Preloading for Skyrim has begun, are you gonna play immediately?

[DanielBrown]

I'm getting a physical copy.
Downside is that it'll take probably a week for it to arrive. Damn you UK, for your cheap games!

 

[easternflame]

I pre-ordered it from Amazon, (not for PC) so it'll probably take an extra day or two to get to my house.

In that time however, I'll be even more prepared!

*stocks up on food and water*
I won't be leaving my house for a long time...

EDIT: I just realized...

I don't think I get mail on the weekends...

Spoiler: I believe this is appropriate

I live in mexico. My CE probably won't get here until Wednesday!!! 5 days of wait. 5 DAYS. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
EDIT: I Still have minecraft

 

[Baresark]

I had originally bought it on D2D, and then was greeted by the fact that they don't always get approval for a pre-load. I was torn between waiting and getting a refund. I waited and got lucky. They did a preload.

 

[godofallu]

22% preloaded. I will probably die a little once I have the game installed and can't play it, but I can take the wait. I will endure.

Needless to say, when I can finally play this I will. For a good long while.

 

[LilithSlave]

Ack, I am so sick of these Skyrim topics. Sick sick sick. There's thousand times more of them than our My Little Pony topics.

No, I will not. I will start considering it if it starts dropping below the $30 price range. There is no way I would pay $60 for a Bethesda game. Or even a wRPG at at all.

Someday, it will be much cheaper, and a lot more interesting sounding. Someday, it will be less than $30. Someday, it will have it's own XP mods, Ren's Beauty Pack, Modular Beautiful People, XeoSP, lots of new weapons, races, mounts, beautifiers, and all sorts of nice things. And of course expansion packs that Bethesda itself will make.

Until then, I have other games to buy and play.

 

[Lunar Templar]

now, i'm no expert on pre-loading BUT, I'm pretty sure you still can't play it till the release date

 

[Furioso]

A year ago, I made the mistake of getting a laptop for gaming, thinking it could be used for that and for school, which it did, now it can't play new games without overheating even though it meets the specs, and still I never regretted it until right now

I know a bunch of people that this happened to... and I can't for the life of me figure out why.

I have a gaming desktop and laptop and my laptop's fine.

What company is yours from?

It's a gateway, I have no clue how/if the companies make a difference, but the system will play nearly any game fine for a little while, then it starts getting large fps drops for a minute or 2 every now and then, with decreasing times in between as time goes on, when this happens the thing is really really hot, and I have it sitting on a cookie pan (grid of thin metal lines with a stand allowing for really great air circulation)

A year ago, I made the mistake of getting a laptop for gaming, thinking it could be used for that and for school, which it did, now it can't play new games without overheating even though it meets the specs, and still I never regretted it until right now

Did you get a cooler for it? And if you did, did it help? I would be interested in seeing the specs for it.

No cooler, but see above for the circulation thing I have going on, it does help a lot, not sure how to get all the specs but here's what I could find
Manufacturer: Gateway
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
Memory: 4090MB RAM
Hard Drive: 307 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

I was not impressed with my gateway AT ALL. Hinges broke, buttons popped off over heated...

Each company engineer's their computer's a little differently. I highly recommend Asus, MSI, and Toshiba computers.

I can't tell you how in love I am with my Satellite from Toshiba. It's not a dedicated gaming laptop, but I didn't want it to be - just something that could handle games on at least low settings while I'm away. It's effen incredible.

I'd recommend getting a new laptop, honestly.

They're not all like this, as long as you take care of em... and it sounds like you do.

Thanks for the tip, my plan is to save up for a really nice desktop for gaming and a small laptop purely for school, any tips company wise for desktops?

 

[Baresark]

Just a heads up. I would normally be doing this on the SPUF, but since that is down, here it is.

So, as a form of discussion. Are you gonna hit the ground running at midnight on this? Or do you have better plans? I know I'm going to a concert and I have to work the next day, so no midnight play for me.

Cheers

Ah! much better.

Now, I am going to get the game at gamestop for the midnight release. had I not pumped $60 into the limited edition preview (and then cancelled that limited edition due to lack of funds) I probably would have invested in the game through Steam for the pre load.

Ah well, I'll enjoy freezing my bum off and then staying up until the sun start shining again playing the game.

Maybe I should be a vampire after all....

I was checking out and apparently you can also become a werewolf now. I haven't found specifics, but I think you can change back and forth at will.

There's a perk you can get somehow called "Hercine's Blessing" or something like that which "gives one extra transformation"

I saw it in a pic.

My guess is you can only transform once day or at night or something... it'll be a limited thing.

I'm actually not into either one of those things at all. Not that I don't like that it's in there, and maybe on day I'll RP as one, but it typically doesn't strike my fancy.

I'm with you. Anything that hinders my game progress short of sidequests is annoying. With Vampirism, everyone hated you, making it really annoying. I wish there was a way you could at least cover it up.

 

[Baresark]

A year ago, I made the mistake of getting a laptop for gaming, thinking it could be used for that and for school, which it did, now it can't play new games without overheating even though it meets the specs, and still I never regretted it until right now

I know a bunch of people that this happened to... and I can't for the life of me figure out why.

I have a gaming desktop and laptop and my laptop's fine.

What company is yours from?

It's a gateway, I have no clue how/if the companies make a difference, but the system will play nearly any game fine for a little while, then it starts getting large fps drops for a minute or 2 every now and then, with decreasing times in between as time goes on, when this happens the thing is really really hot, and I have it sitting on a cookie pan (grid of thin metal lines with a stand allowing for really great air circulation)

A year ago, I made the mistake of getting a laptop for gaming, thinking it could be used for that and for school, which it did, now it can't play new games without overheating even though it meets the specs, and still I never regretted it until right now

Did you get a cooler for it? And if you did, did it help? I would be interested in seeing the specs for it.

No cooler, but see above for the circulation thing I have going on, it does help a lot, not sure how to get all the specs but here's what I could find
Manufacturer: Gateway
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
Memory: 4090MB RAM
Hard Drive: 307 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS

I was not impressed with my gateway AT ALL. Hinges broke, buttons popped off over heated...

Each company engineer's their computer's a little differently. I highly recommend Asus, MSI, and Toshiba computers.

I can't tell you how in love I am with my Satellite from Toshiba. It's not a dedicated gaming laptop, but I didn't want it to be - just something that could handle games on at least low settings while I'm away. It's effen incredible.

I'd recommend getting a new laptop, honestly.

They're not all like this, as long as you take care of em... and it sounds like you do.

Thanks for the tip, my plan is to save up for a really nice desktop for gaming and a small laptop purely for school, any tips company wise for desktops?

I don't know how technically skilled you are with computer hardware, but I would suggest a bare bones system from a place like newegg and then just upgrade the things most relevant to you. Also, the performance tends not to be as good, but AMD is your friend as far as prices are concerned. I would get the the system, then upgrade the graphics card and probably install more RAM.

Also, I only did this my last comp build, but I ended up building it piece by piece of the course of several paychecks. It was hard on me, but I ended up with a great system for maybe $1000. I got a great air cooler and OC'ed my processor, shelled out for a second GTX 460, and doubled my RAM from the beginning of the month to the end. It's worth it now because my system destroys most things, at least I am able to play on high settings while still getting 60 FPS.