Worst Skyrim Gameplay commentary EVER!

[Char-Nobyl]

He wasn't dual weilding anything when they said he was.

He was only talking about dual wielding in the context of being able to sling magic with your left hand while still having a weapon in your right...which for all intents and purposes, he was doing at the time, albeit with Shouts.

The 'magic spell' was a dragon shout. Not a generic frost spell.

I just got this hilarious mental image of a hipster in the Elder Scrolls universe:

"Oh, that was impressive, if you're into generic frost spells. I'm only using Dragon Shouts."

Nothing against you, mate, just a thought that came to me. But more to the point, I think when someone is only watching the gameplay footage and not playing for themselves, mixing up the magical elemental destruction associated with magic and the magical elemental destruction associated with Dragon Shouts is an excusable mistake.

I'm pretty sure the tree thing was the new version of the spriggan, not 100% sure it may be a dryad or something.

Looked like it. It certainly didn't look like the Oblivion spriggan. And I looked up the name/appearance, so now I can say with a bit more certainty that it looked aesthetically more like a gnarl out of Shivering Isles than a spriggan.

Those are pretty easy mistakes to make. Except for the dual weild one perhaps. He pretty clearly only had one weapon and no spell equipped.

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Again, weapon being drawn and staying drawn/visible while using simultaneously magic seems pretty indistinguishable from dual wielding. The only physical difference is that the character's hand isn't present, but honestly? This is a Bethesda game. At first glance, it could easily just be mistaken for a temporarily missing animation.

 

[The Pinray]

Is this a "Nerds point at normal people and laugh" thread? Because I don't really get it what's wrong with their commentary. Then again, I might have been too distracted by the Trailer itself.
Dr Frankencluck inc!

My thoughts exactly. I have no clue what those tree people are, either. The commentary was fine. Just seemed like two normal guys discussing it.

But if they're journalists I guess they should've been better informed as to what shouts are as opposed to ice spells. But honestly, c'mon, guys, seriously? It was fine. I'm excited for the game.

I apologize for not playing every Elder Scrolls game in it's entirety about a hundred times and memorizing everything in the game. Truly, I am.

Anyway, game looks awesome. The zombie chicken was beastly. Combat still looks sorta rubbish, but hey, that's not why I'm here. And it's serviceable, I suppose.

Good stuff.

 

[Char-Nobyl]

yea I just always wanted to say that "...hope they get strung up and shot." line, I have no idea why >.<

...yeah, that's an urge you should probably resist. It's not a metaphor I've ever heard, and all it does is make you seem rather loony when you start shaking your head at how out of hand the thread has gotten.

Also, actually quoting the person you reply to helps with, y'know, them knowing that you replied, not the least of which being because that's the only way notifications get sent.

 

[Daveman]

Frost spells now do paralysis too... that alone makes it worth it, paralysis in oblivion was hilarious but really hard to do.

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

Well, it certainly wasn't the best commentary I have ever heard, but it wasn't bad. I don't see the big problem here?

In the meantime, does anyone know where I can find an extended version of this footage somewhere? You know, instead of just bits and pieces?

If you go to game trailers they have a whole 20 minute showcase on the thing.

heres the link http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/gametrailers-tv/137?ch=1

OT: These guys really weren't too observant.

 

[Absolutionis]

So people are complaining that Gamespot used the term "tree-people" in reference to a person made of plants and they used the term "magic" in reference to a supernatural blast of cold.

If I was previewing Skyrim, I'd feel the same way. The game looks terribly boring. If I was a professional journalist and nobody else in the studio was willing to pretend to be excited over this game, I'd be doing the same as these people.

They're not unprofessional because they don't use the terminology of fanboys. They're unprofessional because they aren't great at feigning excitement.

Bethesda really wants to make an MMO, but they keep making massively single-player offline bored-guy playing games instead. They compensate by adding Dragons.

