http://www.gametrailers.com/video/vga-10-tba-game-2/708369

(VIDEO TRAILER)


Looks like it's going to be sick. 11/11/11

Can't wait for this or Reckoning (first game from Curt Schilling's 38 Studios)

this is relevant to my interests

will be great, but what a useless trailer

Seriously useless. But excited. Using a new engine also.

ACTUAL SCREENSHOT

Psyched! Was wondering if they were going to use a new engine or recycle the same one again..

PSYCHEDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

new engine, I read.

PSYYYYYYYYYYYYKE

did anyone ever play any of the kings quest games by sierra? 5 was great.

yeah...might and magic were awesome too

Kings Quest/Space Quest /Indiana Jones/Day of the Tentacle so backed.

DISCOVER THE FATE OF ATLANTIS YOU WON'T

this place makes my fav old school homage RPG games:

http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/

Avernum FTW

for fans of:
Realmz
Exile Series
Warlords II

old school gamers

Various gameplay details: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/114/1143527p1.html

i just got an exclusive preview quest demo CD of this...its incredible

lol

im an hour into it... Total cult dungeon crawl

oh... you were serious. How'd you get that?

you have to talk to the old lady by the river in the shivering isles...she gives you a code you can enter on their website for a preview disc...

I don't think I even go to the shivering isles

i'm completely lying here...

if there was a demo of it out, it'd be everywhere.

I barely played shivering isles too because my HD shit the bed and you had to play that expansion directly off the HD instead of the CD

Been goofing around in Oblivion lately on my new machine. Tons of graphical mods on it.

Pretty excited for this.

I have morrowind sitting upstairs.

OH EM GEE

http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/142/14267318/imgs_1.html

Will buy..

fucking hell... Bethesda kills it every time.

I think I remember this image from my 2nd Edition AD+D players guide.

"Smell it. Enjoy.

It's like God's vagina.

What, you wanna bathe in it?

I wanna live in here."

Frank?

For those of you who are drooling about the graphics and will prefer to play this on Xbox 360... one can obtain a graphics card far superior to that of 360's on a PC..

FACT BOMB

Hopefully this is the best game ever. Morrowind and Oblivion could have been the best games ever but it seemed like the creators didn't put as much into the story and funness as they put into the cutting edge style of gameplay, especially Morrowind. Don't get me wrong. They're awesome games but it kind of seemed like frosting the best cake ever with just a very good frosting.

It's gay that the PC is getting phased out for gaming. Especially when WOW is earning billions of dollars. It just doesn't make sense.

Agreed. Steam is the new PC gaming.

I miss the old days of walking into an Electronic's Boutique and seeing a whole wall dedicated to PC Games. Now you're lucky to get one tiny shelf in the back. And it's all shitty games.

New video, bitches



bennyhillifier

They brought the Morrowind music back!

bonersauce

looks sick

That's not a pokemon, that's a chinese myth dragon.

HARD IN MY PANTs

fuck I wanna watch that new video but my phones not having it. Is there in game footage? Cuz the last trailer was useless.

There is actual gameplay this time and it was running on 360. Looks like a huge improvement.

yea i just watched it. CANT WAIT

Amazing

Consoles to be the lead platform for Skyrim, aim to make it “really accessible”

ugh.

Pc Gaming is dead. I'm going to take my life with it.

and then quit RTTP.

FREEEEEEEEEDDOOOOOOMMMM

good!

Just upgraded my video card and power supply for this. RPG=meant for PC

Backd

This is coming out a month after Dark Souls. I am going to live in a cave for a while.

bennyhillifier
Possibly relative to interests on this thread.

http://www.g4tv.com/videos/53441/the-elder...-scrolls-v-skyrim-e3-gameplay-demo/

fapfapfap

meh. looks like oblivion. reality simulation.

ride a dragon or hockomock

I have morrowind sitting right in front of me.

it looks awesome. I hated the fighting of elder scrolls.

I also hate when older scrolls stand up on my shelving unit and start fighting. The young ones just watch from afar.

Yes Jim what is it?

Nothing really. Wasn't sure if you're Frankovhell as well

I've never even hear of Witcher...was it PC only?

PC only. The Witcher 2 is coming to 360 though.

The Witcher 2 is the best RPG since Oblivion and has far better storytelling. The world isn't as "open" but it doesn't hold your hand either. I didn't know it was coming out for 360 but that's good news because I know you'd like it Andrew.

y'all need to watch THIS gameplay video!



bennyhillifier

WATCH THIS VIDEO

looks like an upgraded version of Oblivion

Who would've thunk?

im psyched this new one will actually have monsters you fight oppose to rats and skeletons, nonetheless its fun anyways.

