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[Smash88]

I agree with everything you said but I'll still play it for 100 hours as I did Oblivion, which has copy/paste dungeons and landscape and hyped AI that was complete lies. We have no shame and we know it.

 

[ss_lemonade]

I'm sorry but this game looks like we stepped back 4 years and just came full circle with the whole thing.

Combat looks uninspired and something new, the land/areas/towns look the same as Oblivion.

It honestly looks like they rehashed most of their assets and then packaged it into a new game and added Dragons™.

It always looked like oblivion to me. Heck I don't know, but the old old oblivion videos with real time shadows/lighting seemed to look more impressive to me.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

The PC version better have an option for higher resolution shadows. That shit looks horrendous.

 

[Seventh]

Does anyone know if you'll be able to disable that blood splattering on the camera effect? Just from watching a little bit of the video, I can already tell I'm going to find it distracting.

Or, if it's not togglable, you should be able to mod it out on the PC, right?

 

[GraveRobberX]

oh god that river looks gorgeous

That water looks fake as fuck

The way it's moving, look at it again, just flowing down like a snake, nothing dynamic about it

Doesn't help the guy has uploaded it 360p with the brightness level set to only nocturnals can see

 

[childplease]

Why do they keep using this engine it's hideous.

Why not build a new next gen game engine with pc as the lead console and then have a future proof engine for future consoles.

 

[opticalmace]

Will Skyrim have the Oblivion behaviour of enemies leveling up with you? That was a buzzkill.

 

[Thoraxes]

I honestly can't bring myself to watch it.

Holy shit.

 

[Valnen]

People spent over 100 hours with Oblivion and that game was mediocre, at best. Skyrim seems to improve upon every single aspect of its predecessor so it's only given that people are hyped for this; including myself.

I only played Oblivion for awhile because I was convinced I was just doing it wrong if I didn't find it fun, so I kept playing.

Never did find it fun, even after using up most of the built in content sans expansions. Didn't bother modding because if a game isn't fun without mods it's not going to be fun with mods.

 

[NBtoaster]

It doesn't look any different from the videos Bethesda have released. People who were hyped for this shouldn't be losing any.

 

[Big-ass Ramp]

haha holy hell that shift to third person is better than oblivion but still silly looking

 

[Smash88]

Why do they keep using this engine it's hideous.

Why not build a new next gen game engine with pc as the lead console and then have a future proof engine for future consoles.

Hahaha, I'm sorry.

Don't worry they'll blame it on piracy, and say that consoles offer a more secure option.

 

[Piggus]

Second part was quite a bit better than the first IMO. It's not like the first part of Oblivion is all that great either.

 

[Big-ass Ramp]

the battle system looks slightly upgraded

 

[childplease]

Hahaha, I'm sorry.

Don't worry they'll blame it on piracy, and say that consoles offer a more secure option.

Aren't their games steamworks tittles ? I was under the impression that Steamworks games are free of piracy. I though you had to authenticate the game and have steam running for the games to work.

 

[djplaeskool]

So...
you start out the game in captivity, only to be freed and escape through a ruined underground passageway.

where have I seen this before...?

 

[Tesseract]

So...
you start out the game in captivity, only to be freed and escape through a ruined underground passageway.

where have I seen this before...?

the rock?

 

[feel]

The silly animations make it hard to take it seriously. Looks bad and same old same. :/

 

[EviLore]

I'm not watching, but I'm guessing that it looks like these screens:

 

[Big-ass Ramp]

oh god lockpicking

 

[PuppetSlave]

So glad I never really got my hopes up for this one.

 

[Snuggles]

I was trying to stay in the dark, but I went ahead and watched. It was pretty bad. The combat looks as crap as ever. I won't pre-judge the whole game based on this footage, but it doesn't exactly get me excited.

 

[Smash88]

Aren't their games steamworks tittles ? I was under the impression that Steamworks games are free of piracy. I though you had to authenticate the game and have steam running for the games to work.

The game can still be extracted and pirated even if it is a only steam game.

EDIT: Gotta say the plastic looking water is top "NOTCH"

Sorry had to.

