Ok, time to show off this nextgen Bethesda game. I haven't played it before obviously, so this is going to be blind, and will also serve as a kind of a review.
My first impression is that it's somewhere between Morrowind and Oblivion in quality. It hasn't quite got the aesthetic charm of Morrowind, but it is way better than Oblivion. Not that says much. Fermented cat turds are better than Oblivion.
I will give it a fair chance, of course. I've been genuinely looking forward to playing it.
There are some obvious flaws with this game: the movement is way too fast (compared to Morrowind), the menu stinks, the voice acting is bad, it has health regen (about 1 point per second or so).
We'll be playing a female Breton focusing on illusion and conjugation who won't be fighting at all. We'll leave that up to companions or summons.
This is all on Master difficulty of course.
Is this resolution OK? I am playing in 1650x1080 and resizing to 70%.
Anyway, let us begin
The menu is promising.
The loading screens are cool too. They display 3D models that you can rotate with the mouse
At the start we find ourselves on a prisoner cart. It appears we've been captured by the empire, as always. We share the cart with a stormcloak soldier, a horse thief and the one and only Ulfric Stormcloak, the jark of Windhelm, who has been leading a rebellion against the decaying empire.
That means we're probably begin led to an execution. Oh dear...
Fucking nords, always so eager to die.
The horse thief tries to run away but gets cut down by the archers.
Anyway, I'm going to play a woman because it's less gay option.
One of the war paints
Well, shit, I'm not even on the list but they're going to kill me anyway
So this Ulfric fellow used a dragon shout to kill the King. Interesting.
Some more history
The soldier goes first,
When it's our turn, a wild deus ex machina appears
The dragon uses weather control magic to turn the sky to overcast, eliciting moans from all the guards
Time to run
Running through some super exciting scripted events where we can't actually be hurt or anything. Exciting.
Anyway, a minute later we get inside a building. You can choose a side here - either empire or stormcloaks. I went with the stormcloaks because, well, the empire just tried to fucking behead me.
Bretons start out with some spells. It doesn't matter right now since our companion is immortal and will kill everything.
I finally conquered the retarded consoleshit UI and summoned a familiar.
I'm going to install nude mods as soon as they're made
Anyway some more effortless dungeon crawling
The lightning is impressive
Books -
More effortless dungeon crawling
Woo!
Wealth beyond measure, outlander.
I have a novice robe and hood equipped, which gives me 50% faster magicka regen and 30 more magicka, respectively.
My first impression is that it's somewhere between Morrowind and Oblivion in quality. It hasn't quite got the aesthetic charm of Morrowind, but it is way better than Oblivion. Not that says much. Fermented cat turds are better than Oblivion.
I will give it a fair chance, of course. I've been genuinely looking forward to playing it.
There are some obvious flaws with this game: the movement is way too fast (compared to Morrowind), the menu stinks, the voice acting is bad, it has health regen (about 1 point per second or so).
We'll be playing a female Breton focusing on illusion and conjugation who won't be fighting at all. We'll leave that up to companions or summons.
This is all on Master difficulty of course.
Is this resolution OK? I am playing in 1650x1080 and resizing to 70%.
Anyway, let us begin
The menu is promising.
The loading screens are cool too. They display 3D models that you can rotate with the mouse
At the start we find ourselves on a prisoner cart. It appears we've been captured by the empire, as always. We share the cart with a stormcloak soldier, a horse thief and the one and only Ulfric Stormcloak, the jark of Windhelm, who has been leading a rebellion against the decaying empire.
That means we're probably begin led to an execution. Oh dear...
Fucking nords, always so eager to die.
The horse thief tries to run away but gets cut down by the archers.
Anyway, I'm going to play a woman because it's less gay option.
One of the war paints
Well, shit, I'm not even on the list but they're going to kill me anyway
So this Ulfric fellow used a dragon shout to kill the King. Interesting.
Some more history
The soldier goes first,
When it's our turn, a wild deus ex machina appears
The dragon uses weather control magic to turn the sky to overcast, eliciting moans from all the guards
Time to run
Running through some super exciting scripted events where we can't actually be hurt or anything. Exciting.
Anyway, a minute later we get inside a building. You can choose a side here - either empire or stormcloaks. I went with the stormcloaks because, well, the empire just tried to fucking behead me.
Bretons start out with some spells. It doesn't matter right now since our companion is immortal and will kill everything.
I finally conquered the retarded consoleshit UI and summoned a familiar.
I'm going to install nude mods as soon as they're made
Anyway some more effortless dungeon crawling
The lightning is impressive
Books -
More effortless dungeon crawling
Woo!
Wealth beyond measure, outlander.
I have a novice robe and hood equipped, which gives me 50% faster magicka regen and 30 more magicka, respectively.