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First 25 minutes of Skyrim
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JohnnytheFuture
Member
Anyone going to post to a site that won't have their videos taken down due to copyright claims by ZeniMax Media?
Shit, I cracked. Ended up watching the second video only, and skipped around it a bit so I didn't see the whole thing. I definitely agree that the voice acting is poor. Everything else though? Hell no! Game still looks fucking fantastic, and if anything I'm more hyped now. Looks like an improved in every aspect Oblivion.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
EviLore said:
Just googled deadly reflex
Yeah, but it's the Lite version
None of the crazy details the mod creator created for it
It's like the T version to the M rated version for PC
Almost like Fallout crit hit, and you go into 2-3 seconds slo-mo strike
Thunderbear
Mawio Gawaxy iz da Wheeson hee pways games
Urgh... should I cancel my pre-order, don't even know if I can (Steam, never tried before). I hope the rest of the game is a lot better than these first 25 minutes.
The videos are ridiculously low-res so hopefully that's part of it. But I don't understand why they can't get characters (humans especially I guess) to look good.
I've seen other videos that look a lot more fun. Really not sure what to think of this.
The videos are ridiculously low-res so hopefully that's part of it. But I don't understand why they can't get characters (humans especially I guess) to look good.
I've seen other videos that look a lot more fun. Really not sure what to think of this.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Yeah, thank goodness I wasn't expecting much.
Will be waiting for the complete version!
Will be waiting for the complete version!
Still in Blackout mode, but I'll just respond to the comments.
I didn't like Oblivion, and never finished the main quest.
Yet I played Oblivion for what, 300+ hours?
If this is even a little bit better, I'll be satisfied. Why? because there are no other games like it.
If this comes anywhere close to Morrowind, I'll probably lose half a year of my life to this game. >_>
My expectations are still very low, considering Bethesda Studios+Publisher latest offerings.
I didn't like Oblivion, and never finished the main quest.
Yet I played Oblivion for what, 300+ hours?
If this is even a little bit better, I'll be satisfied. Why? because there are no other games like it.
If this comes anywhere close to Morrowind, I'll probably lose half a year of my life to this game. >_>
My expectations are still very low, considering Bethesda Studios+Publisher latest offerings.
planar1280
Banned
NBtoaster said:
this.
GraveRobberX said:
I guess Deadly Reflex has the edge, too, because the finishing moves are skill-based. For example, you get a brief slow motion interval that triggers when they're at low health where you can perform a decapitation or amputation or what have you, if you line up your swing correctly in real-time. Vastly prefer that over a randomly triggered cutscene, if that's how it plays out in Skyrim.
Of course, we can probably get all that for Skyrim too eventually ;b
It's very jarring to see enemies completely nonreactive to hits and blows. I seem to remember in Oblivion they at least flinched a few times. In this gameplay, there is no body language from the enemy in combat aside from them rushing you and trading blows until they oddly ragdoll.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I'm still wondering if Oblivion had the same "this is going to be good, guys, trust me!" posts prior to its release.
planar1280
Banned
edited the OP with Kotaku video which is a rehost and better quality. all naysayers should watch that
Spokeys said:
This is what I took away as well. Was very odd. It has been years since I played Oblivion (didn't much care for it), but is there a consequence to just swinging and hacking or can you just do that until the enemy falls? No endurance bar or anything? Seemed weird.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
NBtoaster said:
OK, but can they make the first 25 minutes more invigorating
I was like hmmm... running away, underground, escape... where have I played/seen this before
This wasn't even tutorial based to a point, it was just here's an axe, go play.... wait, first follow this script based play, till we feel you are ready
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
sephi22 said:
Not saying Oblivion isn't addictive or something, but a lot of its praise where rather false or undeserving. Remember when Radiant AI was apparently amazing?
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
I'm not saying lolSkyrim or trolling for trolling sakes
Hope you enjoy it for w/e you will get it, I will too (PS3 down the line), I think PC will have the best version possible, due to the modding community
Some of these things can be fixed, but as goes with console version, will Bethesda want to invest in it
I think first patch will be to fix all those bugs/glitches that someone found out to get your character to max ASAP LOL
Hope you enjoy it for w/e you will get it, I will too (PS3 down the line), I think PC will have the best version possible, due to the modding community
Some of these things can be fixed, but as goes with console version, will Bethesda want to invest in it
I think first patch will be to fix all those bugs/glitches that someone found out to get your character to max ASAP LOL
I don't know what Radiant AI is. All I remember is that I made a mage and I became an assassin and I joined the necromancers and I blasphemed by joining the mages while being a necromancer and I made my own spells and I walked on water and I never used a lockpick and I cheesed the arena with magic and I killed a guy by dropping a decoration on his head and I used to wait outside someone's house till nighttime, sneak in, and steal the women's clothes and I sneaked into all the castles and stole all the keys from sleeping kings and I put all those keys in a display case in my house and I didn't play the main quest and not a fuck was given that day.Ookami-kun said:
Best $60 I ever spent.
milkyjay20
Member
lmao at the end.
"i refer to this bear as 'her' because i'm one with nature, so you should sneak by 'her,' but here's this bow, now kill it"
"i refer to this bear as 'her' because i'm one with nature, so you should sneak by 'her,' but here's this bow, now kill it"
Pseudo_Sam
Survives without air, food, or water
I'm gonna repeat what I said in the other Skyrim thread:
I don't give a rat's ass about Skyrim's ending. Honestly, I don't. I played Morowind and Oblivion over 150 hours each - not once did I reach the "endings" of either one. I doubt I even got halfway through the main quest of Oblivion. It was around the time I was closing my 5th Oblivion gate to convince the other cities to send aid to Bruma that I said fuck it, I'm going back to playing my way.
