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oh and if anyone cares, sony 16x dvd-rom drive. |
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no one cares. |
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HA, a MOUSE!? I played through Morrowind with a TOUCHPAD, you fucking pussy. |
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Soundblaster Live 5.1 - should work fine, i have it too. as long as the sound in ESIV is not something super-duper out of this world |
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My system's similar to yours - Athlon XP 2800 @ 3200 speed, 1GB, nV 6800GS overclocked a bit (i think it's more or less similar to the X800XL). I hope it plays at 1280x1024 alright - not too bothered about AA or such. Actually, if I can have HDR lighting I can't have AA, possibly... 2 more days at least for me. won't be able to play at the weekend either! It sounds as though it's been thoroughly xboxed though, what with the large clumsy menu and interface. to be expected, really. |
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we got a board presentation that looks really shitty here, one of the knights who looks incredibly gay... Anyway i need it i need it i need it !!!!!! |
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staz: hahahah, that must have been tedious. :D csl: Yeah your system is roughly the same as mine, though yours is probably a little better. One thing I am confused about is that in the settings, it wont let me turn on HDR lighting. it says its unsupported (the box is greyed out), but I don't understand why because I'm pretty sure I have HDR turned on in HL2. I installed the newest ATI drivers the night before I got the game, and it popped up a severe error message but the install still finished... so I'm trying to figure out if perhaps my drivers are corrupted, and if they are, it might explain the spell-animation slow-downs. |
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you know can't enable both hdr and aa right |
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i have had a few problems with bad drivers from ati so its very possible. also does anyone know how big a difference there is between the radeon 9800 256 and the x800 256? i have a feeling im going to have to buy a new video card, which is going to make school in the fall more tight. |
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How's the murder and crime? If I kill someone or steal something, is there an omnipotent force that knows I've been bad, or can I get away with stuff if it goes unobserved? I heard it was the former but I hope not. (I don't plan on being bad, per se, but sometimes you have to go all Robin Hood to get what you want) |
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I saw some of the demos and it looks effin great. For those of you who've played this: When you travel between cities, are there random monsters, scattered treasure, or anything else interesting besides eating deer meat and mushrooms? For example, if I wanted to play as some sort of wild man who just lives off the land and fights goblin encampents to hone my skillls, is that possible or even fun? Can you jump from tree to tree? Build a hut? etc... |
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I generally gravitate into the hero role, too. it is strangely more satisfying, generally. we've all been programmed nice 'n sweet. |
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for the Europeans and other people who haven't got the game yet, gamespot recently e-broadcasted 12 hours of Oblivion play right after the game's release. you can see highlights .. haven't watched myself yet, so maybe it's awful! |
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well, half the fun is just hopping on your horse and riding randomly about the countryside, finding dungeons/caves/encampments/ruins and plundering them. :) So yes, you can easily live off of the land. Theres no tree-to-tree jumping so far, or any real way to manipulate trees/sticks/logs, so dont get your hopes up about building a fort in the forest. although that would be fucking sweet. when you are wandering through the countryside, you often find wild indigenous animals for that area (wolves/deer/bears), as well as the occaisional goblin I think. I'm very NOT far into the game, and Ive seen screenschots of minotaurs roaming the forest, so that'll be fun. minotaurs in the forest means lots of other big baddies could also be roaming randomly as well. The most enjoyable thing for me so far, is being a sniper with the bows. I've already mastered leading the targets as well as aiming it slightly upward to give it the right arc. The physics of dropping a goblin with an arrow to the chest while he is leaping at you to attack you from 4 feet away is a beautiful sight to behold in oblivion. Ophecks: From what I can tell, any items that you steal can only be sold to the theives guild. stolen goods have a red hand imprinted on the icon to show you which of your stuff is legit and which is boosted. The thing that sucks is that if you murder someone in one town, and then fast-travel to a town 1000 miles away, everyone there will already know what you did. So yeah I think it's still a bit like morrowind. However, no one will notice stolen goods on your character as long as you steal them completely out of sight. |
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yep, as staz mentions, you can't have AA and HDR, only one or the other. No idea why? Perhaps that's another Xbox trait ported over... |
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Im well known for not buying anything and downloading everything, you name it - ive downloaded it without purchase, but i respect these guys and the amount of work they've put into it (and since i actually do have money now) i will be buying this (the collectors edition) I love the sence of freedom in this game, i just hope it has many little quests and is as big as the other game to explore and things! oh and for anyone thinking about downloading it, you can buy it with p&p for £30 for the collectors edition which includes many tihngs like the map, a big booklet, an extra dvd which contains the making and concept artwork @ |
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I just got it (Xbox 360 version). Just wanted to let it be known. Of course I will be back later with thingers to say. |
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good night....and good luck ! |
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Thanks luv. I'm back already. I've just been tweaking my facial features, so I've not started yet. I've pretty accurately reproduced my considerable nose, I'm proud of that. The face creation feature is like a game unto itself, it is. Bye |
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.. if I found out that you have not bought the Collector's Edition.. *lips tremble with anger, slight grumbling noise* |
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yeah, its cool that you get so much control over how you look, though you don't see your face too often in-game so that kinda defeats it a little bit. |
