The only thing that really worries me with Skyrim is stuff like this: 4) Are the main and faction quests branching or linear? What about side quests? Bruce: Weve focused on telling one story well. There are decision points in all the quest lines that can change things, but overall its a single story. Because the side…
I don't believe this is entirely accurate, if at all. I've used showracemenu pretty extensively in Skyrim testing things out, editing my look, etc. From what I could tell none of my skills or attributes were affected, I didn't lose any level progress, and I was still able to level appropriately thereafter without any loss…
One of the screenshots id released for Rage -- while explicitly talking up how awesome the animation system was and how characters interacted in the world -- had a characters foot going straight into the floor. I was going to make a point with that but, actually, it's just a funny observation. Too many possible reasons to…
Maybe I should have gotten it for PC? Because I want my money back. Played it for about an hour before it crashed my xbox. This could be the worst lighting engine I have ever seen on the 360. At any given time 40% of my screen is flat black, even during the day. The shadows and shading are abysmal, and that whole HDR focus…
Is anyone else suffering from random-death syndrome? I keep just randomly dying for ridiculous reasons. I was running up to where those greybeards are at. Out of fucking nowhere this frost troll jumps down at me from above and kills me in 1-hit. The whole thing happened over maybe 2.5seconds. Had a major wtf look on my…
I wouldn't say Skyrim is linear compared to 99% of games that are made these days, but I do agree that it lacks certain things in terms of diversity and freedom that Oblivion had. Let's look at a few examples: * Only one, weird, linear quest to get into the Dark Brotherhood. No longer do you get to make the really fun…
Since 1.2 I'm not noticing any backwards dragons. Encountered a couple, they functioned fine. As a whole, not much has changed for me. I think I MIGHT have noticed that vertical mouse movement isn't tied to FPS anymore, but I was still getting some odd mouse stuttering in first person in certain interior spaces same as…
Ok, I totally understand where you are coming from, but there's a few things that justify this in terms of a moral standpoint (as long as the media of whatever country you inhabit doesn't pull the usual over-reacting shit which we should all ignore anyway). 1. the fact that you CAN do this is what makes this game a GOTY…
The resurgence of TES Lore has really inspired me to get in there and read through as much of it as I can. As much as anyone can argue that all fantasy is derivative of Tolkien, I think Bethesda has done a really fantastic job of creating a thorough and diverse history for their world. I also like what Todd Howard said…
Yeah, why they never decided to let you have separate profiles for a game like this I've never understood. Do they really expect people to just play one character? One thing I guess I'll mention - the "radiant story" stuff is AWESOME. It's incredible the number of things I've encountered that I know are being handled by…