Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced

Arkon262 · 2011-11-12T05:54:17.000Z

Alistair:

Does it run better than Oblivion on the same hardware?

Skyrim runs much better for me than Oblivion ever did on the same exact hardware.

Alistair · 2011-11-12T05:58:55.000Z

While looking a bit better? Great news.

Royal_Fool · 2011-11-12T06:00:44.000Z

They’ve abandoned Gamebryo. It’s not listed in the credits, though Havok, Scaleform, FaceGen and Face FX are. Creation Engine is what they’re plugging everything into now.

Paul_cze · 2011-11-12T06:03:49.000Z

Creation Engine is just their name for “gamebryo with lot of shit rewritten”. But the underlying base IS undeniably gamebryo of Oblivion/FO3 variety.

Cubit · 2011-11-12T06:21:07.000Z

Who gives a fuck what the engine is called. The game looks amazing and runs great on the PC.

awdougherty · 2011-11-12T06:24:38.000Z

Paul_cze:

Creation Engine is just their name for “gamebryo with lot of shit rewritten”. But the underlying base IS undeniably gamebryo of Oblivion/FO3 variety.

Yeah, it definitely feels like Oblivion at its deepest core.

For me, I loved what I saw last night, but I do think that having Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls come out between Elder Scrolls games meant that the combat would be a general let down for me. It’s definitely better than Oblivion, and I like the perk system so far, but fantasy combat has had the bar set already and Skyrim falls pretty short of that bar at times

Overall, though, very good stuff. Only play for about 2.5 hours, but it took me about ten seconds once out of the intro to start wondering if I could scramble up that hill to see the view from the top. Gorgeous game when not looking at people or things up close (but no game really is at least on the 360). Has that in common with Red Dead Redemption, and I’ll take the grand vistas every time.

WarrenM · 2011-11-12T06:32:03.000Z

Paul_cze:

This actually happened to me. That giant bashed me over the head, killed me with one blow, and caused me to fly 300 meters into the air. Shame the game loads instantly last save, I wanted to see where I would land.

Haha, same. I put up my shield to block the blow but it didn’t help. I was cart wheeling across the landscape…

TimJames · 2011-11-12T06:47:52.000Z

Come on guys, let’s move to the other thread if you’re already playing it.

Alistair:

Does it run better than Oblivion on the same hardware?

Not so fast. You have a 6970 like me, right? HardOCP and I have encountered a weird jerky framerate feel in certain areas. The framerate sits at 60 fps but feels like it’s half that. And that’s with a single card. None of the normal settings affect it, but my guess is it’s some shadow/lighting thing that’s broken in the 6970 drivers. I’m almost tempted to try turning everything off in the .ini.

My biggest fear is ATI won’t fix it or even know it’s a problem. I’d like more confirmation from 6970 owners that they see it too.

KWhit · 2011-11-12T06:48:41.000Z

Cubit:

Who gives a fuck what the engine is called. The game looks amazing and runs great on the PC.

This x 1000.

datter · 2011-11-12T07:53:40.000Z

Papageno:

See, I really liked Oblivion’s melodies. Oh well. In other news, while the game runs decently on High settings, on my current machine (E8400 C2Duo, GTX 260 Core 216) I definitely want to update to a new rig early next year to do this thing justice (right now, textures in the distance pretty much peter out). So assuming a second gen core i7, will a GTX 560 Ti do the trick?

I am playing it on a Q6600 (at stock 2.4ghz), 8gbs and a GTX560ti. I haven’t checked the actual frame rate, but runs as smooth as silk at 1920x1080 on ultra settings, including a few shadow/water .ini tweaks. Old engine, new engine… whatever. It is gorgeous.

RobotPants · 2011-11-12T08:46:07.000Z

One thing that bothers me from watching videos is that the enemies don’t seem to have any reaction animations when you hit them. This bugged me in Oblivion, too, but I figured they’d improve that here. The melee combat just doesn’t look like it has any oomph to it.

Ben_Sones · 2011-11-12T08:49:59.000Z

RobotPants:

One thing that bothers me from watching videos is that the enemies don’t seem to have any reaction animations when you hit them.

Enemies will react if you hit them hard enough. You can make them stumble back or stagger, or drop to their knees.

JeffL · 2011-11-12T09:10:34.000Z

Scrax:

Go to the store man!

OK, wife is out of town this weekend, game is due Monday, I said screw it, ran to Walmart and they had PS3 versions but not XBox. So I looked through the PS3 versions, and sure enough, there was one 360 version - pity the guy who maybe hid it there to come back and get later! So I brought it home this morning and it is installing as I type. I’ll gift the Amazon one to my son.

Hmmm - I thought the bonus for the Amazon pre-order was a big map? But I see the Walmart version comes with a big map too. Is there a difference in the maps?

kedaha · 2011-11-12T09:25:23.000Z

Playing on Very High with a couple of the previously mentioned tweaks.

It isn’t silky smooth, but it’s smooth enough(with some noticeable slow down at times), but it’s not particularly pretty. Water looks a bit shit, the ground/grass always looks like flat textures(which it is - but other games manage to make it look more lifelike). Characters animations are poor, and the characters never look like they’re actually walking on the ground. Oh, and the trees look worse than in Nehrim.

Thankfully, gameplay is fun so far but a graphical tour de force it is not.

JetLagger · 2011-11-12T09:33:40.000Z

JeffL:

…is installing as I type.

If you have a slim I would suggest not installing the game to the HD as I ran into the low rez texture issue. My casting hand ended up looking like a texture skin from quake. Very jarring. Without the HD install I could actually see the details of my fingers and my sexy female high elf fingernails… The load times are not that bad loading from the disk but I hope Beth patches the texture load issue soon.

-Tim

Vesper · 2011-11-12T09:53:21.000Z

datter:

I am playing it on a Q6600 (at stock 2.4ghz), 8gbs and a GTX560ti. I haven’t checked the actual frame rate, but runs as smooth as silk at 1920x1080 on ultra settings, including a few shadow/water .ini tweaks. Old engine, new engine… whatever. It is gorgeous.

I have a q6600 and a 5850 and most certainly can’t run on ultra reliably. Maybe I should do another video card upgrade. I had mostly stopped upgrading until I can get a new system with faster CPU.

Royal_Fool · 2011-11-12T10:21:56.000Z

JeffL:

Hmmm - I thought the bonus for the Amazon pre-order was a big map? But I see the Walmart version comes with a big map too. Is there a difference in the maps?

No, every pre-order was meant to get that map, at most retailers. I guess they’re just handing them out with new copies for as long as they have some left.

TimJames · 2011-11-12T10:23:57.000Z

Vesper:

I have a q6600 and a 5850 and most certainly can’t run on ultra reliably. Maybe I should do another video card upgrade. I had mostly stopped upgrading until I can get a new system with faster CPU.

The 560ti is certainly faster but you have to take some of these subjective impressions with a grain of salt when they don’t include framerates.

Papageno · 2011-11-12T10:27:01.000Z

JeffL:

Hmmm - I thought the bonus for the Amazon pre-order was a big map? But I see the Walmart version comes with a big map too. Is there a difference in the maps?

I got the Amazon pre-order version (PC) and it came with a map made of some kind of heavy textured paper (I’m pretty sure it’s still paper), whereas I think the regular map that comes in most retail packages will be ordinary poster-style paper.

Mirriam · 2011-11-12T10:31:25.000Z

Royal Fool:

No, every pre-order was meant to get that map, at most retailers. I guess they’re just handing them out with new copies for as long as they have some left.

There are two different maps. Everyone gets the paper one, pre-orders get a burlap-like material one. But everyone should get a map.