3701

You have to pay $15 for this?

3702

VyprVPN is free with my Giganews account; however, it is $15 if you just want the service, yes.

3703

Holy cow, the level of negativity and angst in the official forums makes it seem like they exist in sort of mirror universe.

I am insanely jealous of you guys who are playing now. I wish I hadn’t done Amazon for the sake of a paper map that will probably only leave the box once. Grrrr…

3704

About what exactly?

3705

There seems to be some lag between Amazon’s website and their free texting service. I was notified that my copy shipped a few hours ago via text but their website still reports it as Shipping Soon and not Shipped.

3706

Anyone who actually owns the game, but is posting shit about it rather than playing it, is obviously a compulsive internet fuckwad deserving only pity. What is that? Playing a 100+ hour game for three hours and then quitting in order to spew bile about how it’s not enough like Morrowind?

GOD DAMN, I’m SOOOOO glad I’m not afflicted with that personality type! It’s so much more fun to, you know, have fun!

Hmm, I actually can’t even get to the official forums right now. I sense we are entering Release Meltdown Time, the six to eight hours where Steam is fucked and all the midnight buyers (including me) have to wail and gnash our teeth until tomorrow. We shall see. At least I’ll have the art book to look at.

3707

This works, thanks!!

3708

I connected to VPNseek but now steam wont start. Halp!

EDIT: Had to disconnect and reconnect several times, but now I’m decrypting! Wooooooooo!

3709

First contact with the game:

Menus are hard to use, are designed for a control pad… but can pass.

I have everything on the graphics on high. Not impressed with the tech at all… but I enjoy the art. Could be better.

The fov is horrible, on my next session I will fix that.

I am going to have a lot of fun with this game. Hope the modders add a sexy companion soonish.

3710

Yeah, why the hell can’t they give us a PC interface instead of ripping the one from the consoles? I find myself having to use the keyboard to navigate the screens more than the mouse because it feels so shoddy. Ugh. Only thing I hate about the game so far, the rest is brilliant.

3711

I don’t think there are any spoilers below

So far this game is everything I could have hoped for (a whole 90 minutes in…), and more. As much as I love the game, I have no idea how I could return to the world of Fallout 3 after this. I haven’t delved deep, but I’m through the intro, and have spent about another forty minutes or so looking around, killing stuff, finding treasures, and scaring animals into the river.

I enjoyed the intro much, much more than FO3 or Oblivion’s (I can’t remember the one from New Vegas very well, I have that on console so I don’t play it much).

I can’t think of any complaints (except those standard Bethesda interface issues, which aren’t as significant for me as the first time I played Oblivion and FO3 since I’ve adapted a bit – other than my constant “why doesn’t escape close my inventory/skill/magic window? argh!” whine), and I am in fact blown away by what I’ve seen.

I’m playing on ultra-high settings. I’ve never played Witcher 2, so I have nothing else to really compare this game to, but as far as I’m concerned it looks stunning compared to anything else I’ve played, though admittedly I apparently have low standards compared to the hardest of the hardcore pc elitists.

I am thrilled to be playing this game. The spells have punch, the creatures react when I crush their faces with hammers, and I’m a god damned horned Argonian female named Siczora.

I’ll go into more details tonight or tomorrow. Right now I’m so excited to see splashes of color and variance in the dungeon(s), when compared to the nearly monochrome palettes of subterranean Oblivion.

Oh, and a minor complaint is that currently alt-tab stability seems to be kinda hit and miss.

3712

HOLY FUCK I’M SO EXCITED

(installing directx now…!)

3713

These kinds of comparisons don’t tell much at all.

See me proving vanilla Oblivion looks (almost) better than Skyrim (on Very High, I’m told).

3714

That’s not Very High, and even if it is a PC shot compared to another PC shot (which I doubt) your Skyrim shot still looks better.

3715

My hardcover guide has just shipped. Too bad it won’t be here till Monday.

I have no experience with Fed Ex, as Amazon has always shipped via their own private carrier, or UPS, every other time I’ve purchased from them. Does anybody know if Fed Ex will leave packages at the door unsigned? I’m going to be away all day that day.

3716

You can add my squeals of childlike delight to kerzain’s post above. I don’t want to say much more for fear of spoiling anything at all for anyone but good lord, this is really something.

And really, you can do all the screenshot comparisons you like but Skyrim in motion is absolutely gorgeous. I’ve looked through the few screenshots I’ve taken and it doesn’t do the game justice at all.

3717

They never have for me. That’s why I pick them whenever I have a choice.

3718

Unpacking. Thanks!

3719

Thanks, I just figured out I could set the delivery up ahead of time (through their website) so that I can pick it up at their warehouse facility.

Much more convenient for me than signing something and waiting a day or something.

3720

This.

That is either a 360/PS3 shot, or definitely not at any high resolution or with any sort of graphic love.

EDIT: I can also tell you–from hundreds upon hundreds of hours of modding and tweaking grass settings in Oblivion (see POOP), that with grass draws turned up the way they are in that screenshot, you’re getting 25-30 fps at best from that screenie. Gamebryo’s 2006 version hated grass like that.