 

[Big-ass Ramp]

I'm not watching, but I'm guessing that it looks like these screens:

run those through crappy youtube rendering and you get the idea

 

[Yoshichan]

Never did find it fun, even after using up most of the built in content sans expansions. Didn't bother modding because if a game isn't fun without mods it's not going to be fun with mods.

Some hardcore mod-people would disagree with you here... but yeah you've definitely given Oblivion a chance. Elder Scrolls is simply put not for you.

 

[GraveRobberX]

I'm not watching, but I'm guessing that it looks like these screens:

Worse than those Big Boss =/

 

[keltickennedy]

Doesn't help that the person playing sucks complete ass.

 

[K.Sabot]

I'm not watching, but I'm guessing that it looks like these screens:

It looks fine graphically.

The problem is that it is moving...

 

[EviLore]

Yikes guys ;b

 

[sephi22]

Kotaku has reupped the vid
http://kotaku.com/5854660/watch-the-first-23-minutes-of-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-right-here/gallery/1

 

[planar1280]

that lockpicking was...sloooowww assss hellll....

 

[Spokker]

run those through crappy youtube rendering and you get the idea

Actually, the effect of putting a video on YouTube and watching it in a tiny box can make the game look better by smoothing out aliasing and hiding low fidelity textures. It happened with Battlefield 3 on consoles. In fact, people thought that some of those cutscenes were in-game rather than video, probably because YouTube hid the fact that it was in fact just a video.

 

[Big-ass Ramp]

ok the battle system is bumming me out. you are still shuffling your sword across the enemy until they die

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

you mean the new engine is basically gamebryo, or that they are actually using gamebryo?

they updated parts of gamebyro and called it something else.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

That was a pretty cool intro.

Will wait for reviews...anyone know when the embargo is up?

 

[GraveRobberX]

Yikes guys ;b

Looks like that guy you posted about, that did those MODS fro Oblivion, will be doing WORK on this

 

[Calavera520]

I'll maybe play this after a steam sale a year from now. My total playtime will likely not exceed the 20 minutes I gave oblivion.

I'll go in for the dark brotherhood and other guild quest lines.

 

[sephi22]

Dat Mortal Kombat voice acting.

"Who....areyuu?"

 

[Luigiv]

That mountain. See that mountain. You can climb that mountain.

But why are you climbing that mountain?

Edit: Anyway, on topic: I like the part where the game constantly froze.

 

[EviLore]

Looks like that guy you posted about, that did those MODS fro Oblivion, will be doing WORK on this

The Elder Scrolls: New Vvardenfell, coming soon from Obsidian Entertainment.

 

[geeko]

Didn't click.

(Blackout mode initiated)

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

Yikes guys ;b

think of oblivion TRYING to be more like Dark Messiah, and not quite hitting it.

Still better than Oblivion LARPING combat, but that's nothing big.

 

[Ilive1up]

this has to be an older build or something because all the videos i have seen (and it's been 360 video) has been pretty stellar.

 

[planar1280]

this has to be an older build or something because all the videos i have seen (and it's been 360 video) has been pretty stellar.

I am pretty sure the game gets better as you play and remember this is not HD quality. the demos they show in shows is usually in the middle of the game exploring the land, examples of dragon and other combat and some conversation.

 

[sephi22]

:O
Dat beheading.

*Stops watching*

 

[ctrayne]

The UI is sex.

 

[EviLore]

this has to be an older build or something because all the videos i have seen (and it's been 360 video) has been pretty stellar.

This is presumably a review copy, which would also presumably be the gold version since they just went out a couple days ago, two weeks ahead of release.

 

[RebornYeti]

Didn't click.

(Blackout mode initiated)

This.

I'm ALMOST tempted to watch them though, to see what GAF is crying over.

But this is Neogaf, so I'll just ignore the haters!

Skyrim WILL be amazing!

 

[Snuggles]

think of oblivion TRYING to be more like Dark Messiah, and not quite hitting it.

To me, it just looked the same as Oblivion's combat, but with some awesome finishing moves mixed in.

This.

I'm ALMOST tempted to watch them though, to see what GAF is crying over.

But this is Neogaf, so I'll just ignore the haters!

Skyrim WILL be amazing!

I'm not crying. I'm not a hater. But I watched the footage, and it was poor. It is possible to fall somewhere between two polar opposites.

 

[Artanisix]

Videos are down, any rehosts?