So since the physical PC version comes with a Steam code, is it possible that people who have no interest in Steam might put their codes out for a reduced price? Just wondering how common that is.
That won't happen. The Steam account is required to play on PC. And then the code, and subsequently the game, is bound to your Steam account.
My mistake, wasn't aware of that.
But just to double-check, you can download and install the game digitally without having to pop the disc in at all, right?
As I mentioned before, my DVD-RW isn't working, and I'd prefer not shelling the extra $20 to fix it (at least for this month).
So since the physical PC version comes with a Steam code, is it possible that people who have no interest in Steam might put their codes out for a reduced price? Just wondering how common that is.
That won't happen. The Steam account is required to play on PC. And then the code, and subsequently the game, is bound to your Steam account.
My mistake, wasn't aware of that.
But just to double-check, you can download and install the game digitally without having to pop the disc in at all, right?
As I mentioned before, my DVD-RW isn't working, and I'd prefer not shelling the extra $20 to fix it (at least for this month).
This is correct. You can throw away your discs if you so wanted and the game would download just fine after putting the code into Steam.
Good to know; apparently Skyrim is going to be part of an upcoming K-Mart "Buy X Save X on Select Games" sale, so a physical purchase might be an option.
There's also the Newegg pre-order sale to consider (unless that passed, haven't checked yet).
1000 people is plenty for this kind of survey if you select them properly
For that kind of study, you shouldn't really be selecting anyone, as any form of selection is going to skew those results one way or another.
Not that most of the people interested in those numbers wouldn't prefer them skewed.
If you don't do any kind of selection the #1 game becomes Farmville or something
Well, it's a survey of brand engagement for upcoming releases. Farmville is not an upcoming release. Now, the stuff Zynga has in development? I would be interested in knowing how many people are actually paying attention to what that company has coming in the future, as opposed to spreading post-release by word of mouth and/or sinister social space bullshit. Ditto for casual mobile games and such.
Oh dilemma. Can't decide whether to grab the retail copy or the Steam. On the one hand, Steam, pre-loading, etc. But on other, it is cheaper elsewhere, and I'll have the disc available for plenty of reinstalling for if/when modding goes wrong, without having to download 6gb all over again.
Oh dilemma. Can't decide whether to grab the retail copy or the Steam. On the one hand, Steam, pre-loading, etc. But on other, it is cheaper elsewhere, and I'll have the disc available for plenty of reinstalling for if/when modding goes wrong, without having to download 6gb all over again.
Decisions, decisions.
I would say go with the retail if you can get it cheaper.
You register it on steam anyway so the only benefit of downloading is preloading really, depends how much the extra time is worth to you.
I played a tiny amount of Oblivion when I bought it a few months ago in a Steam sale. I'm going to dive into it for real this time, and I've been following the handy modding guide in the OP. The Alternative Start sounds interesting, but will the plot make sense to me if I use it? Because I remember the dungeon involving a murdered king and an amulet, and if that gets cut out, does the intended story suffer?
I played a tiny amount of Oblivion when I bought it a few months ago in a Steam sale. I'm going to dive into it for real this time, and I've been following the handy modding guide in the OP. The Alternative Start sounds interesting, but will the plot make sense to me if I use it? Because I remember the dungeon involving a murdered king and an amulet, and if that gets cut out, does the intended story suffer?
I guess so? I mean, the only real information in the story opener can be summed up in a single sentence. Skipping that does mean skipping that information, but it's hardly information you can't easily get elsewhere.
I played a tiny amount of Oblivion when I bought it a few months ago in a Steam sale. I'm going to dive into it for real this time, and I've been following the handy modding guide in the OP. The Alternative Start sounds interesting, but will the plot make sense to me if I use it? Because I remember the dungeon involving a murdered king and an amulet, and if that gets cut out, does the intended story suffer?
I'm not sure if its the same one ( I think it is) but the alternate start mod I used had a dream at the start which told you about the emperors death and worked as a start point for the main quest.
