SKYRIM!

[EskimoJoe]

Increasing difficulty just seems to increase enemies' health, not your damage/their damage.

If it's anything like Oblivion, the loot you find in dungeons etc. will likely be worth lots more.

Though you don't really need it if you're good. I already have some 40,000 gold and countless
riches more worth in saved loot in my house, not to mention 500+ lockpicks 

[titanic3]

Actually, it's based of Fallout 3's difficulty settings, not Oblivion's. In Skyrim/FO3, once you enter a dungeon/area, it's locked to whatever level you were at, so if you enter and decide to leave, when you come back (say 5 levels later), everything inside will still be level 1, but you are now stronger.

In Oblivion, everything was locked to whatever level you were. So if you were low level, all the loot was crap, if you were high level, all the loot was god like.

I have no problems with the game right now, but could it be better? Sure.
Thank god for mods, right?

Realism mod
Project Beauty
Realistic lighting
Better UI
Custom Soundtrack

That's all I need for my Skyrim mods, which will be out by the end of the year no doubt.

[kilo2]

The soundtrack now is awesome one of the best I have heard.

[ink]

Actually, it's based of Fallout 3's difficulty settings, not Oblivion's. In Skyrim/FO3, once you enter a dungeon/area, it's locked to whatever level you were at, so if you enter and decide to leave, when you come back (say 5 levels later), everything inside will still be level 1, but you are now stronger.

In Oblivion, everything was locked to whatever level you were. So if you were low level, all the loot was crap, if you were high level, all the loot was god like.

I have no problems with the game right now, but could it be better? Sure.
Thank god for mods, right?

Realism mod
Project Beauty
Realistic lighting
Better UI
Custom Soundtrack

That's all I need for my Skyrim mods, which will be out by the end of the year no doubt.

there is already a bunch of mods

[titanic3]

there is already a bunch of mods

Oh yea, I check out Skyrim Nexus everyday, but most of I dont like or they're still pretty buggy. I kinda want to finish my first play through mods free though.

I can't play games knowing already what's going to happen, obviously Skyrim has a lot of choices, but most are minor, I haven't finished the game yet, but the largest decision I found so far is choosing Imperial or Stormcloak. I choose Imperial, so Stormcloak will be next. Mods help me get through some of the receptive stuff like dungeons and what not.

[Raphael]

Imperial cowards!

[Tupac]

I don't like how when I get off my horse it's life goal becomes pissing off every bear/giant/dragon in the area.

[PR3D4TOR]

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[Raphael]

he died as a hero, I salute him.

[Wiley]

Pfft.  Lightweight.  He blacked out after only 40 hours.  He also obviously didn't know that changing position once in a while is critical to avoid necrosis of the limbs.  No mention of a diaper either.  I be he wasted several minutes in the bathroom.

Kids?  Learn from this guy's mistakes.  This is why you don't use those energy drinks and junk food to stay up.  If you just keep a nice, steady alcohol buzz going and eat good things instead of junk food, you can game much longer than noobsauce up there...

Still really enjoying this game.  Sneak/backstab does appear to be brokenly powerful, just got my smithing up to 100% at the end of last night.  I'm making a point of not looking for where anything is on this playthrough, as I ruined Oblivion by reading the wikis online.  I think I agree Morrowind is probably the best of the series, Oblivion was a bit of a letdown, but I quite like Skyrim.  Some of the systems are a bit too simplistic perhaps, but the world really is well constructed IMO.  Haven't seen any noticable dungeon reuse, and in a game this size, that's pretty impressive.

I'm really in no hurry to finish this game.  Normally I have an irresistable urge to blow through the main quest, but I really like how natural and logical a lot of the quest setups are.

Wiley.

[Shuffler]

Pong pwns all.

That is except Asteroids.   

[BoilerDown]

amde a quick test on recording with fraps... it killed my fps (even with my low settings graphics) and youtube just ruined the quality BADLY, i can't believe I wasted so much time uploading to youtube just to get this horrible quality up there, how do people post those REAL HD videos?
... anyway here it is if anyone feels like watching... keep in mind this was a test video so there is nothing epic there. one question tho... are the dragons weaker when they first rise? it seems that it is way more challenging to battle a dragon that you find randomly in the land then when you get it when it first rises. I'm not sure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICNyx2jEngo

btw: watch on 720 if you're going to watch it... and in the expanded screen (not the full screen) looks a bit better

You get way better quality by using "Force Lossless RGB capture" and "Full-Size", because those settings barely hurt performance at all compared to using the lower quality settings, so they are very much worth it.  Also I like to set a custom FPS of 15-24 if my computer can't keep a steady 30 FPS while capturing.  The loss of FPS won't be noticed nearly as much as lower quality capture settings will be noticed.

I'm making a point of not looking for where anything is on this playthrough, as I ruined Oblivion by reading the wikis online.

Doing the same thing here.  I want to be surprised and not know all the min/maxing things.  And I'm trying to clear towns of quests before I move on, while gradually moving the main quest forwards.

[rabbidrabbit]

Is this a MMORG or more of a single player deal?

[titanic3]

Is this a MMORG or more of a single player deal?

Singe player only. If you ever played Fallout 3/New Vegas, it's almost the same thing. Easily modded, giant sand box world, lots of freedom to what choices you can choose. The main quest alone is probably 10 hours, but the massive amounts of side quests (some a repetitive, but almost all is like a mini-RPG in itself), along with the amount of mods that is put out by the community means you can have upwards of 200+ hours of gameplay. I myself spent over 150 hours on Fallout 3.

[rabbidrabbit]

Is it way too ugly for my 7 year old to play?  Any bad language?