Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Overheal · 23-09-2011 3:37am

by blocky I assume you mean aliased?

That's a technical limitation of console hardware, which doesn't run anti-aliasing.

http://www.pantherproducts.co.uk/Articles/Graphics/anti_aliasing.shtml

AA is one of the more GPU intensive calculations - to dramatically save cost the consoles simply don't do it to the best of my knowledge. The PC version of Skyrim will likely not have the same issue.

quarryman · 23-09-2011 10:04am

Healium wrote: »

Got to play this for 20 minutes at Eurogamer Expo today - full HD, and Turtle Beach headset. Fantastic! Environments look great, HUD is nice, map is great, the sounds are amazing when you use a headset.

Negatives: Load times were relatively heavy for the Xbox build we played. Shouldn't take 10 seconds every time you enter/leave a building.

Some of the graphics are still a bit rubbish. Water is fantastic, but the characters themselves and any small details like that can still be a bit blocky, like Oblivion.

But, if you loved Oblivion, you'll love this. Not broken with bugs at the moment, but I did find a few small glitches. Bothing Fallout-esque, anyway

this makes me a sad panda

It was one of the few things that broke the immersion for me in Oblivion.

Kiith · 23-09-2011 10:19am

Hopefully they can get that down a bit, and eliminate it almost completely on the pc.

kearneybobs · 23-09-2011 10:22am

Kiith wrote: »

Hopefully they can get that down a bit, and eliminate it almost completely on the pc.

Oblivion was never that bad on PC. 2-3 seconds for me, but then again I only played it a year or so ago.

Monotype · 23-09-2011 10:23am

I'm sure if you put it on an SSD, you'll hardly even notice the load times.

quarryman · 23-09-2011 10:30am

yeah yeah PC PC PC, but what about us console folk?

Monotype · 23-09-2011 10:37am

Well AFAIK, you can still put an SSD into a console... if you can afford it.
I'd say that they'll have to start getting SSDs into the consoles for the next generation with load times on the increase like this.

quarryman · 23-09-2011 10:39am

Monotype wrote: »

Well AFAIK, you can still put an SSD into a console... if you can afford it.

*looks at unused SSD sitting beside me here*

any more info on that?

Krusader · 23-09-2011 10:41am

quarryman wrote: »

*looks at unused SSD sitting beside me here*

any more info on that?

If it's 2.5" SATA then bang it into your PS3

Sephiroth_dude · 23-09-2011 10:44am

Healium wrote: »

Got to play this for 20 minutes at Eurogamer Expo today - full HD, and Turtle Beach headset. Fantastic! Environments look great, HUD is nice, map is great, the sounds are amazing when you use a headset.

Negatives: Load times were relatively heavy for the Xbox build we played. Shouldn't take 10 seconds every time you enter/leave a building.

Some of the graphics are still a bit rubbish. Water is fantastic, but the characters themselves and any small details like that can still be a bit blocky, like Oblivion.

But, if you loved Oblivion, you'll love this. Not broken with bugs at the moment, but I did find a few small glitches. Bothing Fallout-esque, anyway

You lucky lucky lucky man

,did you encounter any draguns?

roast · 23-09-2011 10:51am

quarryman wrote: »

yeah yeah PC PC PC, but what about us console folk?

Poor us! What about all the console ports us PC gamers have to suffer. :pac:

Monotype · 23-09-2011 10:57am

quarryman wrote: »

*looks at unused SSD sitting beside me here*

any more info on that?

I had a look around and it doesn't look straightforward for xbox, with few drives working and requiring formatting on a PC.
PS3 on the other hand looks like you just put it in and you're done.

humanji · 23-09-2011 11:51am

quarryman wrote: »

yeah yeah PC PC PC, but what about us console folk?

You get to live in our glorious shadow. :P

hypermuse · 23-09-2011 12:03pm

humanji wrote: »

You get to live in our glorious shadow. :P

I'd happier to live in your glorious bank account if I could afford a personalised comp!

Dont see the point in getting a desktop unless your gonna seriously kit it out and that just aint an option for a poor console player like me!

Kiith · 23-09-2011 12:18pm

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Let's not go there again.

Skyrim will be brilliant. Discuss.

Healium · 23-09-2011 9:42pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

You lucky lucky lucky man ,did you encounter any draguns?

