg you already got it? Nicccee. =P
That's a result of the normal maps they're using. When they baked their normal maps from the 3D models, Bethesda's artists didn't smooth those sections out.
There is a fix for it though. Someone actually made a mod specifically for that..
Click Here.
If you're on PC, it'll fix it right up and smooth that out. If you're on Console.. not sure what your options are.
Admittedly, that was a rather sloppy oversight on their part.
and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
I made a quick panorama from the area around Solitude: clicky for big
Heavilly compressed to make photobucket eat it though. In game it looks just dead gorgeous.
My brand new bloggity blog.
Wow...that is awesome pic DP. ^_^
Want to Trivialize your entire Skyrim experience?
Do the misc quest that has a blacksmith asking to find his dog.
I wont give any details to quest to keep spoiler free but the dog is your compainion during the quest and hes unkillable.
He tanks every mob even dragons. makes everything so easy i asked him to go away.
Playing: Nothing
Looking forward to: Nothing
Sincerely when Skyrim mmo arrives dont buy it.
And just for your info ,if sometime in future Skyrim online comes your single player Skyrim will still run in your pc.
That being said i dont understand what the Helll no thanks part.
Awesome. That's my next destination after I finish up these Magic College quests. I want to check out the Bard stuff in Solitude, the bards in the inns told me to go there. Wonder if we can play music at all or something to do with them?
Some people can't tolerate the idea of other people playing and enjoying a game that they don't or wouldn't like themselves. They want everyone to like and play what they like and play.
You know, the whole, "I don't care if others like playing it. If I don't like it, it shouldn't exist" mentality. We see it constantly around here and on other sites with different MMOs.
and the cash shop selling asphalt..." - Mimzel on F2P/Cash Shops
Have to admit that Skyrim has the actual feel of an MMO compared to most RPG I have played, and this is my first time playing the Elder Scroll series. Also it seems better than Dragon Age, let alone for me Dragon Age 2 was a failure, and their release of DLC meh didnt like it.
Now the real question I forgot the dragons name buth the one on the mountain, Kill the Dragon, or let the dragon live O.o?
At least the game itself isn't actually about just go Here collect these turn these in, and lame repeat quests, although it would be very nice if there was a online version of Elder Scrolls, possibly a MMO very similar to Skyrim, the only difference is that data is stored and saved via Server Side, it would be free 2 play or P2P, and allow players to interact, chat, and play together like Guild Wars kinda would be awesome, the only difference is that you could CoOp and do quests together, with friends, repeat such questions dungeons etc and it would be marked as a repeat quest after completion of the first, but everyone would follow the story line, and it would always have developed content/addon purchases to support the game and be ever growing. Also I am not talking about a game that works through a service like GameSpy because it just doesn't work that well found that out with Border Lands for example it says multiplayer, but really its multiplayer through GameSpy never anyone there really. Overall the feel of a MMO game like this would be great and wouldn't be like OMG NERF THIS, OVER POWERED!, however this is just an Idea for the developers of this game aka all the big guys with the money, and of coruse the game would also possibly have pvp maps, servers or something that allows players to take a side between the empires/faction and do combat and such for control over the land as well as fighting dragon attacks and such just a thought.
Over All looking at Skyrim it is very detailed looks like they actually put a lot of time into the design of this game, and it seems that I have actually played it longer than I have played when it took me to beat Dragon Age, and for a 5-6GB game that seems really under the limit compared to Dragon Age which is over 10GB and doesnt seem to feel as real as Skyrim, or Elder Scrolls 5.
I'm enjoying the game. It did take some getting used to at first. I have played all the previous games on the console, but decided to go the PC route with Skyrim. It is definitely a bit clunky on the PC but after few hours I started to get the hang of things.
I ran into trouble because I made some keybinding changes: "F" to interact instead of "E" which f'd up my favorites. The UI shows to hit "F" for favorites but it is actually still "E". Tells me to press "E" to steal things, when it is actually "F". Minor issues once I figured it out lol.
I have had several CTDs (crashes to desktop). I only have about twelve hours in and have had four CTDs, which apparently is low compared to some others. I made a change to the sound properties of my system as instructed and rather than CTD it locked up instead. It's ok, I needed to go to bed anyway.