Brutally hard at times, but agreed, one of the best games in...forever. Well worth the video card upgrade.

Watched video. Came.

Wiped up with Ghost shirt.

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/118/1181905p1.html

"5 major cities" ??? WTF is this shit. BRING BACK DAGGERFALL

oblivion had only one!

Can't talk now, roaming an entire continent in Ultima IV from fucking 1985. Lemme know when technology catches up to 1985 standards, I'll get excited.

lol. True. Daggerfall's map was the equivalent of the size of the UK

Cant fucking wait. playin the witcher 2 in the meantime

look at the image gallery on that link....i just fap'd to it

>

Damn, that's awesome.

this game looks SOOO BAD. only posers would play it. fantasy dumb.

duel wielding spells sounds pretty cool , can't wait to quit my job and play this all winter.

http://www.g4tv.com/videos/54813/the-elder...-scrolls-5-skyrim-hands-on-preview/

it actually looks like Eddie (maiden mascot, ya fag)

Haha it does

Still debating getting it for PC or PS3. Bethesda said it would be more oriented towards consoles. I don't know how I feel about that, but I do like the idea of melting into my recliner to play it.

Get a better computer chair.

actually *raises glasses up* i have one of these. it fucking rules.

http://www.hon.com/Products/Chairs/MAM1.aspx

get it for 360 and win

get it for 360 if you like shitty graphics

Cards in PC are better. I think this argument is silly, although if it's made for 360 it might run smoother. I want to see comparison videos soon

PC is the obvious choice. They're just saying that it'll be better for consoles so that I won't download it.

if fallouts and oblivion are any indication, they look infinitely better on PC. you can crank the settings, and the consoles just don't have the memory for the draw distance and better textures. ALSO remember that most games run in 720P which is ONLY 1280x720, usually you run PC games in at least 1600x900. there's really no comparison, the only difference is the way a TV projects it's image versus a computer monitor. TV projects in large format which makes "small" resolutions appear larger, but pixels are still easier to see in console games.

and if the argument is Xbox vs. PS3 then PS3's hardware is better and developers are squeezing more out of the PS3 these days. The Xbox came out in 2005 and PS3 in 2006, they are ancient in hardware age.

FUCK ALL OF YOU...360 or Phalse

fanboy gauntlet has been tossed

i think they just mean the menus and control scheme will just be more "accessible", not really tuned to run better on anything.

i'd play on console if i had a half way decent PC but I have a terrible laptop...

A bunch of game devs have said that the control scheme is better on console than PC. PC controls for Oblivion were just fine, and when it comes to dual wielding and other commands, I have enough buttons on my mouse to handle everything. And my ps3 controller works on my PC if all else fails. What.

this statement CONFUSES AND ENRAGES ME

it does that to me too...i wouldnt play on PC..only console is real.

Havent PC game'd since WCII/Diablo/Starcraft Blizzard Hey Days

yea me neither for the most part but I played alot of day of defeat and natural selection via Steam

One month away.
Fuck the Anthrax show, this is more important.

SO PUMPED...perfect release for winter...much less reason to go outside!

Just enough time for me to finish up Dead Island.

is dead island on 360?

oh nm...im thinking of a different game.

im not into zombie killing games

new shots...

orrrr just go here
http://imgur.com/a/qQnwM#2

pre ordering on friday with paycheck

also...masterbating to new screen shots

Apparently those screenshots are from the console versions. I wanna see some PC shots or get some minimum/recc'd specs for srsly.

I'm playing it on xbox 360...always have so I'm pretty psyched.

360 is inferior nigga

YEAH WELL I USE AN APPLE LAPTOP AT HOME SO "PC" ISN'T REALLY AN OPTION NOW IS IT?

I prefer it on console honestly. The only games I prefer on PCs are ones where you're using a mouse to do things, ie diablo, warcraft, command and conquer etc. I never understood how people played those on console...

But I preferred games like doom/duke nukem/q3e with a controller hooked up to my PC; why not just play on console?

I guess it's just a matter of preference. I personally cant stand playing ANY 1st person game with a controller.
Also, the video card in 360 is outdated, although they made it for the console.
That was a major backstab to us PC fags because all previous Elder Scrolls games were designed as PC games first and foremost.

the PC version won't suffer any. don't worry. xbox is the old crotchety console by now but it won't detract from the experience. I'm thinking about getting the ps3 version only to add to my collection, i've noticed PS3 stuff is holding it's value really well. I'll still play it on PC though.

There's a Metal Gear remastered collection coming out around the same time. Plus I'm thinking of dropping $ for the Skyrim collector's edition. Goddamm that's mad $$$.

what comes with collectors edition? expansions?