 

[DracoSuave]

This is why they need to bring people who worked on the game in for interviews when showing footage like that. If somebody who actually knew what they were talking about had been commenting on the events taking place it would have been much better. It burns me to think that there are people who take those two guys seriously and will probably think Skyrim isn't any good based on their shitty representation of it.

Anyone who thinks they did a bad job already knows more about Skyrim's minituae than is within the scope of what these people are trying or supposed to do, so have already made their perchasing decision, and are seriously unlikely to be persuaded by these two because they "mistook" magical shouting for magical powers.

Seriously, stop making skyrim fandom look bad with this nonsense.

 

[TheLoneBeet]

Spoiler: snip.

This is why they need to bring people who worked on the game in for interviews when showing footage like that. If somebody who actually knew what they were talking about had been commenting on the events taking place it would have been much better. It burns me to think that there are people who take those two guys seriously and will probably think Skyrim isn't any good based on their shitty representation of it.

Anyone who thinks they did a bad job already knows more about Skyrim's minituae than is within the scope of what these people are trying or supposed to do, so have already made their perchasing decision, and are seriously unlikely to be persuaded by these two because they "mistook" magical shouting for magical powers.

Seriously, stop making skyrim fandom look bad with this nonsense.

If I were to watch this video with no knowledge of Skyrim I would be pretty unimpressed. Friends of mine have been so far unimpressed based on the video's they've seen until I explain to them what's really going on. I only said what I said because I feel it's their job to do some research and actually know what they're talking about and be qualified to explain it before they do the commentary.

I fail to see how I'm making Skyrim's fandom look bad by stating that people who don't know what they're talking cannot do justice to something they're trying to explain. I wouldn't hire a plumber to explain how an engine worked, or an artist to explain how to build a house.

 

[Bento Box]

Well, it certainly wasn't the best commentary I have ever heard, but it wasn't bad. I don't see the big problem here?

In the meantime, does anyone know where I can find an extended version of this footage somewhere? You know, instead of just bits and pieces?

My thoughts exactly. I mean, for fucks sake, people, there's way worse commentary out there. I was expecting them to be ripping the game to pieces while showing awesome gameplay footage. All I got was sub par commentary. No, you know what? It wasn't even sub par. It was descent. It sounded like it was from the point of view of someone that had little-to-no experience with previous Elder Scrolls games, and the community needs some commentary like that. Some of you people need to lighten the fuck up and stop criticizing ever damn thing you see.

Literally the only issue I saw was them mistaking a Shout for a spell, which isn't that bad of a mistake.

I could give a shit less about Skyrim, as I already have my fill of swords-and-sorcery franchises (in which I always end up being an engineer or something anyway), but I am curious: are there two different forms of magic in Skyrim, like "magic spells" and "shouts?" Because if not, then I'd be just as likely to call it magic even if I were intimately familiar with the game - partly because it's the first word that comes to mind and partly for the same reason I order a 'large' frappe at Starbucks.

 

[DracoSuave]

I fail to see how I'm making Skyrim's fandom look bad by stating that people who don't know what they're talking cannot do justice to something they're trying to explain. I wouldn't hire a plumber to explain how an engine worked, or an artist to explain how to build a house.

I wouldn't bring in a plumber to critique how nice a bathroom looked.

It's not their job to explain how good something is, or how it works. It's their job to comment on what they are looking at. If the gameplay video is unimpressive... that's not on them.

Stop confusing game journalism with advertisement.

 

[IKSA]

Yeah those guys weren't very good, but I was more distracted by the gameplay;

*Combat still looks stiff and boring.

*Shouts don't seem very different to magic, just stronger.

*Graphics don't look that impressive compared to games that have come out years ago.

*I have a bad feeling dragons are just going to be cliffracers...but stronger.

Graphics for large game like skyrim can't get much better in this generation

 

[Hashime]

Well, not on the consoles. On the PC there should be amazing graphics considering what oblivion looked like on high settings, and then what it looked like after a few mods.

