Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

BlueJackalope · 2011-11-11T08:26:33.000Z

Scrax:

Go to the store man!

Yeah…can’t you return Amazon stuff?

Mark_Crump · 2011-11-11T08:28:20.000Z

JeffL:

My Amazon copy, 360, shipped today.

And doesn’t get here until Monday.

And my wife is out of town this entire weekend.

I know men shouldn’t cry, but…

Grown men also cry.
Grown men also cry.

nKoan · 2011-11-11T08:30:10.000Z

joefriendgood:

Has anyone tried a different FOV value that works for them? I keep getting that queazy feeling while playing. It is odd since BF3 does not produce this effect.

I’ve been using 80 with no ill effects personally.

Aeon221 · 2011-11-11T08:31:19.000Z

I declare this game fucking awesome.

Omniscia · 2011-11-11T08:35:50.000Z

Mark Crump:

Strong men also cry.
Strong men also cry.

FTFY.

Telefrog · 2011-11-11T08:40:11.000Z

spence:

This.

I thought I would be able to roll right in at 12:05. Not the case, there were about 200 people or so waiting and a surprising amount of them were of the female species.

There was well more than 200 at the midnight launch I attended. The Gamestop clerk wrote everyone’s number on their receipt and I saw one guy with #248. It was really a big crowd.

A local gaming store rented out the empty office space next door and set up a D&D table, a beginner’s Magic tourney, and a costume contest. Pretty cool, in a super-awesome nerdy way.

RichVR · 2011-11-11T08:55:16.000Z

Beautiful game. Really immersive. Some slight sound issues but I’m trying a fix after lunch. Need energy to play for another eight hours or so.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-11-11T09:31:07.000Z

Aeon221:

I declare this game fucking awesome.

Nice, sounds like you’re glad you caved and picked it up! I can’t play until tonight, when my wife brings my copy (and my son’s copy) home. But at least I’ll have a manual!

Bill_Dungsroman · 2011-11-11T09:36:28.000Z

Razgon:

This is morrowind 2!

Noooooo don’t say that why did you say that now I have to buy it

Ben_Sones · 2011-11-11T09:42:35.000Z

RichVR:

Beautiful game. Really immersive. Some slight sound issues but I’m trying a fix after lunch. Need energy to play for another eight hours or so.

Yeah, agreed. People saying that this game looks like Oblivion are high on the crack. It looks way better than Oblivion, both technically, and it terms of the art direction.

Omniscia · 2011-11-11T09:46:14.000Z

It sounds like the followup I’ve been waiting for since Daggerfall. Not that I didn’t enjoy Morrowind or Oblivion.

Sepiche · 2011-11-11T09:47:39.000Z

I think the terrain and the vistas are absolutely gorgeous, but the textures on the character models seem a little rough to me. Certainly better than Oblivion, but a little rougher than I was expecting.

It’s also worth pointing out that the animations look great. Very smooth and life like for the most part.

Nephrinn · 2011-11-11T09:52:39.000Z

Sepiche:

I think the terrain and the vistas are absolutely gorgeous, but the textures on the character models seem a little rough to me. Certainly better than Oblivion, but a little rougher than I was expecting.

It’s also worth pointing out that the animations look great. Very smooth and life like for the most part.

Definitely agreed. They could have done a much better job with the character models.

Overall, this is giving me a lot more Morrowind vibes than Oblivion ever did. Kudos to Bethesda.

John_Reynolds · 2011-11-11T09:53:06.000Z

It’s 1pm here and I now wish I’d driven over to Best Buy, picked up a copy of the CE, and then returned the Amazon order whenever it decides to arrive.

Royal_Fool · 2011-11-11T09:57:37.000Z

My game tends to randomly minimize itself now and then, but thankfully I can alt-tab back into it. If it happens to you (or you alt-tab out on purpose/by accident), just switch back to the game and then while it is active (huge black window) cycle alt-tab to it again. This should restore the game with no graphical corruption or anything.

The game also occasionally just closes without warning.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2011-11-11T09:59:06.000Z

Royal Fool:

My game tends to randomly minimize itself now and then, but thankfully I can alt-tab back into it. If it happens to you (or you alt-tab out on purpose/by accident), just switch back to the game and then while it is active (huge black window) cycle alt-tab to it again. This should restore the game with no graphical corruption or anything.

The game also occasionally just closes without warning.

I read some folks had luck changing a sound option, somewhere, for frequent random crashes.

Here is more info:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/11/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-tweaks-improve-graphics-disable-vsync-change-fov-and-more/

flyingelvis · 2011-11-11T10:01:15.000Z

Omniscia:

It sounds like the followup I’ve been waiting for since Daggerfall. Not that I didn’t enjoy Morrowind or Oblivion.

OMG really? I can only hope. DF was my favorite ES game by far, especially for dungeon crawling. (story dungeons, not the random spaghetti ones)

razarok · 2011-11-11T10:08:20.000Z

I’m also very happy I caved. Last new game before the winter sale though.

Bethesda retail and GOTY editions have seperate steam entries though, right? So I could still buy the goty version for cheap in a year or two or will I get a “you already own this game, buy the DLC seperate” - error?

Relayer71 · 2011-11-11T11:16:54.000Z

I just know my wife got this for my birthday. Trouble is my bday is on SUNDAY!!!

BITCH!!!

Omniscia · 2011-11-11T11:25:52.000Z

flyingelvis:

OMG really? I can only hope. DF was my favorite ES game by far, especially for dungeon crawling. (story dungeons, not the random spaghetti ones)

I’m only going by the initial impressions. I haven’t seen any videos or anything. But the early marveling is a good sign.

I guess I’ll find out tonight.