Question of the Day, January 10, 2011

[templargunman]

I picked other because I'm so excited that I will be obsessed with it nonstop until I own it. I love the Elder Scrolls games and I've been playing Oblivion on and off since it came out, I've also bought it 3 times and torrented it twice, I'm just that obsessed with the Elder Scrolls games, I find them to be the best rpg games of their time. And after they come out they are the games that people compare all other rpgs to.

Also apparently it's so good that on console it will look like it's on a next gen console. Although i doubt that.

Yeah, I don't think you can really claim next gen console graphics unless someone has set that standard for it.

 

[darksuccubus]

My first game in TES series was Morrowind about 5 years ago. I think I spent a month or even more playing it, exploring everything it had and I still didn't complete it. When Oblivion came out I was excited at first but disappointed soon afterward. The one thing I hated in Oblivion is that everything looked pretty much the same and the world was so SMALL!!! I mean, c'mon, Morrowind on map is a lot smaller than Cyrodiil and yet it felt like 1/10th of Morrowind. So yeah, although Oblivion looked pretty it wasn't as good as Morrowind. But I'll still play Skyrim just to see what will Bethesda do next. Maybe they will improve and add some things (like the fast travel, it's like drug - I hate it but now I can't be without it; they should remove the stupid thing. And the compass? I felt like an idiot. I still remember how in Morrowind you had to actually find some cave yourself on a gigantic map).

 

[Something Amyss]

No hate, just no real interest.

 

[Super Toast]

It's my most anticipated game of the year, bar none.

 

[Stryc9]

I'm not particularly interested in it for myself but I have a friend who's a fan of the series so I'll be keeping her posted on the news as it gets posted here.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Depends on how stable the PC version is if I will get it or not.

 

[acklumos]

I'm looking forward to it more than anything else this year.

 

[Lordpils]

I loved Morrowind and Skyrim looks great, so yeah I think I'll buy it.
Oblivion was disappointing, but Skyrim looks really promising and everything I've heard about it makes it really interesting.

 

[theshadavid]

I love the fallout games. I played Fallout 3 first so when I bought Oblivion it just seemed like a steaming pile of crap. However, I'm hoping that when I buy Skyrim, it will have that "fresh crap" smell that I was looking for.

Honestly, if they just copy pasted oblivion, gave us dragon riding, improved the voice acting, and fixed the damn engine, I'd be game.

 

[SovietSecrets]

I'll pick it up eventually when a GOTY edition comes out like they did with Oblivion.

 

[Patton662]

I loved Morrowind, Oblivion was ok but this sounds goood!

 

[brunothepig]

Maybe... Oblivion is so incredibly disappointing... At first I was excited, but already the stuff I've heard about it is not good... More reducing of the RPG elements, possibly tweaking the combat, but still with an auto-level system, but at least that isn't as bad this time around.

 

[cybran]

i still have to try to get into oblivion. I loved the free exploration and roaming in morrowind, but i tend to get lost without a real story, so i have to focus on that once and then lok if i like what i get.

Lol, Morrowind had an awesome story =P

pay attention in the intro and read what people say to you ?

 

[Sneaklemming]

How interested are you in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim?


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Is the option I chose.

 

[SalamanderJoe]

Oblivion got me back into RPGs. Fallout 3 made me love them. New Vegas turned me off them a little. I'm somewhat hoping it goes full circle again with Skyrim.

 

[GonzoGamer]

I'll definitely end up getting it, but I'm not turning somersaults in anticipation. I was a little on edge to see which direction Bethesda was gonna go with V, and I must say I wasn't all that impressed when it was announced that they're cutting yet more skills from V - I wasn't a fan of the skill cutbacks in IV and so to hear that they're hacking yet more out...

Still, I shall keep my fingers crossed and (despite my misgivings) place the latest Elder Scrolls firmly on my 'To Buy' list.

Yea, One of the things that I liked about Oblivion was that I was still learning about it while a considerable way in to it. It's a game where you needed to learn how to live in that world. Nothing wrong with that.

The reason "I could go either way" is that I just finished New Vegas and that was a complete fiasco. I know Skyrim is supposed to have a whole new engine and everything but I'm not convinced a new engine wont create a whole bunch of new problems.

If I do get it, I'll be getting it for the PC and I'll probably hold out for goty.

new vegas and skyrim are developed by two different companies. apples and pears my friend.

