Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Icyseanfitz · 12-10-2011 6:54pm

Funglegunk wrote: »

I purchased a swanky laptop specifically to play Skyrim next month. I'm thinkiiing, Dunmer assassin? What with those nice blade cutty-throatty perks, and the new 'snipery' bow and arrow.

has it got a decent GPU?

Dcully · 12-10-2011 7:43pm

I was thinking of grabbing Dark Souls for 360 since its console only or maybe grabbing oblivion for PC on the cheap somewhere while i wait for BF3 and Skyrim, any thoughts?
I only played oblivion briefly on a borrowed version of the game if im being honest.

Big Knox · 12-10-2011 7:49pm

Dcully wrote: »

I was thinking of grabbing Dark Souls for 360 since its console only or maybe grabbing oblivion for PC on the cheap somewhere while i wait for BF3 and Skyrim, any thoughts?
I only played oblivion briefly on a borrowed version of the game if im being honest.

If it's between Oblivion and Dark Souls it's not even remotely close to be honest. Oblivion was great in it's day but imo it hasn't aged well, it can be modded etc. which does help but Dark Souls is unmissable, without a doubt goty for me and possibly game of this gen. If Skyrim is anywhere near as good i'll be very happy!!

Funglegunk · 12-10-2011 8:04pm

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

has it got a decent GPU?

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M. Should do the job I hope!

hypermuse · 12-10-2011 9:40pm

I'm gonna end up spending prob bout 2 hours trying to decide what race to be, never mind what I'd look like etc!!

With Morrowind and oblivion I remeber taking ages to decide which character I'd be!

I always have been and prob always will be a slice and dice kinda player... never really used magic that much in elder scrolls.

Icyseanfitz · 12-10-2011 10:00pm

Funglegunk wrote: »

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M. Should do the job I hope!

il be using the 1 gig desktop version to run it so you should be grand, its a great little card, dont know if you can overclock your laptop card though could get a bit hot

Kiith · 12-10-2011 10:26pm

Dcully wrote: »

I was thinking of grabbing Dark Souls for 360 since its console only or maybe grabbing oblivion for PC on the cheap somewhere while i wait for BF3 and Skyrim, any thoughts?
I only played oblivion briefly on a borrowed version of the game if im being honest.

If you do get Oblivion on the pc, make sure to mod the hell out of it. Makes it a much more enjoyable game. I can give you a good list of mods if/when you get it.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 12-10-2011 11:55pm

Kiith wrote: »

If you do get Oblivion on the pc, make sure to mod the hell out of it. Makes it a much more enjoyable game. I can give you a good list of mods if/when you get it.

What kind of mods are available?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 12-10-2011 11:56pm

some of the landscape/ennvironment mods make the game look/sound amazing

IRL_Sinister · 13-10-2011 12:01am

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

some of the landscape/ennvironment mods make the game look/sound amazing

That. I just recently purchased Oblivion and you should get those mods if you don't want to change anything else in the game. They are amazing.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 13-10-2011 12:29am

Emerson Billions Type wrote: »

What kind of mods are available?

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/07/16/ten-essential-oblivion-mods/

1
2
4
7
8
9

are the ones from that list I'd reccomend installing for your first playthrough

mainly graphics/environment updates, #1/#2 is a bit of an all around bugfix.. changes a few things a lot of people found annoying about vanilla oblivion.. I never played vanilla but I heard a lot of complaints.

once you play through the game in as normal a state as those mods allow (which is very close to the vanilla game im pretty sure, just a few balance tweaks and fixes) then you can start added crazy monsters and weird magic stuff for a repeat run through.

Kiith · 13-10-2011 9:18am

Emerson Billions Type wrote: »

What kind of mods are available?

The main ones i'd recommend are Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul, Martigans Monster Mods, Deadly Reflex's, Natural Environments, Qarls Textures, Darns UI, and a few other smaller mods that i can't think of right now.

funky penguin · 13-10-2011 9:29am

Man I wish I could afford a PC (/know how to properly utilize one).....

Funglegunk · 13-10-2011 9:54am

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

il be using the 1 gig desktop version to run it so you should be grand, its a great little card, dont know if you can overclock your laptop card though could get a bit hot

I can overclock it yeah, but I'm a cautious overclocker at heart.

If it can run it decently in any way that doesn't negatively affect gameplay I'll be a happy bunny.