 

[ZeroMachine]

Well, it certainly wasn't the best commentary I have ever heard, but it wasn't bad. I don't see the big problem here?

In the meantime, does anyone know where I can find an extended version of this footage somewhere? You know, instead of just bits and pieces?

My thoughts exactly. I mean, for fucks sake, people, there's way worse commentary out there. I was expecting them to be ripping the game to pieces while showing awesome gameplay footage. All I got was sub par commentary. No, you know what? It wasn't even sub par. It was descent. It sounded like it was from the point of view of someone that had little-to-no experience with previous Elder Scrolls games, and the community needs some commentary like that. Some of you people need to lighten the fuck up and stop criticizing ever damn thing you see.

Literally the only issue I saw was them mistaking a Shout for a spell, which isn't that bad of a mistake.

I could give a shit less about Skyrim, as I already have my fill of swords-and-sorcery franchises (in which I always end up being an engineer or something anyway), but I am curious: are there two different forms of magic in Skyrim, like "magic spells" and "shouts?" Because if not, then I'd be just as likely to call it magic even if I were intimately familiar with the game - partly because it's the first word that comes to mind and partly for the same reason I order a 'large' frappe at Starbucks.

Technically, yes. Normal spells use up Magicka (the mana/MP system of TES games), and in Skyrim they can be equipped to each hand. You can either have separate spells on each hand, the same spell on each to give the spell a boost in power, or a weapon/shield in one hand and spell in another. It's new to the series.

Shouts are another new edition to the series, and far more involved with the lore. They're very specific powers that you gain by killing dragons and learning the parts of each Shout. But, when it comes right down to it, it's just a very powerful form of spell that has a long cooldown rather than using up Magicka.

Considering the freeze Shout seen in the video was just announced, it isn't to difficult to assume that they simply mistook it for a normal spell, as spells like that existed in previous titles in the series.

Long story short- it's people bitching about semantics and/or a simple mistake.

 

[ramboondiea]

i aam really not seeing whats wrong with this? i mean i dont know anything about this game, cant say i know anything about its series but this commentary as actually piqued my interest so i would say they did good

 

[winter2]

I thought the video was fine. So maybe they are not all into the lore behind it, but so what?

I think some people should get off their imaginary high horses and get with the program.

 

[DarthSka]

Didn't really rub me the wrong way too much. Honestly, it's probably because I'm not really into Skyrim at all, but going on about graphics in a Bethesda game does seem a little pointless.

 

[ChupathingyX]

....When you say that, it almost like you were expecting a DA2 combat style.

I haven't even played DA2, so I don't know what the combat is like. Combat was one of the weakest aspects of Oblivion, and it seems like it hasn't improved that much.

Are you surprised? seriously, are that surprised!? Bethesda are not known for cutting edge graphics and they have to deal with hardware limitations because of the consoles.

I was expecting worse, meh.

No I'm no that surprised, what gave you that idea?

Also, about the console limitations, have you seen God of War III?

Anyway, you obviously didn't see my comment after my original one where I said that I confused as to why fans were frothing over the graphics.

 

[ACman]

I wouldn't comment on the Graphics just yet as the video was bad quality. but those two guys i mean wow >.> tree people, calling the shout "magic" , saying it was the duel handing feature. I hope they get strung up and shot =P

Well personally I don't realy care that much about graphics but many people here keep frothing over the graphics in Skyrim and I really don't see why, there's nothing special about them.

Best looking open world I've ever seen.

 

[A Gent of Villainous Intent]

Every time I click it I just go to the main page.

So I'm going to assume it's actually Statler and Waldorf mocking the game and then I will chuckle at the silliness of it.

Oop! Here I go.

O-hohohoho.

Such a nice chuckle that was.

 

[FilipJPhry]

My hearts and prayers go to t-squared because I watched that guy since the early G4 days