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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Started by Mister Six, December 13, 2010, 08:26:51 PM

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Benevolent Despot

For some reason they start talking about weird sex stuff and Ms Chobot tells Fall Out Boy how to perform felching and admits to having loads of gay anime porn.

Aha, yes I found it again. It starts about 2.40 in this version: http://youtu.be/O5a9cjkh9DU?t=2m42s

The whole interview is awkwardly hillarious, one of the Fall Out Boy guys says his name is Jason and it's not. Chobot doesn't know this and keeps repeating his name loudly, trying to flirt with him and shit. Cue much embarrassment.

Benevolent Despot

The above post looks a bit out of place at the top of a new page, doesn't it? Anyway, yeah, Skyrim, I'm waiting until Christmas for it, so soon after 11/11/11 I will not lay eyes upon this thread until I've happily explored all avenues in the game. I'm guessing this could be some time.

Tokyo Sexwhale

Has anyone found a deal for this?  I rarely buy games on release, so how soon can I expect it to drop in price?

I might get it anyway, as I've usually waited until it gets to the £15-£20 territory, but by then it's been explored to death and everything is given away on the internet, and the OCD side of me keeps checking it to make sure I haven't missed some nasty weapon of ultimate death in a dark corner of a cave.

Eis Nein

May as well wait until the necessary mods come out. Unless you're part of the problem. Are you part of the problem?

Viero_Berlotti

Personally, after the New Vegas debacle I've vowed never to buy a Bethesda game on release day again. There are always loads of problems that are inevitably fixed with a patch a couple of weeks after release. New Vegas dropped from about £40 to £20 in the space of about 4-6 weeks from release. I don't think you can expect that to happen with Skyrim though.

Ignatius_S

Cheapest places are most likely to be the supermarkets – console versions are around £38, whilst the PC one can be had for just under £28. I know this is a bit more than the price

Quote from: Viero_Berlotti on November 10, 2011, 12:31:51 PM
... There are always loads of problems that are inevitably fixed with a patch a couple of weeks after release. New Vegas dropped from about £40 to £20 in the space of about 4-6 weeks from release. I don't think you can expect that to happen with Skyrim though.

Yup, generally waiting a little is advisable – and I think, you're right about it's going to take a bit longer for the price drop, particularly as we're in the run-up to Christmas.

mcbpete

My housemate will buy it on release date (probably a special edition), play it for about a week - then in about a month's time take it back to Game as a trade-in. Even though he's said he hates RPGs - the guy just leaks money .....

jutl

Slightly concerning that the PS3 version hasn't been shown to reviewers yet (or IGN at least). It's hard to know which (console) version to get. Oblivion was better on the PS3, but that was a later (I think outsourced) port. Fallout 3 and New Vegas were less good on the PS3, if I remember correctly.

Ignatius_S

Quote from: jutl on November 10, 2011, 03:29:00 PM
Slightly concerning that the PS3 version hasn't been shown to reviewers yet (or IGN at least)....

That looks more to do with IGN than that general state of things - quite a few PS3 reviews... haven't spotted anything about which console version is better - do have a feeling you're right about F3.

jutl

Quote from: Ignatius_S on November 10, 2011, 03:36:04 PM
quite a few PS3 reviews...

Of those 7 so far listed in Metacritic as PS3 reviews, some are definitely not (videogamer.com) and some others are unclear. The PS only titles reviews you can basically ignore, as they cannot really pimp a rival version. The Strategy Informer one seems to be the only unequivocal, unaffiliated PS3 review in Metacritic, which seems a little odd to me.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Just pretend the entire games market is happening with a years delay on it- everything becomes very affordable. You do have to switch off from the hype though, which has been quite difficult with Skyrim.

Borboski

Now I've got Dark Souls I've lost all interest in Skyrim..!  I now the combat won't be as good; I guess I'll pick it up after Xmas.

Seriously Dark Souls is amazing. 

Ignatius_S

Quote from: jutl on November 10, 2011, 03:45:00 PM
Of those 7 so far listed in Metacritic as PS3 reviews, some are definitely not (videogamer.com) and some others are unclear. The PS only titles reviews you can basically ignore, as they cannot really pimp a rival version. The Strategy Informer one seems to be the only unequivocal, unaffiliated PS3 review in Metacritic, which seems a little odd to me.

Sure, I know what you mean and I guess a few will be just using the 360 for the write-up but at least review copies are being out there (even if not used).

Found this comparison of screenshots at Now Gamer - also, I had a quick look at the reviews there. Although the overall mark was the same, the scoring of elements did differ... not sure how much of a use it will be and only had a quick scan, but hopefully there might be something.

