Soldato
I found it quite useful if you were out in the wilderness and you could hear something attacking you, but they were hidden in all the tall grass!
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim announced
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I found it quite useful if you were out in the wilderness and you could hear something attacking you, but they were hidden in all the tall grass!
Soldato
To be honest i was hoping after the success of Oblivon that other RPG's would follow suit and be 1st person. I much prefer it as it feels so much more immersive. 3rd person takes so much away from me.
I've only pretty much only played RPG's from Bethesda because of this. It will be a very sad day when they release a RPG and there's no 1st person view
Soldato
something else i'd like to see if the ability to remove things that make the game easier such as the compass, and the fast travel from any where. the temptation was too great in oblivion to just click fast travel the whole time, and the compass made it too easy if you try running somewhere as you just follow the one arrow instead of running off into a random direction. i understand why it's there but i'd like to be able to easily disable it.
Yes but the problem with playing without fast travel at all (ie Morrowind) was that things just became incredibly slow. Seriously i found the game so tedious without immediately traveling to Caldera (?) to go find the girl with the Boots of Blinding Speed because it just took forever to get anywhere. The boats/striders were all well and good but only went to certain places so it still took ages.
Soldato
maybe more fast travel locations would be better so that you aren't too far from a way to travel, and then that way you still have to do some travelling yourself and remembering where the fast travel locations are
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I quote like the travelling aspect of it, more things to discover then rather than just fast travelling everywhere and sticking to the plot.
Well it depends. Fast travelling when stood on roads, travelling between cities (or travelling to a certain point on a road) would make sense. I agree that travelling *everywhere* was a little silly sometimes but the Morrowind travel system was so restrictive.
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Me too. 1st person is the way forward IMO. Especially for combat.
Soldato
Love the Compaq Presario running Windows 3.1 they keep for old Elder Scrolls.
A few years (okay okay, more than a few!) I wrote them an email asking about how to get Daggerfall running on XP or something. A few weeks later a hand burned CD with some internal build they had been maintaining as a labor of love and photocopied sheet turned up in the mail. Cool guys
Yeah, I know Cool Story Bro.
Love this idea.
Soldato
I can't wait, I got every achievement for Oblivion It's my favourite game ever 
I really don't want to mod it though, i'll get bored of it.
I really don't want to mod it though, i'll get bored of it.
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/t...technology-behind-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim.aspx
So it actually works?
So it actually works? 
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I can't wait, I got every achievement for Oblivion It's my favourite game ever
I really don't want to mod it though, i'll get bored of it.
I was always under the impression that modding the game helped it's longevity...
Hmm.
I can't wait, I got every achievement for Oblivion It's my favourite game ever
I really don't want to mod it though, i'll get bored of it.
... that post doesn't even make sense.
Least of which because Oblivion didn't have achievements on PC meaning you were playing it on a console meaning you couldn't mod it in the first place.
It was ok once you knew the routes and could get to any city with the silt striders / mage guild teleports.
In morrowind, if you were out in the wilderness and needed to head back to a city, you could mark your location, then cast almsilve (sp) or divine intervention to get you back to a city, find your merchants or get a travel option to wherever you wanted to go, and then after you were done recall back to the wilderness and continue on.
On the otherhand, Oblivions fast travel anywhere on the map option was far too cheesy and unimersive.
Well yes but it goes both ways. Mark and Recall and the Almsivi/Divine Interventions were all well and good but the impact on immersion is really no different between teleporting to the nearest shrine and having to spend another 5 minutes travelling via silt strider/boat/mages guild to get to somewhere and fast travelling there. Morrowind just took a lot longer. Worst of all you had to a) find the spells and then b) hope the damn things actually cast. Nothing broke immersion more than your simple spell failing 5 times in a row making you need to rest so you got the mana back.
I agree with you that being able to fast travel from just about anywhere was a bit immersion breaking but then its self inflicted really. You could just go to the nearest town and hire a horse and run there via the roads. Mods are there that disable fast travel or you can just not choose to use it.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107082-Bethesda-Confirms-Skyrim-Will-Be-Moddable
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