Game News Skyrim - How Not to Make a PC Game

[Ulminati]

I will even say, that Oblivion had a better interface, especially with the hotkeys available for quickly changing weapons or spells.

Click your "favorites" button, highlight items and assign numbers in the order you like.


*Bam* There are hotkeys.


If you for instance you set a Flame spell on 1, pressing it twice will have you dual casting.

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Well, fuck me with a charred bamboo stick. That'll teach me to RTFM.

Now I just gotta figure out how to make skyrim work properly with my mouse. Whenever I press and hold RMB it only registers it as a single click, unless I continually move the mouse around in small circles. It makes dual-casting, blocking etc extremely difficult.

 

[Lightknight]

In other news : Penny Arcade guys dont really know what an RPG is.

I only wish actually playing the game was more fun.

There’s just nothing to the combat. Killing a cave full of vampires is cool because at the end I got a rad sword but actually fighting them was pretty boring. Fighting shit in Skyrim isn’t about how well you can manipulate your controller, it’s about numbers. The level of your shit vs. the level of whatever you’re pointing your hands at. For me this just didn’t hold my interest.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

good roleplaying is playing your role well

e.g. fighting like a world class martial artist when you control ryu in super street fighter iv

imagine if ryu had to level up to be able to hadoken, if the game has that then you wouldn't be roleplaying ryu 100%

therefore stats get in the way of good roleplaying

 

[Infinitron]

In other news : Penny Arcade guys dont really know what an RPG is.

I only wish actually playing the game was more fun.

There’s just nothing to the combat. Killing a cave full of vampires is cool because at the end I got a rad sword but actually fighting them was pretty boring. Fighting shit in Skyrim isn’t about how well you can manipulate your controller, it’s about numbers. The level of your shit vs. the level of whatever you’re pointing your hands at. For me this just didn’t hold my interest.

That's not "the Penny Arcade guys". It's Mike Krahulik (aka "Gabe"), the dumber, popamoler of the two. (He's the illustrator)
Jerry Holkins aka Tycho (the writer) is relatively cool, he could have been a Codexer in another life.