I your opinions on the arrow, iRevert. In particular, the Cavern of the Incarnate was so incredibly amazing after hunting it down. Really, one of the best memories of mine from Morrowind.
Like, in the GI article they're all "You have to make tradeoffs with your hands, do you want a sword in one hand to deal damage and a mace in the other to break his block, or use a shield instead to protect yourself, or even throw in a spell"
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Like, in the GI article they're all "You have to make tradeoffs with your hands, do you want a sword in one hand to deal damage and a mace in the other to break his block, or use a shield instead to protect yourself, or even throw in a spell"
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MongerI got the ham stink.Dallas, TXRegistered Userregular
edited January 2011
Seriously. Full control over weapons and magic for each hand. Hotkeys bind to equip pairs.
Hence all the joking about dual shields.
Personally, I'm going to find a way to dual wield halberds.
Who's joking? If I'd mentioned it, I would be very serious. I've always wanted to play an RPG that let me run down a hallway dual wielding shields as I bash enemies out of the way. I wrote up an entire design document for a game with a combat system built around letting me do that.
An enchanted shield that damages enemies' stamina and drains their Strength, leaving them breathless behind you, crushed under the weight of their own hats.
So has there been any word on the size (actual game, not the map [as in as how its represented on a map of Tamriel]) of Skyrim yet?
I'm speaking in terms of the size compared to morrowinds level or oblivions level.
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Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
edited January 2011
Screw whether or not it would be practical for warfare, I love the idea of dual-wielding shields. Bonus points if they can be hurled as lethally-effective ranged weapons. The Elder Scrolls games have horrendously dull combat and anything to spice that up would be a major improvement.
So has there been any word on the size (actual game, not the map [as in as how its represented on a map of Tamriel]) of Skyrim yet?
I'm speaking in terms of the size compared to morrowinds level or oblivions level.
I believe they said it's about as large as Oblivion. There are five primary cities instead of eight, however, and less dungeons, so I'm hoping those things are larger and/or more diverse/unique.
I've got my notebook right here. It's going to happen, and this time I'll get farther than that one dude you're supposed to meet up with in the next town over.
So I take it Skyrim will be heavily modifiable in the same way MORROWIND and OBLIVION are? I've been using mods more extensively for OBLIVION compared to MORRWIND.
For MORROWIND I was considering the following. http://knotstheinane.blogspot.com/p/morrowind-modding-guide.html
Is this aka a General Elder Scrolls thread or just for SKYRIM?
I guarantee it hasn't aged well. I'll be playing a thief character probably, just to make it tougher on myself. And, in accordance with my "no cheesing" policy, no loans in a faraway district. It'll be easy enough to rob shops everywhere I go.
This has just made me go check the progress on daggerxl and it still looks like a long way off.
Pity I never got the chance to play DAGGERFALL.:(
Since I've been using and figuring out tons of mods for OBLIVION, might as well work on the MORROWIND ones now. Perhaps Tamriel Rebuilt and I have a ton of better NPC faces right now.
Yes, little steps for here and there. Especially for doing bulk downloads for particular things/objects/items. Yes, even one for beds.:P
To be fair, he was good at anything. Didn't he more or less humiliate a guy with an oar?
Yeah he showed up late for a duel and was like oh yeah a sword hang on and got an oar then was like pssh it's good enough. Then he solidly handed the guy his own ass with said oar.
To be fair, he was good at anything. Didn't he more or less humiliate a guy with an oar?
He carved it to make a weapon.
Legend has it that Miyamoto Musashi carved a suburitō out of a boat's oar as he traveled to his famous duel with Sasaki Kojiro, whom he killed by striking him on the skull and killing him with a single blow.
This does not mean it would be a good idea to bring a wooden weapon to a fight.
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Is it bad that every time something new comes out I think to myself, "Hm, I wonder if I can use that to break the game?"
To be fair, he was good at anything. Didn't he more or less humiliate a guy with an oar?
Yeah he showed up late for a duel and was like oh yeah a sword hang on and got an oar then was like pssh it's good enough. Then he solidly handed the guy his own ass with said oar.
