Skyrim 1.5 is live. Nice video showing the new kill cam for archers and magic users. Love the new brutal melee animations.
It’s been live for a while. Did something change?
It went live today on the 360. It’s been live on the PC version perhaps (I’m guessing?), I haven’t kept up with the PC version except for watching some videos of a few cool mods.
Anyway, I had no idea that it went beyond bug fixes until today. The new animations and kill-cams look really good. I can’t wait to try it out later today.
Ah. Yes, it’s been live on PC for a while.
The killcams for both arrows and magic are awesome. The additional melee ones are good, but I haven’t seen them as often as the old ones.
Unfortunately, they didn’t fix the annoying bug that makes clones of that one guy appear near the stables outside of Whiterun.
DeepT
3026
This is an example of what I consider a very good value for a game. It also the same reason I consider a game that goes for $60, but only has 10 to 20 hours of game-play a total rip-off.
WarrenM
3027
Portal 2 was pretty far from a rip off.
flyinj
3028
Average play time across all platforms is 80 hours?
That’s astounding for a game with as many sales as this. If I were to guess, I would say it would be closer to 20.
That said, I had 80 hours in yesterday, had the day off and started a new mage character. I’m not at 100 and still loving it.
Please don’t respond to DeepT when he starts talking about gaming value. He does this sometimes.
He’s clearly faking it anyway, since he said he doesn’t want to replay games.
JeffL
3030
Where do you see the hours played? I was looking for it in the System part of the menu (360) and couldn’t find it.
JeffL
3032
Which one? I don’t recall seeing that…
On the PC every save game is labelled with the time played. (As far as I remember.)
I go to http://rewards.xbox.com/my-stats/ and log in. It doesn’t update every day, but I get a general idea of my hours put into the latest few games I’ve been playing on the Xbox. According to that page, I’ve played 119 hours of Skyrim so far. (I’m done with the Companions story line, and about half way through the Mage storyline and the main storyline, and it feels like I’ve explored about half the map so far).
JeffL
3035
Hmm. Well I want to submit myself for lowest rate of progress in Skyrim (360)
If my stats are accurate on my Live stats page from above, I have played Skyrim 369 hours. I am on my first and only character, who is at level 44. I have not completed any of the major quest lines. I don’t fast travel, ever. Don’t take the carriage either. I just wander and explore. I am working through finishing up the Thieve’s Guild at this point.
I just realized that I have left Skyrim on, in, say, map mode quite a few times when I left the house or overnight. But when I guesstimate subtracting that, I suspect I have probably actually played about 175 hours or more. And I’m not even close to exploring every nook and cranny of the map.
Frame of reference: 100 hours is ~4.1 days. If you were to start playing at 12 am Sunday that would put your stopping point at 4 am Thursday morning.
I’m at 207 hours per Steam stats. :/
Quaro
3037
Just think how many 60 dollar games you might have had to buy to fill 200 hours of gaming awesomenss – you’re SAVING so much money!
DeepT
3038
I have 140 hours per Steam stats. I played a 2h warrior one run, and a Mage the second run, although I have not finished that game yet. I would have done dual wielding, but the UI makes that a pain in the ass. If I do a 3rd run, it will be sword and board. I doubt Ill ever get to that run, but perhaps in 2 years Ill be bored of all the games currently out and load up Skyrim one more time.
I’m at 230-odd hours with my stealthy rogue / mage. I’m debating another playthrough…
The one thing I don’t want to do is burnout on the game before any of the expansion packs hit. That’s what happened to me with Morrowind. Got completely burned out on the game and couldn’t even fathom going back. I even tried, because the sound of the expansions was so cool, but once I saw that combat, and how easily I dispatched enemies, ugh, just couldn’t do it. In Oblivion I didn’t burn out until after I played the Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine, so I was pretty happy about that.
I do want to finish Skyrim and explore most of it and finish at least all the main stories, but I also don’t want to burn out on the game before the expansions hit. Besthesda has gotten really good at doing DLC/expansions, and I’m betting there will be some really cool stuff coming.
