Thread: Skyrim

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is being released in the US friday Are you exited? If so, what are you most exited about?

not really, the game looks good and probably will be good, but I'm more looking forward for Diablo 3, but still gonna play Skyrim till D3

Very Excited!! Can't wait to explore the new world and see how the dialog works out. that and the personal unique quests!

Originally Posted by avyn_trahelion

Very Excited!! Can't wait to explore the new world and see how the dialog works out. that and the personal unique quests!

i agree plus the design your own weapon was genius!

Being a major Bethesda fanboy, I have pre ordered my copy to pick up at Gamestop on midnight Thursday. I'll play all night, and have Friday off.

360? check.
Couch? Check.
Wife and kids(they are grown) at work? Check.
Drink and snacks? Check.
Totally useless human being on Friday? Most assuredly, CHECK!

Originally Posted by Nymphonic

Being a major Bethesda fanboy, I have pre ordered my copy to pick up at Gamestop on midnight Thursday. I'll play all night, and have Friday off.

360? check.
Couch? Check.
Wife and kids(they are grown) at work? Check.
Drink and snacks? Check.
Totally useless human being on Friday? Most assuredly, CHECK!

aaahhhaameeeeen

Really looking forward to Skyrim, even though I was not a fan of Oblivion. Strangly though I loved D1&2 but D3 just does not hold any interest for me.

I am looking forward to it, but I can't buy it right now. So I am waiting and I have a few MMO's that are free that will keep me busy until I can get it.

Turbine, you know I love you but on Friday Middle Earth will just have to wait.

I'm kind of excited over this game. I am definitely going to pick it up. I just hope it doesn't feel too similar to Oblivion.

In the past, I wouldn't even bother to try this game. But with the Draigoch’s bug (the one that no dev talks about: http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...eral-Complaint.), I will give it a try.

The TV promo looked quite good. I doubt the actual game animation is anywhere near as well-done.

Originally Posted by Braethor

The TV promo looked quite good. I doubt the actual game animation is anywhere near as well-done.

Live action spot? Or is there another commercial I missed?

Originally Posted by Braethor

The TV promo looked quite good. I doubt the actual game animation is anywhere near as well-done.

Oh of course not!

Originally Posted by Berecron

Live action spot? Or is there another commercial I missed?

It was a very well animated commercial, with a truly awe-inspiring dragon dropping in at the end. 2H sword the warrior pulled looked really nice, too.

I have cancelled my LOTRO account and am preloading Skyrim as we speak...

Any other game I play at the moment, and for the last 2 weeks, has just bored me after a few hours of play.

The anticipation is palpable...

Picking up my copy in 3 1/2 hours at Game Stop. It's gonna be a loooooooooooong night in front of my tv.........

Any REVIEWS so far? Did anyone start playing already?
I'm glad I took it from direct2drive - I read nightmares from steam downloading at 100kb/s - I'm downloading at full speed of my DSL line. Not to mention Direct2drive here in Europe is 5 Euros cheaper than Steam.

Not sure but I think Skyrim releases here in the UK on the 14th.

I will probably buy Skyrim at some point - not in a hurry for it though.

I have Oblivion gathering dust on a shelf after only a short time playing it (work / family time constraints back when I bought it!).

Originally Posted by UKNightWatch

Not sure but I think Skyrim releases here in the UK on the 14th.

I don't think so - I already bought it on Direct2drive.co.uk

Originally Posted by UKNightWatch

Not sure but I think Skyrim releases here in the UK on the 14th.

I will probably buy Skyrim at some point - not in a hurry for it though.

I have Oblivion gathering dust on a shelf after only a short time playing it (work / family time constraints back when I bought it!).

Its out today in the UK, ready and waiting for me when I get home from work

I played it a bit before work (for about an hour), this morning. The combat seems really good, and the models/textures are really great. The UI and the de-RPG-ification are crummy, but hopefully mods should be able to fix both of those.

I have a hunch that this'll be a 8/10 on consoles and a 10/10 on PC, once mods get out and the community takes care of some of the issues.

One thing I'd like to understand is why stupid steam insist on downloading a huge amount of data even though you just installed the full game...

Originally Posted by Korrigan

One thing I'd like to understand is why stupid steam insist on downloading a huge amount of data even though you just installed the full game...

I believe that "stupid Steam" was auto-downloading a patch for you.

Originally Posted by Eluros

I believe that "stupid Steam" was auto-downloading a patch for you.

Wrong, it's actually a bug (confirming "stupid steam"), and I fixed it using this advice:

its a bug, the steam servers didnt validate your install. Pause the download, delete local content and run the disc installer again. the whole game is on disc and it will be way faster. i had same problem and this solved it.

go to library on steam. right click on the downloading skyrim
pause download
right click again and choose delete local content ( ull get a warning)
run disc installer and watch the speed pick up!

Maybe it can help other people

Did anyone else have the "dang, but this is Edoras!" moment at the first town after the introduction? Not the little village, the town on that hill (trying not to give names to avoid spoilers).

Originally Posted by Korrigan

I don't think so - I already bought it on Direct2drive.co.uk

Originally Posted by Runesi_EU

Its out today in the UK, ready and waiting for me when I get home from work

Well, so be it! I was refering to shop bought editions of Skyrim and I know my local supermarket (name not needed) has preorders for the game to be picked up on the 14th - xbox and PS3 versions if I remember correctly but not the PC version.

Will maybe check the thre games shops in town tommorow or I will probably check out the DL sites tonight but I'm not really in a hurry to get the game.