Damn he's confirmed for bad-ass. Why doesn't a studio/development team make a game featuring him and all his bad-assery? Reminds me of Shintaro Katsu's ZATOICHI films.
So yeah I do have the Game Informer and the UI/stuff being mentioned as a stupid Apple iPhone shit is malarkey. Catering to much to the casuals and not the fan base. I'll be buying this game both for 360 for random Achievements and of course PC for mod usage.
Here's a random shot from OBLIVION. Not my character, eyes are a bit too far apart, but would love to find a save file for her for just near the end of the sewers. WARNING: Not 56K friendly. (I use DMRA BBB though.)
To be fair, he was good at anything. Didn't he more or less humiliate a guy with an oar?
Yeah he showed up late for a duel and was like oh yeah a sword hang on and got an oar then was like pssh it's good enough. Then he solidly handed the guy his own ass with said oar.
Damn he's confirmed for bad-ass. Why doesn't a studio/development team make a game featuring him and all his bad-assery? Reminds me of Shintaro Katsu's ZATOICHI films.
Read his book, the Five Rings. It is quite good and applicable to not just swords, but general life.
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Like, in the GI article they're all "You have to make tradeoffs with your hands, do you want a sword in one hand to deal damage and a mace in the other to break his block, or use a shield instead to protect yourself, or even throw in a spell"
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Hence all the joking about dual shields.
Personally, I'm going to find a way to dual wield halberds.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Historically it's kind of an impractical method, but it looks damn cool I guess
and if it's one handed/two handed for weapons skills...
But that's just me.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Me too, but certainly not complaing about polearms or dual wielding. It all sounds yummy.
I mean really now.
The previous games weren't exactly bastions of super interesting design.
i like how you missed morrowind from that list.
I'm sorry I didn't specify.
Maybe I'm just weird?
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I'm speaking in terms of the size compared to morrowinds level or oblivions level.
Apparently about Oblivion sized.
Which, as I mentioned earlier, further messes the scale up on the main world map.
I believe they said it's about as large as Oblivion. There are five primary cities instead of eight, however, and less dungeons, so I'm hoping those things are larger and/or more diverse/unique.
I am hopeful, though, now that they're using Havok Behavior for animations instead of doing it all themselves.
EDIT: And no cheesing! I'm going to do it on my own steam.
Ahahaha! Course you will. See you next decade.
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Running_under_Windows
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:DaggerXL
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Files
So I take it Skyrim will be heavily modifiable in the same way MORROWIND and OBLIVION are? I've been using mods more extensively for OBLIVION compared to MORRWIND.
For MORROWIND I was considering the following.
http://knotstheinane.blogspot.com/p/morrowind-modding-guide.html
Is this aka a General Elder Scrolls thread or just for SKYRIM?
Since I've been using and figuring out tons of mods for OBLIVION, might as well work on the MORROWIND ones now. Perhaps Tamriel Rebuilt and I have a ton of better NPC faces right now.
Yes, little steps for here and there. Especially for doing bulk downloads for particular things/objects/items. Yes, even one for beds.:P
Some historical figures might disagree with that statement.
He was pretty good at sword stuff too I think.
I never asked for this!
The character creator is extremely abusable.
To be fair, he was good at anything. Didn't he more or less humiliate a guy with an oar?
Yeah he showed up late for a duel and was like oh yeah a sword hang on and got an oar then was like pssh it's good enough. Then he solidly handed the guy his own ass with said oar.
I never asked for this!
It was one long weapon and one short weapon, usually as a backup weapon or for defense.
He carved it to make a weapon.
This does not mean it would be a good idea to bring a wooden weapon to a fight.
So yeah I do have the Game Informer and the UI/stuff being mentioned as a stupid Apple iPhone shit is malarkey. Catering to much to the casuals and not the fan base. I'll be buying this game both for 360 for random Achievements and of course PC for mod usage.
Here's a random shot from OBLIVION. Not my character, eyes are a bit too far apart, but would love to find a save file for her for just near the end of the sewers. WARNING: Not 56K friendly. (I use DMRA BBB though.)
Read his book, the Five Rings. It is quite good and applicable to not just swords, but general life.