I only just recently started playing Shivering Isles for Oblivion and its hard as a mother fucker!

surprisingly, there is no DLC or expansion crap that you have to pay for. it just comes with cool boxes, an art book, and a sweet bookend.

the bookend makes it all worth it...I may sack up and snag that too.

I actually just bought this 2 days ago and Im liking it alot. Its an open world rpg like oblivion and you kinda find survivors along the way to get quests and what not. Its holding me over until skyrim cuz deus ex was kinda boring.

gameplay artice with screens
http://www.1up.com/previews/played-skyrim-wrong-felt-so-right?pager.offset=0

the PC version will have a HUGE community of turbonerds with endless free time to create mods and add-ons, just like morrowind and oblivion. consoles can't do that shit.

old truths!

I'm one of those turbonerds :/

Just pre-ordered!!

Beta plays great so far.

bennyhillifier

I just caved and pre-ordered the collector's edition for PC.

^^^^ that video..."this movie's gonna be good!" WTF?

Should have got AoW1 instead.

what have you made? is there some sort of noob modding guide for the bethesda tech out there? i might get into modding for skyrim. ideally some sort of 2-4 player co-op mod, which i know was worked on for oblivion but i'm not sure how far the project went, or even just adding content.

steam sales coming up sooner or later.

Narkybark was Game Genie's programer.

One and a half weeks.

Also, I'ma change my name to Skyjim.

OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm gonna get so fat and lazy this winter.


watch the game completely suck for some reason.

There is no way this will suck. Bethesda is too good.

I knowwwww

Just my luck, my computer just shat the bed.

That's what happens when you illegally download music.

So I've never played any of Elder Scrolls games, but I've always heard they've been good. Is it like a FF-type RPG or no? I generally don't get into RPG type games, but this one looks friggin ridiculous.

timma i'd say the only way it's similar to FF is in the world map exploration. the big difference is that elder scrolls games emphasize going off the beaten path, and complete character customization. the combat is in real-time so it's action based, and you level up based on how you play - if you sneak around and use a bow, you get better at stealth and archery.


bennyhillifier


bennyhillifier

It's not like a jrpg by any means. Think of it as a fantasy movie and youre the main character and can do what ever you want.
It has a linear main mission, but most of it is non linear.

Watch out aril, I will post links to a cattle decapitation demo and call it Herugrim - Rituals (2012)

boring gameplay movies look boring though.

