Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Renay]

EPIC GAME!!!!

I've only done 3 quests so far, but I've already been playing 5 hours because I look at everything for a long time cause it looks so awesome!

[Earthdforce]

200 MB until I jizz my pants.

[Apsod]

I am stunned. I have benn playing for 6 hours straigth. It is amazing.

[Xant]

Skyrim sucks.

[Vibe]

Explain Xant

More first impressions, people!

[Xant]

because i don't have it yet

[Vibe]

That makes perfect sense

[Xant]

I am now installing Skyrim, it no longer sucks.

[MrShovelFace]

To clear things up:

Blocking is no longer that optional thing you could do to preserve health like it was in oblivion
Unless you are playing on novice with a large weapon that one hits everything you will block or you will die
In skyrim you have to time your blocks until the last moment to maximize damage dealt.
You can no longer disregard blocking as unimportant and left click your way to victory. On anything above adept you CAN be two-three shot by common opponents with twohanders but if you block you can take roughly twice the amount of hits if you arent using a shield and have no shield perks.

Skyrim DOES have a stagger effect that comes into effect when you charge forward with a power strike. Seems to happen far more often with two handed weapons, particularly battle axes.

Fatigue no longer is some insignificant bar that nobody pays attention to. If you run out of fatigue in oblivion you suffer a minor damage penalty. Big fucking woop. In skyrim you suffer a damage penalty and if your fatigue drops below a certain level you cannot attack. Not confirmed but I believe damage reduction from blocking drops like a bomb

Hope this lets people know that the combat engine is a great improvement over oblivion.
 You just cant go into it expecting to spin thrust 360 chamber block imperial soldiers like a boss
One can not expect Skyrim to be M&B or street fighter [although I can dream]



Other Notes:
Devs recognized the huge problem with level scaling everything like they did in oblivion as it made leveling rather pointless. I am not yet high enough level to verify but they claim there will be easy challenges that make you feel like a boss and very hard yet possible challenges that humble you regardless of your level meaning gone are the days when you have to hit trolls 30 times in the face because you are level 34. I can verify being humbled in barrow downs playing on expert it took my about 5-7 tried to kill that damn spider thing without using the expoit of standing on the otherside of the doorway

There are no spears. Keep crying maybe they will listen next time.. probably not





and for the record

Stealth thief/ninja/naruto characters = gay
Magical mage/gandalf/ganondorf      = Gay
magic/warrior                                 = Bi
scrub faces who want to duel wield cuz it looks cool  = same my old friends that only ever play sniper classes in FPS games 
Warrior with a mother fucking battle and a fork beard = Straight

[Vibe]

To clear things up:

Blocking is no longer that optional thing you could do to preserve health like it was in oblivion
Unless you are playing on novice with a large weapon that one hits everything you will block or you will die
In skyrim you have to time your blocks until the last moment to maximize damage dealt.
You can no longer disregard blocking as unimportant and left click your way to victory. On anything above adept you CAN be two-three shot by common opponents with twohanders but if you block you can take roughly twice the amount of hits if you arent using a shield and have no shield perks.

Skyrim DOES have a stagger effect that comes into effect when you charge forward with a power strike. Seems to happen far more often with two handed weapons, particularly battle axes.

Fatigue no longer is some insignificant bar that nobody pays attention to. If you run out of fatigue in oblivion you suffer a minor damage penalty. Big fucking woop. In skyrim you suffer a damage penalty and if your fatigue drops below a certain level you cannot attack. Not confirmed but I believe damage reduction from blocking drops like a bomb


Hope this lets people know that the combat engine is a great improvement over oblivion.
 
You just cant go into it expecting to spin thrust 360 chamber block imperial soldiers like a boss
One can not expect Skyrim to be M&B or street fighter [although I can dream]

It looks like they put quite some work in redoing the combat system, because this sounds very awesome. I also noticed that melee animations look fantastic.

I have a question: Can you fight in 3rd person without being handicapped too much? I never liked fighting in first person.

[MrShovelFace]

i have no problems

I forget what Oblivion did for hit detection but im near positive that Skyrim uses the weapon model for hit detection so what you see your character doing effects if you hit. Your character is also more receptive to turning with the camera in third person even when in the middle of a power attack so you can actually be more effective by being able to see whats behind you and turn to attack it mid swing. One of my person epic moments slaying a draug creeping behind me by turning 180 degrees WHILE doing a power attack overhead lol strike with a great axe.

There is also a somewhat convenient/omnipresent/annoying xhair to guide your aim in third person.

they claim to be using an over the shoulder camera but i only get it when i put away all my weapons. When your weapons are out the camera snaps to the center.



EDIT: Actually i just realized the battle axe has nine million ghost reach so all the twohanders might be using the same range

 SHIT I JUST REMEMBERED THAT EXECUTIONERS AXE AT THE BEGINING OF THE GAME I WANT THAT SHIT

[Tennenoth]

Is there still the possibility to backpedal firing arrows at the enemy with higher agility like in Oblivion? I remember just going straight into the tournament area and running backwards with a bow and arrow spamming until they fell over from the weight.

I always enjoyed Oblivion but archery was so damned easy!

I know that seems rather stereotypical of me but practically every game I play, I am an archer of some description and i'd like to know if it will be a challenge like the melee actually is (ie, I can't just shoot as many arrows as I want, I actually have to fight in melee at some point, like in cRPG). 

[Xant]

There's no athletics thing in Skyrim.

Also, melee combat feels a LOT better than in Oblivion. In addition to what Shoveldude said, it now feels like your attacks have weight, you know? Instead of just slashing a stonewall.

[Paul]

Starting out as a cat using claws but realised that I can't unequip magic to empty handed via hotkeys which is fucking retarded. Playing 2h warhammer orc now, smashing stuff with crafted stuff.

[Xant]

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