I played a tiny amount of Oblivion when I bought it a few months ago in a Steam sale. I'm going to dive into it for real this time, and I've been following the handy modding guide in the OP. The Alternative Start sounds interesting, but will the plot make sense to me if I use it? Because I remember the dungeon involving a murdered king and an amulet, and if that gets cut out, does the intended story suffer?
I guess so? I mean, the only real information in the story opener can be summed up in a single sentence. Skipping that does mean skipping that information, but it's hardly information you can't easily get elsewhere.
Oh, I was just under the assumption that the whole thing of getting the amulet and delivering it to the heir was a big catalyst for the rest of the game's plot, but it sounds like I can do without it?
I played a tiny amount of Oblivion when I bought it a few months ago in a Steam sale. I'm going to dive into it for real this time, and I've been following the handy modding guide in the OP. The Alternative Start sounds interesting, but will the plot make sense to me if I use it? Because I remember the dungeon involving a murdered king and an amulet, and if that gets cut out, does the intended story suffer?
I guess so? I mean, the only real information in the story opener can be summed up in a single sentence. Skipping that does mean skipping that information, but it's hardly information you can't easily get elsewhere.
Oh, I was just under the assumption that the whole thing of getting the amulet and delivering it to the heir was a big catalyst for the rest of the game's plot, but it sounds like I can do without it?
You literally have a dream that tells you literally all of it.
Also, if you want to start the main quest: You obviously don't have the Amulet of Kings on your person at the start as you just came off a boat after immigrating to the Imperial Province, so you must retrieve it. From a rat corpse near the sewer exit you walk out of at the end of the tutorial dungeon.
I am glad there aren't all kinds of crazy pre-order bonuses from different retailers and different levels of collector editions to drive me mad in deciding where or what to buy.
I'm also glad the collectors edition is $149, it makes my decision to not buy it much much easier.
Preorder bonuses don't bug me anymore. Usually they aren't worth it, and not getting whatever shiny they have on offer doesn't ruin the game experience. I just go with Amazon, I get the game delivered to my door on release day, and their preorder bonus is usually free money.
Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
There's some kind of strange psychology with pre-order bonuses that always hooks me. Usually it's all crap I never mess with more than once, so I don't know why I still feel the need to get them.
So it's Steamworks, right? Discovered it's like 20% cheaper retail at the local store.
Yup, it is steamworks.
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I changed my preorder back to the regular edition, and can still get the cloth map, which is okay. I don't really care. If it was $80, then I might do it, but there is no way I can afford a resin statue for $150.
1000 people is plenty for this kind of survey if you select them properly
For that kind of study, you shouldn't really be selecting anyone, as any form of selection is going to skew those results one way or another.
Not that most of the people interested in those numbers wouldn't prefer them skewed.
By selection, he means random selection (at least, that's what he should mean). If the surveying isn't properly random, then yes, the results are poop. But if it's true random selection (or close enough) then 1000 people is easily enough to make conclusions about the population.
Get Azura's Star, then enchant a weapon that stacks weakness to magic for a few seconds, weakness to element x for a few seconds, damage element x, soultrap (1 second), and in that order. Kills anything in five swings or less.
I used to do this with enchanted bows. I would create a black soul gem, kill a named NPC to collect a grand soul, then enchant a bow with the gem and name it after them. Which is kind of fucked up, now that I think about it.
I.. I want to do this. Black soul gem?
You find out about them during a mages guild quest. In my strict playthrough I ended up getting kicked out of the guild, so I began roleplaying as a necromancer who was out for revenge. It was quite fun.
Excellent. As newly-appointed head of the Fighters Guild, it will be my duty to finally complete the Mages Guild and find out about this, that I may also make soul weapons.