*edit* Side-by-side comparisons here.

rudi

Ah booze. Apparently I bought this last night on Steam. I do hope it's good; I've never played one of these games before.

Mister Six

Quote from: Viero_Berlotti on November 10, 2011, 12:31:51 PM
Personally, after the New Vegas debacle I've vowed never to buy a Bethesda game on release day again. There are always loads of problems that are inevitably fixed with a patch a couple of weeks after release. New Vegas dropped from about £40 to £20 in the space of about 4-6 weeks from release. I don't think you can expect that to happen with Skyrim though.

To be fair, NV was developed by Obsidian, who have a habit of overreaching themselves when planning games, only to rush them out onto the market in a bug-ridden mess. The Bethesda-produced Fallout 3 was much more stable than NV, and I'm sure they'll put even more effort into Skyrim, which is the latest entry in their tentpole franchise and the first to use their new graphics engine.

jutl

Quote from: Ignatius_S on November 10, 2011, 04:14:45 PM
Sure, I know what you mean and I guess a few will be just using the 360 for the write-up but at least review copies are being out there (even if not used).

Found this comparison of screenshots at Now Gamer - also, I had a quick look at the reviews there. Although the overall mark was the same, the scoring of elements did differ... not sure how much of a use it will be and only had a quick scan, but hopefully there might be something.

*edit* Side-by-side comparisons here.

Thanks for those... The still screenshots seem to show better textures on the 360 while the video seems to show better textures on the PS3. There is apparently a problem with the 360 version which means that when installed it sometimes fails to stream in textures in a timely fashion (counter-intuitively) so possibly the video shows that bug.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

The new engine is nice, but by the look of it they really had to put a lot of thought into the cave design and the paths to get anything more out of such an old console. The textures and overall feel of the graphics aren't impressive. They're standard Xbox360 graphics now. What are impressive are the geographical features- the distant, reachable mountains and the light seeping down into the cave, they looked melt-in-the-mouth. As usual a lot of these games need to be played on a decent TV and sound system, so its not fair to speculate too much on the look of things.

Umm, I hope they put some effort into improving combat in first person- the magic and bow stuff is a lot ore intuitive by the looks of it but in terms of acrobatics and movement, I find it a little frustratingly locked into that tunnel vision perspective.

There was an old Xbox game called Breakdown that did quite a lot of interesting things with the first person template- I think it might have even been a Konami game, amazingly. Some dodges, some forward rolls etc, they wouldn't go amiss. That video features the guy being blasted with fire and standing on the spot.

P.S- The return of part of the Morrowind score!!

HappyTree

There is definitely something up with the Xbox side of that comparison video. I have never seen such blurry close-up textures in any game on it since I got it. Especially when the camera looks at the tree trunk. I suspect this is not an entirely accurate comparison.

Re: Breakdown. Yeah I played that. Still have it. I gave up because it was too hard, but it was great.

Zetetic

Quote from: Shoulders?-Stomach! on November 10, 2011, 09:33:30 PM
As usual a lot of these games need to be played on a decent
PC.

And I'm saying that as someone whose laptop will likely barely manage (and I quote from a semi-official forum post on the matter) "to look as good as the console version".

And that's setting aside the mods, which as others on here will verify, massively improved upon the last two Fallout offerings. I don't think that there are many games where it matters a great deal whether you get them for a console or a PC, but I would count this among them.

Marv Orange

The lazy shits left a console interface on a pc game so frustrating

Tokyo Sexwhale

Has anyone had a go on this yet?

Big Jack McBastard

A smidge early no?

I'll have it tomorrow/today fo sho.

Tokyo Sexwhale

Ah, I thought a few people had already downloaded it.



DocDaneeka

Hah stupid stuff in Elder Scrolls games is always funny, I think it's the po-faced voice acting.

Anyway sounds good according to Rock Paper Shotgun's review and Addendum. I think I'll have to get it on the PC for the mods and extra prettiness, It worked well with Witcher 2 so it should be good enough for this.

Shoulders?-Stomach!


WesterlyWinds

Sadly my laptop won't be able to handle Skyrim as it struggles a little with Oblivion. I don't mind buying it for the PS3, though, as I'm sure I read somewhere that Bethesda were trying to work out a way to allow the modding community to get their teeth into the PS3 market. Then again, I may have dreamt that.

Viero_Berlotti

Quote from: WesterlyWinds on November 11, 2011, 03:35:27 PM
I'm sure I read somewhere that Bethesda were trying to work out a way to allow the modding community to get their teeth into the PS3 market. Then again, I may have dreamt that.

I think it may have been mooted but nothing seems to have come of it as yet.

Lt Plonker

I'm not getting into it as much as I did Fallout 3. Maybe elves and wizards and shit just don't do it for me.