That's what makes the Elder Scrolls games for me. Bethesda doesn't design the game around stories, or quests, or animations, or even combat - they design it around the world. It's an environment optimized for freedom of choice. I can lose myself in the wilderness of Oblivion, just searching for ingredients for a potion. Or I can lose myself in being an unfaltering psychopath, sneaking into the cities at night to murder civilians in their sleep. It's the ability to do what I want within the context of the game world that makes me love the Elder Scrolls. That's why Morrowind's "intro" remains my favorite. There isn't really an intro at all. One quick pass through the immigration office and you're set free, blinking in astonishment at the near endless landscape in front of you. The sense of freedom in that game is staggering. There is no heavy-handed story to be introduced to, no ridiculous series of tutorial caverns to be shepherded through, no abundance of shitty scripted sequences to sit through. It's just you, alone, surrounded by an unfamiliar world, with only your wits to guide you.
But this is where my point is: Even though it did have all of those things, Oblivion's intro was so ridiculously inconsequential, it didn't matter at all. 10 minutes after leaving the sewers, you've forgotten all about the king and the amulet and the shitty main quest. Elder Scrolls games are unique in that both the beginning and ending are virtually useless. They're bookends, and I'm convinced they exist at all only because the pervasive tradition of video games demands they do.
So yeah, I'm a little bummed about Skyrim's introduction. Not because of the story, or the voice acting, or the scripting, or the animations, but because any real effort that was put into it was absolutely wasted on a near-useless sequence that I will not care about to begin with and will immediately forget afterwards.
I don't give a rat's ass about Skyrim's ending. Honestly, I don't. I played Morowind and Oblivion over 150 hours each - not once did I reach the "endings" of either one. I doubt I even got halfway through the main quest of Oblivion. It was around the time I was closing my 5th Oblivion gate to convince the other cities to send aid to Bruma that I said fuck it, I'm going back to playing my way.
That's what makes the Elder Scrolls games for me. Bethesda doesn't design the game around stories, or quests, or animations, or even combat - they design it around the world. It's an environment optimized for freedom of choice. I can lose myself in the wilderness of Oblivion, just searching for ingredients for a potion. Or I can lose myself in being an unfaltering psychopath, sneaking into the cities at night to murder civilians in their sleep. It's the ability to do what I want within the context of the game world that makes me love the Elder Scrolls. That's why Morrowind's "intro" remains my favorite. There isn't really an intro at all. One quick pass through the immigration office and you're set free, blinking in astonishment at the near endless landscape in front of you. The sense of freedom in that game is staggering. There is no heavy-handed story to be introduced to, no ridiculous series of tutorial caverns to be shepherded through, no abundance of shitty scripted sequences to sit through. It's just you, alone, surrounded by an unfamiliar world, with only your wits to guide you.
But this is where my point is: Even though it did have all of those things, Oblivion's intro was so ridiculously inconsequential, it didn't matter at all. 10 minutes after leaving the sewers, you've forgotten all about the king and the amulet and the shitty main quest. Elder Scrolls games are unique in that both the beginning and ending are virtually useless. They're bookends, and I'm convinced they exist at all only because the pervasive tradition of video games demands they do.
So yeah, I'm a little bummed about Skyrim's introduction. Not because of the story, or the voice acting, or the scripting, or the animations, but because any real effort that was put into it was absolutely wasted on a near-useless sequence that I will not care about to begin with and will immediately forget afterwards.
Tylahedras
Banned
Welp, that was not impressive. I think I'll go back to wait and see on this one.
Grinchy
Banned
There's no doubt that I'm buying this game, but I really was hoping for a bigger improvement in the combat mechanics. Maybe I just need to play it for myself, but it didn't look very thrilling in the video. It looked just like Oblivion. Maybe deep down I was expecting Demon's Souls in first person or something, but it just looked a bit basic.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
sephi22 said:
So essentially a standard experience then.
I'd say something about upping it but nevermind.
I'd say something about the first 25 minutes not being indicative of the amount of crazy distracting shit in the world but nevermind.Ookami-kun said:So essentially a standard experience then.
I'd say something about upping it but nevermind.
Oblivion felt pretty dull fighting rats in sewers. But when I saw the world, I shat bricks.
AlimNassor
Banned
Y'know I was really hyped for skyrim, but, now I'm really not hyped at all. I defended this game thick and thin, I genuinely believed it would be different then Oblivion. *sigh* Those 25 minutes really made me disappointed enough to seriously reconsider my preorder.
GraveRobberX said:
The only similarity with oblivions tutorial is that its an escape that involves a cave. Everything else is delivered differently.
-you start outdoors for the first time in an ES game
-you have an npc with you delivering tips, instead of text
-the cave is not static, there are cave ins and rumbles that you never had anywhere in Oblivion
-seemingly no magic tutorial yet
-a much more faster paced opening sequence (the dragon)
Also the kotaku video looks like it's still 4:3 being stretched horribly.
I know it's not perfect, and you can probably make it look silly if you don't follow the sense of urgency.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
sephi22 said:
And like I said, I'd say something about upping the experience, but I already know the replies once I say that so I'd rather not