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Geek Culture / Skyrim (Oblivion)

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NIlooc223
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 22:12
I just cant wait for skyrim to come out! Do you guys know if theres a beta or demo anywhere?

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Cormorant5
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 22:18
I don't know how long you've been here, and how long you've been active, but quick tip: Only make threads when you really think it's important. You have about as many threads on this board as Old School and he's gotten in trouble for it. Have thread ideas, like this, can be asked in the Posting Competition because pretty much everyone goes there. Anyway, I have no idea of a beta or demo, but I don't think there's one considering how far off it is. The usually only release a demo a month earlier then release, at the earliest.

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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 22:22 Edited at: 23rd Jul 2011 22:26
Bethesda said there won't be a demo, since they don't know how they could make a demo out of such a massive game because it just wouldn't really represent the game and'd be quite huge as well.

Just install Morrorwind & Oblivion again until November.

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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 22:25
I wish there was gona be a demo this game looks amazing and ill start using the posting competiation then thanks for giving me a heads up cormorant5

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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 22:30
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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2011 22:59
its coming out in the end of the year. and i stil never finished all of morrowind and didnt even start the oblivion expansion packs. not to mention, all those mods i missed out

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Posted: 24th Jul 2011 00:52
Is there a shared story between these games? I was wondering if it would be wise to just jump in on one, but not sure if I should take the time to start from the beginning.


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Posted: 24th Jul 2011 00:57
none as i know, other than the world setting... i jumped into morrowind, DIDNT FINISH IT, played oblivion DIDNT FINISH IT
but i still had a great amazing time in each game^^

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Posted: 24th Jul 2011 01:09 Edited at: 24th Jul 2011 01:11
Quote: "I was wondering if it would be wise to just jump in on one, but not sure if I should take the time to start from the beginning."

The order doesn't really matter. I mean they share history together, but playing Morrowind first won't give any story advantage when playing Oblivion. On that note, Oblivion is by far my favorite game, I like it more than Morrowind, but mostly because Oblivion is newer and has better tech. The graphics in Morrowind are understandably worse than Oblivion, and it doesn't have much spoken text; you have to read almost all of it. I would recommend Oblivion.

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Posted: 24th Jul 2011 01:11
You can start at any game,
there are little snippets of history from earlier games in the newer ones.(kinda cool picking up a book and reading about the nevarine and thinkin hey, that was me)

they are different provinces and times so they're all self contained games which open and close nicely.

I finished morrowind on xbox, it was hard as hell, by the time I clocked it my character was so beefed that he could jump from the roof on a building on one side of belmora, clean across the river onto the rooves of houses on the other side. I kinda liked getting all spiderman on the guards.

I never finished oblivion without cheats, I lacked the time and patience to slowly build up another character of sufficient magnitude.
I'm more of an elder scrolls tourist now, I love to wander round and look at stuff they've created.

cant wait for skyrim, It has the most amazing looking game world ive ever seen.

they are an inspiration.

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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 24th Jul 2011 04:53
the history is common, all you need to know that skyrim takes place 200 years after events in oblivion and apperentley the septum empire crumbled right after oblivion

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Posted: 24th Jul 2011 08:09
Me and my bro literally study TES History, i find it so interesting that Bethesda creates a whole world with history that stretches back to the beginning of the Planet Nirn (The planet TES takes place)

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Posted: 24th Jul 2011 12:14
AAAAAAH SKYRIM IS GOING TO BE AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![i][/i]


and that's all I have to say about that... now for a four month wait...


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Posted: 24th Jul 2011 13:29 Edited at: 24th Jul 2011 13:44
Quote: "Me and my bro literally study TES History, i find it so interesting that Bethesda creates a whole world with history that stretches back to the beginning of the Planet Nirn (The planet TES takes place)"


the same frigging thing dude. morrowind stole 3 years of my life and just tes lore and history is so frigging interesting!

u dont know much about the history of most empire but Morrowind history is by far the most interesting!

also i think this would be really cool but beth should maybe make a game in a province we already played in earlier but in a different time period. For example, morrowind settings before the extinction of the dwemer or empire shortly after it fell apart. By the way, there is an insanley kickass russian total conversion oblivion mod which changes the cyrodil to a time period during the fall of the empire. they ported a lot of morrowind content to oblivion via morrowblivion conversion patch (i think they have an entire chunk of morrowind mainland in there) and its a much darker version of oblivion.

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edit ok the youtube thing dosent work for some reason here is a link

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoTFPoAjTq4&



here is a trailer for it, but its all in russian altho they say they should come out (maybe already did idk) with an english version.

but really me being russian and loving my native language, i would still rather play it in english, idk why but it seemes like anything english translated to russian, no matter how good the translation is it still sounds wrong in places and id rather play a game watch a movie on its native language if its english or russian. i guess its like an anime fanboy mentality like they wanna watch anime in japanese, but when it comes to anime, id rather watch it in english, i cant stand subs, and dont know japanese and russian anime dubs are really crappy. So i am really hoping that some day beth will return to morrowind in a different time period.

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Posted: 24th Jul 2011 15:06
[youtube]UoTFPoAjTq4&[/youtube]

There we go. And the posting box doesn't have room. I think what you did was you did watchv=blablabla when it's just blablabla. It took me a while to sort that out.

Anyway, I'm certainly getting Skyrim, and my brother is actually replaying Marrowind and Oblivion, so I might have to do the same.

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Posted: 24th Jul 2011 15:23
i remember when i first got my preordered collectors edition of oblivion in 2006. i was like 16 and i skreamed like a happy 12 yo girl on a hanna montana concert or something. me and my other friend as well. (the collectors edition came with a golden septum in it (not real gold)

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Make sure you don't put the = or the & symbol into the youtube tags, because they're not part of the ID. The youtube IDs are *only* alpha-numeric.


