elder scrolls V skyrim

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Originally Posted by Kayin

I think your rig will easily suffice for Skyrim.

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I played Oblivion first couple of times through with a rig with 1GB of RAM, a 6600GT and a mid range single core CPU.

It was still great fun, but when I upgraded my PC in 2008 I went back to it, and it was like a whole new game. Going from minimum settings (5 yard view distance, 60 second loading screens) to fluid playing at maximum (I can see that wolf that's about a mile off and a few pixels on my screen) is just epic.

I don't expect my current rig to handle Skyrim in it's full glory, but I'd like not to be playing on mimimum. Hope you're listening Bethseda :P

I'm hoping they'll release more details later...I would like to not have to spend $400-500 on a new GPU between now and then...maybe just grab yet another GTX260 for tri-SLI. :P

http://elderscrolls.com/

new trailer, its amazingly nice.

Didn't know we had a Skyrim thread here... I'm looking forward to this but I was also really looking forward to Oblivion which I found quite an anti-climax (having the amazing Morrowind as a predecessor) so this time I'm not going to get so excited. Gives me another reason to build mynew pc though before release day :D

Oh and if it's still being discussed, consoles are for chumps who don't have PCs... And we all have PCs here, even the chumps :D

just seeing the gameplay video makes me sure- I REALLY need to upgrade my rig for november

so uh, system requrements are out. http://www.bethblog.com/gate.php?ref...s-announced%2F

Hmm, ok, so I meet the recommended graphics requirements...I wonder if they use GPGPU acceleration for the physics engine? I can't get my cards to go into SLI, but assigning one to dedicated CUDA works wonders. ;)

or just play it on console for no additional cost to me..

Considering it's almost a direct console port, I wouldn't expect wonders, x88x.

:*( Oh Bethsoft, why have you forsaken me?

They left us the keys to the car. Mods will fix it. Try that on your puny console.

meh. I don't have enough time usually to worry about glitches and such anyway

Pre-ordered on Steam. Anyone staying up late for the midnight release? I plan on firing it up promptly at 12:01.

Nope!

My girlfriend was playing it until 2AM last night after I pre-ordered a retail version for her as a surprise. She's enjoying it so far!

My girlfriend's copy is better ;P

meh....

The graphics in this game make me so happy.

Rumor has it it's only DX9 graphics.

I was playing it on XBox till 2 AM, but I've got it on Steam too for when my new PC is finished. So far, amazing game. Though I'm going to restart (figured out a couple things and want to go back before I get too far).

Good news, i killed a random dragon. bad news, my companion died.

I like sneaking up with a bow and killing stuff.

PEW PEW ARROWS

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Originally Posted by AmEv

Rumor has it it's only DX9 graphics.

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not a rumor lol

Was going to wait until i build a new PC that can run this but considering it's gonna be at LEAST a few months before i can even start to buy parts I might just drop 60 to get it now for my xbox.

I'm enjoying it as well.

Aside from loading times, I don't think you will notice much difference playing on xbox. Side by side, they do not look very different, aside from PC being higher resolution. PC going from Low to Medium is the only time the textures appear to change, going higher only increases things like foliage count, shadows, post processing, etc. Sitting on the couch on a 720p screen, or sitting up close to a PC screen I don't notice a huge difference, nothing game changing anyway. Both look decent enough. I sat and played for an hour trying to get the mouse to feel right to me; tweaking ini's etc. When I couldn't I just reverted to my xbox controller on the PC anyway. Blasphemy, I know.

I think you will enjoy it on either platform. The leveling is far better than Oblivion and the world is very well crafted.

I ended up getting it last night after work. Stayed up till 6:30 am playing it x_x

Loving it so far. Was a bit surprised that you don't have to choose a class this time around but not to bothered by it.
I'm only at level 2 but combat feels better so far. I spend much less time dieing than I did in Oblivion. I'm loving dual wield. I keep a ranged destruction spell in one hand and my sword in the other.

The entire menu system is much easier to navigate and the changes to the favorites menu were VERY welcome as on the xbox they were a nightmare to get right with the d-pad in Oblivion.

Now if Only I could get the hang of murdering people with out the authorities just "knowing."

Also, FYI: If you walk in to a village and just start slaughtering live stock, everyone will respond negatively. I got excited and killed the first chicken i saw, luckily my save point wasn't to far behind.

lol... damn chickens... i had the same issue. i'm a archer mage.. lots of fun... long range bow with shortrange dual fire spells... i kill dragons by finding a rock and using lots of healing spells.

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Originally Posted by diluzio91

lol... damn chickens... i had the same issue. i'm a archer mage.. lots of fun... long range bow with shortrange dual fire spells... i kill dragons by finding a rock and using lots of healing spells.

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I only killed one dragon and found that my fire spell / sword combo wasn't that effective because the dragon could throw fire farther than me. I ended up pulling out the bow. I enjoy that they upgraded the animations for the spells. The flames spell looks spectacular. Much better than Oblivion which was just different colored orbs.

I just remembered, as far as killing animals. I was on top of a tower and saw a bird flying over head so I zapped it with my flames spell. It froze in mid air then started spinning out of control up in to the atmosphere. It was funny.
I also killed a cow (though it was actually a bull -_-) and it put up ZERO fight. It just took it.

I wish I could call off work.

Just use your unrelenting force shout and run up to the dragon, spark does very good dps on dragons as does flame

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Originally Posted by diluzio91

Just use your unrelenting force shout and run up to the dragon, spark does very good dps on dragons as does flame

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So area all the dragons pretty much the same?

None of them have different specialties or fighting styles?

i've only fought 3, but so far hiding, healing, and shouts are the key

Finally joined the dark brother hood. Didn't finish any of the quests yet though. I'd play tonight but one of my lady friends is demanding social interaction :(

BTW, Amazon has a deal where you buy one get one half off on selected games, and this is one of the only ones on PC. lol (this and RAGE...) Just FYI.

Just for giggles i threw this on my roommates laptop with an i5 sandy, on intergrated graphics (intel 3000) and it was very very good on low... im suprised.

Almost level 30 on mine. Really good at smithing now, and archery as well as sneak and pickpocketing and destruction. But I kinda suck at other stuff. Went with dark brotherhood and thieves guild.

Finished the Dark Brotherhood quest line. Now I want to work on the main storyline but I feel like a Dark Brotherhood Listener wouldn't have any interest in saving Skyrim.

Dragons have gotten much easier to slay, I think it's mostly because I play as dark elf and have fire resistance. The frost Dragons seem to ruin my day.

Thus far, I haven't run in to the problem i had with Oblivion. In oblivion I leveled up pretty high doing all the side quests and then once I went back to do the main quests all the enemies were really tough to fight. So far i haven't run in to that.

I just installed Skyrim and there's a few annoying things thus far.

Key settings are not what they were with Oblivion and I'm constantly pressing the wrong buttons. I guess I can go in there and change them?

I have a GTX 560 and my game set my display settings to Ultra by default, but it's no good. It plays too rough and I can't seem to find an easy way to drop my settings from Ultra to high

Cinematic killing is idiotic. I prefer just to kill someone, not watch a cute little mini-movie on some special move I suddenly perform.

the mini scenes usually only happen when you get a critical hit kill