The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a role-playing video game being developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls action role-playing video game series, following The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It is scheduled to be released on November 11, 2011 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Skyrim's main story revolves around the player character's efforts to defeat a dragon god who is prophesied to destroy the world. Set two hundred years after Oblivion, the game takes place in the land of Skyrim in the midst of a civil war after the assassination of the king. The open world gameplay of the Elder Scrolls series is continued in Skyrim, as the player character can explore the land at will and ignore or postpone the main quest indefinitely.
News11/11/2011 - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is now available for purchase!
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Unlike previous Elder Scrolls games, Skyrim does not force you to decide your favored attributes and skills at the start of the game. In fact, you are not forced to choose any favored attributes or skills at all. Bethesda has opted for a class-free system, and those choices will come naturally through experimentation as you play the game.
Changes have also been made to the leveling system. You continue to raise your level by improving your skills, but you no longer have a long list of attributes you only add minor, numerical improvements to. Instead, you raise your health, stamina or mana by ten points and can then choose a perk. Perks are divided into the game's 18 skills, each skill having a branching tree of numerous perks. There are currently 280 perks in the game. You are not forced to choose your perks upon leveling. You can spend them at any time once earned.
If you raise all your skills to 100, the hard level cap you reach is around level 70. Bethesda has stated the soft level cap is 50, and past that point leveling becomes much slower. You do continue to earn perks past 50.
The racial bonuses are linked below:
Racial Bonuses 01Racial Bonuses 02Racial Bonuses 03Racial Bonuses 04
The skills and perks in the game are linked below:
AlchemyAlterationArcheryBlockConjurationDestructionEnchantingHeavy ArmorIllusionLight ArmorLockpickingOne-HandedPickpocketRestorationSmithingSneakSpeechTwo-Handed
A
skill and perk calculator can be found
here.
ModsOblivion Modding Guide -- If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to send a private message to Dashui for help.
If you'd like to breathe new life into Morrowind, I highly recommend
Morrowind Overhaul - Sounds & Graphics. It installs all the latest audio and graphical mods to the game through an easy to use application. You choose from a variety of different mods, and can make changes later with the press of a button and without having to start a fresh game through the same application. Included is a very detailed readme that will guide you through the install and setup process.
Reviews10/10 -
Eurogamer - "It evokes a word that's overused in reviewing of all kinds: one that's best kept in the cellar in a plainly marked box and reserved only for the most special of occasions. For Skyrim though, I'd like to blow the dust off it, open up the lid, and enjoy a masterpiece with you."
5/5 -
Gamespy - "I'm looking forward to continuing my adventures of the frozen north long after this holiday season, and it's without a doubt one of the best games I've played this year... if not one of the best role-playing games of the last decade."
5/5 -
Joystiq - "This is the deepest, loveliest world ever created for a single player to explore, and one that no one should deny themselves. This is a game about following Emerson's advice, leaving the trail and finding that the most powerful force on Earth or Tamriel isn't fire or sword, but the ever-insistent desire to know what lies beyond."
9.5/10 -
IGN - "It's difficult to ever feel completely satisfied with a play session of Skyrim. There's always one more pressing quest, one more unexplored tract of land, one more skill to increase, one more butterfly to catch. It's a mesmerizing game that draws you into an finely crafted fictional space packed with content that consistently surprises. The changes made since Oblivion are many, and result in a more focused and sensible style of play, where the effects of every decision are easily seen. Featuring the same kind of thrilling freedom of choice The Elder Scrolls series is known for along with beautiful visuals and a stirring soundtrack, playing Skyrim is a rare kind of intensely personal, deeply rewarding experience, and one of the best role-playing games yet produced."
88/100 -
RPGFan - "Oblivion is in my top five most overrated RPGs of all time, while Fallout 3 is one of my favorite current-gen RPGs. The Elder Scrolls V sits somewhere between the two. Indeed, Skyrim strongly resembles its predecessors at times, and the catalogue of small changes and minor additions makes it more of the same. Skyrim takes few risks. Perhaps the only risk it takes is failing to match up to its competition in individual areas. Other RPGs released this year have better stories, sharper graphics, and more visceral combat. Skyrim doesn't really care. The latest Elder Scrolls has such confidence in the allure of its open-world structure that it shirks the need to compete. And, it largely succeeds in being better than the sum of its parts. So grab a tankard of mead, wrap yourself in a tundra beast's hide, and stoke the meadhall's fire. There is a long winter ahead."