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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 24th Jul 2011 21:23
Man, when i was a modder for Oblivion, i took some of the legendary weapons from morrowind and recreated the weapons for Oblivion and hid them all over Cyrodil. I would post them here but the computer i had them on died...

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Posted: 24th Jul 2011 22:16
@ the video jeku posted: I FRIGGIN LOVE RUSSIAN! OF ALL MY HEART IIIIIH

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Oblivion is one of my favorite games ever. Morrowind too, though the gameplay is somewhat tedious in Morrowind. There are mods that fix the gameplay somewhat, but it's still got some serious issues. The world in Morrowind is far more interesting than Oblivion, however. In fact, Morrowind has one of the most interesting fantasy worlds ever. Of course it's the same world in all the games, just different provinces of the Empire. But Morrowind is the most unique and interesting of all the provinces. It's unfortunate that Morrowind got the treatment that it did in the book "The Infernal City".

Skyrim looks like it will be the #1 greatest game ever. I always play Nord warrior characters in the Elder Scrolls games anyway, so I might be somewhat biased compared to other Elder Scrolls fans.

@ Jeku

That mod looks amazing. The graphics look almost as good as Skyrim!

Quote: "also i think this would be really cool but beth should maybe make a game in a province we already played in earlier but in a different time period. For example, morrowind settings before the extinction of the dwemer or empire shortly after it fell apart."


My dad had the idea of making a mod for Skyrim (when it comes out) where you go back to Morrowind and explore the wreckage. In the book The Infernal City, which takes place between Oblivion and Skyrim, the province of Morrowind gets invaded by the Argonians and then blown up from Red Mountain. So it would be almost like Fallout 3 to go back to Morrowind in the new game, i.e. after the catastrophe, and pick through the ruins of the cities.

One more thing for the hardcore TES lore freaks like me:



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Posted: 25th Jul 2011 03:21
The Elder Scrolls is my all time favorite game series.
I'm extremely hysterical for Skyrim

@Plystire, definitely try at least Oblivion, you will not regret it.


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Posted: 25th Jul 2011 05:32 Edited at: 25th Jul 2011 05:32
I hated Morrowind. It was obscenely boring to me.
Oblivion is quite a bit better.
Skyrim looks really nice, though.

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Posted: 25th Jul 2011 05:50 Edited at: 25th Jul 2011 05:51

Relevant.


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Quote: "I hated Morrowind."

Quote: "Oblivion is quite a bit better."


I own all of TES games! RPGs FTW! And Eminent, that video makes me laugh everytime and I've seen it a lot!

Why is the thread called Skyrim (Oblivion)? Anyone?


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So people don't get it confused with "Skyrim (Fallout)"


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Because people would know it had something to to do with TES. Man, i remember when i first saw the teaser, i immediately ran in and told my brother and me and him were happy for the rest of the day. Now since we've beat oblivion and are now bored with it, we're gonna just have to wait for the rest of the year, just like assassin's Creed.... What's with all the awesome games coming out this year?

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pfft Dead Island is actually what iam waiting for, and it will probably be higher up on the whole "MUST PLAY" list, but yeah: Skyrim looks shoey amazing indeed, and since i loved the setting in morrowind and this looks a bit more like that than oblivion i think ill love this <33 ~~

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Quote: "Because people would know it had something to to do with TES. "


Why not just call it "TES: Skyrim"?


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I'm more excited for ME3. Cannot wait. Cannot wait. Cannot wait. Cannot wait.
Skyrim? Yeah, I'll pick it up eventually

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just wish i had an kinect, then ME3 woeuld be epic......
or i can only hope they will make it so i can scream at my computer without an kinect ~~

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Quote: "Why not just call it "TES: Skyrim"?"

because then people would get it confused with "TES: Fallout".



AAAHHh yeah dead island looks like it'll be a lot of fun. Seems exactly like left for dead mashed with FarCry 2.

Yknow what else? I just found out about "from dust". Also gonna be awesome. That and SWTOR.... and Saints Row 3...


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Quote: "TES: Fallout"


I don't understand, sorry.


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Quote: "AAAHHh yeah dead island looks like it'll be a lot of fun. Seems exactly like left for dead mashed with FarCry 2.
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more like left for dead without the shooting... but okay =P it will be a lot more survival oriented, which i personally LOVE

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Neuro fuzzy@ Your profile icon made me think i had a bug on the screen so i hit it to find out i didnt

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BUMP

cool news:
http://theelderscrollsskyrim.com/racial-abilities-and-perk-trees/
It sounds like daggers will ACTUALLY BE USEFUL IN A VIDEO GAME!

also, to anyone who didn't catch it, three part extended gameplay footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xwboyafbwc


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I think they should release the demo they used at all the gameplay vids ( like e3 and quakecon etc. )
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That demo has been the whole game as far as i know, theyve just let them run amock for 20-40 minutes

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from what i've seen it's the same thing over and over again, though you might be correct.

Also, I don't think I want a demo, I want to install the game withouth sound or screen. Then close windows light everything, get myself some bread and other stuff to eat and drink, launch the game and get sucked into the game for the first time ever

Also, amazon.fr said that the expected delivery date was 9-11-2011 xD
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Quote: "from what i've seen it's the same thing over and over again, though you might be correct."


Iam fairly sure that on 20 minutes you dont have alot to do....

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Posted: 26th Sep 2011 18:13
Well, you can explore the menu's by yourself, test the skills, see how the world looks ON A PC OR PS3, since apparently all the demo's have been running from XBox, probably because microsoft payed them...
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Posted: 26th Sep 2011 18:14
If you had 20 minutes to explore the game as much as possible: would you HONESTLY be spending time on the MENUES!?

I wouldnt x)

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So true <3

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