Skyrim

The newest edition to the Elder Scrolls Series, who's gettin this game? I will be, I'm not a huge Bethesda fan, but Skyrim LOOKS vastly improved upon what Oblivion did. Oblivion was a solid game, but had a lost missing imo. I'm excited for Skyrim, I just hope it's polished and doesn't have 300 bugs/glitches

If Bethesda used the Fallout 3 engine for Skyrim then....the game is gonna be a bugs/glitches nightmare.

Im sure they will make a better engine...

It doesn't look like it...they forced Fallout 3's engine on New Vegas's developer instead of using a different one like the unreal engine 3.

Should have used the frostbite 2 engine!

Well I guess I see it a bit differently, I feel like if I'm paying full price for a game, I deserve a finished, polished product, not one with a bunch of little bugs here and there. Like you Erel, I didn't have many problems with Oblivion and Fallout 3, but in Oblivion there were a few oddities such as ppl floating, standing on chairs, and not to mention that playing in third person was terrible--it looked like your player was floating across the land. That being said, so far everything that I have seen from Skyrim looks like these things have been fixed, but we will have to wait and see. And yes it would probably have been nicer on the Unreal engine, but oh well

I'm not really hyped, I'm just kind of....waiting

Oblivion was a solid game imo, but nothing spectacular, I still think it is a bit overrated. I mean it looked like crap, handled like crap in third person, annoying voice acting, a mediocre story, a lot of the caves looked the same. Honestly my favorite part of Oblivion was all of the seperate guild quests and storylines

It's like Erel said Oblivion came out back when the 360 was still young.

Good points Erel and I understand where you are coming from. FF7 and Oblivion are both games that I think benefit from fanboys and ppl who think they have no flaws. Do I love FF7? Yes, but it does have its flaws, just as Oblivion did. I just don't like going onto boards and ppl talking about Skyrim getting perfect scores or GOTY when none of us have even had a chance to play it yet. Am I excited for Skyrim? Yes, but I want to remain objective about the game as well.

Ok, so the graphics aren't a big deal for Oblivion, and your right Skyrim looks beautiful, I'm just wondering if anything will suffer such as framerate, bugs or glitches bc it is such a massive game.

If you liked the third person view, that's fine, I just thought it was almost unplayable, and I never meant that Oblivion wasn't fun, I just gameplay was repetitive at times, and your right about Fable being repetitive, I think what made Fable enjoyable however was the mini games, raising a family, having a job, the humor, etc that the game worked into its gameplay. I know you couldn't have thought that Oblivion had a great story, and that is something that I hope changes for Skyrim, bc if it has a great story to back its open universe, that would be awesome.

VA's aren't that important, but good ones do enhance the characters and the universe they are in, and make it that much more enjoyable to play in. I know that Skyrim will offer countless hours of gameplay, and I am looking forward to that, I just hope that they are hours of fun, and not hours of fetch quests or something I'm doing just for an achievement. I think what makes Bethesda games so popular is the massive sandbox feel to them and the fact that you can do whatever you want whenever you want, and that's great, some people love that, but sometimes I think it is nice to have a bit of a sense of direction as well. In Skyrim, there will be endless possibilities for you to explore, I'm just hoping that there is something there that makes you want to search in each area, not just for the hell of it

***on another note, I just pre-ordered from amazon. I love buying games from them bc of all of the promotional credits they offer

so your getting it at midnight then?

sounds like a good ol time

I watched Gametrailers review last night and they encorauge people to have multiple save files just in case.

well, I see bugs and glitches are once again present in the game, hopefully it doesn't affect it too much, it's kinda sad that this was expected from bethesda tho

just started last night, you know what would really make Skyrim great is if we could enter each other's worlds, and do quests in a co-op fashion