good new gameplay preview here too. sounds like a much better oblivion, psyched. [URL]http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/18/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-preview/[/URL] [quote]My coffee is stone cold. I don’t even know how long I’ve had it, I’ve been so completely lost in Skyrim. I’ve been granted a generous chunk of time to play the very latest build of the full game – no restrictions on what I can do or where I can go. And I’ve only just finished creating my character. At the start of the game, you’re being led to your execution. I’ve skipped to just after you get out of that, when you’re given one last chance to choose your race, gender and appearance before being let out into this vast and frosty world. Bethesda don’t want to spoil the main quest, and neither do I. The reason to be excited about Skyrim is your own story: the unique string of discoveries and adventures you run into. And because it’s unique, I can tell you mine without spoiling yours. Mine was the story of a scarlet-plumed Argonian with manic staring eyes. As I say, I spent a long time in character creation. Argonians are lizard men, and they’ve had a major overhaul in Skyrim: they look more monstrous, leathery, dinosaurian. As in every Elder Scrolls game, you start as a prisoner with no history or status. But the war paint, scars and dirt you can add during character creation make it feel different this time. They’ve made it easier to make a character who looks desperate, bedraggled and fierce. Every race looks leaner and meaner: previously adorable wood elves have piggy, dead black eyes. Previously goofy orcs look fierce and tribal. Once aloof high elves look withered and cruel. And dark elves- wait, no, dark elves always looked like jerks. My scary-eyed Argonian starts the game in a cave. At the other end, a dazzling light shines through chunks of blue ice, and as I step towards it, a prompt appears: ‘To Skyrim’. Morrowind let you off a boat, into a misty fishing village overlooked by a giant tick. Oblivion let you out of a sewer, onto the shores of a shining lake. Skyrim lets you out of a cave, on the snowy slopes of a huge mountain. The craggy landscape stretches before you, half lost in the clouds. It’s one hell of a sight. I turn around and set off in the opposite direction. This is what I love about Elder Scrolls games. I love not doing what I’m told, avoiding what I’m pointed at, and going where I shouldn’t. Anyone wanting to take the well-trodden path in Skyrim can head down that slope, discover the small town of Riverwood, and kill a boss spider in a dark cave. But we’ve seen all that in the E3 demo – I want to see the rest of the world. A few minutes up the hill, I find a walled-off Nordic town I’m not allowed into. I hop on a few boulders and climb in anyway. Through a pair of heavy doors, I find subterranean torture chambers, and dead adventurers rotting in tiny cages. Only one seems worth looting – a robed guy with a book in his cell – but it’s locked. Lockpicking is no longer a tumbler-tickling nightmare: you just swivel one pick to what you hope is a sweet spot, and try turning the lock with the other. It’ll turn a little if you’re close to the sweet spot, but turn too far in the wrong position and the pick snaps. It’s a system that works well in Fallout 3, and it feels slicker here. Persuasion, by the way, isn’t a minigame at all this time. Certain dialogue options have ‘[Persuade]’ in front of them, and your chance of success – which isn’t shown – depends on your skill. I never succeeded at one. The wizard has nothing much on him, but the book is worth it: it teaches me Spark, a streaming lightning spell. I try it out on a ribcage: a crackle of white energy leaps from my hand, jolting it across the room, and doesn’t stop. The roaring current keeps flowing as long as you hold the button. It’s an addictive feeling of power. Back out in the wilderness, I decide I need a destination. The map, when I bring it up, is beautiful: a bird’s-eye-view of the world, in full 3D and rotatable to view its geography. Parts of it are swamped in mist because, apparently, it’s actually misty there at this moment. I pan beyond the mountain I’m climbing now and look for the nearest city in this direction. Off to the east, the snowy slopes give way to milder forests running along a meandering river, and a few miles later the river leads to a city. I’m going to Riften. You can’t fast-travel to cities you haven’t visited already, but I want to walk it anyway. I haven’t gone far up the slopes when it starts to snow – lightly, then heavily, then a full-on blizzard. A cold haze creeps over everything, and I can barely see where I’m going. I stumble on some carefully piled rocks, and follow a trail of these as best I can. Until I come to one that’s splattered with blood and decorated with human bones. Ah. My compass indicates some kind of thing nearby, so I head to it. I could use a thing about now. The thing turns out to be Orphan Rock, a huge mass of stone jutting out from the mountainside. Scrambling through the snow, I find a way to the top and peer out into the storm. All I can make out is what looks like a huge carcass to the east. I jump down to investigate, and realise it’s a horse: dead and twisted next to an upturned cart. I ‘search’ its ‘inventory’ and ‘collect’ some horse meat, then freeze at the sound of steel. I scan the wreckage for movement, and realise there’s a large, shaggily dressed warrior making his way around it, battleaxe drawn. So about the new dual-wielding system. In your inventory, you equip an item or spell by pressing the button you want to assign it to: left or right. There are virtually no restrictions on what you can mix, so I’d mixed a flame spell in my left hand with the new lightning one in my right. And in the heat of the moment, it’s pretty natural to just hold down both. The crackling torrent of fire and electricity takes even me by surprise. A separate stream shoots from each hand, but they’re so thick and chaotic that it often looks like one vast beam of lightning and flame. I can barely see the warrior through the dazzling blaze, but when my magicka bar runs dry there’s only a corpse. At which point, a long sharp object zips past my head. Archers. Two of them, and I have no magicka. I will solve this by standing exactly behind a tree until I do. This is what they did for a cover system in fantasy times. Unfortunately, the warrior has a friend with a sword and shield, and he knows his way around a tree. I need something else to attack with, so I bring up my Favourites menu. Your inventory in Skyrim is like a web browser, in that you can bookmark items and bring that shortlist up in-game. Time is paused while you choose, so it’s not like a hotkey system – a difference I was glad of in this tight spot. I’d bookmarked my best onehanded sword, and I had two of them, so I hit the left and right buttons to put one in each hand. Melee combat is slightly more satisfying than in Oblivion, but light blows still feel a little unconvincing, and heavy ones still a little clumsy. My enemy was excellent at blocking, but I had a crucial advantage: I wasn’t going to ever stop attacking for any reason. Eventually he just couldn’t block all the blows from both my swords all the time, and he fell to his cuts. At which point, I had a full bar of magicka and my fire and lightning spells re-equipped. Charge! I am not a skilful man, so it took my whole magicka supply to keep my dual streams on the first archer long enough to burn him to the ground. Back to the favourites menu: two axes! Against a man with a bow, this fight goes better – it ends when I bring both axes crashing into either side