Kiith · 13-10-2011 10:10am

I'm still using an ATI 4890

Blowfish · 13-10-2011 11:48am

Kiith wrote: »

I'm still using an ATI 4890

I'm in a similar boat, I'm running with 8800 GTS (G92) (though granted in SLI). I've a feeling Skyrim is likely to be the first game where I'll be struggling to play it at a decent quality.

pablomakaveli · 13-10-2011 2:03pm

I'm so glad i upgraded mine earlier this year.:)

Icyseanfitz · 13-10-2011 4:18pm

think i might throw in a second gtx 460 around xmas, cant see that it would need more than that

Tar.Aldarion · 13-10-2011 4:36pm

I have a 560 ti, wonder how good it would run at max settings. does the game have good 3d support does anybody know?

All those oblivion mods, are they compatible with each other...
i can see overwriting of one mod by another etc happening.

I just started oblivion again and added a few mods, i constantly get OUT OF MEMORY in giant writing on the screen as I play, may ahve something to do with windows 64 bit and 8 gig of ram? My other pc runs it fine and has 2gb ram.

Sephiroth_dude · 13-10-2011 4:36pm

Hopefully my gtx 260 will blow it out of the water

hypermuse · 13-10-2011 4:47pm

Broke my arm last week.. In a cast so no gaming for me..

Turns out cast is due off on 10.11.11

Skyrim 11.11.11

Sephiroth_dude · 13-10-2011 4:51pm

hypermuse wrote: »

Broke my arm last week.. In a cast so no gaming for me..

Turns out cast is due off on 10.11.11

Skyrim 11.11.11

haha thats brilliant,what a day to get your cast off

Nodferatu · 13-10-2011 5:25pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Va_DgHhCQ

titan18 · 13-10-2011 5:54pm

Crossfire 6950s in my newly built PC

kearneybobs · 13-10-2011 11:20pm

For those of you who are looking for a cheapish digital copy of the game it's on G2Play.net for €31. I've never used them before but I hear they're fairly reliable.

http://www.g2play.net/store/The-Elder-Scrolls-V-Skyrim.html

There isn't any info if you'll need a VPN come launch day btw.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 13-10-2011 11:51pm

Kiith wrote: »

I'm still using an ATI 4890

I'll be running it with a crappy dual core processor 2 gigs of meh ram and an ATI 5770. Card should be fine, but the rest of my rig needs some serious updating.

Skerries · 14-10-2011 12:47am

maybe crossfire it?
http://www.adverts.ie/hardware/asus-radeon-hd-5770-1gb-gddr-5/787695

Overheal · 14-10-2011 3:01am

titan18 wrote: »

Crossfire 6950s in my newly built PC

bulldozer CPU?

xavier im rocking the 5770 as well with better specs otherwise ill let you know how it roars.

humanji · 14-10-2011 9:11am

Anyone want to take up the challenge and see if they can complete it any faster? From Gamespot:

The Elder Scrolls franchise has developed a reputation for offering hours of gameplay spread across reaching open-world environments. However, for Bethesda Softworks QA tester Sam Bernstein, "hours" is just barely plural with his speedrun of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Skyrim will likely take a bit longer than two hours for everyone else.

With Skyrim closing in on its November 11 ship date, Bethesda recently held its traditional internal speedrun contest, and Bernstein took the top finishing time at 2:16:10. According to a post onBethesda's blog, that speedrun time is about an hour longer than the top times for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Fallout 3.

Bernstein and the development team's Jeff Browne were likely candidates for the top of the speedrun charts, as they also clocked the fastest times in Bethesda's previous release, Fallout 3. Although they took totally different routes through the game, Bernstein finished a mere 20 seconds sooner than his competitor.

There are no special rules in play when it comes to these speedruns, according to the Bethesda blog. The only stipulation is that no cheats are allowed.

It's mad, I'd never have thought it possible to complete Oblivion or Fallout that quickly. I guess there's a load of quests you can skip and set-pieces you can trigger if you know where to go. But I get the feeling that most people only do the main quests as a last resort, as the sidequests are always more fun.

AlmightyCushion · 14-10-2011 9:16am

humanji wrote: »

Anyone want to take up the challenge and see if they can complete it any faster? From Gamespot:

It's mad, I'd never have thought it possible to complete Oblivion or Fallout that quickly. I guess there's a load of quests you can skip and set-pieces you can trigger if you know where to go. But I get the feeling that most people only do the main quests as a last resort, as the sidequests are always more fun.

In Fallout 3 you can actually skip a load of the main mission by visiting a certain vault. I accidentally did it when I was off wandering doing side quests, I just reloaded when I found out. The main mission was always kinda poor on these games. If it wasn't for the side quests the games would be complete and utter shíte if you ask me, especially oblivion.

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