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The CE version is only a couple of bucks more, hardback, and access to an interactive world map that shows as much or as little as you want it to.
Had to google that one. I get it. I use guides sometimes for 100%ing a game or if I've been stuck for a great while. But isn't part of the fun of playing the game through the first time not knowing where everything is?Agreed. I seldom use it for getting past bosses but it is too easy to miss good treasure because it is hidden in the most obscure places. Fin Gleam anyone?I don't have the time or the patience to figure out the minutiae of everything in games anymore, especially now given the breadth and complexity of the worlds these developers create. When I was 14, I was happy to spend 6 months of my life doing nothing but trying to burn down every bush and bomb every canyon wall in Zelda. Nowadays, if I can't figure out/kill/get past something in a videogame in about an hour, I look for an answer online.
Absolutely. You don't open with the answer.Had to google that one. I get it. I use guides sometimes for 100%ing a game or if I've been stuck for a great while. But isn't part of the fun of playing the game through the first time not knowing where everything is?Agreed. I seldom use it for getting past bosses but it is too easy to miss good treasure because it is hidden in the most obscure places. Fin Gleam anyone?I don't have the time or the patience to figure out the minutiae of everything in games anymore, especially now given the breadth and complexity of the worlds these developers create. When I was 14, I was happy to spend 6 months of my life doing nothing but trying to burn down every bush and bomb every canyon wall in Zelda. Nowadays, if I can't figure out/kill/get past something in a videogame in about an hour, I look for an answer online.
I usually do these my second run through, and by then all that info is available online.Game guides are a scam.
You are correct the Wikias are wonderful. I still prefer holding a book if I can though.
Pretty sure they overhauled the leveling system in Skyrim.It was by far the worst thing about Oblivion. If you wanted to be an master marksmen you had shoot crabs and crap over and over and over and over.Or how about gaining merch skill?So repetitive. So annoying.
I agree but not every system will let you functionally alt+tab back and forth between a game and other open windows. So you have to get the info down from the wiki before starting the quest.
No mention of Fin Gleam in game play at all. But it is hardly the only item of that nature.Also many of the free form quests are so random that you'll never find them without the guide or hundreds of hours of game time. Too inconvenient for people out of high school.
I'm far gone from high school, so I understand. But to me these side quests and the such are an essential element in replay value. Make a new totally different character and explore. This is why I played Oblivion for years. It's not like I sit there after it first comes out playing on Mountain Dew crack until I slump over drooling on myself.
I absolutely love this series but the leveling system in Oblivion absolutely ruined the game for me.
More info:What appears to be tossed was the moronic non intuitive major and minor skills and the weird calculation between skills and attributes. Now it appears basic. Increase your skills by use. As your skills increase you will level. When you level you choose to upgrade health, magic or stamina and then choose a perk. There are 250 perks with multiple levels which should lead to an enormous amount of different character builds. The game is designed such that you level faster than Fallout or Oblivion. Most players will max out at 50 but the game theoretically can keep going until the mid 70's according to reports. Also they removed the fact that everyone levels with you allowing the feeling of your character being stronger. The game counters the possibility of over leveling by being careful to send you on dungeon quests that are appropriate for your skill level.'Matthias said:
This is huge. It always felt like there was no reason to level up in Oblivion
Leveling up in Oblivion was often a mistake that could render the game practically unplayable if you weren't careful. Fallout 3 and Fallout: NV got it basically right, with enemies that leveled up a little but not as fast as your character.
Gotta say, this looks pretty badass.
I played Oblivion a ton (fired it up again a couple weeks ago in anticipation of Skyrim). I want to be clear that while I endorse using strategy guides I am by no means suggesting that you open it the first time through the main quest (what's the point of the game if you do that) or that you use it as some sort of step-by-step instruction guide (e.g. go to quest 1, then quest 2, then quest 3, repeat until all quests are finished). First time I usually will crack a guide would be after I finish the main quest the first time, at that point it provides me with insight into cool things I might have missed the first time through.If you play Oblivion again I do strongly recommend acquiring Fin Gleam as soon as possible after you exit the sewers. Having night eye on command is a blessing in dungeons. I think Fin Gleam is my favorite piece of equipment after the Gray Cowl of the Nocturnal.
I can see why folks use them, but I feel like it would take something away from the game for me too. Never used one.
I'm like some of the others in that I never used these except for the ones that were annoying to figure out. I.E., you must be in this exact spot at this exact time of the day to complete the quest. A puzzle or something, yah, I'd like to figure it out. A random solution that it would take hours of game play to stumble upon, yah, I'll look it up on a wiki or something.
I hope they didn't change it too much, though. The developers - going all the way back to Arena and Daggerfall - wanted people to just play, and the stats will generally take care of themselves. If you want to be a mage, be a mage, and your mage stats will increase/etc. It's actually a pretty cool way to look at it, but it's not a system that goes well with min/maxing. The one part I didn't like was having skills increase because you ran and jumped. THAT was really silly, because it made you "level" way too fast.
Everything here sounds great.I do have to say this for Bethesda - they definitely have improved the overall game each time (for most things, anyway). And if they do make a mistake (like nerfing enchanting/etc), they put it back. The one part I miss is the scale of Daggerfall. I loved that HUGE scale. Even Morrowind seemed to have a pretty large sense of scale, despite actually being smaller than Oblivion. Oblivion got annoying in that there was a fort/dungeon/ruin every 50 feet. The sense of discovery that Daggerfall had was diminished. I hope this one is a little better in terms of scale. But that's a minor quibble.Can't wait - this might be a midnight purchase and day off the next day for me.
From what I have read the general size of the land is similar to Oblivion. But the developers think it will feel bigger to the players because the terrain (outside bad guys) are going to make moving though a mountain more difficult and will force players to take different longer paths.
Yeah that is a good point now that you mention it. Can't wait for you guys to try this game and report back with definitive answers on these things.'Matthias said:
Looks like RedBox is getting this on release day. Looks like I have my weekend filled!
Major potential spoiler here as well:
Apparently, you can become a werewolf!
Major potential spoiler here as well:
Apparently, you can become a werewolf!
Thanks for this. Can a GB out there tell me if playing this on my PC is a smart move?
However, it says my CPU speed is fine. It's just not "quad-core." Is this a big deal?2.
However, I exceed various video card requirements -Video RAM 1 GB (req) --- you have 3.7 GB
RAM is meaningless above a certain threshold. Throw unlimited RAM on an old video processor and it won't perform any better. You have a mobility processor (i.e., laptop) which is going to purposefully be slower to avoid heat buildup and reduce power consumption.
Ok. So will Skyrim run poorly on my laptop? I really like playing RPGs on the PC. It isn't the mods as much as the comfort of playing at my desk, while visiting the in-laws, etc. Playing on the console limits me to the living room madness of my house. That's fine for sports and stuff, but for an immersion RPG, I like the PC.
Yes, I'd imagine Skyrim would run poorly on nearly any laptop.I prefer pc also, because of mods but also because in the past games had UIs designed with the pc in mind. Now, unfortunately, it's gone the other way and pc gamers just take the ported version from the console so the UIs are crap.