of his head with a special dual power attack. Suddenly I’m alone in the blizzard, among the corpses of both the attackers and the travellers they evidently ambushed. I put my axes away and set off towards Riften. The blizzard doesn’t let up, and it’s getting dark. I start looking for another thing. My compass suggests there’s a boxy thing with lines in it to the north and a triangular thing to the west – I’m not yet familiar with what these icons represent. I head for the boxy thing, and by the time I arrive it’s night. It’s a small shack, lit by lamplight from the inside, and pretty glowing insects buzzing around outside. I try to catch one. ‘Sparkfly thorax collected’. What?! No! I didn’t mean- nevermind. Inside, I find the journal of an alchemist who lived here for a while. I use his apparatus to try mixing a few potions of my own: any two ingredients with a common effect will make a potion, but you have to eat one raw to find out any of their effects in advance. In the case of Nightshade and Death’s Bane, I decide to forego the taste test and just experiment. They produce a strong poison, which I apply to a sword I will forget to ever use again. Finally, I shut the door and decide to see if I can sleep through this storm – or at least the night. The next morning the sun is shining, I have a bonus to my health and magicka for sleeping in a good bed, and it’s only a short trudge through the snow before it gives way to an autumnal forest: silver birches with rustling yellow leaves. Soon I reach a camp of half a dozen large tents, erected around a fire with a roasting spit. Imperial guardsmen are milling about in their Roman-looking armour, so I trade with their quartermaster and then try their cooking apparatus. Cooking is a new feature where, as soon as you bring up the interface, all the imperial guardsmen around you draw their weapons, start shouting, and then run up the hill behind you while you gently stir a pot. Wait, I’m not sure that’s meant to happen. I join the guards, but I can’t see what they’re reacting to. Following their gazes, I head up a hill outside camp, then finally see it: a Redguard woman in leathers on a high rock, raining arrows down on the camp below. I draw a newly purchased warhammer, itching to try out two-handed weaponry on someone relatively defenceless. She draws a battleaxe. She runs at me, storming down the hill. I draw my warhammer back. She draws her battleaxe back. I swing. She swings – and an arrow hits her in the side of the neck, sending her flying off my screen and tumbling gracelessly down the hill. Guys! I was having a dramatic hands-on preview moment! Back at camp, I get the hang of cooking, then blacksmithing: both are basically lists of things you can produce that pop up while your character looks busy in the background. Cooking turns raw food items into stews that give you long-lasting buffs, such as a venison stew that steadily regenerates your health for five minutes or so. Blacksmithing turns metal ores into armour and weapons, but better item types are locked off until you get the right blacksmithing perk. I also had a go on their grindstone: you can sharpen weapons for extra damage. Elsewhere, you can use enchanting shrines to add spell effects to any weapon, and even destroy magical weapons to learn their enchantments and apply them to something else. While I tinkered, a guard mentioned that the legion are always looking for help. It turns out you can actually join the Imperial Legion in Skyrim, and they’re one of a few non-guild factions. Near the camp, I find a ruined temple of some kind, half-overgrown. I’m about to investigate when a halfnaked man runs up to me and gets my attention. Since this isn’t Oblivion, that doesn’t mean my head is sucked into his for a creepy conversation where his face fills the screen – I’m just turned to face him, rooted to the spot but free to look around while he talks. “Here, hold on to this for me! I can’t keep it, but I’ll be back for it later.” Since the item in question is a Battleaxe of Souls, I accept. Before the guy can even run off, a hunter appears. “Have you seen a thief anywhere?” I look round at the thief, then back to the hunter, and consider the axe in my inventory. “… no.” “Damn. Well, if you see him, let me know, he has something of mine.” As soon as the conversation ends, the hunter sees the thief and draws his bow. Not wanting to be left out, I draw my new battleaxe and crush the thief with an overhanded power attack. I look at the hunter, then back to the stolen axe I just used in front of him, and crush him with it too. I’m still a long way out of Riften, and it’s taken me an hour to cross a patch of snow that looks tiny on the map. There are, however, a few horses here at camp. On the one hand, they’re not for sale and everyone’s watching me. On the other hand, woo! Horsey! You now steer horses the way you steer yourself – they don’t use the vehicle-style controls of Oblivion. It’s not a dramatic change: horses are still just a reasonably fun speed boost, but one I badly needed to reach Riften. I make excellent time galloping along the leafy riverside road, and I even stop to say hi to some Rift Guards who’ve made camp by the river near the city gates. This, it turns out, is a mistake. The Rift Guards are a separate faction to the Imperial Legion, so they don’t much care about the bounty on my head for stealing this horse. But when I get back on my horse, they’re suddenly furious. He’s stealing the horse he rode in on! GET HIM! This sort of lunacy will be a familiar tale for anyone who horse-rustled in Oblivion. But in other ways, the crime system is more advanced: each city is its own faction, so crimes in one don’t get you in trouble in the next. And if you can kill everyone who saw you commit a crime, you’ll get a notification that there are no surviving witnesses, and your bounty has been cleared. Right now, though, this is bad. I gallop on to Riften inside of a minute, but arrive with arrows whizzing past my head and sticking in my horse. Two guards at the gates charge at me on sight. I try dismounting and putting my weapon away, the way you usually surrender to the guards in Skyrim, but they don’t relent. As much to escape their blades as any actual desire to be here, I burst through the city gates. It gets rough. Guards are streaming in from every side street as I barge through the busy market in the centre of town, jump over fences and weave between bystanders. This is not how I wanted to see the city. I leg it through a gate in the walls. Outside, something bizarre is happening. The Imperial Guardsmen chasing me for the first time I stole the horse have run into the Rift Guards furious with me for the second time, and they’re both much more furious with each other. A small war breaks out in front of the city walls, and for once I’m not under immediate attack. When there’s only one guard left among the bloodied corpses, I walk straight up to him, weapon sheathed: please, please arrest me. He arrests me. In Oblivion, a few of your skills would atrophy as you rotted in your cell. In Skyrim, this doesn’t happen, but your progress towards your next point in a few skills will be reset. It’s a much milder penalty – I don’t even notice which skills I’ve lost progress in. Finally exploring Riften without being stabbed, I find a remarkable city. A river runs through it, and in places the cobbled streets give way to sharp drops to the water below, wooden walkways running along the houses at street level. Below that, a network of piers connects the doors of grubbylooking subterranean dwellings, their doors almost at water level. From the chatter around town, I hear there’s a network down there called the ratways, where