NO! I was really, really hoping one would just appear out of nowhere, but we played from the beginning of the game, and I imagine they won't spawn until you defeat the first one (My quest was to find the first one)

Sephiroth_dude · 23-09-2011 10:12pm

Healium wrote: »

NO! I was really, really hoping one would just appear out of nowhere, but we played from the beginning of the game, and I imagine they won't spawn until you defeat the first one (My quest was to find the first one)

aw

titan18 · 24-09-2011 9:18am

Healium wrote: »

NO! I was really, really hoping one would just appear out of nowhere, but we played from the beginning of the game, and I imagine they won't spawn until you defeat the first one (My quest was to find the first one)

It's been said that it's a promotion build,from June, and there's only one dragon in that build, and should be impossible to find in 20 minutes

tonydude · 24-09-2011 9:47am

Would it be necessary to play the previous elder scrolls titles to understand whats going to be happening in this new installment?

Burning Eclipse · 24-09-2011 9:57am

tonydude wrote: »

Would it be necessary to play the previous elder scrolls titles to understand whats going to be happening in this new installment?

Not at all... It is necessary that you play Morrowind though, because it's a brilliant game

Healium · 24-09-2011 10:08am

titan18 wrote: »

It's been said that it's a promotion build,from June, and there's only one dragon in that build, and should be impossible to find in 20 minutes

Yeah, that's your first quest. There's been rumours of a dragon, the villagers laugh at you, so you have to find a king to help you. Eventually, you'll chase down and kill the dragon. I played that quest for my full 20 minutes, and got nowhere near to finding the dragon

titan18 · 24-09-2011 1:10pm

Healium wrote: »

Yeah, that's your first quest. There's been rumours of a dragon, the villagers laugh at you, so you have to find a king to help you. Eventually, you'll chase down and kill the dragon. I played that quest for my full 20 minutes, and got nowhere near to finding the dragon

Ya,I was reading on the Skyrim/Bethesda forums that there might have been traps put in on certain areas to prevent you exploring fully on the demo( like can't cross certain bridges/go through caves etc). So, it's probably impossible to complete most of the early quests

Healium · 24-09-2011 1:18pm

titan18 wrote: »

Ya,I was reading on the Skyrim/Bethesda forums that there might have been traps put in on certain areas to prevent you exploring fully on the demo( like can't cross certain bridges/go through caves etc). So, it's probably impossible to complete most of the early quests

I think I had full access to the world, and it had Achievements and everything, but they reset the game after every 20 minute playthrough, so you could only get so far

titan18 · 24-09-2011 1:41pm

Healium wrote: »

I think I had full access to the world, and it had Achievements and everything, but they reset the game after every 20 minute playthrough, so you could only get so far

Oh,ya,I know that. Some are saying there are some overpowered enemies at certain points so that you can't get past them in the demo.Although, it might be the same in actual game

Tar.Aldarion · 24-09-2011 1:44pm

would like that, reminds me of final fantasy 1. damn impossible places!

RichieC · 24-09-2011 5:24pm

Burning Eclipse wrote: »

Not at all... It is necessary that you play Morrowind though, because it's a brilliant game

sapped so many hours of my life.. hours collecting flowers and grinding up my character until he was a house jumping over monster!

Oblivion didn't do it for me at all... they dumbed a lot of the stuff that made morrowind so fascinating... with the trend of the market the way it is I'm praying skyrim wont be some xbox360 game with a PC port that sucks and dumbed down game mechanics.

Gandalph · 25-09-2011 12:09pm

I spent close enough to a decade game time in Morrowind because I was simply too idiotic to use the internet at the time. Those Neveraine (spelt right?) quests were dam near impossible for me as a kid but I got it in the end! I spent my whole game time basically trying to get strong enough to kick some sense into Alexia and her litte council of cronies.

me-skywalker · 26-09-2011 2:11pm

You reckon they will fit it all on 1 disc for XBOX or wil lthey spread it across 2/3?

Kiith · 26-09-2011 2:17pm

I wouldnt be surprised if it's 3 discs on the 360. Rage is 3 discs, and i'd think this would have more content, in voice dialogue alone. Nothing definite yet though afaik.

Vegeta · 26-09-2011 3:07pm

RichieC wrote: »

sapped so many hours of my life.. hours collecting flowers and grinding up my character until he was a house jumping over monster!

Oblivion didn't do it for me at all... they dumbed a lot of the stuff that made morrowind so fascinating... with the trend of the market the way it is I'm praying skyrim wont be some xbox360 game with a PC port that sucks and dumbed down game mechanics.

That gaming trend is pushing me away from gaming as an entertainment medium and I really hope this game is not the same

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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