[Mr. Mechanical]

http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/11/07/skyrim-official-strategy-guide-blog-1-something-to-shout-about/

Holy hell that looks like a cool guide. Sounds like top notch toilet-reading-material.

Also the game has gone gold officially and should be available for preload on Steam sometime this week before releasing on Friday.
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[CubaLibre]

[Toptube]

BenoitRen, bugs can be fun!

[DJ]

Bethesda claims they have a new QA tool to help eliminate (or at least vastly reduce) bugs this time around. We'll see; I'm not exactly holding my breath but it didn't stop me from pre-ordering the game months ago. I wish they'd test their games better but the end product is such where if this is what we have to put up with, so be it. It is going to annoy me but it won't prevent me from playing their shit. Plus, hey, patches. New Vegas is actually pretty fucking stable now! Somehow!

(For PC anyway; woe betide you if you got the PS3 version, which is not a mistake I will ever make again)
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[costel]

[Flylighter]

[Ratoslov]

I, for one, am looking forward to someone's Complete Pony Conversion mod, which makes every humanoid NPC into ponies.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

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[Oh God Spiders No]

Burning Question:

Will all Dark Elf women sound like Granny from Muppet Babies?

The video is suspiciously vague on the matter.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

Game is available for preload. It's downloading now. 5.8 gigs. Eeeeeeh. Just a couple more days until Friday.
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[radish]

Well, I guess I bought it today.
Preloaded and ready to go.

I think the thing I'm most excited about is making a character that doesn't look like the guy in every single piece promotional art ever.
That seriously bugs me for some reason.

[TXTSWORD]

[Mr. Mechanical]

[DJ]

Do I play an Orc or an Argonian?

Currently leaning towards Orc.
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[DJ]

I...You guys.

I am gonna geek out on this motherfucker so hard.

SO HARD.

It's gonna be bad and I apologize in advance.

I'm almost 30 and I'm still doing this.


FUCK IT.
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[evnvnv]

don't you work in video games? i figure that is all the rationalization you need to just keep going at it to your heart's content. it's professional development!
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The text will not live forever. The cup are small

[DJ]

[Mr. Mechanical]

[DJ]

I'm leaning towards Orc because playing as a Nord seems way too obvious and I wanna subvert that at least a little, but I'm also very much along for the ride on this one and playing Big Aggressive Species seems apt in a way I'll find enjoyable. I'm sure playing Female Wood Elf who becomes Nordic Hero will be amusing in its own right but my first time through I'm willing to go according to script a bit.

Or maybe not. We'll see what fits once I have it in hand. I'm really just gonna roll with where it takes me. Male Orc is where I'm leaning but that's just based on conjecture so far, I'm totally open to changing it up based on what I see.
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[Toptube]

In Morrowind I eventually settled on whichever reace was impervious to Lightnilng magic, by default. Or maybe it was just -50%, I CAN'T REMEMBER.

[bleak]

full on argonian using both hands to blast anyone that looks at me funnymy foes into smithereens!
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[CubaLibre]

Best class is an Argonian Hoplite, Spears / Athletics / Medium Armor
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Let's Play, starring me.

[bleak]

cuba post about hoplites in the etymology thread ok thanks
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[Mr. Mechanical]

I don't think Skyrim has an Athletics skill. Or Spears :/
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[CubaLibre]

Of course it doesn't. And it never will again.
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Let's Play, starring me.

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

http://killscreendaily.com/articles/things-i-ate-skyrim

fantastic on multiple levels
quite possibly the most concise article ever written on how a game can be both amazing and stupid

[Mr. Mechanical]

Oh my god the next 26 hours or however long until it unlocks are going to be excruciating for me. I hope Steam unlocks it early so I can start playing it tomorrow night instead of mid-morning Friday.
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[DJ]

We are torturing one of our CS guys at work by repeatedly announcing the time -- in minutes, then in seconds -- that he's going to have to wait before he can play Skyrim.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

http://skyrim2011.info/

Less than 90,000 seconds until release. How about that.
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[Tlon]

I played one session of Oblivion. Got out of the industry dungeon, wandered around trying to get into the Mage's Guild because I built a mage, and then got bored.

With most games - even the most mediocre iPhone games or crappy action titles - I usually get excited enough to play at least until the first boss/quest/whatever. with Oblivion I just got bored. I feel like I should give it another chance, but I really don't want to.

maybe this will be better?
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Someday somethings coming
From way out beyond the stars
To kill us while we stand here
It will store our brains in mason jars

[field balm]

i dunno i feel like that about 98% of singleplayer games these days

i have a sad feeling skyrim will be the same :(
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[TXTSWORD]

[DJ]

Breaking the Holy Writs by linking to Kotaku but oh well: The Elder Scrolls games were really fucking ugly.

Don't be That Guy who says Daggerfall actually looked good for its time. It didn't. At all. >:(

Don't even get me started on the fist-eatingly horrible Staying At The Inn music that used to drive my dad so nuts that he'd demand I played the game with the sound off and I don't blame him.

Neither was Battlespire (although it had a pretty character creation screen) or Redguard.

Also apparently there was an nGage ES game -- I found it because I was sure Kotaku missed a few ES games in there -- and I haven't played that one fuck fuck fuck no I am not digging up an nGage emulator fuck you.


(oh god yes i am)
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

it may not have "looked good", but it was a marvel in terms of graphics/atmosphere.
Speaking of which, does anyone know where I might find complete sets of the sprites from Arena/Daggerfall?

[Tulpa]

fuckin love the winter theme from daggerfall

yes daggerfall was ugly for its time it looked worse than Strife (not picking a game with amazing art direction like doom but something a bit more representative of 2.5d games at the time)

NPCs vacillated between hand drawn sprites and donkey kong style 3d models rendered into 2d sprites and the hand drawn sprites were only drawn from the front so they always rotated to face you. That being said, DaggerXL has some lovely distant landscapes going on.

Morrowind had good concept art and plenty of nice environments but jesus every single character was hideous.

Oblivion was solid ugly

Skyrim is solid ugly
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[Flylighter]

There's my character, she's a total babe. She's also going to be an absolute brigand. I just levelled up for the first time by pickpocketing a ring from the innkeeper!



I don't know who this character is but I'm pretty sure it's Saul Tigh.

The first and only thing I've eaten so far is venison!
Also get ready for berrypick extravaganza again.
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I'm on Steam! ----- I'm on Youtube!

[Mr. Mechanical]

So the game is getting a lot of really good reviews but that hardly tells us anything. RPS said it was the new Best Elder Scrolls Game Ever, ousting Morrowind. Less controversially PCGamer raves about it without treading into hyperbole-territory. I particularly like that they mention the world is chock full of neat, unique places and areas to discover in comparison to Oblivion's "sparse repetition".

When I turned my computer on a minute ago Steam downloaded something for Skyrim that was 18 mb in size but the game still remains locked for me for presumably another five or so hours. I am probably going to stay up really late playing it if it actually does unlock at midnight.
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[TXTSWORD]

just gunna mod this game to pretend I'm playing monster hunter.

[Ymer]

[CubaLibre]

That...
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Let's Play, starring me.

[bort]

Hahahahahaha I came here to post that




hahahahahahahahahahaha