the Thieves Guild hide out. Rift Guards with ominous helmets that conceal their faces growl as I pass. In all kinds of ways, it reminds me of Vivec, Morrowind’s intimidating capital. When I ask art director Matt Carafano about the other cities, he says they’re all unique. “We worked really hard to make those feel distinct. So Riften is a rundown lake town, but it’s set in the beautiful fall forest area. Whereas Markarth is built in an ancient dwarven ruin in cliff sides, so it’s very different. Solitude is more like a castle city, kinda influenced by an imperial style. Windhelm is an ancient Nordic fortress, so it’s full of really old Nordic architecture. And you have the city of Whiterun in the centre, which is a more classic Viking – almost mountain-style – city in the tundra.” Back in the market, a shifty-looking man runs up to me. He’s impressed that I saw through the corrupt guard at the north gate, but he thinks killing him was a little harsh. I… what? I deduce he’s a thief with some kind of scam going with a guard. That guard must have been killed in the fracas I caused at the city gates, and he’s assuming I rumbled his scheme and did it intentionally. That’s wildly untrue, but he’s so impressed with my instincts that I decide to accept the credit. He’s offering me work: he wants a vendor in town brought down, so he needs me to pickpocket a valuable ring, then place it in the vendor’s private chest. He’ll create a distraction while I work. My new friend shouts to all the shoppers and vendors to gather round, and they do. My mark sits on a crate in front of some barrels, and as the thief rambles about a dragon elixir he’s discovered, I sneak up behind the vendor and rifle through his pockets. The moment I take the ring, he screams “Thief!” and the guards flood in. I am new at this. I didn’t know it at the time, but in Skyrim, your chance of successfully pickpocketing something depends partly on its value. Rifling through someone’s inventory is no longer a crime – at least, not a detectable one. But when you take something, the chance you’ll get away with it depends on your pickpocketing skill, the weight of the item, and how much it’s worth. People pay more attention to their valuables, this rule implies. I don’t resist arrest, but I’m not willing to serve time for this. As in Oblivion, you wake up in jail with a single lockpick, somehow secreted about your person. Unlike Oblivion, it was actually enough. Before long, I’m out – no skill-progress reset. Man, I should be in the Thieves Guild. I decide to find the Thieves Guild. Not losing my skill progress pays off: soon I level up, and finally decide to rest. This is where Skyrim goes from exciting to a thing we need a new superlative for – not the resting, but the levelling up. Your skills improve as you use them, and improving enough skills increases your character level. That lets you choose a perk: a tweak to one of your skills that makes it more effective. So you have an element of choice, but you can’t pick a high-level perk for a skill you haven’t practised much: they have requirements. The selection is literally dizzying. I have a sort of buzz in my brain as I scamper around the menu reading up on all the options I’ll never unlock in the time I have left. I have two perks saved up – you’re not forced to spend them as soon as you level – so I put them both into Destruction magic. The first halves the cost of all low level destruction spells, including my fire and lightning ones. The next enables dual-casting: when you equip the same spell in both hands, you can fire both at once for a single, disproportionately more powerful beam. I blunder into a few dwellings before I find the ratways. They turn out to be a string of incredibly tight tunnels, dank and filthy. Almost immediately, I come out into a larger chamber and find a gaggle of thieves. Excellent! They demand all of my money. Dammit, I forgot that was the problem with thieves. Renegotiating, I suggest that I keep all of my money, and they instead take all of the fire I’m now shooting from my hands. It’s a tough sell: some of them feel I should take one or two of their arrows in return, and one thinks his fists should be part of the deal. There’s only one thief left when I run out of magicka, so I bring out my warhammer and crumple him Dead, he’s more generous: I’m suddenly the excited new owner of the Gloves of the Pugilist. +15 damage on your unarmed attacks wouldn’t be much in another RPG, but Elder Scrolls games are stingy with stats. These gloves are a big deal. It’s not long before I get to try them out. My first punch smacks a huge chunk off of my attacker’s hitpoint bar, so I try a power attack. I grab him, he disappears off screen, there’s a sickening crunch and I drop his limp body to the dirty ground. Until now I haven’t seen many finishing moves, but with the gloves I’m doing them almost every fight. I stride through the ratways taking on all-comers, letting them close on me and then breaking them. I even discover you can mix spells with hand-to-hand combat: the funniest setup is to use a lightning spell in my left hand and keep my right as a fist. I shock people from a distance, then simply knock them out. I’m coming to the end of my time with Skyrim, and increasingly anxious that I’m not going to find the Thieves Guild before Bethesda haul me away. The ratways are long and intricate, and all I’m finding are big chambers dominated by tree roots and rampant undergrowth. Eventually I find an even bigger area with a lake of fetid water in the centre, a jetty with tables and chairs on the other side, and a fire glowing behind it. I creep around the edge of the chamber and see people sitting in some of the chairs. I realise it’s an underground tavern. And the people here all seem rather… thievey. Since the first rule of the Thieves Guild is that you don’t tell everyone who wanders into the Thieves Guild that this is the Thieves Guild, I check with Bethesda – yep, this is the Thieves Guild. I’ve found it at last. Unfortunately, no one in the entire establishment wants anything to do with me. It suddenly occurs to me that the guy I failed the quest for earlier – you know, the thief – might have been a Thieves Guild member trying to recruit me. Whether because I messed that up, or simply because I don’t have an ‘in’, the Thieves all treat me like dirt. I have about five minutes left. I put my gloves back on. Before playing it, I wasn’t totally convinced Skyrim would be a huge leap forward from Oblivion. It is. For all the similarities, it feels like a new world, rendered at a new level of fidelity. More importantly, the new systems completely blow open the possibilities for evolving your character. I can’t stop thinking about all the possible combinations of weapons and spells I want to try together when the game comes out – pouring out lightning and fire at the same time was a feeling of power I never had in Oblivion. And even more tantalising, the perks you can unlock open the way for ridiculous high-level characters. An archer who can slow time while he aims, knock people off their feet with his arrows, and run like the wind between shots. A conjurer who can bring his defeated opponents back to life, two at a time, to fight for him as zombies. Or a thief who can steal the armour off your back, pick a lock right in front of the guards, and even slip a poison into your bloodstream unnoticed. I can’t shake the obsession Skyrim has left me with. I’m pulling screenshots up on my monitor just to feel like I’m playing again. I’m scribbling character builds on napkins. I’m replaying only the snowiest bits of Oblivion. And I’m wondering what the hell November is doing way over there.[/quote]

