Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

Matt_Bowyer · 2011-10-18T08:39:35.000Z

kerzain:

Having worked in retail,and a couple call centers, sometimes you’ve said the phone/store greeting so many times throughout the day you end up repeating it even when answering the phone at home. You gotta feel at least a little bad for poor old Rusty.

I have answered my cell phone with “This is [my company’s name], can I help you?” more than a few times.

Aeon221 · 2011-10-18T11:35:32.000Z

Matt Bowyer:

I have answered my cell phone with “This is [my company’s name], can I help you?” more than a few times.

I started into my call center script more than a few times on personal calls, entirely by accident. Glad I don’t work there anymore, it was driving everyone crazy!

Relayer71 · 2011-10-18T13:57:15.000Z

Bethesda does a great job with their in-game books of lore but I agree it needs to be done more organically. Morrowind’s NPC encyclopedias were a turn off.

instant0 · 2011-10-18T14:06:09.000Z

I thought Wizardry 8 did it awesomely!

You basically constructed ‘sort of’ sentences from a list of words, but you could also type in your own words and perhaps learn something new.

Not that much different from the Morrowind one, but still it was nice.

The thing I missed in Morrowind was a way for it to highlight or fade the things I had already asked about… as the list grew fairly lengthy after a while.

More annoyingly was having to press ‘continue’ on some responses…

Tony_M · 2011-10-18T14:25:36.000Z

Morrowinds dialogue system was an abomination and should never be used again.

“Hello my name is PEASANT 1. Would you like to talk about the SECRET THIEVES GUILD or CABBAGES?”

Ask about:
SECRET THIEVES GUILD
CABBAGES
IMMINENT APOCALYPSE
MAYOR
WEATHER
NECROMANCY

Desslock · 2011-10-18T16:07:51.000Z

I thought the Ultima series did it best, ignoring the last 2 installments. The Elder Scrolls/Fallout 3 games have gradually transitioned from cardboard NPCs to emulating and now even surpassing what Ultima did with NPCs, which is a great evolution in my opinion.

I do think that Daggerfall was probably the ultimate sandbox RPG, however. It allowed you to roleplay in randomly generated environments doing different things essentially forever. Plus wall-climbing. That said, I prefer the direction Bethesda has been heading with Morrowind/Oblivion/Fallout 3.

Jason_McCullough · 2011-10-18T16:36:29.000Z

I do miss the lack of a third dimension.

Charlatan · 2011-10-18T16:57:30.000Z

So Amazon has Skyrim for PC on sale. Instead of $59.99 it’s $59.54 - a savings of 0.45. Should I bite the bullet on this amazing deal or do you think it might be available cheaper before it releases?

Two_Sheds · 2011-10-18T17:07:36.000Z

oh shit I preordered on Steam for full price like a chump

kerzain · 2011-10-18T17:38:07.000Z

Charlatan:

So Amazon has Skyrim for PC on sale. Instead of $59.99 it’s $59.54 - a savings of 0.45. Should I bite the bullet on this amazing deal or do you think it might be available cheaper before it releases?

It’s still $53.95 at D2D.

Aeon221 · 2011-10-18T19:19:30.000Z

I liked the convenience factor of the Morrowind NPCs. If you wanted a quick read up on the lore before you started asking questions, bam, right there. Plus, a lot of them actually told you different things for those weird little answers.

kerzain:

It’s still $53.95 at D2D.

Yes but then you have to use D2D.

kerzain · 2011-10-18T19:33:12.000Z

It’s Steamworks, so?

John_Reynolds · 2011-10-18T19:34:18.000Z

The Amazon collector’s is going for $149.96, an amazing $0.03 below MSRP. I could almost go to eastern Europe and by my own hotel for that amount.

Omniscia · 2011-10-18T19:35:33.000Z

But would your hotel have an awesome dragon statuette?

I think not.

Jason_McCullough · 2011-10-18T19:38:22.000Z

I think so!

Guarded by the Ljubljana Dragon, the tiny city of Ljubljana is home to an enviable array of culture, attractions, and activities. Visitors to Ljubljana will delight in the relaxed atmosphere of this charming city.

They have a best western!?!?!?

Talorc · 2011-10-18T19:58:45.000Z

RAWR!!

Aeon221 · 2011-10-18T21:07:28.000Z

I used gMaps satellite view to check out the town, saw the castle and immediately tried to rotate the view as I would in Medieval TW to get a better view.

Games are fucking with my head, man.

Also, google maps has taught me the value of Siberia. There’s something very interesting about a place that doesn’t have roads and homes everywhere.

Gunny · 2011-10-18T22:32:40.000Z

Relayer71:

I was reading that and thought, “Western RPGs? What Weste - oh!” But really, where are the Western RPGs? I would love it if someone made a Deadwood RPG.

My username on most forums is Gunsmoke, after the television show (it was taken here). I am a HUGE geek for Westerns and have to agree that an RPG in the ‘Wild West’ would be amazing if done right.

Wild ARMs 3 (PS2) was the only one I can recall, and while it was decent it wasn’t anything to revisit. Are there any others at all, and if so, are they worth a crap?

Enidigm · 2011-10-18T22:45:39.000Z

I love Bethesda but that is the worst Collector’s Edition ever (for the price). Paying almost triple for retail you’d better have a game breaking spoilerific prize waiting for you in-game. It doesn’t even come with the strategy guide?

Razgon · 2011-10-18T23:14:23.000Z

Gunny:

My username on most forums is Gunsmoke, after the television show (it was taken here). I am a HUGE geek for Westerns and have to agree that an RPG in the ‘Wild West’ would be amazing if done right.

Wild ARMs 3 (PS2) was the only one I can recall, and while it was decent it wasn’t anything to revisit. Are there any others at all, and if so, are they worth a crap?

you REALLY want to play Red Dead Redemption - the single greatest western game ever made. Its an rpg of sorts as well, just without the stats, in that its a story driven open world that perfectly captures the setting of the last dying parts of the wild west, before big city folks took over.