Skyrim

Try upping the difficulty all the way up in oblivion and THEN tell me magic was broken. Actually, the game is pretty balanced. Magic ought to hurt more, why? Because wizards are frail that's how most RPG's are anyway.

The only exception maybe is invisibility, that one spell makes any half-brained character viable. Can't get past a certain part? Just go invisible and go past them. Need to kill them? Just go invisible, sneak attack with a multi-damage poison (with a 100% weakness to poison enchantment on your bow or weapon), then go invisible again, and TADA!! Watch their health just drop like a dead weight. Invisibility was broken. You could go through the whole game undetected. And stealing was never made easier.
 
Ring said:
Another thing I'm interested in, is 3rd person view viable this time?
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I play on the PC and yes you can switch to 3rd person view by hitting the F key. You can also scroll the camera to zoom in and zoom out.

Also when riding a horse there's no longer first person view and controlling the horse is awkward at first since you can't move your horse backwards.
 
damn-I-Suck said:
Try upping the difficulty all the way up in oblivion and THEN tell me magic was broken. Actually, the game is pretty balanced. Magic ought to hurt more, why? Because wizards are frail that's how most RPG's are anyway.

The only exception maybe is invisibility, that one spell makes any half-brained character viable. Can't get past a certain part? Just go invisible and go past them. Need to kill them? Just go invisible, sneak attack with a multi-damage poison (with a 100% weakness to poison enchantment on your bow or weapon), then go invisible again, and TADA!! Watch their health just drop like a dead weight. Invisibility was broken. You could go through the whole game undetected. And stealing was never made easier.
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When I played Oblivion (on PC, with OOO installed) I thought magic was overpowered. At higher levels mages were almost untouchable. Once you got your access to custom spells the game became easier. Paralyze spell was almost game breaking imo (especially when you got the Paralyze Staff from the Mages Guild), combining Paralyze for 1sec with many offensive spells was very convenient, there was also Drain Health spell, which killed any opponent with less than 100 HP instantly and cost little magicka, spell stacking etc...

Chameleon was another game breaking effect, especially if you somehow managed to get 100% Chameleon through enchantments ;)

franman said:
I play on the PC and yes you can switch to 3rd person view by hitting the F key. You can also scroll the camera to zoom in and zoom out.

Also when riding a horse there's no longer first person view and controlling the horse is awkward at first since you can't move your horse backwards.
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I couldn't play 3rd person view in Oblivion w/o a mods because the camera movement was horrible. Is it better this time?
 
I think it's just the same. If I recall in Oblivion the camera moves as your character turns his/her head, Skyrim doesn't. What's so horrible about the camera in Oblivion?
 
franman said:
I think it's just the same. If I recall in Oblivion the camera moves as your character turns his/her head, Skyrim doesn't. What's so horrible about the camera in Oblivion?
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It was ok for exploring, but terrible for fighting. The camera movement was strange, and no crosshair made it impossible to aim with spells, arrows etc... completely useless.

I had to install a mod that made the camera behave like in Morrowind, and also add a crosshair for 3rd person view. It still wasn't perfect but much better.
 
There's a crosshair this time around, and I think the combat control is better. I don't know what it is you didn't like about the camera during combat in Oblivion, so I can't say for sure.
 
Synraii said:
Did you not play oblivion in 1st person? I always found it more immersive that way. =/
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Yeah, the Elder Scrolls games are primarily 1st person. Same with Skyrim. You can play a lot of it very well in 3rd person, but there will always be things easier to do in 1st person. Like..... interacting with objects on a shelf.
 
I always liked both, but I just couldn't live with he fact that 3rd person view was so crippled in Oblivion.

I'm glad to hear it's better in Skyrim.
 
How is this game? I have Oblivion and Shivering isles for ps3 and am now interested in this due to the huge leap in graphics and animation.

But whats the Story about exactly?
 
story: 200 years after oblivion, northernmost province of tamriel (where all the ES games are). the empire from oblivion still controls everything, but the skyrim, the northers place where nords are from, is having a civil war. you join in and shred face for one side or the other and pick weeds and shoot deer and light people on fire.

oh, and there are dragons trying to kill everything.

it is amazing.

also, this:

UPDATE 1.2 NOTES (all platforms unless specified)
  • Improved occasional performance issues resulting from long term play (PlayStation 3)
  • Fixed issue where textures would not properly upgrade when installed to drive (Xbox 360)
  • Fixed crash on startup when audio is set to sample rate other than 44100Hz (PC)
  • Fixed issue where projectiles did not properly fade away
  • Fixed occasional issue where a guest would arrive to the player's wedding dead
  • Dragon corpses now clean up properly
  • Fixed rare issue where dragons would not attack
  • Fixed rare NPC sleeping animation bug
  • Fixed rare issue with dead corpses being cleared up prematurely
  • Skeleton Key will now work properly if player has no lockpicks in their inventory
  • Fixed rare issue with renaming enchanted weapons and armor
  • Fixed rare issue with dragons not properly giving souls after death
  • ESC button can now be used to exit menus (PC)
  • Fixed occasional mouse sensitivity issues (PC)
  • General functionality fixes related to remapping buttons and controls (PC)
 
Hmm i see.

One final question, well two actually.

1# can you make your characters handsome and pretty this time? it was very hard to make a handsome looking man and IMPOSSIBLE to make a pretty women. also is hair animated through the games in-game physics engine like blowing in the wind and stuff?
2# can blood be turned off or lowered? i don't care for bloody games. its a morale thing.
 
Hey, does Mannimarco return in Skyrim? Or they finally killed him in the previous game? :(
 
Ring said:
Hey, does Mannimarco return in Skyrim? Or they finally killed him in the previous game? :(
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I haven't come across him yet if he is on Skyrim.
I've been playing Skyrim when it first came out and it's all I've been playing. I've made a Nord Warrior, Argonian Necromancer/Wizard, and an Thief/Assassin Khajiit. I'm extremely satisfied with how your able to make a unique character, but I love the combat system. I've run across the accasional glitch, but nothing to bad.
Also! I have well over two hundred hours on it, with all my created characters not including the dying I've been doing.
 
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