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Skyrim scans
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Gilithus
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Yo, I registered just to post on this thread. Anyway, something to note is that the images that were posted from the magazine were enlarged dramatically, from images not even the size of your palm. Thus they may not look quite as good because of that. This may be obvious to some, but just pointing it out. One thing that is supposed to be good about Skyrim is their new engine allows drastic draw distances compared to Fallout and Oblivion. Skyrim is also supposed to have roughly six or seven distinguishable environments, such as mountains, glacial coasts, arid plateaus, tundra, low-lying grassy plains, and temperate forests. One more thing to note is that there is a drastic visual difference between the pictures in the magazine and the one's posted here. The one's here seem... deluded somehow. Like they've been pisswashed or something, with a wierd yellower tone and less distinguishable features. Anyway, that's my take on the information I've picked up.
Yo, I registered just to post on this thread. Anyway, something to note is that the images that were posted from the magazine were enlarged dramatically, from images not even the size of your palm. Thus they may not look quite as good because of that. This may be obvious to some, but just pointing it out. One thing that is supposed to be good about Skyrim is their new engine allows drastic draw distances compared to Fallout and Oblivion. Skyrim is also supposed to have roughly six or seven distinguishable environments, such as mountains, glacial coasts, arid plateaus, tundra, low-lying grassy plains, and temperate forests. One more thing to note is that there is a drastic visual difference between the pictures in the magazine and the one's posted here. The one's here seem... deluded somehow. Like they've been pisswashed or something, with a wierd yellower tone and less distinguishable features. Anyway, that's my take on the information I've picked up.
circ
Arcane
Who... cares about environments? If I walk from my home to downtown, I'm not going to run into 10 AMAZING DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS!!! Doing any of the earth's continents, you might see three. More if you trek from southern Asia to upper Russia or something. But then, Skyrim isn't that big.
circ said:
Well, I do. Having one game that looks the same everywhere will just bore you to death within hours. Just look at Oblivion. Or, even worse in that regard, Hellgate London.
Borderlands also suffers from this.
It doesn't matter that much if it is really well done (Fallout), but that doesn't happen too often.
But maybe you were being ironic and I failed my check.
About Skyrim... Well, I do think that it will be more fun than Oblivion.
Excommunicator
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It takes an uncreative designer to need to include a super-continental range of climatic zones to represent variation. In reality it ends up damaging the presentation due to the way such an approach encourages the designer to focus only on the superficial details of each zone.
Games haven't even come close to exploring the climatic or geographical nature of even the most classical zones, so I don't see why they feel the need to create superficial diversity in the same stereotypical way.
Games haven't even come close to exploring the climatic or geographical nature of even the most classical zones, so I don't see why they feel the need to create superficial diversity in the same stereotypical way.
Freelance Henchman
Arcane
duel welding11!!
Looks generic as fuck.
Flanged
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.Sigurd said:Holding a staff and a sword?
They'll both be the same skill anyway. It's not an actual screenshot, thank Christ, but then again, if this is all they can come up with when their imaginations have absolute free rein... if this is what they use to inspire them... it's not good.
I just realised what's meant to be happening in the pic is that the bear and the birds were feeding on the dead mammoth when the Nord guy interrupted them and now he's in trouble. I thought it was an angry bear sticking it's cock through a bush.
FatCat
Educated
faggots faggots everywhere , codex full of them
DraQ
Arcane
Re: graphics
Awsum!!1 draw distances would be a great thing in large, procedural game like Daggerfall, in small, handcrafted world meant to represent much larger area as is the case of TES>=3, it can at best be inconsequential, at worst, detrimental. Distant land in oblivious wans't an improvement over lack of it in Morrowind, if anything it killed the illusion that the world was actually big.
The best use of distant land enabled by MGE is tweaking it so that it eliminates clipping, but doesn't increase actual view distance beyond the usual distance between major landmarks, otherwise it makes the game look like Disneyland.
So, either the SkVrim will use MW broken-up terrain, except with higher, view-obscuring mountains and the increased draw distance will be of no consequence, or the draw distance will actually come into play and reveal that the supposedly major portion of the whole continent is in fact no larger than my hometown.
"Supposed" is the keyword here.Gilithus said:
Awsum!!1 draw distances would be a great thing in large, procedural game like Daggerfall, in small, handcrafted world meant to represent much larger area as is the case of TES>=3, it can at best be inconsequential, at worst, detrimental. Distant land in oblivious wans't an improvement over lack of it in Morrowind, if anything it killed the illusion that the world was actually big.
The best use of distant land enabled by MGE is tweaking it so that it eliminates clipping, but doesn't increase actual view distance beyond the usual distance between major landmarks, otherwise it makes the game look like Disneyland.
So, either the SkVrim will use MW broken-up terrain, except with higher, view-obscuring mountains and the increased draw distance will be of no consequence, or the draw distance will actually come into play and reveal that the supposedly major portion of the whole continent is in fact no larger than my hometown.
Andyman Messiah
Mr. Ed-ucated
Plus he's carrying a shield and axe on his back..Sigurd said:Holding a staff and a sword?
Also those birds better not be a fucking enemy. I don't want to deal with fucking cliffracers ever again.
DraQ
Arcane
Actually, there might be one thing they are doing right, judging from the description - the hand/offhand system. Requiring free hand for spells and bonus from casting them dual-handed? Yes, please.
KalosKagathos
Learned
Is that bear casting a spell?
DraQ
Arcane
If they have at least a bit of brains left, staves should only be usable two-handed or in a very limited manner offhand.Turisas said:
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