In said playthrough of Oblivion, I am currently being stalked by a murderous unicorn. Basically, I was returning to Leyawiin from a quest, and happened upon a unicorn (which I had never seen before) and I think some kind of random monster trying to kill me. The unicorn, for some reason, also turned hostile but I refused to kill it because I am not Lord Voldemort. So, unable to quick-travel, I just ran across the countryside to Leyawiin, pursued by a furious unicorn. I entered the town and thought nothing more of it, completed the quest and went about my duties. Returning at a later point, I left the town by the.. north gate, I guess, and found the unicorn had got itself "Austin Powers'd" on the bridge, wedged across it and unable to move. It also wasn't hostile. I did as anyone in my situation might, and claimed it as my horse, that I may be the pimpingest Orc in all of Cyrodiil. Since then, I have observed that the unicorn will remain perfectly friendly and rideable up until I encounter any other hostile enemy, at which point its savagery bubbles up and it sets off after me in a furious cloud of red mist. I refuse to kill it because unicorn, I'm too cheap to buy a new horse and replace it. Now whenever I quick-travel to a town or city, it appears at the gates. Waiting and murderous. I shall forever be stalked by the unicorn. My only hope is that my character is the only one who can see it.
edit: A GLORIOUS THOUGHT APPROACHES! I shall become a mage. I shall be the very best damned mage of all. Then I shall trap the soul of my nemesis and bind him to a weapon. Thus he shall serve my dark purposes!
Excellent. As newly-appointed head of the Fighters Guild, it will be my duty to finally complete the Mages Guild and find out about this, that I may also make soul weapons.
In said playthrough of Oblivion, I am currently being stalked by a murderous unicorn. Basically, I was returning to Leyawiin from a quest, and happened upon a unicorn (which I had never seen before) and I think some kind of random monster trying to kill me. The unicorn, for some reason, also turned hostile but I refused to kill it because I am not Lord Voldemort. So, unable to quick-travel, I just ran across the countryside to Leyawiin, pursued by a furious unicorn. I entered the town and thought nothing more of it, completed the quest and went about my duties. Returning at a later point, I left the town by the.. north gate, I guess, and found the unicorn had got itself "Austin Powers'd" on the bridge, wedged across it and unable to move. It also wasn't hostile. I did as anyone in my situation might, and claimed it as my horse, that I may be the pimpingest Orc in all of Cyrodiil. Since then, I have observed that the unicorn will remain perfectly friendly and rideable up until I encounter any other hostile enemy, at which point its savagery bubbles up and it sets off after me in a furious cloud of red mist. I refuse to kill it because unicorn, I'm too cheap to buy a new horse and replace it. Now whenever I quick-travel to a town or city, it appears at the gates. Waiting and murderous. I shall forever be stalked by the unicorn. My only hope is that my character is the only one who can see it.
edit: A GLORIOUS THOUGHT APPROACHES! I shall become a mage. I shall be the very best damned mage of all. Then I shall trap the soul of my nemesis and bind him to a weapon. Thus he shall serve my dark purposes!
This just made my day, thank you for this tale sir.
I just saw on Pete Hines twitter that the original trailer that people said looked too good to be in-game or on the 360 was actually from the PC version.
A GLORIOUS THOUGHT APPROACHES! I shall become a mage. I shall be the very best damned mage of all. Then I shall trap the soul of my nemesis and bind him to a weapon. Thus he shall serve my dark purposes!
Did I see a decapitation in that video?(1:25) The camera moved really fast so it was kinda hard to tell. I don't remember if there was dismemberment in Oblivion w/o mods... was there?
Pete Hines confirmed that Skyrim will unlock when it is 0:01 in your timezone.
Hmm..buying the game on Steam and pulling an all-nighter just became a lot more attractive.
Did I see a decapitation in that video?(1:25) The camera moved really fast so it was kinda hard to tell. I don't remember if there was dismemberment in Oblivion w/o mods... was there?
Looks like it. It's easier to see in full screen mode.
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My mistake, wasn't aware of that.
But just to double-check, you can download and install the game digitally without having to pop the disc in at all, right?
As I mentioned before, my DVD-RW isn't working, and I'd prefer not shelling the extra $20 to fix it (at least for this month).
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This is correct. You can throw away your discs if you so wanted and the game would download just fine after putting the code into Steam.
