Elder Scrolls V in the works - direct sequel to Oblivion

[Egan]

Originally Posted by Spike88

Just found a word wall out in the open(now I realize what the little dragon head on the radar means, should seriously head to all the ones I know of), and was thinking how awesome would it be if this was the frost breath, low and behold, it's the frost breath.

I found an open wall last nights as well. The area was actually full of Frost troll corpses which the dragon must have been fighting, which helped me out hugely. I'd rather fight a dragon than a frost troll any day - those things are tough and they really creep me out with their whole weird monster gorilla cyclops thang.

For me, Morrowind is still one of the very greatest CRPG experiences I've ever had. It's up there with Baldur's gate (1+2) and Planescape Torment at the pinnacle. The whole thing was superb, and I still love the atmosphere of that game; the sound, the feel, the strange animal calls, the silt-walkers. The whole thing. I put off buying it until it had been out for a couple of years because I managed to convince myself that a first person CRPG wouldn't work and I wouldn't like it. How wrong I was.

But not cliff racers.

[Spike88]

Originally Posted by Egan

I found an open wall last nights as well. The area was actually full of Frost troll corpses which the dragon must have been fighting, which helped me out hugely. I'd rather fight a dragon than a frost troll any day - those things are tough and they really creep me out with their whole weird monster gorilla cyclops thang.

For me, Morrowind is still one of the very greatest CRPG experiences I've ever had. It's up there with Baldur's gate (1+2) and Planescape Torment at the pinnacle. The whole thing was superb, and I still love the atmosphere of that game; the sound, the feel, the strange animal calls, the silt-walkers. The whole thing. I put off buying it until it had been out for a couple of years because I managed to convince myself that a first person CRPG wouldn't work and I wouldn't like it. How wrong I was.

But not cliff racers.

There are mods that either remove cliff racers, or fix them so they are non-hostile.

The problem with the world wall I found was that there was the Dragon, who died next to the world wall, as I got closer to the wall to loot the dragon, a named Dragon Priest popped up. He was a pain to kill, Lydia went down several times and I went through several Health potions and major health potions. Was a welcome battle though, hadn't fought anything that had required me to heal myself in the battle in a while.

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by Dowly

http://geeks.thedailywh.at/2011/11/1...rn-of-the-day/

Proof once more that procreating should be allowed only with a license.

I'm watching this and related threads on other forums with some interest. Will probably pick the game up once it becomes cheaper and / or has some DLCs or expansions bundled into one package. I loved modded Oblivion, but reading about Skyrim has left me with feeling that it's...well even more Oblivionish than Oblivion (I suppose the official word in the industry is "streamlined"), and I'm not sure if that's what I want. I already felt they simpl...streamlined Oblivion too much in some areas compared to Morrowind.

Oh well, nevermind. Darklands is keeping me busy at the moment anyway for the foreseeable future. I'll necro this thread after some years have passed and I have lots of dumb questions concerning Skyrim.

[Egan]

Yeah, I used to use a mod that removed cliff racers. First mod I used for the game in fact.

Dragon priest - I haven't met one of them yet. I only ran into my first saber tooth last night. Was surprised by how easy it was to kill.

[Spike88]

Originally Posted by Egan

Yeah, I used to use a mod that removed cliff racers. First mod I used for the game in fact.

Dragon priest - I haven't met one of them yet. I only ran into my first saber tooth last night. Was surprised by how easy it was to kill.

Wait until you encounter 2-3 at once.

My first saber tiger was at level 9-ish, almost killed me. Game gave me epic boss music to go with the fight though.




I just attacked a Fort in one of the Imperial Civil War missions. While the enemies endlessly spawned until a counter was depleted, the battle was pretty good, in the sense that I felt like a hero from a movie. I was taking on 2-3 people at a time and chopping them down. Not a difficult battle, but still cool none the less.

[Drewcifer]

As a pure mage.. without my protection spells up, wearing only cloth a sabertooth can two hit kill me. So they are dangerous, and fast.

That being said I have a question for any of you guys that built characters perked in heavy armor. Whats your armor at? With only cloth robes 0 armor, when I bring up my magic defenses my armor is sitting at 390. Just curious how that compares.

[Spike88]

Originally Posted by Drewcifer

As a pure mage.. without my protection spells up, wearing only cloth a sabertooth can two hit kill me. So they are dangerous, and fast.

That being said I have a question for any of you guys that built characters perked in heavy armor. Whats your armor at? With only cloth robes 0 armor, when I bring up my magic defenses my armor is sitting at 390. Just curious how that compares.

Full set of flawless orc-ish armor nets me 291. But I only have one point in heavy armor perks.

If I had the well fitted(+25%) and matching set(+25%) I think it would be 436. And if I had full juggernaut(100%) I think 727(But this may be wrong).

[Drewcifer]

Ok.. so really all in all 390 is a good number. Since I'm still fast in cloth, and really that is a high armor rate for somebody that ISNT supposed to get hit anyways. I mean if your playing a mage and you are face to face with somebody your doing it wrong.

[Takeda Shingen]

For me, the biggest improvement is the leveling system. Skills level far more naturally than in previous installments, allowing me to play and grow organically instead of having to go into a tavern, enter sneak mode, but a weight on the keyboard and walk away. Leveling has never felt less 'grindy'.

[Drewcifer]

I agree, Morrowind was a brillant game, and oblivion was meh... but the whole time you felt like you had to do... gamey, out of character stuff just to build up some skill or attribute.

Like... oh I need some more health, guess I better take my pure mage and level up heavy armor a few times so I can get an endurance boost, or you know whatever your example might be. Thats game breaking and completely out of character!!

The new Skyrim system works great, you just play and everything you do gets better, and the things you don't do just sit there and collect dust you dont need them. I can up my health or magic or carry weight whenever I want without having to increase some random skill.

[Dowly]

Guess there has to be one in every crowd: My biggest complaint is the new leveling system.

Why? The perks. My god, whoever thought of that should be eaten by a dragon.

Instead of getting better at stuff by doing it like in Oblivion, now you have to
do that stuff AND level up to get perks needed to unlock stuff.

If that isn't "grindy", I don't know what is.

[Arclight]

You don't have to grind. I've not done any and I feel rather overpowered.

[NeonSamurai]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

For me, the biggest improvement is the leveling system. Skills level far more naturally than in previous installments, allowing me to play and grow organically instead of having to go into a tavern, enter sneak mode, but a weight on the keyboard and walk away. Leveling has never felt less 'grindy'.

I fixed that by just modding the rate that skills level

[Drewcifer]

Has anybody found any good looking hooded robes with NO enchantments on them? most of the good stuff I find is already enchanted...

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Drewcifer

Has anybody found any good looking hooded robes with NO enchantments on them? most of the good stuff I find is already enchanted...

Vampires tend to wear unenchanted black robes, but I have yet to see unenchanted black hoods.