I’d be fine with voice acting like in Morrowind: a few spoken sentences and everything else text.
Spend the savings on somebody who can animate worth a damn.
These are things I say so I can temper the burning desire to play this game right now.
At least it gives me some time to finish Oblivion; there’s just so much stuff I haven’t done.
My New Year’s Resolution is to try to finish Oblivion. I just haven’t done it…but I’ve got a winter break coming up so that’s going to give me a head start.
Made the mistake of buying Oblivion on a console last time. I finally have a setup that will run Skyrim. Can’t wait to give modding a try.
I contributed to a few mods for Oblivion. I think I’m going to try my hands at a mod or two this time around. Can’t wait!
I’ve never finished either Oblivion or Morrowind. Not for lack of playing…but I keep just having to start one more alt, try out one more mod…
I finished the story for Oblivion, but there are still about 1 million things I want to do in the game, including the missions for the expansion pack.
I can’t freaking wait for Skyrim.
Very few A-list titles are ever developed for just one medium anymore. It’s too expensive (mostly because they go over-the-top with high-end graphics, but whatever). It’s not just PC at all.
I hate to break it to you, but that’s just the scenery at the bottom of it. If you look close at Mass Effect, it’s the same tropes with a different look. So you get Asari instead of Elves, Krogan instead of Trolls, Psionics instead of Magic spells…
I agree it’s fun to switch genres, but it amounts to the same thing in the end.
I’ve played Morrowind more than any other game ever. I played that on PC and had many mods.
I played a lot of Oblivion on my Xbox360. No mods.
I can’t wait the 11 months for Skyrim, but I will definitely get it for PC, not 360. I learned my lesson that half the fun of these games are the mods. I couldn’t get into Fallout3 for 360, much either.
Yes it is rare but it does happen, and when it does happen it is likely to either be an exclusive on a console or an MMO with a different financial model to a standard game. I think piracy and a general drop off in PC gamers would make it very hard to develop a ‘standard’ game for PC only.
Indeed it is a superficial change but it is still a welcome change, I have been smiting orcs and goblins since time immemorial so the chance to use blasters and rockets in the same RPG game style is a big plus for me.
Dragons? Really? How are dragons a bigger threat than the Plane of Oblivion? No matter how big and strong dragons are, I fail to see how they are scarier than an infinite plane filled with demons.
Not that this isn’t exciting, though. This looks cool!
Well, even putting in Dragons is unusual. They’ve never been antagonists in Elder Scrolls before. I fact, they were viewed as geenrally good. So e have no idea how strong they are or what they might opt to do.
They note that this is amore or less a direct sequal also likely means we’ll see the political development of the Empire, and whether it stands or falls.
There’s usually much more ranged damage, often more explosions and a bigger background scale than in fantasy settings. And they just…feel different.
I have my money on the empire standing, but being converted to something else… A republic, maybe. The council won’t give up its power just because it crowns a new emperor.
Hm, maybe the whole Avatar of Akatosh thing that sealed the gates to Oblivion is somehow related to the dragons reappearing, especially in an evil form?
God if I never heard another PC gamer bitching about “ball and chain syndrome” ever again I’d start thinking i had pleased a god somewhere, but i digress.
Mass Effect 3 is going to be good. Any doubts I had were cast aside when i saw the impressive job they did with the second game. At least I only have to wait quite as long. Waiting three years for part 2 was hell.
As for The Elder scrolls V, I am skeptical. I have the feeling like it will be rushed onto shelves while still in the beta stage like oblivion was. Bethesda is a lazy company and only cares if the game sells. I would really like to see them abandon the old first person style and adopt a more action oriented, third person system. Basically Fable with an intelligent plot and less ridiculous setting. but I doubt they wil,l that would be too much work.:dubious:
I reached the exact opposite conclusion based on the second game. 
I’m still holding a grudge over Bioware’s decision to become a shitty DM.
God no. I’ve got no complaints if you want to expand the system, but don’t dumb it down so that I can’t do the things I found fun in earlier games.
What do you mean by “shitty DM” grum?
