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Skyrim review scans
- Thread starter MapMan
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hoopy
Savant
Game journalists are absolutely lousy at their jobs.
Surf Solar
cannot into womynz
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Developer: id softworks
hoopy
Savant
Surf Solar said:Developer: id softworks
MapMan said:Dont know if you noticed but Id software is listed as the developer
hoopy said:
"A lot like Fallout New Vegas"? Now that's a new kind of praise.
MetalCraze
Arcane
Epic
Innovative
Immersive
Accessible
Cinematic
MAJESTIC
Skyrim does have ugly muddy textures and mountains every 100m to force you into corridors
Innovative
Immersive
Accessible
Cinematic
MAJESTIC
MapMan said:Dont know if you noticed but Id software is listed as the developer
Skyrim does have ugly muddy textures and mountains every 100m to force you into corridors
wwsd
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The guy hated Morrowind and Oblivion, but of course his "Skyrim Tips" lists typical features from those games. How is it even warranted that this person gets paid for his job? At this point, gaming magazines should actually consider sacking all their reviewers and simply copy-pasting the press release from the publishers. It wouldn't make much of a difference.
Admiral jimbob
gay as all hell
Surprisingly unenthusiastic/critical review if you read between the lines.
See guys? You kept saying that it would be an abomination. Look at the scores it gets. By the way, how does that crow taste?
This game is probably going to end up in the Metacritic top 10. Bethesda is throwing too much money at it.
This game is probably going to end up in the Metacritic top 10. Bethesda is throwing too much money at it.
Trash
Pointing and laughing.
The only part in the review that garners any kind of enthousiasm in me are the screenies showing off the mountainous terrain. I can see myself have fun traversing these. Other than that it's clear we're looking at Oblivion 2.0 though they thankfully did save a Morrowind feature that I really love.
The cliffracers are back and they're on steroids! Anyway, not exactly the kind of review to sell the game. For stuff like that an article like this works much better.
http://killscreendaily.com/articles/things-i-ate-skyrim
I think a lot of people actually like the kind of game it is and consider it to be the one shining example of its kind simply because of all the press attention, the AA marketing and the fact that they know fuck all about older rpg's/games. Not everyone has been around games for the past 25+ years.
The cliffracers are back and they're on steroids! Anyway, not exactly the kind of review to sell the game. For stuff like that an article like this works much better.
http://killscreendaily.com/articles/things-i-ate-skyrim
I think a lot of people actually like the kind of game it is and consider it to be the one shining example of its kind simply because of all the press attention, the AA marketing and the fact that they know fuck all about older rpg's/games. Not everyone has been around games for the past 25+ years.
Commander Xbox
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if it really is like new vegas ill buy and play. ive already seen footage of dudes getting one shotted by trolls and giants, which is a huge improvement over oblivion already. if someone can show me some unique non scaled items that are placed ill def buy.
MetalCraze
Arcane
You can get one shotted by powerful enemies in Oblivion too.
Level scaling was not the only problem with that shit.
Oblivion 2 will be an action game for retards (or RPG if your reg date is 2010 or newer) that can only chase quest compass and kill everything in between no matter the stats.
Level scaling was not the only problem with that shit.
Oblivion 2 will be an action game for retards (or RPG if your reg date is 2010 or newer) that can only chase quest compass and kill everything in between no matter the stats.
Trash
Pointing and laughing.
Commander Xbox said:
With that I doubt the reviewer meant the Obsidian strong points like story, characterisation and quest diversity but just the large gameworld. Game might be a nice hiking sim but other than that, crap. Go dig up that 3 hour gameplay vid and enjoy the face palming.
Tel Velothi
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Surf Solar
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Trash said:
Other than the players (who uploaded the video) idiocy, I was actually surprised that there wasn't that much cringeworthy stuff in. I actually liked some parts of it. :/
Skyway said:
Where? I didn't play Oblivion much, but I don't remember any strong enemies.
MetalCraze
Arcane
Surf Solar said:
Oblivion, just like Morrowind had the difficulty slider that goes from "piss easy" to Codex's favourite "retarded difficulty" and on first levels you still have small amounts of HP so despite all the level scaling dying fast was not a problem.
I wonder why the ability to get instakilled is used like an indication of game's quality by some here?
Considering that Oblivion's problem was not the difficulty, it was the shitty design of everything in the game.
No really, the amount of marketing and money that ZeniMax spends is crazy. I remember going to the video store three years ago, and there was a huge cardboard promotional stand for Fallout 3 with the Brotherhood of Steel knight in power armor and all the text translated in French, along with a looping, subtitled promotional video on a dedicated TV stand. And this is all in a no-name video store. I've no doubt that such far-reaching efforts are the reason why Oblivion and all their games afterwards became such monsters. Aren't there some Hollywood guys in the executive board? That must be the reason for such ambitious deployment.
I agree that some reviewers might not have grown on the classics, many must have grown on NES and SNES games, but there are at least just as many who are well-versed in RPGs and who are assigned to review them, and these are just as outlandish in their praising of big-budget Bethesda RPGs as the neophytes are.
I agree that some reviewers might not have grown on the classics, many must have grown on NES and SNES games, but there are at least just as many who are well-versed in RPGs and who are assigned to review them, and these are just as outlandish in their praising of big-budget Bethesda RPGs as the neophytes are.
Tagaziel
Scholar
Uh, I can't really figure out the tone of the review. It feels to me like an arbitrary list of features with no detail and a rating slapped at the end.
MAJESTIC
Trash
Pointing and laughing.
Tagaziel said:
The tone is that of a bored office drone trying to finish his work on a friday afternoon so he can go home early and drink his miserable life away.
Whoops, projection.
Surf Solar said:
After awhile I just wanted to put my fist through the face of that moron with his droning soulless fucking voice. It might have distracted me a bit.
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