haha well that didn't go the way i thought.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/18/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-preview

Ah, I see. Seems pretty sweet. I forgot Bethesda did Fallout, and watching the gameplay it definitely looks very Fallout-ish, but better.

Meh.

bleh

Yeah, so I reaaaaaaaally want to punch the guy that wrote that article in the face.

This game rips off Daggerfall.

Game leaked.

Someone at Bethesda must have slipped it out. Check the torrentz.

ILLEGAL

I set you up. Well done.

YOUR ARRESTED

Great, now I'm just a predictaril.

i can't tell if this is sarcasm.

You do know that daggerfall is elder scrolls II right?

Sarcasm.

new Horn of Valere song is going to be entirely Skyrim based...the drummer and I are both totally obsessed.


little know fact: When Horn of Valere were called Basiliskk and decided we were going to go in another direction and wanted to change names, we considered Mages Guild.

LOL at mages guild.
Who's drumming?

HoV lineup right now is all original...Adam, the other guitarist is back from Iraq for good. Jon the drummer has always been wanting to get it back together but we were always making excuses not to do it...but we're practicing this month for the first time since 2005.

not sure about bass or vocals yet...not sure if Jay Christraper will still want to do it now that he's down in Providence. I can pull off the vocals...bassists will be tried out once we've got a few rehearsals under our belt.

