Ironically, they have said that the horse armor sold very well. With their experimentation on the Oblivion DLC, they seem to have settled on Knights of the Nine as the sweet spot, so we got that sort of DLC for Fallout 3. I did enjoy the podcast where Todd Howard joked that they were going to have horse armor DLC even if horses didn’t make it into the game.
And I will also mention (again), that the horse armor was not merely cosmetic. It doubled the health of your horse. This was very useful to me since my white horse Maborel tended to get hit a lot by things like ogres.
Real men rode the unicorn:
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Unicorn
Hilariously enough, it was the most violent mount you could get and would attack you pretty much all the fricken time.
And in case you were wondering, the little son of a bitch could take one hell of a beating:
Reflect Damage 20%
Resist Disease 100%
Resist Magic 50%
Resist Normal Weapons 100%
Resist Paralysis 100%
Resist Poison 100%
That was only in the game because Hircine wanted you to go kill it.
Yes, but you could ride it. And it was so good.
I rode the unicorn my entire first playthrough - it really was hilarious, especially since it took me about 100 hours to realize that he’d attack you whenever you had your weapon drawn – at first I just thought I’d accidentally hit it when we were collectively fighting some creature, but it actually attacks anything with a weapon drawn - so even if you just pull out a weapon to defend it from something that attacked it, it would turn on you after you’d dispatched its enemy.
It wasn’t really manageable to keep it, but unfortunately - my wife was transfixed by relationship with the unicorn:
ME: crap, my unicorn is about to be taken out by a bear. Better help.
UNICORN: HATE YOU BEAR [attacks bear with hooves]
WIFE: Save the unicorn!! I love the unicorn!!
ME: I’ll save you unicorn! [chops bear]
[tag team kill bear]
ME: Yay, saved my unicorn!
WIFE: Yay, you saved her!
UNICORN: HATED BEAR IS DEAD. GOOD [acts calm]
…5 seconds later
UNICORN: WAIT A SECOND…DO I KNOW YOU??? YOU!! I HATE YOU [attacks me with hooves]
WIFE: Don’t you dare attack back.
100 hours of that. Casting forget spells on unicorn to get rid of its aggression, running away, saving the damn unicorn.
FLASHFORWARD TO: WIFE AND I WATCHING SKYRIM PREVIEW
Me: Look how great the dragons look.
WIFE: will the unicorn be back???
ME: Uh, I don’t think so. That was a special creature. Different climate - look 4-tusked Mammoths!
WIFE: Maybe there’ll be abominable snowmen?
ME: Uh, maybe…there was one in Oblivion.
WIFE: YOU MUST MAKE FRIENDS WITH THEM AND NOT KILL THEM
ME: Jesus.
God, this game series leads to epic stories.
Imryll
1567
Not as long as they do things like celebrating anniversaries by slashing prices on all their DLC–except for horse armor which temporarily doubled in price. I think they’re enjoying the joke.
Hehe love it! But sadly, as many hours as I’ve sunk into this game I never saw either the unicorn or even knew there was an abominal snowman? eesh Cant wait for Skyrim.
The abominable snowman was kind of hard to find. It was part of the the teardrops quest right?
Is anyone else concerned that Bethesda is only doing ‘behind closed doors’ demos of this at E3? Seeing as how the game is coming out in five months they have to be content complete and well under way in the polishing/bug squashing phase. It concerns me that they aren’t confident enough in the game to allow hands-on demos and let people play on the show floor. Am I alone in this?
Can’t remember the name of the quest but it was definitely hard to find - highest peak in the game, in the NE mountains. Since I love exploring so much (I actually filled in the entire map - by carpet sweeping - to ensure I saw every inch of that game). Even 400+ hours in, I was still finding stuff like that - I remember one of the last novel things I found was an underwater dungeon with evil Argonians, finding the dude cheating on his wife in Anvil. There are a lot of hidden stories in Oblivion.
Yeah, I think you probably are…
If it was not being shown at all? Yeah I’d be concerned. But it is being showed to those people who are going to report on it to us, so no, not worried.
That could also mean: 1) they’re trying to build buzz, and it’s actually easier to build buzz with a big product by having a closed booth (because everyone at the show is asking, “Did you get into see X?” “No, but a buddy of mine did…”) or 2) they are cheap, and don’t want to spend a whole bunch of money on extra stations in a booth and extra people to man it, or 3) they want to put Rage front and center, since it goes out first. Or all three.
Solo RPGs don’t necessarily show all that well on the floor, anyway. It’s hard to pitch “Look at this rich and detailed world!” when there’s a fast paced FPS right next to it.
Wasn’t IGN supposed to have a video last night? Or maybe it’s just the same 15 min we’ve already seen from G4. Will the 30 minute presentation be released in its entirety? Why the hush-hush on it that only press get to see? So far the write-ups have only contained the same info we’ve seen in the 15 minute version, yet the 30 minute cut was pulled from YouTube. Lame.
How many bows have you seen that are made out of steel? During the technological age we are supposed to be playing in, they should likely either made out of wood or bone. Did you ever hear of vikings using steel bows? I don’t think they can be made flexible enough with the forging skill of the time. I think bows are supposed to bend with pulling the string, unless they are compound.
Oblivion features bows made out of iron, steel, glass, and ebony. The “technological age” we’re playing in is a fictional world with magic and dragons.
Timex
1579
Elves used bows inlaid with mithril, which were capable of being used as clubs in close combat for 1d6 damage.
AD&D 2nd ed. Elves’ Handbook, noob. Get skillz.
… and I think they’re stupid. Doesn’t refute my original point that blocking with a bow is stupid.
Magic bows I’m fine with, not non-magical bows made out of every material you can make armor out of. Glass and ebony are lame materials as well, for any item.
