Poll: Skyrim: Victim of the Crippling axe?
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I think you're viewing this in the wrong way. It's been 5 years of games and expansions between Oblivion and Skyrim. Thats 5 years of development time during which teams have been polishing and tweeking the engine, trying to get the gremlins out of the system, and while i don't believe the game will be without a few bugs, I think that time spent on workng out the kinks will show.
Really, why worry about bugs? Fallout 3 was buggy, New Vegas was buggy, Morrowind was buggy, and they are all excellent RPGs. Worst case scenario you get a ctd and have to reload a save, or some quest or another gets glitched up.
I actually have to agree with this. Though twice I had strange visual artefacts in Fallout 3, where when I looked around everything shot off to oblivion. But basically, New Vegas is where all the bugs came out to play for me.Scott Guthrie said:
Not that I am complaining Bethesda Gods, just keep the excellent games coming please!!!
Other than a crash or two, I've never experienced any trouble with any bethesda game.. none the less.... I only hope I have enough lettuce of yarn.
MajWound said:
I agree with you one hundred and ten percent, you receive a gift from me!
The gift of love.
Too my own knowledge Bethesda is using a new engine "Creation Engine" as they are calling it. They are also using Havok's Behavior Technology for AI and animation on the game. So is it possible that the "creation engine" is a modified version of the Gamebryo? Possible, but from what was said on the information site, it's an engine that has been rewrote from every major system powering the gameplay experience. So I can't really say what that is supposed to mean.008Zulu said:
If New Vegas is anything to go by, it'll run perfectly until the storyline starts to diverge, then guards will start randomly attacking shop keepers, any companions I have will vanish or get stuck in a rock, and the loading screens will progressively get longer and longer until my 360 bursts into flames.
From what I've heard from various hands-on stuff, people actually do stuff rather than wander around and occasionally eat invisible food. woodcutters actually cut wood, for instance. and the wood pile even grows as they add wood!Kizi said:
Acrobatics and Athletics were fucking terrible skills that caused you to level up too fast to get the required combat skills for high-level combat. It's better if they simply tie in jumping and running with attributes like agility.
I don't think anyone complained when they removed Climbing for Morrowind or Short Blade for Oblivion. From everything I heard, the system is not only unsimplified but actually expanded by the addition of dual wielding and traits/feats. Now you're not just a sword fighter or a spell guy or a sword guy with spells, now you can be a spell user or a spell user using only Staves or a spell user combining a sword and stave Gandalf-style or using spells and keeping staves as a close-ranged backup. ...Yeah, that's only a little addition, but the various combinations and new builds is worth dropping Acrobatics and folding Mysticism into other skills.
Also: No more oblivion style level scaling. This game could kill my parents and I would still love it.
Lot's of bugs, sure, but game worlds of far larger in scope and detail than most RPGs out there can provide - I can take the bugs. However, I haven't had anywhere near as much of a problem as some people claim. Just buy the game a bit later, after a patch or two.
(The Witcher, however, is crashing to desktop on random saves and loads. Yay.)
(The Witcher, however, is crashing to desktop on random saves and loads. Yay.)
The story here posted on the Escapist a few months back, Bethesda said that Skyrim was being used on an engine using elements from the Gamebryo engine.
It's Bethesda. I figured perfect, or at the very least "okay", was a mathematical improbability.theonlyblaze2 said:
Well... they have had a good 5 years to work on it since the release of oblivion. I don't know how long or when they started development of Skyrim, but for how long they are taking with it, I'm sure it will be a great game. The transition from morrowind to oblivion was amazing, then it amazing again going from oblivion to Fallout, I personally thought New Vegas was a dud... didn't like it very much.
However, I think if they stick to their roots and do this like they have been with the rest of their games it should be another incredible transition.
Now naturally, I know that Too Human easily proved that time making a game = quality is very false, but this being Bethesda and the Elder Scrolls series, I doubt they would mess it up.
However, I think if they stick to their roots and do this like they have been with the rest of their games it should be another incredible transition.
Now naturally, I know that Too Human easily proved that time making a game = quality is very false, but this being Bethesda and the Elder Scrolls series, I doubt they would mess it up.
Saying that the engine was programmed by sheogorath should mean that it will work just fine asSheogorath and Jygalag are the same person.*
* I don't know how to make spoiler boxes so apologies if you didn't already know this.
Now, if the engine had been programmed by Mehrunes dagon on the other hand...
* I don't know how to make spoiler boxes so apologies if you didn't already know this.
Now, if the engine had been programmed by Mehrunes dagon on the other hand...