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( + ) HDR lighting and all that... when it gets dark, it doesn't just LOOK dark, it FEELS dark. Dig? I can feel the night, and I feel really cozy when I go into a nice house (The Priory, for example). Beautiful atmospheres. Makes it hard to breathe sometimes. BTW, where can I get a torch or some other means of illuminating my surroundings? I saw lots of them in the sewers but I didn't take any. ( + ) It's more interesting (and much prettier) to go off the beaten path in this game. There's more stuff to find and more things to see. I've found a TON of caves and things tucked away. I'll go back later to terrorize whoever's in it. ( + ) the fighting is a big improvement... hitting something actually hits them, no ifs ands or buts. It's still simplistic, but at least it's satisfying. ( - ) third person view. Call me a rube, but I like to use third person view often. I like seeing my ever changing visage, and I don't like the way first-person view in this game has ''floating head'' syndrome. But the animation for your guy in 3rd person borders on pathetic and it feels like I'm ice skating through the fields and meadows. Ice skating through fields and meadows is not immersive. It is unimmersive. ( - ) some jarringly low quality textures. I'm not a graphics whore, but occasionally you'll see a faraway hill that looks like it came straight out of Mario 64, and it's funny. ( - ) When I'm on my horse (BTW the horse feels like crap compared to, say, the horse in Shadow of the Colossus, the physics are just... off), the game loads the areas a bit too often. There's supposed to be some fix for this, hope it works. (+/-) The music fits but it's so workmanlike. It's just there, pleasant and devoid of personality. Thankfully I loaded my 360 with far superior classical music and now I'm raisin' the roof. I haven't really done much, except run around smelling flowers and killing anyone that's different from me, so these are all just shallow first impressions. Overall, I <3 it |
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The 360 has AA and HDR, nyah nyah. Weathered- if you want to be a man of the land, I don't see why you couldn't be. The world is... alive. I've collected a lot of venison using my leet deer-stabbing skills. I've also traumatized many goblin children by killing their goblin parents and taking their goblin goods. |
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in the world of goblins, there are no children... only more goblins. |
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im running the game now at 1280x1024 and no AA, and the game still looks amazing and doesnt do the annoying magic slowdowns anymore. |
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I got it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Waiting for a price reduction, it better be quick... |
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ah, post lady just popped this in my letterbox. quite weighty isn't it (the CE)? BTW, nV guys, try turning off 'max frames to render ahead' to 0 rather than 3 in the coolbits Direct3D settings for a performance boost, so i'm told. will try once i get the game going... |
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i can only imagine the fever at Elder Scrolls forum these days....;] |
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ooh I just got the shipping e-mail.. I'll have it tomorrow..! |
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will you post a pic of The Coin ? i wonder what it looks like.... |
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hmm.. I could try scanning it.. I actually let out a girly yelp when I read the e-mail. it was a bit embarrassing. |
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lol, which version are you getting, 360 or PC? |
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PC! |
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meanwhile i added a few new plugins [e.g.Hunger] and a mod [Rafer Sands] to my good old save in ESIII. Gonna check now how it's all working. good night....and good luck ! |
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Well it didn't take long for the first big bug/exploitation to be uncovered. I think this will mostly come in handy for people playing the 360 version, which doesn't have a console or anything. -In the Talos District of the Imperial City, find Dorian's house -Think evil thoughts -Enter Dorian's house -Talk to Dorian -Engage in speechcraft -Bribe him repeatedly (the more money you give him, the better, so make your wallet fat before you do this) -Kill Dorian -search his body -take each item individually, except his gold -when his gold is the last thing remaining, take it -and keep taking it and taking it and taking it, because it doesn't run out. The more money you bribed him with, the more money you'll get each time you click ''take'', but his gold won't go down. I had to sit there tapping the A button for a while, but now I'm a multi-millionaire. Or at least, I have a save in which I'm a multi-millionaire. I still plan on continuing on the old fashioned way, because the feeling of being rewarded for efforts and building up yourself is kind of the whole point of the game. But at least now I can have an alternate save where I can just pimp myself out with the finest designer arms and armors, and buy some mansions and shit. I tend not to play these games long enough to become a Godlike character, so it's all groovy. Some funny debates about video game morality have broken out over this. I don't feel too bad about it. |
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hahah.....that's surely one of the funnier bugs i've heard of. |
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it's quite normal to have little bugs when you see the genius and deepness of the game... the best videogame experience ever imo, im mad i cant play right now. |
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2 more hours before hunting rabbits again :( time goes by so slowly, i dont know what to dooooooooooOOOoo |
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got it! :) haven't played it yet, though. |
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WHAT TEH FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR??? :D |
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I'm going to start installing now.. in the meantime, I've scanned the coin.. :) |
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argh it runs at 640 but everytime I try to up the resolution the whole thing crashes. I'm using an ATI Radeon 9200, so it's under the requirements, but it doesn't even try, it just says "FUCK YOU!" and disappears. I updated the drivers just a few days ago.. try reinstalling those.. |
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oh that's great. all the menus are visible, the rest is white, which means the graphics card on the computer I want to use is not supported. that leaves me in the shitter. |
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who's the face on the coin ? thanks for scanning <3 |
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is it alex from team doyobi? |
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I feel your pain man, but at the same time you can't expect much from the game if your memory card is a step below the lowest supported video card. :( |
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video* card, lol memory. |
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i've been hunting big cats and picking up flowers all night long, yep, no sleep at all...its better than sex!!!!!!!! |
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im gonna make myself an aloe vera shampoo |
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