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There's also the Newegg pre-order sale to consider (unless that passed, haven't checked yet).
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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.
Get out of my heeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaad
Decisions, decisions.
I did buy Starcraft II from them, so yes.
The question is whether they sell PC versions of console games, of which I couldn't really answer.
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I would say go with the retail if you can get it cheaper.
You register it on steam anyway so the only benefit of downloading is preloading really, depends how much the extra time is worth to you.
You have to wait all of 10 minutes. Which, I can understand will be difficult. SKYRIM, after all.
is the game region locked? I picked it up for a neat £25 from a UK retailer. That's about $40.
I played a tiny amount of Oblivion when I bought it a few months ago in a Steam sale. I'm going to dive into it for real this time, and I've been following the handy modding guide in the OP. The Alternative Start sounds interesting, but will the plot make sense to me if I use it? Because I remember the dungeon involving a murdered king and an amulet, and if that gets cut out, does the intended story suffer?
I guess so? I mean, the only real information in the story opener can be summed up in a single sentence. Skipping that does mean skipping that information, but it's hardly information you can't easily get elsewhere.
I'm not sure if its the same one ( I think it is) but the alternate start mod I used had a dream at the start which told you about the emperors death and worked as a start point for the main quest.
Oh, I was just under the assumption that the whole thing of getting the amulet and delivering it to the heir was a big catalyst for the rest of the game's plot, but it sounds like I can do without it?
You literally have a dream that tells you literally all of it.
Also, if you want to start the main quest: You obviously don't have the Amulet of Kings on your person at the start as you just came off a boat after immigrating to the Imperial Province, so you must retrieve it. From a rat corpse near the sewer exit you walk out of at the end of the tutorial dungeon.
Or you can ignore it and just go do whatever.
I'm also glad the collectors edition is $149, it makes my decision to not buy it much much easier.
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Yup, it is steamworks.
On the plus side... 10 days left...
By selection, he means random selection (at least, that's what he should mean). If the surveying isn't properly random, then yes, the results are poop. But if it's true random selection (or close enough) then 1000 people is easily enough to make conclusions about the population.
Excellent. As newly-appointed head of the Fighters Guild, it will be my duty to finally complete the Mages Guild and find out about this, that I may also make soul weapons.
In said playthrough of Oblivion, I am currently being stalked by a murderous unicorn. Basically, I was returning to Leyawiin from a quest, and happened upon a unicorn (which I had never seen before) and I think some kind of random monster trying to kill me. The unicorn, for some reason, also turned hostile but I refused to kill it because I am not Lord Voldemort. So, unable to quick-travel, I just ran across the countryside to Leyawiin, pursued by a furious unicorn. I entered the town and thought nothing more of it, completed the quest and went about my duties. Returning at a later point, I left the town by the.. north gate, I guess, and found the unicorn had got itself "Austin Powers'd" on the bridge, wedged across it and unable to move. It also wasn't hostile. I did as anyone in my situation might, and claimed it as my horse, that I may be the pimpingest Orc in all of Cyrodiil. Since then, I have observed that the unicorn will remain perfectly friendly and rideable up until I encounter any other hostile enemy, at which point its savagery bubbles up and it sets off after me in a furious cloud of red mist. I refuse to kill it because unicorn, I'm too cheap to buy a new horse and replace it. Now whenever I quick-travel to a town or city, it appears at the gates. Waiting and murderous. I shall forever be stalked by the unicorn. My only hope is that my character is the only one who can see it.
edit: A GLORIOUS THOUGHT APPROACHES! I shall become a mage. I shall be the very best damned mage of all. Then I shall trap the soul of my nemesis and bind him to a weapon. Thus he shall serve my dark purposes!
Then be thankful they're not making another space RTS.
Because, for some ungodly reason, Beth published games are poop from a butt. (Demon's Forge was good though)
This just made my day, thank you for this tale sir.
Hmm..buying the game on Steam and pulling an all-nighter just became a lot more attractive.