Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Yes, but it's also alot of work. Someone makes a little change or 'fix' or simply forgets to add in the trigger for one NPC(or even just for one state of a NPC) and suddenly the trigger can never work.

 

Dear Bethesda:
Please make smaller games if you can't be bothered to tidy up your gigantic games. If you want to continue to dominate the open world sandbox genre, you need to raise the bar and do whatever it takes to polish these games to a higher standard. If not you, some other dev house will, if this isn't already happening.

 

I think, because discussions like this are taking place, likely on many different gaming sites, people en masse be starting to get wise to bethesda's gameplan. Right now there are game companies actively trying to topple Bethesda from the top of the open world sandbox rpg castle. Their attempts have not succeeded, yet. If Bethesda wants to increase it's lead, and secure it's future as king, they need to start hammering out a more polished product. No more relying on modders to fix the games.

 

Problem is that, even if people find the bugs, inconsistencies, and silliness like immortal NPCs, they still buy the game en masse and big sites still give it huge scores (jeuxvideo.com officially declared it the Best RPG Ever in December, I am boycotting that site ever since, what an idiocy). Even IGN made an article about glaring flaws in Skyrim after release, yet they still scored it 9 or 9.5, can't remember, and for the casual buyers and Bethesda itself that's all that matters. Exactly like Call of Duty; people on the 'net shit and moan about it, it still gets rave reviews and sells like crazy, so the publishers don't give a shit.

 

I have similar problems with quite a few of RPGs, but I suppose it's something to do with the fact I forget this type of detail easily. Although yes, it happens the most on Bethesda's games.

 

Aye, there is nary a reason to go aboot thee Elder Scrolls Forums as they'll have ye hanged by yer haggis as soon as look at yer them moderators will if ye dare speak treason aboot their holy grail.
/Scottish

On another note Valve added Space Core from Portal 2 into Skyrim.

 

I am just leaving this here for the pleasure of all. I wish Bethesda would have used that in their game!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2DshotexMU&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

 

Indeed, my first play through included me running into Megaton's Sheriff, and one of the first dialogue options is "Let's discuss this bomb."

Wait, what bomb? You mean there's a bomb in town?! Well, screw that, I'm leaving!

Or later, Seagrave Holmes' first encounter mentions T-51b power armor, when the only armor the Wanderer (and 99% of players themselves) encounters by this time is the T-45d Lyons' Pride is wearing.

As for something a bit more on-topic:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SE5owAIPmk[/youtube]

 

asian guy making FUS ROH DAH! I am already pleased

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Anyway is that some kind of mod in the making or just a combination of what is already out ? Seriously though do they have finally mods which allow you to mount a dragon!

 

No the video was part of the Bethesda game jam. The Skyrim team was given free-roam for a week, and this is what they came up with. Whether any of this is going to be used in the official game is uncertain.

 

Well, we only see a couple of seconds of the new features.... as far as we know that could be ALL that they have gotten working.

 

kind thinking about DLC here ... but that is just a guess

 

It's possible that it's buggy stuff and was cut from the game because of that.

Though, I am thinking exactly the same. Why no pitch black dungeons? Why no spears in the game? Why no foot prints in the snow? Why "dumbed down" water effects? Okay, the last two could be due to performance issues. But still...

 

Integrating SSAO? All those new features/textures/animations in one week? Skyrim took the better part of four years to make on an existing (yeah yeah, tweaked, whatever) engine. I strongly doubt they crafted all that from scratch in one week.

I would have loved if they developped Lycanthropy and Vampirism more. Spears and bette dungeon design would have been welcome too.

 

The Dark Dungeons thing I think is because they didn't want to handicap anyone who wasn't using a torch, standard design by commitee style thinking.

The rest sounds like it either couldn't be fitted onto the disk or left out due to management, schedules or time to impliment it. Spears... gimme!

Maybe it should be named "things they had for a while but actually put into the game during the week".

 

Well, you can do lots of things in one week. Also keep in mind, that these guys know their engine. This speeds up progress as well. Why it wasn't in the main game from the beginning really can have lots of reasons. Like the above mentioned "some people won't like it, so we better don't do it!11" or performance issues, etc. At least this flying dragon stuff would fuck up the game, due to the city areas, which are different maps.