OT: they had me at elder scrolls

I know that the devs are different but what I was trying to say is that Bethesda were the publishers and share the responsibility both of the engine used in New Vegas as well as letting the title go gold before making it playable.
Trust me, I'm just as wary (if not more) of anything that will come out by Obsidian either. If Bethesda was completely innocent in the New Vegas travesty, then I wouldn't be routed to their site when I was trying to file complaints.

Besides, I don't know if you remember, but the last game Bethesda developed didn't exactly run like clockwork either. Unless the clock was made by, stray cats.

bethesda isn't responsible for what another company does with it's engine. the people who actually made fallout 3 aren't the same as the people who were responsible to publish the game (game devs aren't the businessmen after all). the fallout 3 devs probably aren't the same people that develop and perfect the engine itself.

let me assure you that no stray cat can ever make a clock as complicated as the ones bethesda and obsidian have been making.

and to call new vegas a travesty is just an exaggeration. i have the game, and except the occassional crash to desktop (close to an autosave point), the game runs smoothly (and it's 1.0 i'm playing).

I wish I was one of the lucky few who only had the occasional crash with that game. Instead I had all sorts of different problems from locked quests, missing npcs/companions, and a ton of other problems.
If Bethesda isn't at all responsible for it, then why when I went to the Obsidian site to tell them about the specific problems(something I've only done once before in my 30 years of gaming) was I routed to the Bethesda site? Like I said, every actual Bethesda game I've played has had issues some okay and some serious.
And yes 1.0 runs just as badly (smoothly for you apparently) because all the patches do is get rid of a few minor exploits and not the really annoying bugs.
On a personal level, I really liked Oblivion and Fallout 3 but if I get this title there's a couple of things I learned about their games: only get it for the PC and wait and see if there are serious issues. The good thing is that with the PC version the really serious issued get patched by the modders pretty quickly.

 

[GonzoGamer]

I'll definitely end up getting it, but I'm not turning somersaults in anticipation. I was a little on edge to see which direction Bethesda was gonna go with V, and I must say I wasn't all that impressed when it was announced that they're cutting yet more skills from V - I wasn't a fan of the skill cutbacks in IV and so to hear that they're hacking yet more out...

Still, I shall keep my fingers crossed and (despite my misgivings) place the latest Elder Scrolls firmly on my 'To Buy' list.

Yea, One of the things that I liked about Oblivion was that I was still learning about it while a considerable way in to it. It's a game where you needed to learn how to live in that world. Nothing wrong with that.

The reason "I could go either way" is that I just finished New Vegas and that was a complete fiasco. I know Skyrim is supposed to have a whole new engine and everything but I'm not convinced a new engine wont create a whole bunch of new problems.

If I do get it, I'll be getting it for the PC and I'll probably hold out for goty.

new vegas and skyrim are developed by two different companies. apples and pears my friend.

OT: they had me at elder scrolls

I know that the devs are different but what I was trying to say is that Bethesda were the publishers and share the responsibility both of the engine used in New Vegas as well as letting the title go gold before making it playable.
Trust me, I'm just as wary (if not more) of anything that will come out by Obsidian either. If Bethesda was completely innocent in the New Vegas travesty, then I wouldn't be routed to their site when I was trying to file complaints.

Besides, I don't know if you remember, but the last game Bethesda developed didn't exactly run like clockwork either. Unless the clock was made by, stray cats.

bethesda isn't responsible for what another company does with it's engine. the people who actually made fallout 3 aren't the same as the people who were responsible to publish the game (game devs aren't the businessmen after all). the fallout 3 devs probably aren't the same people that develop and perfect the engine itself.

let me assure you that no stray cat can ever make a clock as complicated as the ones bethesda and obsidian have been making.

and to call new vegas a travesty is just an exaggeration. i have the game, and except the occassional crash to desktop (close to an autosave point), the game runs smoothly (and it's 1.0 i'm playing).

If Bethesda isn't at all responsible for it, then why when I went to the Obsidian site to tell them about the specific problems(something I've only done once before in my 30 years of gaming) was I routed to the Bethesda site? Like I said, every actual Bethesda game I've played has had issues some okay and some serious.

because you're confusing developer with publisher. bethesda is both. but that doesn't mean the same departments make the games. and it's generally the publisher that handles complaints (for which they hire specific companies), not the developers (they just get the bugreports, they don't wade through all the mail).

I understand that Bethesda is the publisher of FNV but it's oftentimes the publisher that says "you have to meet that deadline and it doesn't matter if the game is ready or not." Even if Todd Howard didn't call them up on the phone and say this himself, Bethesda owns some of the responsibility for the fiasco.