The good:

Scenery is amazing, nobody can deny that they haven't felt awe-inspired at some point whilst travelling through the holds.

The score is equally as impressive.

The kill animations, some are verrrrryyy cool. Just did one earlier where a Draugr came out of a coffin, I spin-sliced him and he fell back in it.

The whole Nordic atmosphere. Liking it a lot, just seems like they've put a lot more effort into the culture of Skyrim than they did with Oblivion.

The Bad:

Character creation - been mentioned before but I mean seriously why do all my characters end up looking like William Wallace. I think a second chance to customise your character a last time before you start playing is a must.

The Ugly:

Still get the repetitive npc chatter. If I hear Nazeem ask me if I've been to the cloud district one more time I swear to god...

Arrows in the face.

No dual-wield blocking.

I noticed that too, didn't know how it could be done either but it was why I ended up going one-handed.

Still freezing...Actually, I've had more crashes in the last two days than I did with Wulff's game...

Still silly writing...

Bizzare speech ar$e-ups...

I'm pretty sure there was a quest foul-up but I think that one of the crashes was the result of it, so the quest finished properly on the reload...

On the plus side though...

I'm a lot more accepting of it this time...I know what faults it's got, so I'm playing around them...No Companions (so no werewolf and thus sleep benefits)...No marrying...No MQ...Possibly no house, but I really like the Markath one ...I'm going to see if it was the Forsworn Conspiracy quest that lets loose the raide...ummm...Forsworn around the place...'Cause all I've found so far are Bandits, and I'm happy about that...*Does dance*...

Yes, more accepting... ...

I figured out how to get the hotkeys working.

Favorite your items or spells as usual. If you remapped the change view key (from 1st to 3rd person), you have to use that key to favorite things, not what it says in the game).

Open up your Favorites list. (the default key is Q)
Select the item you want.
Press the hotkey number you want associated with it. You will see the number appear beside the item name.
Done.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jan 29 2012, 11:42 PM

Then that's why I've never figured out the hotkeys, I've basically ignored that favorites system.

Thank you, Thank you !! I didn't know how to get them working !!

I have found that the combination of the working hotkeys and SkyUI makes most the interface workable.

However, the Perk selection is still a nightmare. Someone needs to do away with that whole constellation business and just give us a simple list view like in FO3, or a list with an expanding tree just like in Windows Explorer. It could start with just the skill names on the left, then you click on them and it spits out the perks in ever expanding trees, in order that you have to take them.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jan 30 2012, 09:40 PM

I'm on a Ps3 and its rather hard to chose the perks :/, You push the analog in one direction it goes to another direction, after a couple of minutes I can finally pick my perk

It is the same way with the mouse on the PC. Whenever I try to zoom in on one skill tree, the darn thing just spins one way and then the other. It is a serious pain in the bollocks.

That whole skill tree screen seemed like a juvenile and pedestrian addition one would not expect in a TES game, whose fan base is one of the (if not the) most intelligent in the industry.

So is it normal for Khajiit to be transparent?

Looks like the AA issues I was having. Got yourself an ATI card? Make sure Adaptive Multi Sample is off in Anti-Aliasing Mode.

Either put it at multi-sample or super sample.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Feb 1 2012, 12:41 AM

As normal as the 2-3fps on the Ps3


Yes, I'm grumpy

I have an Nvidia card. It just started doing this all of a sudden earlier today. I do have my AA Trasnsparencey set to multisampling. I try supersampling instead.

A warning about the 1.4 patch. Since upgrading today I have twice had lockups in the transition screens when going from one zone to another. I am going back to 1.3, which has never locked up or CTD'd on me. If you keep 1.4. I suggest saving every time you enter or leave a building...

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Feb 3 2012, 02:09 AM

The good: Some gameplay. Story. Some lore is good.

The bad: Faction quests are short. And some lore had been butchered for the sake of gameplay. And the removal of attributes.

The Good: Gameplay, in Oblivion everything felt like it was on ice, Skyrim seems to have more weight to everything. Part of the character creation, finally I can make men look like manly men , The same sex marriages! Overall the whole game allows my creativity for Roleplaying to explode like crazy, I can create many new Rping types that I could not have done in Oblivion.
I love the voices, especially the best voices, and ESPECIALLY the male argonian voice.
Oh and the spells make playing a mage very fun.



The Bad: The other part of the character creation, It's rather hard to see the eye color even on a HD tv, they could have let us zoom in at least! What no option to change the character before we exit the tutorial cave?!
Also all the Nord/Imperial/breton Females look the same.
It feels like the game is trying to force me to be the dragonborn and that sucks. :/
The lack of a spell creation system.

The Ugly: The fact that I'm on a Ps3, the fact that they assured us that they will be the same, yet when we got the game it was freaking broken, then the guy from FONV had the nerve to say that it was the Ps3's fault, that really struck a nerve because Oblivion was ported by another company and it worked fine, hardly any noticeable lag, It has never crashed on me once, ect ect.
I wanted to go up to the guy and tell him, Just because you suck at coding does not mean it's the systems fault, followed by a couple of hits with a chair.

I've heard there is a way to zoom using a controller, it involves pushing one of the thumb sticks in while manipulating another. Try experimenting.

You can do that during character creation? I know you can do that when your already out and stuff.

I'll check later, I'm to sleepy right now t-t

I misread, didn't see that you were talking specifically about character creation. I don't think you can.