The game itself is a lot of fun imo. I love the magic in this one. I was never much of a magic user (only the stuff necessary) but I've noticed myself using it a lot more in Skyrim. This brings up a problem though. You can only have 8 items bound to 1-8 and if you use a 1h weapon, shield, and a bow, you're down to 5 keys for quick access to spells. I use 1 for sword, 2 for shield, 3 for bow, 4 for heal, 5 for heal other, 6 for fire spell, 7 for buff, 8 for conj spell. With this set up it is pretty limited, but I think it's mostly because of the way I'm building the toon.
Anyway, the postives far outweigh the negatives. The dungeons are amazing, the monster battles can sometimes feel like epic battles, and its always nice to get off those rails and do whatever you want to go do.
Worth the 60bucks imo.
Actually Skyrim plays much more like a mmo than any of the previous installments.
With the new quest system its impossible to run our of quest content (just like a mmo).
However, due to this system Bethesda got rid of the respawning dungeon enemies that would repopulated dungeons three in game days after you cleared them. So now a dungeon will stay empty forever.
Bethesda refocused the game to target quest content over random dungeon, ruin and cave exploration like in passed games.
Thankfully the game offers over 150+ unique dungeons to explore and supports mods.
Playing: Nothing
Looking forward to: Nothing
Not true. Most dungeons repopulate.
Do I want to play the new single player game with a wide open virtual world? Or play the new MMO that has a closed, fixed world on rails?
Sigh.
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The dragons, though, are wimps in this game, a bit like swatting a fly.
I really don't understand why people complain so much about the UI, i think it is awesome on PC, the best Ui i have seen for fps like combat on a pc platform. You obviously have everything under your left hand fingers this mean swad movement + "a" "e" keys, tab shift and control. Just great.
If you compare it to any other fps rpg game out there where you have to stretch your finger in keys that are totally outside the fps specter this setting is just great. Sure you have to play with favorites and re-asigning them often, but really is it that bothering? certainly a lot less than having mmo control for an fps like game. I'm pretty sure all fps players will see the great advancement this UI setting is bringing for a rpg games with fps combat, now its clear that some mmo player will not like it. But those people aren't very used to fps and don't know much about the differences between fps controls and mmo controls and won't be able to see why this UI is really nice, because they think they can have f1 to f12 and 1 to 0 keys, with skills bars and all this kind of crap. Any fps player will know this kind of mmo setting make no sense for fps control, you need to have it all around the swad and on the mouse, which is exactly what offer Skyrim UI.
Tdlr the people complaining about the UI have no clue what they are talking about. Also the tab is used for the esc key to go out of the menu, just like i pointed, look at your keyboard and see where those keys are. Ye tab is just a key away from swad, esc is way up there where you need to stretch your finger to access it and most probably would have to loos contact with your swad key. So people before complaining at least try to understand why they did that that way.
The game is just awesome, look great, combat is superior to any other rpg. Now i have to go play, sorry guys....
I wouldn't go that far but I did amp up the difficulty because the dragons were a bit easier than they should be. I think I'll up their damage once the toolset is released and that should solve the problem.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Once i got used to the UI the game took off...there is so much win with this game its not even funny. Easily the best rpg i have ever played.
Have you seen a dungeon repopulate? i've cleared around 20 dungeons so far and slept for a few days to see if they respawned and on the map they still say cleared and when i went back they had the same dead bodies.
Maybe you're referring to ruins and camps? those respawn.
Playing: Nothing
Looking forward to: Nothing
If your above level 25 and actually focused in a particular perk tree up the difficulty a bit.
With crafted and enhanced armor alone you will rip most of the game a new one if u dont up the difficulty.
Playing: Nothing
Looking forward to: Nothing
Too many people, including the ones that are shamelessly gushing about the game, claim that the UI was optimized for consoles not for PCs. They generally close with something like, "...but after a while I learned to deal with it". That tells me that you need to adapt to a system that wasn't well made to start with, but not so bad as to make the game unplayable. A good UI lets you slide right into it within a few minutes, with little or no headscratching.
Nothing breaks a game faster for me than a poor interface, which nearly all console ports share. I'm still going to wait for a decent mod to fix that up before I try the game so I don't start off playing it with a sour taste in my mouth. I'd hate to have an otherwise good experience ruined due to a goofy interface. I suspect that I'll still be able to buy the game a few weeks or months from now when many of the other rough edges have also been smoothed over by a dedicated modding community. Maybe it will even be a Christmas present to myself.
I plugged a controller in. People bitch so much. Just shut up and use a controller or take the 10 minutes and learn the UI with a KB+M.
Playing: Nothing
Looking forward to: Nothing