Octopus Overlords

Matrix wrote:i am getting the game, but i feel same thing will happen with this game as with other Betsheda morrowind line of games. I get really excited and play it for a 10-20 hours, then i just get side tracked. I am not sure why. I love the concept of open world, and the atmosphere, and i will play it some amount of time, and then i just side track. I have much better span of attention with Diablos esq games, and FPS, and some Strategy games.

We develop toward the consoles and then porting to PCs is not too bad, actually.

Paingod wrote:Looks nice, but really not diggin' the console menu usage. It's very very obviously designed for "Hold left trigger, move analog stick, press "X" to select" - and as a PC user these menus end up feeling very sluggish, slow, and almost insulting.

Bethesda: Consoles to be the lead platform for Skyrim, aim to make it “really accessible”In an interview with CVG, Bethesda’s Craig Lafferty said that Skyrim has been developed with consoles as the lead target.The lead producer on Skyrim said: “We use the consoles as our lead SKU… So we develop towards the consoles and then porting to PC is usually not too bad actually .

”The above comments are likely to cause PC gamers a bit of grief, and the next thing on Craig Lafferty’s mind was unlikely to appease them.“We wanted to take it and make it really accessible,” the producer said.“… We still have the complexity behind the scenes, but we wanted to make it so that you could pick up the controller and play and it was easy; the average person could get into it…We knew we wanted to make the user interface a little bit more open and available … get away from the stats and things like that.”Hopefully this doesn’t mean we will be getting a dumbed down version of the RPG, but rather a slicker and more streamlined game. Simplifying RPG’s usually equates to commercial success, but also causes a split in your core audience, as we saw with Dragon Age 2. Bethesda will have to make sure they don’t alienate its established fan base in its quest to please the “average person”.The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim releases on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 11.

godhugh wrote:Oblivion was designed the same way and it turned out fantastic on both PC and Console so I fail to understand the anger toward something everyone should have already known.

Sarkus wrote:Oblivion and Fallout 3 were both designed with consoles as the leads, so I don't get why anyone would be surprised that the same is true of Skyrim. We'll have to see if they've gone too far this time, but after the last two Bethesda in-house RPGs, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that they aren't screwing over the PC segment.

Zurai wrote:

Sarkus wrote:Oblivion and Fallout 3 were both designed with consoles as the leads, so I don't get why anyone would be surprised that the same is true of Skyrim. We'll have to see if they've gone too far this time, but after the last two Bethesda in-house RPGs, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that they aren't screwing over the PC segment.

I'm not. The PC versions of Oblivion and Fallout 3 were both bug-ridden messes. They're in a very select group of games that consistently crash on my PC, even without mods (and trying to mod them just increases the crash frequency from once every couple hours to a couple times an hour, even with just simple mods like interface overhauls).

LulzSec is at it again. Today, after much taunting on Twitter, the hacking group has posted online the source code and database passwords of Bethesda Softworks, a subsidiary of gaming company ZeniMax Media.
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LulzSec says it has data pertaining to more than 200,000 registered users of the game Brink, but says it held back that information because "we actually like this company and would like for them to speed up the production of Skyrim, so we'll give them one less thing to worry about. You're welcome!"

In response to someone asking if there is same sex marriage in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Pete Hines of Bethesda tweeted the following:

Not hush hush, just not making a huge deal out of it. You can marry anyone.

Daehawk wrote:About time. Skyrim will allow you to marry whomever you want..same sex or not.

In response to someone asking if there is same sex marriage in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Pete Hines of Bethesda tweeted the following:

Not hush hush, just not making a huge deal out of it. You can marry anyone.

Paingod wrote:Given the open-ended-ness of Elder Scroll's games, I'd go with "Marry Anyone" - you'd have to get their reputation up enough, get them interested, probably run some dating quests, and then a marriage quest.

What I wonder, though, is if you can make any character in the game "turn" gay for you or if only specific ones are available as predefined "gay" characters. Except Wood Elves. They'd all be gay.

tgb wrote:I think this guy is an NPC.

/eyebleach/

Orgull wrote:Saw the videos. Want very much to be in love with Skyrim. But I've got a problem.

I was the biggest Bethesda Fanboi for many years. But I didn't like Oblivion. It was pretty but boring, like that hot chick you see at a party and think you'd like to sleep with until you hear her talking about Kim Kardashian as though it's a life-or-death subject and you just go "uuugh!".

I just reinstalled Morrowind and played it for a few hours. What the hell was I smoking when it came out? The combat is beyond atrocious and the gameplay consists of wandering around looking at pretty things and trying not to get killed by assassins. When did the Elder Scrolls games become boring?

Am I going to love Skyrim or is it just going to be another pretty sandbox to wander around in till I get hungry and permanently go make a sandwich?

coopasonic wrote:

Orgull wrote:When did the Elder Scrolls games become boring?

It isn't the Elder Scrolls that have changed in this equation.

coopasonic wrote:It isn't the Elder Scrolls that have changed in this equation.