I made a fb pot the other day about how someone should book a black metal show with bands from like 6-7 years ago. that'd be great.
Good news, regardless. Hopefully it all works out.

would be fun...shows will probably wait until we write a new song or two. then we'll prob re-record 2 or 3 of the old songs with a couple new songs.

but with the release of Skyrim, we'll prob just never practice. I may quit my job and weld my door shut.

Korey said he might be interested.
I'd be interested in doing one or the other, if I have the time. I got a bass but no rig. Depends on the schedule.

we'll see...its a way away...

Only practicing in Imperial City is real.

We rehearse in the Two Rivers.

the elder scrolls series has a lot of mythology to it, some good material in there, but i have no idea what the story is about and i've played 2 of them a lot. all i know is patrick stewart died.

yeah, i dont know how much they all tie in together...

there are scrolls...that are old. and once I had to steal one. then fight a huge dragon/eagle thing...and got sweet armor in return.

then patrick stewart died.

You guys don't read the books you get in the game?

I try to read whatever a good rpg gives me, but I don really remember all those books you pick up, they were all pretty random and disjointed

hahah I read like 2 of them...I cant believe how many there are and how much work that was for the creators/writers.

So awesome.

Practice in Kvatch would be better.

I wanna practice on top of that lighthouse in Anvil.

Only gigging at the shrine of Sheogorath is real.

or where the Blades' fortress is north of Bruma

Cloudruler Temple? Fuck yeah. Jauffre on guest vocals.

I got the biggest house you can get in Oblivion. It has a huge basement, would be awesome for shows.

Too bad it's much harder to get a house in real life. :(... all I did was kill ghosts to get a mansion.

that house is OK but everytime you try to sleep fuckin BAM! ghosts up your ass.

I had a random little cottage on a lake that a queen gave me for helping some Orc warrior chick discover her heritage. Humble, yet quaint. and no ghosts.

I got that house too. Still had to pay the 5,000 though. Then fuck up a demon in the basement.

You have to find pick up a finger on the ground, bring it to the guy who sold you the house and convince him to come back to the house so you can break the curse.

haha, I think I had that one too. kinda like a shack, right?

I hope they use different voice actors in this game. Got so sick of the oblivion actors. they could have switched them up a bit. Funny thing was when you got a bum asking for money he sounds all homeless and drunk, then when you ask him for info, the voice sobers up and sounds normal. FUCK YOU FAKE BUM YOU AIN'T GETTING A COIN

THANK YOU KIND SIR. bullshit

I rested my head in the kult vampire basement most of the time...

lol

also, yea it was kinda a shack. didnt know about the finger thing. I think I had a house in some shitty town that was overrun by a vampire cult that I saved a shopowners daughter from.

Skyrim takes place a couple hundred years after oblivion.. Rumor has it there may be firearms in the game?

I HOPE NOT.

Aril plays games made post 90s?

That's not really me. Obvious troll is obvious.

Select games.

firearms = GAY

only killing trolls with magic inside a painting is real.

haha, yeah they ARE using many more voices and cohesive dialogue systems. todd howard said something about that somewhere. there's no longer set dialogue options for a bunch of people, but each NPC has seperate voices and responses.

I poisoned my longblade with turpentine and killed them that way. Had to do that quest 3 times because it kept glitching and the portal back wouldn't appear.

I remember I'd be walking around somerville and every time I entered a new area I'd hear this in my head

i mean this



bennyhillifier

hahah thats awesome.


GOD I CANT FUCKING WAIT FOR THIS GAME.

can we go online and go on quests together, Ross?

NOPE. bethesda says fuck multiplayer. the PC might get a mod for co-op, but xbox definitely will not!

I'm ok with noline shit...I rarely play games online but it would be cool to roll with a buddy on xbox live and wreck shit.

Like going through the Oblivion Gates, those levels got hard and pretty intense...would have bee fun as shit with a real life partner (LOL AT LIFE PARTNER) to wage war by your side.

it's easy, just drop a white stone and have your friend summon you.

Wrong game narky, better, but wrong.

I want this with a pepperoni pizza, right now.

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

I got a new fucking card for this game. Better look good.

if game stop fucks up my pre-order...IM KILLIN NIGGAZ

I plan on leveling up my sneak skill by squat walking everywhere for the week then just stealing Skyrim. I have the hands of an illusionist.

I have the grey fox hood...bitches cant see SHIT when i be creepin.

Run everywhere to level up athleticism, stop going to the gym IRL for three months.

I have a dragon costume that pleases the 9 divines when I wear it and dance at the chinatown gate.

I love that shit, you take it off and the guards are like "oh hey there good buddy, you didnt happen to see a guy your height, race and build wearing the exact same clothes as you only with a hood on did you?" only thing is, then you're over-encumbered