Headsup appreciated.

I've been playing this game all day, it owns.
But actually, I feel like I might have been better off picking it up on the 360 because the controls/graphics don't seem to be taking advantage of my PC at all. The controls are very console-ish and there's a lot of instances where you need to hit keys when your mouse should have been the tool to do the job. The graphics are good but you can tell that they're using the same low res textures in the PC version, which is understandable for a game this large.

So yeah, minor issues with the PC version aside, I am in love with the game and I will be playing this game relentlessly any chance I get for the next long time.

So far this game is pretty awesome. I think the map is probably about the same size as oblivions but it feels so much larger and more alive. So far I am enjoying this even more than Oblivion. The UI however is obviously designed for a console and doesn't really work that well for the PC, i'm sure this will get modded and fixed in the future.

This wasn't playtested on a PC =) No default command is intuitive, turning off the default 360 joystick thingie doesn't actually do anything such as remap your keys to something logical for a keyboard - and if you manually remap it just resets at random...

...oh and set specific items to a key also doesn't actually stick, your setting disappears.

If one guy in dev team had set his bullterrier to check the UI using a keyboard once for five minutes during a coffee-break, the glaring mistakes would have been instantly recognizable.

75 USD later, I wish I'd not preordered but instead waited for the hacked ripped and torn-out versions with at least a modded UI.

You close containers using TAB.
You open using E you take all using R you take whatever in container happens to be highlighted hitting E again. Pressing ESC gets you a menu.
This is the mapping my game randomly reverts to.

And find some hack for the lockpicking, rather improbable mini-game design if you use a mouse.


Then there is STEAM.

You can't start installing without inserting STEAM into your...system.

STEAM has an offline mode once it has finished inserting itself into your...system but it still tries to chat with the internets.

Again, in slow motion:
if you have the DVD, you cannot simply install the game

The procedure to NOT get the default download 5gb from STEAM and instead install from the DVD includes starting to download from STEAM, going into the STEAM interface and deleting all local content (an option that isn't there until you botched a STEAM download already).

Then you use the command prompt to start the install.

Did I say command prompt? Yes, this is harder to install than it was to run Daggerfall under an unpatched Windows ME.

STEAM doesn't actually have enough power to fire up a download or a patch and you will be kept waiting for that if there are a lot of users at the same time. If you change what server STEAM chats with, all your STEAM settings and options will be lost. Still, it may help you as it helped me.

Had a half day at work, picked up the game, inserted the DVD and waited a mere five hours to see my first loading screen.

I just got done playing about 8 hours on my 360. Bethesda really outdid themselves this time. That game is so full of win. It seems like they took the best out of everyone of their games, including Fallout 3 and put it in Skyrim.

I love this game. Sorry Turbine, you're gonna have to be put on hold for now.....

So guys, in your opinion... Winterhold = Edoras, or not? (or Edoras as it could be in game)


PS:

I have absolutely no problems playing this game on a PC, the controls are quite easy to get used to and quite intuitive too.

I also had the "steam downloads 5gb" problem, and I solved it very easily by using the method I already posted in this thread and that I will repeat in case someone missed it:

its a bug, the steam servers didnt validate your install. Pause the download, delete local content and run the disc installer again. the whole game is on disc and it will be way faster. i had same problem and this solved it.

go to library on steam. right click on the downloading skyrim
pause download
right click again and choose delete local content ( ull get a warning)
run disc installer and watch the speed pick up!

I disagree on the 'intuitive' bit =)
I feel the user interface and keymapping are unfinished and clunky and - again - not at all tested on a PC prior to release. My dvd says it's to be used with a PC. I dislike that it isn't.

1) play it on a 360 or the like
2) if you must play it on a PC, shop a joystick
3) if you can't stand joysticks, wait for a mod that utilizes a keyboard

I remap and it resets.

STEAM is not a bug, it's a feature. It's there to stop piracy. At least that's what a good friend tells me who has been playing the game on his 360 for a week prior to release.

Originally Posted by Macroscian

I disagree on the 'intuitive' bit =)
I feel the user interface and keymapping are unfinished and clunky and - again - not at all tested on a PC prior to release. My dvd says it's to be used with a PC. I dislike that it isn't.

To each his own, I had no problems adapting to the controls. And I play with keyboard/mouse, not a joystick. I also remapped a couple of keys (notably the "auto run" one I'm used to have at a specific place because of MMORPGs) without any problems, and my settings save just fine.

Originally Posted by Macroscian

STEAM is not a bug, it's a feature. It's there to stop piracy. At least that's what a good friend tells me who has been playing the game on his 360 for a week prior to release.

The fact that steam downloads the full game again IS a BUG. The piracy protection is the little bit it downloads once PROPERLY installed from the DVD, after the little manipulation I talked about in my previous post, and which is WAY less than the 5gb it tries to download when bugged.

How do you pronounce the name of the game? Is it "sky-rim" or "skirrim" or what?

Sky as "look at the sky" and rim, like the rim of a basketball hoop. The reason I know this is that the npcs talk.

Thanks for the info

I still haven't decided if I should spend the $59.99 right this second....lol I've almost went to buy like 3 times today!

This is the TV commercial




and this is lotro TV commercial (compared to Skyrim this one is a fail)

I actually like the LOTRO commercial much better. Skyrim is all boom boom boom, and LOTRO has subtlety and finesse. The music says it all.

Some like the boom, some like the depth and upliftment.

Room for all.