The last page or so of this thread has really tickled my imagination. Now suddenly all I want to do is play an Oblivion-style fantasy game, but with me keeping my character and arsenal from Fallout 3. Slaying Minotaurs from far away with a Hunting rifle suddenly sounds awesome. I wonder if there’s an Oblivion mod for that?
I don’t know, but man, there needs to be.
And I was hoping they’d be brought back because spearing people was awesome.
Risen 2 is bringing in flintlocks…
Imryll
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AusGamers does a nice interview with Todd:
http://www.ausgamers.com/features/read/3076322
Closer-to-expansion-length DLC? Yes, please.
Still sounding great. I liked the more in-depth talk about radiant story too. Sounds like it could really be a neat system.
Yeah, but that’ll be 3rd person, right? I don’t know, shooting guns in a typical fantasy setting sounds much cooler in first person game. Preferably one where you can aim down the sights like I’ve heard you can do in Fallout New Vegas.
In 3rd person, guns might as well be another form of magic, like in Fable 2. Although in Fable 2 they made the mechanics of shooting different enough from magic that I preferred shooting.
Quitch
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I always hate iron sights because I can never see a damn thing with them. Do guns really get in the way that much?
More annoying is the way they block a quarter of the screen most of the time because apparently we carry guns in our faces.
I …what? There’s only been one game since then.
That was a good interview. Lots of info there I didn’t know before. I know some sort of fan interview is supposed to have gone up after E3, but as far as I’ve seen that’s not yet the case. I hope it comes soon, I suspect it’s going to answer a LOT of questions.
shift6
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minor KOTN spoiler alert
Finally finished Knights of the Nine the other day. Not a bad DLC. Of course, by the time you’re forty-nth level and have found every place on the map and have Master/Expert level in all your primary and most secondary skills, it isn’t nearly as challenging. I mean beating the eight ghosts during the Chapel challenge using fists is kind of funny. To the point where you only wear the quest armor in the final boss battle because you have to. But otherwise, not bad.
end minor spoilers
Also: two-shot killing draemora in daedric quest levels (shot one = full power strike while sneaking)? Coming out of some cave and seeing a sheet of stars above with the gentle rush of a river nearby? Walking up to NPCs to hear them hail you with your latest title? Awesome. 250+ hours and I already miss Cyrodil more than the Capital Wasteland.
Yeah, first person was one of the things they dropped after Gothic 3. They never got it working terribly well although it did work fine for archery. Bethesda managed to get a third person mode into their first person style more successfully.
I’m exactly the same. My recollection of the SA80 sight involves zero memory of what the actual SUSAT looks like, because you, you know, look through it, not at it…
ShivaX
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Well when you’re aiming they are kinda in your face. The problem there is the limits of a computer screen versus the human eye. Kinda like when a dude walks up next to you in a game and you never saw him, even though in real life its unlikely you’d miss a dude running at you with an axe just because he wasn’t standing directly in front of you.
Not as awesome as fisting them.
Spearing and fisting are critical parts of my enjoyment of games.
With Fire And Sword made pikes sweet ass so I’ve been chain owing peeps with them in mp. Pike to the face and/or crotch pu pu pu punk! My long hard pole thrusting has turned many a man into a ball of wiggling jelly.
Wrong in all the right ways.
Elder Rainbow Scrolls. :P
No double shield bashing?
Hahaha. Confused turtle. Ha.