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This is a pretty great program. I am going to use it all the time now. I just deleted a whole slew of crap I had no idea was hanging in my directory. I now have about 40 gigs of additional space.
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In part 4 there is this situation involving a chicken that is hilarious.
I've also been skipping around a lot to miss main storyline spoilers.
He does some stupid crap, but I think he just wants to show off as much as he can in the time he has.
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I am very glad I did not read that as necropoltryphilia.
lol didn't they claim they fixed the chicken thing?
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I broke my rule of not spoiling myself with skyrim videos to watch this. It was worth it.
Also FIVE DAYS HOLY SHIT
Though the guy kind of has it coming. I posted on the last page of the last topic, but he's kind of a dick in-game.
My post from last thread pretty much sums his LP up:
On top of that, watching it later on, he really sucks at actually being a hero.
I mean, he's supposed to be leading a group of soldiers into a fight with a dragon at one point. What does he do instead? Climb to the top of a nearby watch-tower and constantly rant about how he wants to be Matthew McConaughey in Reign of Fire, slaying all the dragons that cross his path. Meanwhile, the soldiers pretty much get roasted alive, and one named character pretty much solo's the dragon for him. At one point, the dragon does several fly-bys on the tower, chasing him inside, while the named character (The real hero of the fight.) pretty much electrocutes the crap out of the dragon to get it off of him.
It's a glorious trainwreck to watch.
Edit: And now he's pretty damn creepy, too. I won't spoil it in public as it pertains to main quest spoilers, but
"Oh cool! It's like you're my slave! "
"Let's go to bed."
*Pauses, as if he's looking off camera at someone, or just realized what he said.*
"Well, not together. You know what I mean."
Hey man, mutiliating livestock was a big deal back then.
Imagine if some dude came into your village and started carving up your cattle. You'd be shit out of luck for surviving for the next few years.
Though on that note, this guy does do a good impersonation of what a drunken viking would probably do in this game.
Edit: I'm pretty sure he isn't doing all of it for comedy value. He's just not very good at the game, and recording it at the same time. He misses a ton of stuff, and has to backtrack a fair amount.
There are some pretty huge benefits to being part of the Empire. It'd be fantastic if the game actually explored the question of prosperity and stability versus freedom and culture, though I don't expect it.
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Bethesda didn't make Fallout: New Vegas.
Even so, Bethesda's recent track record for main quests hasn't been that great. My personal expectation is that that aspect of the game will be rather poor, but all the side-questing will be a lot of fun.
Edit: Oh shit. Big spoiler, for super serious:
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I can run Witcher 2 and Mass Effect 2 no problem, and after heavy, heavy modding I could get Oblivion to run, but I'm hoping for high visuals and a stable framerate. I hope I can pull off at least a stable 30 fps with everything else maxed out.
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Hardly.
I am 1000% certain SOMEONE in Shivering Isles mentioned how the world corrupted those who entered it.
In fact I'm pretty sure that's how you're introduced to the place.
It is not a stretch at all to assume that hey, maybe actually BECOMING Sheogorath would have far more profound effects on people.
Or maybe the Oblivion Dragon Break didn't extend to having Shivering Isles being completed.
Not really spoilers.
as for me not spoiling Shivering Isles stuff, it was spoiled on the back of the box. Statute of limitations.
EDIT: Snugglesworth: You had to work to get Oblivion running? My current system (Athlon x2 2.4 GHz, 2GB RAM) ran it right out of the box with a Radeon X1650 Pro. Poorly, but it ran. With a Radeon HD3850 it ran it fairly okay.
It is my hope Skyrim is so polished and optimized right out of the gate that it doesn't require any major modding, and instead only has modding as a luxury.
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Usually I sacrifice AA, as it's basically a non-issue in most games. I think I was able to get Fallout NV at the second highest AA with everything else maxed out.
But I'm still a bit concerned since Skyrim is looking like a much more graphically advanced game, at least if the trailers are to be believed. Haven't watched any livestreams, don't intend to either.
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Also AA is damn useless these days. Textures are so high quality that it isn't even needed. I dunno, might make screenshots smoother looking?
Anti-aliasing is for smoothing the contours of polygonal surfaces, not making textures look nice. Anti-aliasing can make a pretty dramatic difference in image quality, especially at lower resolutions.