As for Elder scrolls i meant I would like to see a less boring style. the “mash trigger, swing sword” Ad nauseam was horrible. If they switched it up, maybe playing something other than a pure magic class could be less boring. Stealth characters had their moments, but weren’t very versatile. They did great at dungeon crawling but were too weak past level 15.
I’m referring to their decision to kill the PC by DM fiat at the start of the game and then railroading the player into working for the bunch of terrorists that tried to feed her to a thresher maw.
Sure, expanding the options available to a fighter would be good. Just as long as they don’t need to implement shortcuts like “locking on” to a target to make this happen.
The thing is, it’s not $200- you’ll discover that you need a new graphics card, and the new graphics cards use a different expansion port to the one your motherboard supports. So you’ll need a new motherboard. And, since the new graphics card needs so much power, you’ll need a new power supply. And probably some more RAM. So it’s not just $200 for the graphics card- it’s suddenly close to $500+, and that’s assuming you don’t need a new processor as well.
And even though it’s been years since you last upgraded the computer, the costing doesn’t work like that- the last game you brought a month or so ago worked just fine, and now Big Release Game is out and it won’t run on your computer; if you want to play it (or any of the other games that are coming out in the near future), then you’ve got to find $500 or so more in the near future if you want to play any of the new games that are coming out.
I don’t want this to devolve into another PC vs console thread, but I can’t abide misinformation. That isn’t an accurate description of the situation. Graphics card slots have changed once in the last 10 years. In order for you to have an AGP slot instead of the newer PCI-E, your computer has to be about 7 years old. I don’t think anyone in even the non-gaming PC world expects much out of a 7+ year old computer. It’s also unlikely that something new will replace PCI-E in the next 5, possibly 10 years.
There are also very power efficient graphics card models on the market that will almost certainly fit within the power capabilities of your system, unless you’re just barely scraping by in which case your system is probably unstable anyway.
It’s also very rare that a Big Release Game won’t run on a reasonably capable computer. PC games are, and always have been, extremely scalable. The computer I built in 2004 can still play most new games at low to medium settings. You don’t get all the bells and whistles, but it’s not unplayable.
Oh, but then you have to play at low or medium settings! So that’s not really adequate, right? Except when you play on consoles, you’re always playing at the equivelant of low or medium settings to what that game is capable of, so it’s not reason to advocate consoles on that issue.
So yeah - if you have a bottom of the barrel $300 computer from best buy, you may be screwed, or if you still have a gateway from 2003, same deal. But any reasonably modern, reasonably not horrible computer is just a video card away. $200 is actually pretty spendy - you could get a video card that’s significantly ahead of anything in consoles for $80.
It’s very late, but I’ll mention that computers (and componentry) appear to be significantly cheaper in the US than they are here. I recently priced a decent 1Gb graphics card and an 800w power supply and discovered it was going to cost around AUD$400; and that’s from somewhere that’s known to have good prices (ie where “computer people” go to get their computer stuff).
You’re right that pretty much anything available nowadays should be compatible with a PCIe slot, but the point I was trying to illustrate is that it’s been my considerable experience- both personally and professionally- that there’s always something else that needs to be upgraded as well even though, in theory, you should be able to get away with a new graphics card on its own. There’s not much point having a pimping graphics card when your computer has a single core processor and 2Gb of RAM, for example- remember, the vast majority of computers out there aren’t designed for gaming.
Actually there are MORE PC AA, AAA+ EXCLUSIVE games than there are for xbox 360 or PS3. As an example, Starcraft II sold just as much as Halo:Reach. That’s pretty telling, considerign SCII is a strategy game and Reach is an FPS.
Also, according to numerous studies, PC gaming is actually on the rise. The latest numbers I found say that It’s responsible for over 50% of the entire game market revenue in the US alone (where it is weakest). Even if you were to disregard mass appeal casual online games (flash games, facebook games etc) it still accounts for nearly as much as ALL CONSOLES combined.
So yeah, it’s not just a PC thing. Unless Sony/Microsoft calls in the blow and hookers truck, most devs now go multi-platform in order to rake in the big bucks.